The Best WordPress Backup Plugins for 2025
Backing up your site is a little like buying fire insurance. You never need it outside of a catastrophe, but not having it is just going to make the catastrophe… Read more
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Posts tagged: Plugin
5 Ways to Create a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
The extensibility of WordPress has always been one of its strong points. Not only are there thousands of plugins available, you can build your own. At some point, you might… Read more
Iain Poulson
Dec 2, 2024
WP Offload SES 1.7 Released: Enqueue Only Mode and Improvements for High-Volume Senders
WP Offload SES 1.7 adds a new “Enqueue Only” mode that can be used to prevent sending accidental emails in development and staging environments or to temporarily pause all emails… Read more
Ian
Jul 1, 2024
Two Ways to Create Custom WordPress Blocks
The WordPress block editor was made the default editor for WordPress in December 2018. Adoption may have been slow at first, but the pace of development has increased exponentially. Today,… Read more
Mike Davey
Mar 6, 2024
Handling AJAX Requests in WordPress: WP REST API vs admin-ajax.php vs Must-Use Plugin
The WordPress REST API was merged into WordPress core in version 4.7. Before that, developers relied on the default AJAX implementation, otherwise known as admin-ajax after the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file that… Read more
Matt Shaw
Oct 17, 2023
WP Offload SES 1.6 Released: 40 MB Attachments Enabled
WP Offload SES 1.6 uses the latest Amazon SES API v2 in order to increase the maximum size limit of messages from 10 MB to 40 MB. 📩 Larger Attachments… Read more
Ian
Feb 15, 2023
Head-to-Head: WordPress Export/Import vs. WP Migrate
The internal import and export tools in WordPress work pretty well…if the site you’re migrating is relatively small, doesn’t use a custom theme, and wasn’t built with any tricky coding.… Read more
Mike Davey
Feb 10, 2023
WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices: Plugin Templates
WordPress functionality is largely defined by the available plugins, and many clients want functionality that’s best served with a custom plugin. The initial setup is often a tedious affair, with… Read more
Mike Davey
Dec 6, 2022
Installing, Updating, and Managing WordPress Plugins With WP-CLI
WP-CLI allows you to do practically anything you can do in the WordPress admin, but on the command line. This saves a lot of time and provides a cleaner workflow.… Read more
Erik
Jul 26, 2022
Our Guide to WP-CLI Command Structure
The WordPress command line interface (WP-CLI) is an incredible tool for improving your development workflow. Understanding how commands are structured is key to using WP-CLI to its full potential. In… Read more
Erik
Jun 28, 2022
The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin
I woke up this morning to an email from an old client from my days as a freelancer building WordPress sites, asking about SCA compliance. I built them an ecommerce… Read more
Iain Poulson
Sep 24, 2019
PHP Scoper: How to Avoid Namespace Issues in your Composer Dependencies
Composer. If you’ve worked with PHP for any period of time you’ve likely heard of or used Composer. We’ve written about it whole bunch on the blog before, and it’s… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jul 2, 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
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
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
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
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
Iain Poulson
May 1, 2018
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
Ian
Feb 20, 2018
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
Peter Tasker
Oct 31, 2017
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
Ian
Aug 15, 2017
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
Peter Tasker
Jul 19, 2017
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
Ashley
Jul 11, 2017
WP Offload S3 1.4 Released
Today is release day for WP Offload S3 and with it comes some new features and some changes. It’s been just over two months since we released version 1.3, but… Read more
Ashley
Mar 14, 2017
WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 & CLI Addon 1.3 Released
Just 5 months after our last major release, I’m happy to announce the release of WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 and CLI addon 1.3. In the past, we’ve struggled with… Read more
Brad