Posts tagged: Development

This is article 1 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” WordPress was recently ranked as the second most dreaded technology by over 50,000 developers… Read more

You’ve probably heard about Google’s new Accelerated Mobile Pages project, or AMP. If you haven’t, it’s a specification akin to Facebook’s Instant Articles for the open web. The project is… Read more

Frankly, Let’s Encrypt is possibly the best thing since sliced bread, letting you get a free SSL/TLS certificate with open source tools and an API to create and auto-renew said… Read more

While the WordPress core project still uses SVN for version control, it’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of serious WordPress developers use Git on their own projects.… Read more

For some time now Vagrant has been the go-to solution for creating development environments that can be configured independantly of your machine and shared with a team. There are many… Read more

This is article 3 of 3 in the series “WP REST API” WordPress 4.4 is set to be released in the next couple of weeks, and is bringing with it… Read more

A few months ago I bought an Apple Cinema display to use with my Macbook Pro. My plan was to use both screens, my Cinema display as my primary screen… Read more

I am scared of unit testing. There, I’ve said it. Unit testing is one of those practices that I know I should be doing, there are benefits to doing it,… Read more

This is article 4 of 4 in the series “Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer” In part 1 of this series we looked at how to store and… Read more

The majority of the Delicious Brains team use PhpStorm (everyone except Brad!), the PHP IDE from JetBrains, as their go-to code editor, development environment, and all-round PHP best friend. Many… Read more