PHP and cURL: How WordPress makes HTTP requests
cURL is the workhorse of the modern internet. As its tagline says, cURL is a utility piece of software used to ‘transfer data with urls‘. According to the cURL website,…
Posts tagged: Development Tips
Advanced Custom Fields: A Guide to Custom Fields and ACF Blocks
I’ve been a fan of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for a long time now. It’s used on almost every site I’ve built or worked on for the last few years.…
How to Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
Setting up HTTPS locally can be tricky business. Even if you do manage to wrestle self-signed certificates into submission, you still end up with browser privacy errors. In this article,…
How I Use tmux For Local Development
On a recent One on One chat with Brad we got to talking about tmux. Brad was interested to hear that I use it every day on my local development…
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…
WP-CLI Packages: Supercharge Your WordPress Development
I think most developers would agree that WP-CLI (the self-described “command-line interface for WordPress”) is the best thing to happen to WordPress since my-hacks.php. It is my favorite way to…
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…
Debugging JavaScript and PHP at the same time with PhpStorm
Since I started with Delicious Brains last July, I’ve become a big fan of PhpStorm. It really is the bee’s knees. I won’t go over the full list of features,…