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
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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
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