The WP Migrate DB Pro team is very excited to announce the release of version 1.8! We’ve packed in an awesome new feature and improved a bunch of existing functionality. So without further ado, let’s go over what’s new! Import Continue reading WP Migrate DB Pro 1.8 Released: Import SQL File & More
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a custom table in WordPress or why you would ever want or need to? WordPress comes with many different ways to store data out-of-the-box. Luckily for us, WordPress is flexible enough Continue reading Creating a Custom Table with PHP in WordPress
As a developer I try to keep my eye on the progression of technologies that I might not use every day, but are important to understand as they might indirectly affect my work. For example the recent rise of containerization, Continue reading Running WordPress in a Kubernetes Cluster
Have you ever had the joy of carrying out acceptance tests? For our team at Delicious Brains, testing our releases, in the past, has been one of the most dreaded tasks on the to-do list. We hold our plugins to Continue reading Behind-the-Scenes: How We’re Automating Acceptance Testing
Ever since I built my first WordPress plugin, the process of deploying the code to the WordPress.org Subversion repository has been a painful one. With Git as the widespread VCS flavor of choice, switching to SVN for plugin deployment has Continue reading Deploying WordPress Plugins with Travis CI
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 quite different and not nearly as enriching; they are like Continue reading On The Fly Image Processing Causes More Problems Than It Fixes
A few months back Iain wrote about how our team pushes each other to be better developers, which included insights into how we improve code quality using tools such as Xdebug, unit tests, and code reviews. While these tools can Continue reading Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code
I’ve attended many conferences in my time and watched every single speaker with admiration, because just the thought of getting up and talking to an audience myself leaves me in a cold sweat. However, at the beginning of October I Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Giving a Talk
Just 5 months after our last major release, I’m happy to announce the release of WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 and CLI addon 1.3. In the past, we’ve struggled with limiting the scope of each release and getting releases out Continue reading WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 & CLI Addon 1.3 Released
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After nearly 6 months of development I’m pleased to announce the release of WP Offload S3 1.2. For now you’ll need to download it from My Account. Updates through the WordPress dashboard will be enabled soon, hopefully next week. In Continue reading WP Offload S3 1.2 Released
Update: This post was originally written about Pressmatic before the app was purchased by Flywheel and had its name changed to “Local”. I have updated the post’s text and most of the code to reflect this change. If you’ve been Continue reading Creating a Custom addon for Local by Flywheel
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Ever since building my first WordPress plugin I have been interested in the different business models around monetizing plugins. A while back I heard of Freemius, a monetization service for WordPress plugins and themes, that aims to do all the Continue reading Freemius Monetization Review: An Easy Way to Sell Your Plugins and Themes
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TL;DR — HTTP/2 is awesome, but requires HTTPS, which is hard to setup. Let’s Encrypt and WordPress can make HTTPS setup simple and help achieve a faster web sooner. My eyes are heavy, my head foggy. Kind of feels like Continue reading HTTP/2, HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt and WordPress
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A few months ago I bought an Apple Cinema display to use with my Macbook Pro. My plan was to use both screens, my Cinema display as my primary screen for work and important apps and my MBP as a Continue reading Using React and Laravel Lumen to Build a Company Status Board
I am scared of unit testing. There, I’ve said it. Unit testing is one of those practices that I know I should be doing, there are benefits to doing it, but it just seems too hard to implement, especially with Continue reading Unit Testing Ajax and API Requests in WordPress Plugins
We don’t usually do a blog post for a minor release, but this is a massive minor release and deserves some attention. Although we haven’t added any new features to warrant a major version bump, we’ve still done a lot Continue reading WP Offload S3 0.9.7 & Pro Upgrade 1.0.2 Released with 3 New Addons