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Syncing WordPress Database Changes Between Environments: How We Handle Merging in 2022

Database synchronization is a problem that still gets raised almost every month in the local WordPress communities I’m part of – “if I am making changes to my local site,… Read more

Iain Poulson

Jan 28, 2022

2021 Year in Review: Tripled, Acquired, Reborn, and Humming

TL;DR — Despite the pandemic, we had a great year as a team and as a business. We tripled the size of the team, acquired ACF, shipped and published a… Read more

Brad

Jan 6, 2022

PHP Static Analysis

Get Started with PHP Static Code Analysis

Imagine a world where your IDE or code editor detected problems before you even ran the code. Imagine if whole categories of errors could be automatically identified and easily eliminated… Read more

Ross Wintle

Dec 21, 2021

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WP Migrate DB Pro 2.2 Released: Find & Replace Preview, Support for Different Table Prefixes, UX Improvements, and More

We’ve just released more awesome updates to our flagship product, WP Migrate DB Pro! If we had to choose one word to summarize this release, it would be precision. This… Read more

Kevin Hoffman

Oct 19, 2021

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WP Migrate DB Pro 2.1 Released: Regular Expression and Case-Sensitive Find and Replace, Accessibility Improvements, and More

WP Migrate DB Pro 2.0 was probably our most significant update to date, and we were pretty excited to get it released to our customers. After four bugfix releases to… Read more

Iain Poulson

Aug 4, 2021

Reviewing Craft Nitro & DevKinsta for WordPress Local Development

One of the cool things about my job as Developer Educator at Delicious Brains is that sometimes I get to try out new things that I might otherwise never discover.… Read more

Jonathan

Jul 28, 2021

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Migrating your entire WordPress site using WP Migrate DB Pro

In this doc we will go over the nitty-gritty of a WordPress site migration. Many of us know that moving a WordPress site from one host to another isn’t as… Read more

Caillie West

Apr 28, 2021

How We Use PhpStorm for WordPress Development

Many of the Delicious Brains team use PhpStorm, the PHP IDE from JetBrains, as their go-to code editor, development environment, and all-round PHP best friend. Some on the team swear… Read more

Iain Poulson

Dec 9, 2020

The Best Setup for Your Local WordPress Development Environment

When running a WordPress website it’s best practice to at least run a local copy of the site so you can make changes without running the risk of completely ruining… Read more

Iain Poulson

Sep 16, 2020

Valet vs VVV vs Chassis: A Comparison Guide to CLI-Based Local WordPress Development Environments

In my last article, I reviewed the best WordPress development environment apps out there. But that’s not all of it, there are a number of great options available as well… Read more

Ram Ratan Maurya

Sep 1, 2020

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Migrating your entire WordPress site using WP Migrate DB Pro (Deprecated)

In this doc we will go over the nitty-gritty of a WordPress site migration. Many of us know that moving a WordPress site from one host to another isn’t as… Read more

Peter Tasker

Feb 4, 2020

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Using a CSV File as the Source of the Find and Replace Pairs with the CLI Addon

Recently a customer asked if it was possible to use a CSV file with WP Migrate DB Pro so they could perform a find and replace on their site, there… Read more

Iain

Oct 3, 2019

Mateo Leyba

WP Migrate and WP-CLI integration is the cats ass. Multisite tools coming too? Hell yes! #usethisshitdaily @dliciousbrains #wordpress

Nov 8, 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

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Theme & Plugin Files Addon

The Theme & Plugin Files Addon provides functionality to migrate theme and plugin files along with your database and media files as fast as FTP (if not quicker) without requiring… Read more

Peter Tasker

Apr 16, 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

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

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

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Thank You!

Thanks for subscribing to the Delicious Brains blog! You’ve joined an amazing community of folks who love nerding out on all things WordPress. Every week, we’ll send you a new… Read more

Liz Lockard

Mar 31, 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

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

Deploying WordPress Plugins with Travis CI

Ever since I built my first WordPress plugin, the process of deploying the code to the WordPress.org Subversion repository has been a painful one. With Git as the widespread VCS… Read more

Iain Poulson

Dec 6, 2016

On The Fly Image Processing Causes More Problems Than It Fixes

Update 2017-03-07: We’re now offering a better solution to on-the-fly image processing. Images are the bread and butter of the web. Without images and other media the web would be… Read more

Ian McFarlan

Nov 29, 2016