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,…
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Character Encodings and Unicode: What Every WordPress Developer Needs to Know About Strings and 🦄
What is Unicode? Waaay back in 2003 Joel Spolsky wrote about Unicode and why every developer should understand what it is and why it’s important. I remember reading that article…
Peter Tasker
Jan 12, 2021
How we use PhpStorm for WordPress Development
Many of the Delicious Brains team use PhpStorm, the PHP IDE from JetBrains, as their go-to code editor, development environment, and all-round PHP best friend. Some on the team swear…
Iain
Dec 9, 2020
Set Up Visual Studio Code and xDebug as the Ultimate Editor for WordPress Development
If you keep up with the many text editors and developer tools available, you may have heard of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a free, open source code…
Matt Shaw
Aug 5, 2020
Using JavaScript FileReader to Upload Large Files in Chunks and Avoid Server Limits
If you’ve spent any amount of time messing with PHP config files to get a file to upload, you know that uploading large files can be a real pain. You…
Matt Shaw
Jun 9, 2020
How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020
The WordPress block editor (previously titled Gutenberg) includes a new way to add content to your WordPress posts, pages and soon all content on your WordPress site. It marks WordPress’…
Peter Tasker
Apr 22, 2020
SQL Query Optimization for Faster WordPress Sites
You know that a fast site == happier users, improved ranking from Google, and increased conversions. Maybe you even think your WordPress site is as fast as it can be…
Iain
Apr 7, 2020
Vue vs React: Which is the Best JavaScript Framework in 2020?
React or Vue.js, which JavaScript framework should you choose? React powers WordPress’ new editor while Vue.js is a popular framework in the Laravel community. In this post we’ll go over…
Peter Tasker
Mar 17, 2020
Inertia.js: Building Single-Page Apps the Old Way
I’ve been building Laravel apps for years now. From large, data-heavy apps like Mergebot (RIP 😢) and SpinupWP to small side projects like my latest side project Formstatic. So when…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Dec 4, 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…
Peter Tasker
Jul 2, 2019
Vue vs React: 2018 Edition
Just over a year ago I wrote a 🔥-y piece comparing Vue.js vs React. Today, the argument about these two JavaScript frameworks is as alive as ever, but over the…
Peter Tasker
Aug 21, 2018
Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
I’ve been loosely following the noise and #wpdrama surrounding Gutenberg for as long as it has been around and honestly for the most part I’ve had negative feelings around it…
Iain
Jan 10, 2018
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…
Ashley
Jun 13, 2017
Refactoring JavaScript: How to Avoid Technical Debt While Working with Legacy Code
Do you have a legacy JavaScript codebase you’re avoiding refactoring? So does WordPress. If you’ve been paying attention to WordPress core lately, you may have noticed that there has been…
Peter Tasker
May 23, 2017
Hooks, Line, and Sinker: WordPress’ New WP_Hook Class
The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an…
Peter Tasker
