This is a big release, six months in the making…well, really 5 years in the making! Check out the date on this GitHub issue 😱… We’re so excited to finally support the ability to serve private media through Amazon CloudFront Continue reading WP Offload Media 2.4 Released: Private Media with a Custom Domain and Amazon CloudFront
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 Webpack. We have a complete series on how to develop Continue reading Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools
If you’ve spent any amount of time messing with PHP config files to get a file to upload, you know that uploading large files can be a real pain. You have to find the loaded php.ini file, edit the upload_max_filesize Continue reading Using JavaScript FileReader to Upload Large Files in Chunks and Avoid Server Limits
Here at Delicious Brains we eat, drink and sleep databases. However, we believe that any developer working with WordPress should have some level of knowledge about the database that sits behind a site. So I have put together the ultimate Continue reading The Ultimate Developer’s Guide to the WordPress Database
I’ve previously written about how we use Codeception to perform automated testing on our WooCommerce site where we sell our plugins. Automated tests give us peace of mind that our checkout still works after updating WooCommerce, other plugins, or WordPress Continue reading Automated API Testing For Your WordPress Site With Codeception
Today we’re excited to announce the release of WP Offload SES 1.4 🎉 In this release we’ve added an email sending health report that you can configure to receive in your inbox daily, weekly, or monthly. The report will enable Continue reading WP Offload SES 1.4 Released: Email Health Report
I’ve been building Laravel apps for years now. From large, data-heavy apps like Mergebot (RIP 😢) and SpinupWP to small side projects like my latest side project Formstatic. So when a new framework comes along that promises to make building Continue reading Inertia.js: Building Single-Page Apps the Old Way
When we talk about templates in WordPress we are normally referring to page template files in the theme. However, there are plugins that use template files to display content, and that becomes another consideration when it comes to building WordPress Continue reading WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices: Template Files
Today we released WP Offload Media 2.3! 🎉 This release has some very important changes in order to support WordPress 5.3, introduces a custom table for the plugin’s data, as well as a plethora of enhancements and bug fixes. WordPress Continue reading WP Offload Media 2.3 Released: WordPress 5.3 Support & More
Developers tend to love messing about with their local development environments to see what fits their project requirements and workflow best. Since its launch in 2016, Laravel Valet has quickly become a popular choice and it has become my go-to Continue reading How Laravel Valet Works Exactly
On a recent One on One chat with Brad we got to talking about tmux. Brad was interested to hear that I use it every day on my local development machines, which isn’t what first comes to mind as a Continue reading How I Use tmux For Local Development
I woke up this morning to an email from an old client from my days as a freelancer building WordPress sites, asking about SCA compliance. I built them an ecommerce site with Jigoshop back in 2011, and had added the Continue reading The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin
Recently I have been doing more animation work here at Delicious Brains Inc and finally decided to experiment with Airbnb’s rave-reviewed, Lottie framework. Lottie is a React Native, Android and iOS JavaScript library that makes it super easy to integrate Continue reading Getting Started with Lottie: An Overview of Airbnb’s Awesome Animation Framework
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A mere eleven-or-so weeks after the release of the Theme & Plugin Files addon, WP Migrate DB Pro version 1.9 is out the door! We’ve added a brand new backups tab to make it easier to manage any backups you Continue reading WP Migrate DB Pro 1.9 Released: New Backups Tab and Refactored PHP
Recently I had Tim Nash, the WordPress platform lead at 34SP.com, speak at the local WordPress meetup I help run. It’s the third time Tim has spoken at the meetup, and in the past he has spoken about site security Continue reading An Introduction to WordPress Penetration Testing
If you’re at all like our own developer team, even though you have a “main gig” you still enjoy the creative outlet of working on side projects. Side projects like a new plugin, app or even service can be an Continue reading Side Project Marketing That’ll Actually Deliver Results
We often get questions about what’s coming next to WP Migrate DB Pro or if we ever plan to include X feature or support Y sites. After shipping our latest major release, the new Theme & Plugin Files addon, a Continue reading Behind-the-Scenes: Planning The Future of WP Migrate DB Pro
It’s no secret that I’ve been plugging away at WP Offload SES, a new plugin that we’re hoping to launch soon that will make it easier to send your site emails over Amazon SES. While I’ve mentioned it before on Continue reading How We Built an Email Queue that Can Send 100 Emails Per Second Through Amazon SES
This week on the blog we’re going to talk about something I’m a big fan of: testing. Don’t fall asleep juuuust yet. If you’re like me, during development, you probably refresh your browser and click on buttons a million times Continue reading End-to-End Testing with Cypress