WP Offload SES 1.3 Released: Search, View, and Resend Sent Emails
Today, we’re introducing a bunch of features for WP Offload SES. It’s no secret that WP Offload SES has been light on features since its launch. That’s the main reason… Read more
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PHP Scoper: How to Avoid Namespace Issues in your Composer Dependencies
Composer. If you’ve worked with PHP for any period of time you’ve likely heard of or used Composer. We’ve written about it whole bunch on the blog before, and it’s… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jul 2, 2019
WP Offload Media 2.2 Released: Offload Existing Media Items in the Background & More
It is with immense pleasure that we’d like to announce the release of WP Offload Media 2.2! 🎉 This release brings the much-requested background offloading of existing Media Library items.… Read more
Ian
Jun 11, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching
This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what a database index is and how we can use database indexing… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 5, 2019
How Much Money Do WordPress Developers Make? That and More Insights on the Life of a WordPress Developer in Our First-Ever Industry Report
As a web developer, there’s always that curiosity about what your peers are up to. Where are they from? How much do they make? Do they work remotely? Over the… Read more
Caillie West
May 28, 2019
New in WP Offload SES: Subsite Settings for WordPress Multisite
If you work on even one multisite install of WordPress, you’re going to be happy to hear about our latest release for WP Offload SES. Introducing subsite-specific settings for WP… Read more
Matt Shaw
May 7, 2019
How to Get MinIO and Other S3-Compatible Storage Providers to Work with WP Offload Media
WP Offload Media has a lot of filters that can be used to alter its behavior, but not a lot of people know about them, or what you could accomplish… Read more
Ian
Apr 30, 2019
Behind-the-Scenes: Replacing All of WP Migrate DB Pro’s jQuery with React
My latest task for WP Migrate DB Pro is creating a new user interface and rewriting all the JavaScript for the plugin and addons. It is no small feat, let… Read more
Peter Tasker
Apr 23, 2019
How to Decrease Your Site Testing Time: Automated Acceptance Testing for WooCommerce
We’ve written before about how we are using automated acceptance testing to test our WordPress plugins which has decreased manual testing time and helped catch bugs before they are released.… Read more
Iain Poulson
Apr 9, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 2: Improving Query Performance with Database Indexing
This is article 2 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at some simple commands and some basic code tweaks we could use to… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Mar 26, 2019
How We Improved Composer Support For Our Premium Plugins Again
Composer is my go-to method of managing free plugins in WordPress sites. However, managing premium plugins is a little more tricky. Last year we introduced full Composer support for our… Read more
Iain Poulson
Mar 19, 2019
WP Offload Media 2.1 Released: Google Cloud Storage Now Supported
You asked for it, and we’ve delivered! Today we’re very happy to announce the release of WP Offload Media 2.1 with support for Google Cloud Storage! Happily using WP Offload… Read more
Ian
Mar 5, 2019
How to Make Your MU-Plugins Compatible with Composer (And Why)
We are big advocates of managing dependencies in our projects with the package manager Composer. It’s essential to make sure the same version of dependencies are used in development environments… Read more
Iain Poulson
Feb 26, 2019
Advanced Migration Workflow Tips For The Lazy WordPress Developer
Sure you migrate WordPress databases on the regular and have a pretty good idea of what you’re doing, but is there anything that could make your migrations go more quickly… Read more
Peter Tasker
Feb 19, 2019
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
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
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