Headless WordPress separates the content management system part of WordPress from the frontend presentation layer. Decoupling the front and back ends of your site allows you to leverage the power of WordPress as a content hub, while enjoying the flexibility Continue reading Where to Start With Headless WordPress
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look at the latest and greatest features in WordPress 6.5, how DE{CODE} 2024 surpassed previous attendance records, how ACF made documentation easier to find and more targeted, and much more. WordPress 6.5 Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.5 New Features, DE{CODE} 2024 Recap, and the Fun Way to Learn Git
WordPress Playground is a serverless version of WordPress that runs entirely in the browser. In this article, we’ll discuss the trio of APIs that form the backbone of how you use the WordPress Playground: the Query API, the Blueprints API, Continue reading From Beginner to Pro: Leveraging the WordPress Playground’s Versatile API Suite
A local development environment lets you make changes to dev sites quickly without having to transfer files. It also greatly reduces the risk of making and breaking changes on a live web server. In this article, we’ll discuss the key Continue reading The Best Local WordPress Development Environment: XAMPP vs MAMP vs Laragon vs Local
Workflow is crucial to the success of your projects, and high-quality tools that are specifically designed for WordPress development significantly improve your efficiency and productivity. In this article, we’ll explore how builder and developer tools from WP Engine can work Continue reading Mastering Modern Site Creation With the Best Workflows in WordPress
The WordPress block editor was made the default editor for WordPress in December 2018. Adoption may have been slow at first, but the pace of development has increased exponentially. Today, custom blocks are at the core of extending WordPress. In Continue reading Two Ways to Create Custom WordPress Blocks
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we open the doors on DE{CODE} 2024, look into the “sustainability crisis” in open source, and much more. Registration Open for DE{CODE} 2024 Registrations are now open for DE{CODE} 2024, the virtual WordPress Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} Registration Open, Plugin Madness, and Running Doom on Bacteria
Improving the Core Web Vitals for your WordPress site is one of the best ways to boost its rank in Google. Serving “next-gen images” is one of the more frequent recommendations for getting those scores up, as fast loading images Continue reading How to Use Next-Gen Images With WordPress
We were recently contacted by Wordfence and Patchstack regarding PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities related to the use of unserialize() in Better Search Replace and WP Migrate, respectively. An additional internal review of all Delicious Brains plugins led to the security Continue reading Security Releases Regarding the Use of unserialize() in Delicious Brains Plugins
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dip into the latest from the WordPress Developer Blog, play around with making sure WordPress stays free, see how text compression saves data, and much more. WordPress Developer Blog Looks Back on Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Accessibility Day, Dodge – A WordPress Game, and Improving WordPress Search
HTMX is a JavaScript library that enables developers to perform AJAX requests, trigger CSS animations, and invoke WebSocket and server-side events directly from HTML elements. It is designed to remove a lot of the developer-managed JavaScript from the frontend by Continue reading Creating UI Elements With HTMX
Conferences offer a blend of targeted education and networking opportunities, a combination that can advance your skills and career. They can be expensive to attend, though. Between the ticket prices, travel, and time away from work, it’s important to make Continue reading Online Conferences for WordPress Devs in 2024
The 20th anniversary year of WordPress is drawing to a close. It’s tempting to take a look back as we enter the last weeks of 2023, but we thought it might be more helpful to take a look around instead. Continue reading WordPress Developer Trends to Watch in 2024
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dive into changes with PHP_CodeSniffer, report on the WP Awards 2023, dive into HTML hacks that helped build the modern web, and much more State of the Word This year’s State of Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: PHP_CodeSniffer Needs Support, the WP Awards 2023, and HTML Hacks
As we slide into the tail end of our first full year at WP Engine, it’s pretty awesome to look back and celebrate all the big releases! From custom post types and taxonomies in ACF to full-site export/imports between WP Continue reading Delicious Brains, Advanced Custom Fields, and WP Engine Cyber Savings
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we take a look at what’s coming in WordPress 6.4, awards that honor the best in WordPress and awards that honor the ability to cough up $20, why LLM prompts sometimes work best Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.4, Awards Season, and the Future of Yelling at Your Computer
The web as we know it simply wouldn’t exist without our old friend Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The latest iteration, HTTP/3, promises to revolutionize the way we interact with the web. In this article, we’ll delve into the differences between Continue reading Is HTTP/3 the Future of the Web?
Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime and toolkit created with the explicit goals of serving as a drop-in replacement for Node.js, eliminating separate layers of tooling, and speeding up the development experience. In this article, we’ll look at how Bun Continue reading A Short Guide to Using Bun
Examples of Refactoring PHP Code for Better Readability Refactoring code is when you restructure existing code without changing its external behavior. Basically your aim is to make “bad” code better without changing the underlying functionality, and one of the key Continue reading Examples of Refactoring PHP Code for Better Readability
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look into contentious methods for measuring productivity in software development, new releases from ACF, WP Migrate, WP Offload SES, and WP Offload Media, the final results from the first-ever ACF user survey, Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: Measuring Developer Productivity, New Releases, ACF Survey Results, and the State of WordPress Dev Tools