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
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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
Dec 19, 2017
Introducing the All-New Assets Pull Addon for WP Offload S3
We’re very excited to introduce you to the all-new Assets Pull addon for WP Offload S3. It’s a completely new plugin, written from scratch using a different approach, and intended… Read more
Evan Mattson
Nov 20, 2017
Announcing X-Ray For Mergebot: Visualize Your Database Changes
Something new is coming to Mergebot, our solution for making merging database changes easier. One of the hardest things during site development is seeing what has been done to the… Read more
Brad
Nov 15, 2017
Multisite Tools Addon 1.2 Released: Migrate Single Sites To and From Multisites
It’s a happy day here at the Delicious Brains virtual office, we’ve just released version 1.2 of the Multisite Tools (MST) addon for WP Migrate DB Pro! Singular Drive Since… Read more
Ian
Nov 9, 2017
How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3, React and the REST API (part 2)
This is article 2 of 2 in the series “How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3” Have you ever wondered how to get React working with the WordPress… Read more
Peter Tasker
Oct 31, 2017
WP Migrate DB Pro 1.8 Released: Import SQL File & More
The WP Migrate DB Pro team is very excited to announce the release of version 1.8! We’ve packed in an awesome new feature and improved a bunch of existing functionality.… Read more
Peter Tasker
Sep 14, 2017
Creating a Custom Table with PHP in WordPress
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a custom table in WordPress or why you would ever want or need to? WordPress comes with many different ways to… Read more
Evan Mattson
Sep 12, 2017
Running WordPress in a Kubernetes Cluster
As a developer I try to keep my eye on the progression of technologies that I might not use every day, but are important to understand as they might indirectly… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Aug 22, 2017
Behind-the-Scenes: How We’re Automating Acceptance Testing
Have you ever had the joy of carrying out acceptance tests? For our team at Delicious Brains, testing our releases, in the past, has been one of the most dreaded… Read more
Ian
Aug 15, 2017
How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3 & React (Part 1)
This is article 1 of 2 in the series “How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3” If you’ve been working with JavaScript in the last couple years you’ve… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jul 19, 2017
WP Offload S3 1.5 Released: Copy Between Buckets & More
Today is once again release day for WP Offload S3 🎉 and with it comes some new features and improvements. We’ve merged compatibility addons into the core plugin, added support… Read more
Ashley
Jul 11, 2017
Announcing serializededitor.com: A Visual Editor for PHP Serialized Data
I recently built a command line daemon in PHP to emulate AWS SQSD for the purposes of testing in Mergebot. As it turns out, one of the benefits of building… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 27, 2017
The WordPress Developer’s Guide to ES2015 (ES6)
The WordPress developer community is currently abuzz with JavaScript talk, specifically around which JavaScript framework to use in WordPress core. Regardless of which framework is chosen, it’s clear that WordPress… Read more
Ashley
Jun 13, 2017
Building a Command Line Daemon in PHP to Emulate AWS SQSD
Sometimes when you’re building a project there are parts of the architecture that exist on production that don’t exist on your development machine. Those missing parts (like proprietary software that’s… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
May 30, 2017
Refactoring JavaScript: How to Avoid Technical Debt While Working with Legacy Code
Do you have a legacy JavaScript codebase you’re avoiding refactoring? So does WordPress. If you’ve been paying attention to WordPress core lately, you may have noticed that there has been… Read more
Peter Tasker
May 23, 2017
Using the New PDF Preview Images in WordPress 4.7 in the Real World
When WordPress 4.7 was released at the end of 2016 most of the response was around the new REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings. However,… Read more
Iain Poulson
May 16, 2017
Mergebot Now 1,200% Faster: Tuning a Laravel App with Blackfire
We just hit a huge milestone in our Mergebot beta by lifting the 1,000 queries per deployment limit 🎉. We created Mergebot to make merging WordPress databases easy. When we… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Apr 11, 2017
Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal
‘Dependency hell’ is a problem faced by all software, and it has been rearing its ugly head in the WordPress space over the last few years with more and more… Read more
Iain Poulson
Mar 22, 2017
WP Offload S3 1.4 Released
Today is release day for WP Offload S3 and with it comes some new features and some changes. It’s been just over two months since we released version 1.3, but… Read more
Ashley
Mar 14, 2017
Introducing WP Image Processing Queue – On‑the‑Fly Image Processing Done Right
I’ve been bugging core contributors and plugin authors about background processing for a year and half now. To the point where Krogsgard even made fun of me for it at… Read more
Brad
Mar 7, 2017
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 3: Automating the Rest
This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my last post in the Automating Local WordPress Setup series, I created a… Read more
Matt Shaw
Feb 21, 2017
Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home Part 2
This is article 2 of 2 in the series “Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home” It’s been just over a year since we posted about our struggles… Read more
Iain Poulson
Jan 31, 2017
Hooks, Line, and Sinker: WordPress’ New WP_Hook Class
The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an… Read more
Peter Tasker