How to Make Your MU-Plugins Compatible with Composer (And Why)
We are big advocates of managing dependencies in our projects with the package manager Composer. It’s essential to make sure the same version of dependencies are used in development environments…
Blog Comments Are Dead. Or Are They?
Blog post comments are dead. Or wait, they’re back. They’re definitely a pain. But also maybe they’re worth it? The debate about blog post comments and whether they’re worth it…
An Introduction to WordPress Penetration Testing
Recently I had Tim Nash, the WordPress platform lead at 34SP.com, speak at the local WordPress meetup I help run. It’s the third time Tim has spoken at the meetup,…
What Can A Developer Really Get Out of a WordCamp?
Up until recently I’d attended only four WordCamps in my time in the WordPress community. And although I generally enjoyed each one, I came away feeling that WordCamps weren’t that…
Improve Page Load Time For Your WordPress Site with WP Offload S3: A Case Study
One of the great things about working at Delicious Brains is working on products that I use and love outside of work. I was a WP Migrate DB Pro customer…
Delicious Brains In Jamaica: Our Fourth Annual Company Retreat
Back in May, our team met up for our fourth annual company retreat. This time around we had decided on somewhere hot (for May) and Jamaica ended up receiving the… Read more
GDPR for WordPress Developers: Announcing the (Free) Anonymization Addon
Like me you are probably getting ten emails a day from companies announcing changes to their privacy policy or asking you to re-confirm your email address for marketing purposes. This…
Updating WooCommerce: Our Safe & Thorough Guide
We’ve had a lot going on at Delicious Brains HQ recently; releasing this and that, planning new products, and generally pushing the envelope. However, that has meant some things have…
Using the New PDF Preview Images in WordPress 4.7 in the Real World
When WordPress 4.7 was released at the end of 2016 most of the response was around the new REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings. However,…
Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal
‘Dependency hell’ is a problem faced by all software, and it has been rearing its ugly head in the WordPress space over the last few years with more and more…