Advanced Custom Fields: A Guide to Custom Fields and ACF Blocks
I’ve been a fan of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for a long time now. It’s used on almost every site I’ve built or worked on for the last few years.… Read more
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Introducing the Elementor Integration for WP Offload Media
In the first of hopefully many plugin releases this year, the WP Offload Media team has been working hard on some big integrations and improvements. Today we’re pleased to announce… Read more
Iain Poulson
Mar 3, 2021
Amazon SES vs SendGrid vs Mailgun vs Sendinblue: Pricing, Features, and WordPress Plugin Quality
It’s no secret that we love Amazon SES – we released a plugin that specifically helps you set it up on your WordPress site. But it’s also worth looking at… Read more
Matt Shaw
Feb 9, 2021
MailPoet and WordPress Newsletter Plugins vs Mailchimp and Drip in 2021
There are many options when it comes to sending out email newsletters for your WordPress site. You can choose from dozens of plugins or dedicated services like Mailchimp or Drip.… Read more
Matt Shaw
Jan 28, 2021
How Unicode Works: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Strings and 🦄
What is Unicode? Waaay back in 2003 Joel Spolsky wrote about Unicode and why every developer should understand what it is and why it’s important. I remember reading that article… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jan 12, 2021
VS Code Wins Best PHP IDE/Editor for WordPress Development in 2021
When building software or websites, you’ll need to use an integrated development environment (IDE), a code editor or if you’re really brave, a text editor. They each offer different benefits… Read more
Caillie West
Jan 9, 2021
How We Use PhpStorm for WordPress Development
Many of the Delicious Brains team use PhpStorm, the PHP IDE from JetBrains, as their go-to code editor, development environment, and all-round PHP best friend. Some on the team swear… Read more
Iain Poulson
Dec 9, 2020
WP Offload Media 2.5 Released: Improved WooCommerce Integration and New Tool for Already Offloaded Files
It’s been a busy few months since our last release. In that time we’ve been hiring, settling into a regular release cycle format, planning out the future roadmap for the… Read more
Iain Poulson
Nov 11, 2020
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,… Read more
Matt Shaw
Oct 15, 2020
The Best Setup for Your Local WordPress Development Environment
When running a WordPress website it’s best practice to at least run a local copy of the site so you can make changes without running the risk of completely ruining… Read more
Iain Poulson
Sep 16, 2020
Valet vs VVV vs Chassis: A Comparison Guide to CLI-Based Local WordPress Development Environments
In my last article, I reviewed the best WordPress development environment apps out there. But that’s not all of it, there are a number of great options available as well… Read more
Ram Ratan Maurya
Sep 1, 2020
WP Offload Media 2.4 Released: Private Media with a Custom Domain and Amazon CloudFront
This is a big release, six months in the making…well, really 5 years in the making! Check out the date on this GitHub issue 😱… We’re so excited to finally… Read more
Brad
Jul 14, 2020
Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools
In JavaScript land, things move fast and technology advances at a crazy pace. Most modern applications are built using technologies like Vue.js and React, making use of module bundlers like… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 25, 2020
The Ultimate Developer’s Guide to the WordPress Database
Here at Delicious Brains we eat, drink and sleep databases. However, we believe that any developer working with WordPress should have some level of knowledge about the database that sits… Read more
Iain Poulson
Jun 3, 2020
Vagrant vs Docker: Which is better for WordPress development?
Before Docker came on the scene Vagrant was the go-to solution for creating development environments that can be configured independently of your machine and shared with a team. There are… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Mar 31, 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… Read more
Matt Shaw
Mar 10, 2020
WordPress, JavaScript and PHP Conferences to Add to Your Calendar in 2020
Whether you’re hoping to speak at a conference, looking to network or just there to learn, attending a conference can be beneficial to you and your career in a number… Read more
Caillie West
Jan 14, 2020
Automated API Testing For Your WordPress Site With Codeception
I’ve previously written about how we use Codeception to perform automated testing on our WooCommerce site where we sell our plugins. Automated tests give us peace of mind that our… Read more
Iain Poulson
Dec 31, 2019
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… Read more
Matt Shaw
Dec 11, 2019
Inertia.js: Building Single-Page Apps the Old Way
Update: We’ve written a newer, more detailed tutorial on Inertia using Laravel Jetstream. I’ve been building Laravel apps for years now. From large, data-heavy apps like Mergebot (RIP 😢) and… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Dec 4, 2019
WP Offload Media 2.3 Released: WordPress 5.3 Support & More
Today we released WP Offload Media 2.3! 🎉 This release has some very important changes in order to support WordPress 5.3, introduces a custom table for the plugin’s data, as… Read more
Ian
Nov 12, 2019
How Laravel Valet Works Exactly
Developers tend to love messing about with their local development environments to see what fits their project requirements and workflow best. Since its launch in 2016, Laravel Valet has quickly… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Oct 8, 2019
The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin
I woke up this morning to an email from an old client from my days as a freelancer building WordPress sites, asking about SCA compliance. I built them an ecommerce… Read more
Iain Poulson
Sep 24, 2019
Getting Started with Lottie: An Overview of Airbnb’s Awesome Animation Framework
Recently I have been doing more animation work here at Delicious Brains Inc and finally decided to experiment with Airbnb’s rave-reviewed, Lottie framework. Lottie is a React Native, Android and… Read more
Lewis Warren