Every WordPress developer knows the feeling of despair when a migration fails, balanced by the immense feelings of relief when one succeeds. It’s a frustrating process for many devs, with every failed migration taking more time away from work they’d Continue reading Mastering Migrations: Faster, Easier, and Safer Ways to Move Your WordPress Sites
You know code…but do you know DE{CODE}? Hosted by WP Engine, this 100% virtual event is dedicated to helping WordPress developers build smarter, maximize conversions, and modernize the user experience. This year’s conference includes sessions on how to master migrations, Continue reading DE{CODE} 2023: Developer Focused WordPress Education
Keeping regular backups of your WordPress installs is one of the most important things you should do after you launch a site. If you search for the term “backup” in the WordPress plugin repository, you’ll find over 700 that claim Continue reading Remotely Back Up Your WordPress Database and Media With WP Migrate CLI
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
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
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
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
Should your WordPress sites use Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer. When it was announced in 2015, Google billed the AMP Project as a way to improve the performance of mobile pages, and Continue reading Quickly Set Up Google AMP on Your WordPress Site
The WordPress GUID is a unique identifier for individual posts, pages, media, and practically any other custom post type. As such, it’s a key element in rendering your WordPress content and powering the WordPress RSS feeds which allow you to Continue reading Understanding WordPress GUIDs: What They Are, and Why Change Them
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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
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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