Posts tagged: WordPress Development Tips

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

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

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

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

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

This is article 8 of 11 in the series “Hosting WordPress Yourself” In the previous post of this series, I covered security enhancements, automatic server updates, WooCommerce caching and automated… 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 7 of 11 in the series “Hosting WordPress Yourself” In the last post of this series, I demonstrated how to configure HTTPS and HTTP/2. In this post… 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