What MySQL 5.7 EOL Means for WordPress Developers
After eight years of general availability, no one can say MySQL 5.7 didn’t have a good run. MySQL 5.7 officially reaches its End of Life (EOL) in October 2023. The…
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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.…
Mike Davey
Feb 10, 2023
Remotely Back Up Your WordPress Database and Media With WP Migrate CLI
Keeping regular backups of your WordPress installs is one of the most important things you should do after you launch a site. If you search for the term “backup” in…
Mike Davey
Oct 25, 2022
How to Test Webhooks From Public APIs in Local Development
Webhooks are a mechanism for receiving notifications about events from disparate systems without having to continuously poll them. Also called Reverse APIs, they can be thought of as providing “API…
Sanjucta Ghose
Aug 25, 2022
Syncing WordPress Database Changes Between Environments: How We Handle Merging in 2022
Database synchronization is a problem that still gets raised almost every month in the local WordPress communities I’m part of – “if I am making changes to my local site,…
Iain Poulson
Jan 28, 2022
The Ultimate Developer’s Guide to the WordPress Database
Here at Delicious Brains we eat, drink and sleep databases. However, we believe that any developer working with WordPress should have some level of knowledge about the database that sits…
Iain Poulson
