Today we’re excited to announce the release of WP Offload Media 3.0. The introduction of a brand new user interface, powerful filters and columns in the Media Library, and revamped bulk management tools help to set WP Offload Media apart Continue reading WP Offload Media 3.0 Released: New User Interface, Media Library Enhancements, and More
How well do you really know wp-config? There’s a surprising amount of power in those few lines of PHP! This article is a tour of some bits of wp-config that you maybe didn’t know about, but really should. Do you Continue reading The Developer’s Advanced Guide to the wp-config.php File
Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Migrate 2.4. With new capabilities for migrating must-use plugins and other files in the wp-content directory, it’s now possible to migrate an entire site from WP Admin, including all the Continue reading WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More
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 reset the database, reinstall a specific version of WordPress, install Continue reading Managing WordPress Dev Environments With WP-CLI and Robo
Webhooks are a mechanism for receiving notifications about events from disparate systems without having to continuously poll them. Also called Reverse APIs, they can be thought of as providing “API specs” that the consuming system needs to implement. One of Continue reading How to Test Webhooks From Public APIs in Local Development
WP-CLI lets you do pretty much anything you can do in the WordPress admin, but faster and more efficiently with a command-line interface. WP-CLI packages take this even further by containing WP-CLI commands or extending the WordPress command line in Continue reading WP-CLI Packages: Supercharge Your WordPress Development
Just about every WordPress website should be served over HTTPS instead of HTTP, for reasons of both security and SEO. HTTP content isn’t encrypted, leaving your site vulnerable, and Google started using HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014. It’s Continue reading How to Switch Your WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS
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. You can use WP-CLI to manage WordPress core, run theme Continue reading Installing, Updating, and Managing WordPress Plugins With WP-CLI
Managing WordPress with Git and Composer has some big advantages. In particular, it can give you version control and helps get new people up to speed quickly. But it’s not for every WordPress project. In this article we’ll look at Continue reading Managing Your WordPress Site With Git and Composer
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 this article, you’ll learn how to structure WP-CLI commands, including Continue reading Our Guide to WP-CLI Command Structure
That’s right! Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace are now part of the WP Engine family of products, enhancing their already robust offering for WordPress developers. 10 Years of Delicious Continue reading WP Engine Has Acquired the Delicious Brains Plugins!!
Backing up your site is a little like buying fire insurance. You never need it outside of a catastrophe, but not having it is just going to make the catastrophe worse. In this article, we’ll cover why you need to Continue reading Backup Plugin Battle: Which is the Best WordPress Backup Plugin in 2022?
Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Migrate 2.3. Yep, you read that correctly, we’ve dropped the “DB Pro.” We’ll discuss more about the name change later in this post, but first let’s dive into what’s new. Continue reading WP Migrate 2.3 Released: Database-Less and Subsite-to-Subsite Migrations, Version Comparisons, and a New Name
Ever since I discovered how to configure PhpStorm with Xdebug for debugging, it’s been my go-to solution for hunting down difficult to reproduce bugs. What I didn’t know until very recently was that it’s also possible to debug JavaScript using Continue reading Debugging React, JavaScript, and PHP at the Same Time With PhpStorm
The WordPress command line interface (WP-CLI) is a powerful WordPress-developer focused tool. Here at Delicious Brains we use it to help us write tests, manage changes to our site databases, and we even have WP-CLI support in WP Migrate DB Continue reading The Complete Guide to Installing WP-CLI
Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Offload Media 2.6, which includes a brand new BuddyBoss integration and improves how media is offloaded, including files outside of the WordPress Media Library. So what exactly pushed us beyond Continue reading WP Offload Media 2.6: BuddyBoss Integration, Offloading Files Outside of the Media Library, WP 5.9 Compatibility
The WordPress REST API was merged into WordPress core in version 4.7. Before that, developers relied on the default AJAX implementation, otherwise known as admin-ajax after the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file that processes AJAX requests in WordPress. Since the introduction of the Continue reading WP REST API vs admin-ajax.php vs Must-Use Plugin: Handling AJAX Requests in WordPress
Database synchronization is a problem that still gets raised almost every month in the local WordPress communities I’m part of – “if I am making changes to my local site, what happens to any updates made on the live site, Continue reading Syncing WordPress Database Changes Between Environments: How We Handle Merging in 2022
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 build tool and task runner, instead of relying on task Continue reading Using Npm Scripts as a Build Tool
In this article, we look at the benefits and limitations of installing WordPress in a subdirectory, how to install and manage subdirectory installs, and how to move WordPress core out of and into a subdirectory for an existing site. One Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Installing WordPress in a Subdirectory