Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code
A few months back Iain wrote about how our team pushes each other to be better developers, which included insights into how we improve code quality using tools such as… Read more
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Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 2: Creating a WP-CLI Package
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my previous article in this series, I discussed some simple ways to make… Read more
Matt Shaw
Oct 18, 2016
Tips for Power Users of WP Migrate DB Pro
As a developer, I love simple tools that do a specific set of tasks really well and then get out of your way. I use tools like MAMP, WP-CLI, Grunt,… Read more
Jeff
Jul 12, 2016
How Our Team Pushes Each Other to be Better Developers
Since I started working at Delicious Brains, it seems we have been hiring pretty much constantly. Prospective new hires go through a few weeks trial where they work on our… Read more
Iain Poulson
May 24, 2016
How My JavaScript Almost Crashed Your Browser and How I Fixed It
About a week before we launched WP Migrate DB Pro 1.6, I had my heart broken by Ashley Rich in our slack channel. It went something like this: /——dramatization——/ @bradt:… Read more
Jeff
May 17, 2016
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts
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
Matt Shaw
Mar 29, 2016
Creating a WordPress Theme using the REST API and Vue.js
After attending the Day of REST conference a couple of weeks ago I was inspired to dive in to the WordPress REST API and test it out. On the day… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Feb 23, 2016
WordPress Plugin Review: WP Pusher
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
Jeff
Jan 26, 2016
How to do Background Processing in WordPress Plugins and Themes
As WordPress sites become increasingly more complex, so do the tasks that they need to perform which can often be resource intensive or time consuming. I’m talking specifically about tasks… Read more
Ashley
Jan 19, 2016
HTTP/2, HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt and WordPress
TL;DR — HTTP/2 is awesome, but requires HTTPS, which is hard to setup. Let’s Encrypt and WordPress can make HTTPS setup simple and help achieve a faster web sooner. My… Read more
Brad
Dec 8, 2015
WP REST API Part 2.5: Using it in WordPress 4.4
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
Jeff
Dec 1, 2015
Unit Testing Ajax and API Requests in WordPress Plugins
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
Iain Poulson
Nov 3, 2015
Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 4 – Installing WordPress in a Subdirectory
This is article 3 of 3 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
Gilbert Pellegrom
Oct 6, 2015
Managing Custom Tables in WordPress
Once upon a time I tried to build a theme and plugin store into the WordPress dashboard. Kind of like iTunes for WordPress. I called it WP App Store. Long… Read more
Brad
Sep 8, 2015
WP REST API Part 2: Customizing Default Endpoints and Adding New Ones
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “WP REST API” In the first installment of this series I created a very basic React Native app utilizing WordPress and… Read more
Jeff
Sep 2, 2015
Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 3 – Using Git Submodules to Manage Themes and Plugins
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer” In part 2 we looked at how we might use Composer to manage… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Aug 20, 2015
WP REST API Part 1: Creating a Mobile App with WP-API and React Native
This is article 1 of 3 in the series “WP REST API” The WP REST API is a WordPress plugin that intends to be eventually integrated into WordPress’ core as… Read more
Jeff
Jul 21, 2015
Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 2 – Using Composer to Manage Themes and Plugins
This is article 1 of 3 in the series “Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer” In part 1 we looked at how to store and manage your WordPress… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jul 8, 2015
WordPress Library Review: Extended CPTs
There are a number of introductions to WordPress Custom Post Types (CPT) to be found on the web that show how to create them, both with admin plugins and manually… Read more
Ian
Jun 23, 2015
Struggles Developing a Commercial WordPress Plugin
Building software to sell is a tricky business. It isn’t always as simple as writing code and getting people to buy it. WordPress commercial plugins come with their own set… Read more
Iain Poulson
May 19, 2015
A Developer’s Guide to Contributing to WordPress Core
Every month the team here at Delicious Brains have a “WP Core Contrib Day”, a day to give back to WordPress Core. This is an important day for us as we… Read more
Ian