WordPress Security Fundamentals: How to Not Get Hacked
WordPress has come a long way towards its stated goal of democratizing publishing, powering roughly 43% of the websites on the web. However, that status makes it a prime target…
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Managing WordPress Dev Environments With WP-CLI and Robo
Automating repetitive tasks is one of the best ways to save time in your development workflow. In my day to day work as a plugin developer, I often have to…
Erik
Sep 13, 2022
Installing, Updating, and Managing WordPress Plugins With WP-CLI
WP-CLI allows you to do practically anything you can do in the WordPress admin, but on the command line. This saves a lot of time and provides a cleaner workflow.…
Erik
Jul 26, 2022
Our Guide to WP-CLI Command Structure
The WordPress command line interface (WP-CLI) is an incredible tool for improving your development workflow. Understanding how commands are structured is key to using WP-CLI to its full potential. In…
Erik
Jun 28, 2022
How to Use tmux for Remote & Local Development
The tmux terminal multiplexer is often used in remote development, but it has interesting applications for local dev work as well. In this article, I’ll explain what a terminal multiplexer…
Ian
May 25, 2022
Using Npm Scripts as a Build Tool
There are typically two types of JavaScript build tools: task runners and module bundlers. In this article, we’ll look at how to use project specific npm build scripts as a…
Jonathan
Jan 25, 2022
Quickly Set Up Google AMP on Your WordPress Site
Should your WordPress sites use Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer. When it was announced in 2015, Google billed the AMP Project as…
Mike Davey
Jan 13, 2022
You Don’t Need a Plugin for WebP Images on WordPress in 2022
Serving lightweight WebP images can help boost your site speed, critical as both a ranking factor and as part of the user experience. Not too long ago, you needed a…
Mike Davey
Dec 8, 2021
Advanced Custom Fields: A Guide to Custom Fields and ACF Blocks
I’ve been a fan of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for a long time now. It’s used on almost every site I’ve built or worked on for the last few years.…
Iain Poulson
Mar 16, 2021
Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools
In JavaScript land, things move fast and technology advances at a crazy pace. Most modern applications are built using technologies like Vue.js and React, making use of module bundlers like…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 25, 2020
Amazon S3 vs CloudFront: Why Delivering WordPress Media Directly From S3 is a Bad Idea
Amazon S3 is a sensible choice for storing your website’s assets in the cloud, but for delivery the benchmarks show that using a CDN is necessary to see any major…
Matt Shaw
Mar 10, 2020
Optimizing Laravel Part 4: Queues, Front-end & Opcache Considerations
This is article 4 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what object caching is and how and when to use it to…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Aug 13, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching
This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what a database index is and how we can use database indexing…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 5, 2019
How to Get MinIO and Other S3-Compatible Storage Providers to Work with WP Offload Media
WP Offload Media has a lot of filters that can be used to alter its behavior, but not a lot of people know about them, or what you could accomplish…
Ian
Apr 30, 2019
Updating WooCommerce: Our Safe & Thorough Guide
We’ve had a lot going on at Delicious Brains HQ recently; releasing this and that, planning new products, and generally pushing the envelope. However, that has meant some things have…
Iain Poulson
May 1, 2018
Using the New PDF Preview Images in WordPress 4.7 in the Real World
When WordPress 4.7 was released at the end of 2016 most of the response was around the new REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings. However,…
Iain Poulson
May 16, 2017
Strategies for Handling Large WordPress Media Libraries in Dev and Staging Environments
One of the questions we get asked fairly often about WP Offload S3 is whether or not it is OK to use in development or staging environments. When done correctly,…
Evan Mattson
May 9, 2017
Introducing WP Image Processing Queue – On‑the‑Fly Image Processing Done Right
I’ve been bugging core contributors and plugin authors about background processing for a year and half now. To the point where Krogsgard even made fun of me for it at…
Brad
Mar 7, 2017
On The Fly Image Processing Causes More Problems Than It Fixes
Update 2017-03-07: We’re now offering a better solution to on-the-fly image processing. Images are the bread and butter of the web. Without images and other media the web would be…
Ian McFarlan
Nov 29, 2016
How to do Background Processing in WordPress Plugins and Themes
As WordPress sites become increasingly more complex, so do the tasks that they need to perform which can often be resource intensive or time consuming. I’m talking specifically about tasks…
Ashley
