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,…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer” Welcome to the first post in a series on Managing Your WordPress Site…