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
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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
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
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
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
Delicious Brains in Nova Scotia: Our Third Annual Company Retreat
Back in August, our team met up for our third annual company retreat. We chose a location (literally) close to my heart: Nova Scotia. This year was the first year… Read more
Brad