Reviewing Craft Nitro & DevKinsta for WordPress Local Development
One of the cool things about my job as Developer Educator at Delicious Brains is that sometimes I get to try out new things that I might otherwise never discover.…
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Why You Should be Using WP_DEBUG_LOG in Your WordPress Development
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
Apr 13, 2021
The 4 Best Local WordPress Development Environments in 2021: XAMPP vs MAMP vs Local vs DesktopServer
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
Jan 14, 2021
VS Code Wins Best PHP IDE/Editor for WordPress Development in 2021
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
Jan 9, 2021
Switching to Windows for Local WordPress Development
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
Oct 15, 2020
The Best Setup for Your Local WordPress Development Environment
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
Sep 16, 2020
Valet vs VVV vs Chassis: A Comparison Guide to CLI-Based Local WordPress Development Environments
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
Sep 1, 2020
How to Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
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
Jun 23, 2020
Vagrant vs Docker: Which is better for WordPress development?
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
Mar 31, 2020
Advanced Migration Workflow Tips For The Lazy WordPress Developer
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
Feb 19, 2019
Moving a WordPress Root Install to a Subdirectory Install and Vice Versa
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
May 15, 2018
Using Devilbox for Local WordPress Development in Docker
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
Feb 13, 2018
WP-CLI Packages: Supercharge Your WordPress Development
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
Jan 23, 2018
How to Switch Your WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS (with a little help from WP Migrate DB Pro)
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
Jan 17, 2018
Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 3: Automating the Rest
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
Feb 21, 2017
Debugging JavaScript and PHP at the same time with PhpStorm
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
Feb 14, 2017
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…
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,…
Jeff
Jul 12, 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…
Matt Shaw
Mar 29, 2016
Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 4 – Installing WordPress in a Subdirectory
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
Oct 6, 2015
Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 3 – Using Git Submodules to Manage Themes and Plugins
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
Aug 20, 2015
How and Why Install WordPress Core in a Subdirectory
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