I recently saw this tweet from Danny van Kooten which reminded me of one of the many major gripes developers have with WordPress – supporting ancient PHP versions: STOP SUPPORTING… Read more
If you’re running a site that sends a lot of emails, like an ecommerce site or a membership site, you already know that it’s critical to have a reliable email… Read more
Gutenberg: everyone’s talking about it. In fact, when Iain wrote about it recently, it quickly became our most-commented-on-post ever. I have my own thoughts on the philosophy of focusing on… Read more
Composer is the dependency manager of choice for PHP. It allows you to declare a list of project dependencies and will install and update them directly from the command line,… Read more
It’s not often that removing something from a product is a cause for great cheer, but with the removal of the dependency on the Amazon Web Services plugin in the… Read more
For some time now I’ve been wanting to move all of my local development sites over to Docker instead of running them natively on my machine or running them in… Read more
This past year was a rollercoaster of a ride. Some high highs and low lows. We added team members and had to let some go. We saw dips in revenue… Read more
Boom. Things look different around here. A little bit anyway. For the better part of a year, we’ve been working on an updated look for our site which turned into… Read more
I think most developers would agree that WP-CLI (the self-described “command-line interface for WordPress”) is the best thing to happen to WordPress since my-hacks.php. It is my favorite way to… Read more
If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you might have seen Brad’s post on setting up Let’s Encrypt on a server to get a free SSL certificate. While… Read more
