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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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