A collection of resources for WordPress Developers, written and curated by experts
Whether you’re a developer, or a site owner troubleshooting a problem with your site, understanding the WP_DEBUG_LOG constant for turning on the WordPress debug log is very important. In this…
Brad
An easy-to-use local testing server is one of the most important tools in a WordPress developer’s utility belt. Developing in a local environment lets you make changes to dev sites…
Ram Ratan Maurya
When building software or websites, you’ll need to use an integrated development environment (IDE), a code editor or if you’re really brave, a text editor. They each offer different benefits…
Caillie West
As you may have noticed from reading our blog, we’ve highly favored Mac and Linux for WordPress development. And we’re not alone – through my very scientific and thorough research,…
Matt Shaw
When running a WordPress website it’s best practice to at least run a local copy of the site so you can make changes without running the risk of completely ruining…
Iain
In my last article, I reviewed the best WordPress development environment apps out there. But that’s not all of it, there are a number of great options available as well…
Ram Ratan Maurya
Setting up HTTPS locally can be tricky business. Even if you do manage to wrestle self-signed certificates into submission, you still end up with browser privacy errors. In this article,…
Brad
Before Docker came on the scene Vagrant was the go-to solution for creating development environments that can be configured independently of your machine and shared with a team. There are…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Sure you migrate WordPress databases on the regular and have a pretty good idea of what you’re doing, but is there anything that could make your migrations go more quickly…
Peter Tasker
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You pick up a new client who wants you to develop a new theme for their site so you set up a development site…
Jeff
For some time now I’ve been wanting to move all of my local development sites over to Docker instead of running them natively on my machine or running them in…
Gilbert Pellegrom
I think most developers would agree that WP-CLI (the self-described “command-line interface for WordPress”) is the best thing to happen to WordPress since my-hacks.php. It is my favorite way to…
Jeff
If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you might have seen Brad’s post on setting up Let’s Encrypt on a server to get a free SSL certificate. While…
Matt Shaw
This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my last post in the Automating Local WordPress Setup series, I created a…
Matt Shaw
Since I started with Delicious Brains last July, I’ve become a big fan of PhpStorm. It really is the bee’s knees. I won’t go over the full list of features,…
Peter Tasker
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…
Matt Shaw
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,…
Jeff
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…
Matt Shaw
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…
Gilbert Pellegrom
This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer” In part 2 we looked at how we might use Composer to manage…
Gilbert Pellegrom
We all love the famous WordPress 5 minute install, but personally I really don’t like looking at all the WordPress files in the root of the site. It’s messy and…
Iain
This is article 2 of 4 in the series “Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer” In part 1 we looked at how to store and manage your WordPress…
Gilbert Pellegrom
