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
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
Code review is an integral part of the development cycle, with a direct impact on quality. Whether you’re focused on web, plugin, or theme development, thorough code review can help you improve your final product. In this article, we look Continue reading Getting the Best Results From WordPress Code Reviews
Firebase is often the first platform that comes to mind for developing mobile and web applications without extensive coding. However, while it offers many useful features, Firebase isn’t open source. This means that you have little control over your application development. Continue reading The Best Firebase Alternatives (7 Options)
WordPress is a great platform, but it can also be a bit unorganized at times – at least from a code perspective. This is because the code has gone through many iterations, and as updates roll out, sometimes things are Continue reading How To Create an Effective WordPress Workflow for Developers
No software is free of bugs. This is an axiom that applies to every programming language and every application. When those bugs are deployed within your website in production, you can suffer adverse consequences of varying severity. These are some Continue reading 10 PHP Testing Tools for WordPress Plugins
Imagine a world where your IDE or code editor detected problems before you even ran the code. Imagine if whole categories of errors could be automatically identified and easily eliminated from your codebase. Imagine better code completion, more stable systems, Continue reading Get Started with PHP Static Code Analysis
Sometimes your WordPress site needs to talk to other services around the web. This almost exclusively happens using the HTTP protocol. A common example of this is when your WordPress installation contacts the wordpress.org servers to check for new versions Continue reading Why You Should Use the WordPress HTTP functions to Make API Requests
Regardless of what you call it, the WordPress Block Editor (or Gutenberg if you’ve been following along for a while) brings some baggage along for the ride. I’ve been following the noise and #wpdrama surrounding the Block Editor for as Continue reading The Ultimate Overview of the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) for Developers in 2022
Many of the Delicious Brains team use PhpStorm, the PHP IDE from JetBrains, as their go-to code editor, development environment, and all-round PHP best friend. Some on the team swear by using a lean and fast code editor like Sublime Continue reading How We Use PhpStorm for WordPress Development
If you keep up with the many text editors and developer tools available, you may have heard of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a free, open source code editor that is lightweight like Sublime Text, but offers many Continue reading Set Up Visual Studio Code and xDebug as the Ultimate Editor for WordPress Development
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
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
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
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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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
Once upon a time I tried to build a theme and plugin store into the WordPress dashboard. Kind of like iTunes for WordPress. I called it WP App Store. Long story short, it didn’t work, I started this company (Delicious Continue reading Managing Custom Tables in WordPress