A collection of resources for WordPress Developers, written and curated by experts
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look at the recently launched WordPress Learning Pathways, WP-CLI’s new release, WordPress Accessibility Day, and much more! Pick a Path, Any Path… Read more
Mike Davey
Migrating servers is a complex process that involves many moving parts. One of the most challenging aspects of server migration is dealing with DNS propagation. When you update your DNS… Read more
Mike Davey
Database synchronization is a problem that still gets raised almost every month in the local WordPress communities I’m part of – “if I am making changes to my local site,… Read more
Iain Poulson
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look at the recent release of WP Offload SES 1.7, the opening of the annual ACF user survey, and much more! WordPress… Read more
Mike Davey
WP Offload SES 1.7 adds a new “Enqueue Only” mode that can be used to prevent sending accidental emails in development and staging environments or to temporarily pause all emails… Read more
Ian
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we take a peak at what’s coming in WordPress 6.6, dive into the enhancements and new features in ACF 6.3, look at Jamie… Read more
Mike Davey
The next major release of WordPress, version 6.6, is scheduled to ship on July 16, 2024. It’s not expected to be as developer-centric as WordPress 6.5, but there’s still plenty… Read more
Mike Davey
Functional tests are crucial for WP-CLI packages as they simulate real-world scenarios, test integration with WordPress, and how they behave in a command line environment. In this article, I’ll show… Read more
Matt Shaw
Command line interfaces offer speed, flexibility, and the ability to automate repetitive tasks. In this article, we look into the features and enhancements in WP-CLI v2.10.0, and provide an update… Read more
Mike Davey
Headless WordPress separates the content management system part of WordPress from the frontend presentation layer. Decoupling the front and back ends of your site allows you to leverage the power… Read more
Mike Davey
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look at the latest and greatest features in WordPress 6.5, how DE{CODE} 2024 surpassed previous attendance records, how ACF made documentation easier… Read more
Mike Davey
WordPress Playground is a serverless version of WordPress that runs entirely in the browser. In this article, we’ll discuss the trio of APIs that form the backbone of how you… Read more
Mike Davey
A local development environment lets you make changes to dev sites quickly without having to transfer files. It also greatly reduces the risk of making and breaking changes on a… Read more
Mike Davey
WP-CLI packages take the increased efficiency of the command line even further by extending it with new or modified commands. In this article, we’ll show you how to install packages,… Read more
Mike Davey
Workflow is crucial to the success of your projects, and high-quality tools that are specifically designed for WordPress development significantly improve your efficiency and productivity. In this article, we’ll explore… Read more
Rob Stinson
The WordPress block editor was made the default editor for WordPress in December 2018. Adoption may have been slow at first, but the pace of development has increased exponentially. Today,… Read more
Mike Davey
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we open the doors on DE{CODE} 2024, look into the “sustainability crisis” in open source, and much more. Registration Open for DE{CODE} 2024… Read more
Mike Davey
Webhooks are a mechanism for receiving notifications about events from disparate systems without having to continuously poll them. Also called Reverse APIs, they can be thought of as providing “API… Read more
Sanjucta Ghose
Improving the Core Web Vitals for your WordPress site is one of the best ways to boost its rank in Google. Serving “next-gen images” is one of the more frequent… Read more
Mike Davey
We were recently contacted by Wordfence and Patchstack regarding PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities related to the use of unserialize() in Better Search Replace and WP Migrate, respectively. An additional internal… Read more
Kevin Hoffman
Should your WordPress sites use Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer. In this article, we’ll cover how AMP works, how to use both… Read more
Mike Davey
Serving lightweight WebP images can help boost your site speed, critical to the user experience and as a ranking factor. In this article, we’ll look at a few different ways… Read more
Mike Davey
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dip into the latest from the WordPress Developer Blog, play around with making sure WordPress stays free, see how text compression saves… Read more
Mike Davey
HTMX is a JavaScript library that enables developers to perform AJAX requests, trigger CSS animations, and invoke WebSocket and server-side events directly from HTML elements. It is designed to remove… Read more
Mike Davey