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A collection of resources for WordPress Developers, written and curated by experts

Switching to Windows for Local WordPress Development

As you may have noticed from reading our blog, we’ve highly favored Mac and Linux for WordPress development. And we’re not alone – through my very scientific and thorough research,…

Matt Shaw

Oct 15, 2020

Set Up Visual Studio Code and xDebug as the Ultimate Editor for WordPress Development

If you keep up with the many text editors and developer tools available, you may have heard of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a free, open source code…

Matt Shaw

Aug 5, 2020

Amazon S3 vs CloudFront: Why Delivering WordPress Media Directly From S3 is a Bad Idea

Amazon S3 is a sensible choice for storing your website’s assets in the cloud, but for delivery the benchmarks show that using a CDN is necessary to see any major…

Matt Shaw

Mar 10, 2020

WP Offload SES 1.4 Released: Email Health Report

Today we’re excited to announce the release of WP Offload SES 1.4 🎉 In this release we’ve added an email sending health report that you can configure to receive in…

Matt Shaw

Dec 11, 2019

New in WP Offload SES: Subsite Settings for WordPress Multisite

If you work on even one multisite install of WordPress, you’re going to be happy to hear about our latest release for WP Offload SES. Introducing subsite-specific settings for WP…

Matt Shaw

May 7, 2019

How We Built an Email Queue that Can Send 100 Emails Per Second Through Amazon SES

It’s no secret that I’ve been plugging away at WP Offload SES, a new plugin that we’re hoping to launch soon that will make it easier to send your site…

Matt Shaw

Oct 16, 2018

How We Create WordPress Plugins: From Idea to Release

How We Create WordPress Plugins: From Idea to Release

If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you’ve probably seen some of our tutorials on developing plugins using different technologies like React and Vue. But when not writing…

Matt Shaw

Apr 24, 2018

Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 3: Automating the Rest

This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my last post in the Automating Local WordPress Setup series, I created a…

Matt Shaw

Feb 21, 2017

Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 2: Creating a WP-CLI Package

This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my previous article in this series, I discussed some simple ways to make…

Matt Shaw

Oct 18, 2016

Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts

This is article 1 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” WordPress was recently ranked as the second most dreaded technology by over 50,000 developers…

Matt Shaw

Mar 29, 2016