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

Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics

This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” Laravel is a very popular PHP framework these days and can be used for a range of web applications,… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Feb 5, 2019

Announcing WP Offload SES

WP Offload SES: Announcing A New WordPress Plugin For Amazon SES

If you’ve been following along on the blog, you might have been aware of the new plugin we’ve been working on. The long-awaited release day is finally upon us. Whether… Read more

Brad

Jan 21, 2019

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… Read more

Iain Poulson

Jan 2, 2019

WP Migrate DB Pro 1.9 Released: New Backups Tab and Refactored PHP

A mere eleven-or-so weeks after the release of the Theme & Plugin Files addon, WP Migrate DB Pro version 1.9 is out the door! We’ve added a brand new backups… Read more

Peter Tasker

Nov 27, 2018

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,… Read more

Iain Poulson

Nov 20, 2018

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Side Project Marketing That’ll Actually Deliver Results

If you’re at all like our own developer team, even though you have a “main gig” you still enjoy the creative outlet of working on side projects. Side projects like… Read more

Liz Lockard

Nov 13, 2018

Behind-the-Scenes: Planning The Future of WP Migrate DB Pro

We often get questions about what’s coming next to WP Migrate DB Pro or if we ever plan to include X feature or support Y sites. After shipping our latest… Read more

Brad

Nov 6, 2018

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… Read more

Matt Shaw

Oct 16, 2018

End-to-End Testing with Cypress

This week on the blog we’re going to talk about something I’m a big fan of: testing. Don’t fall asleep juuuust yet. If you’re like me, during development, you probably… Read more

Peter Tasker

Oct 2, 2018

WP Offload S3 is now WP Offload Media and Adds Support for DigitalOcean Spaces

Back in February with our release of version 1.6 of WP Offload S3, we revealed that we’ve been working toward adding support for additional storage providers. We asked you which… Read more

Brad

Sep 25, 2018

Introducing the Theme & Plugin Files Addon for WP Migrate DB Pro

If you follow us on Twitter you may have a clue as to what we’ve been working on for the past few months, and you might be a little excited… Read more

Peter Tasker

Sep 7, 2018

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… Read more

Iain Poulson

Aug 28, 2018

Vue vs React: 2018 Edition

Just over a year ago I wrote a 🔥-y piece comparing Vue.js vs React. Today, the argument about these two JavaScript frameworks is as alive as ever, but over the… Read more

Peter Tasker

Aug 21, 2018

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… Read more

Iain Poulson

Aug 7, 2018

Build a WordPress Plugin with Vue 2

It’s been a while since we’ve played with Vue JS on this blog, so why don’t we take a beginner-focused look at how one might go about building a simple… Read more

Jeff

Jul 10, 2018

Team Retreat In Jamaica

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

Iain Poulson

Jun 19, 2018

Getting into Go for PHP developers

How many programming languages do you regularly work with? But you probably have your favorites. Myself, I’ve built my career on PHP and JavaScript. I’m always looking to learn something… Read more

Peter Tasker

May 30, 2018

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… Read more

Iain Poulson

May 23, 2018

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… Read more

Iain Poulson

May 1, 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… Read more

Matt Shaw

Apr 24, 2018

The Surprising Benefits of Speaking at a Technical Conference

Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I… Read more

Peter Tasker

Apr 17, 2018

How We Built Full Composer Support For Our Premium WordPress Plugins

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

Ashley

Feb 27, 2018

WP Offload S3 1.6 Released: Lighter and More Independent

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

Ian

Feb 20, 2018

Using Devilbox for Local WordPress Development in Docker

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

Gilbert Pellegrom

Feb 13, 2018