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
We’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with WP Engine for nearly 5 years, starting when both companies employed fewer than 100 people in total. From the beginning, we noticed striking similarities between our two companies—both were founded in 2010, Continue reading Welcome, WP Engine!
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WordPress has made great strides in its effort to democratize publishing, making the ability to publish content on the web accessible to a very large number of people all over the world. Today, it powers roughly 28% of the websites Continue reading WordPress Security Fundamentals: How to Not Get Hacked
The WP Migrate DB Pro team is very excited to announce the release of version 1.8! We’ve packed in an awesome new feature and improved a bunch of existing functionality. So without further ado, let’s go over what’s new! Import Continue reading WP Migrate DB Pro 1.8 Released: Import SQL File & More
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a custom table in WordPress or why you would ever want or need to? WordPress comes with many different ways to store data out-of-the-box. Luckily for us, WordPress is flexible enough Continue reading Creating a Custom Table with PHP in WordPress
Have you ever had the joy of carrying out acceptance tests? For our team at Delicious Brains, testing our releases, in the past, has been one of the most dreaded tasks on the to-do list. We hold our plugins to Continue reading Behind-the-Scenes: How We’re Automating Acceptance Testing
Today a severe vulnerability was announced by the WordPress Security Team that allows unauthenticated users to change content on a site using unpatched (below version 4.7.2) WordPress. CC BY-SA 2.0 image by Nicola Sap De Mitri The problem was found Continue reading Protecting everyone from WordPress Content Injection
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
Update 2017-03-07: We’re now offering a better solution to on-the-fly image processing. Images are the bread and butter of the web. Without images and other media the web would be quite different and not nearly as enriching; they are like Continue reading On The Fly Image Processing Causes More Problems Than It Fixes
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
Just 5 months after our last major release, I’m happy to announce the release of WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 and CLI addon 1.3. In the past, we’ve struggled with limiting the scope of each release and getting releases out Continue reading WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 & CLI Addon 1.3 Released
After nearly 6 months of development I’m pleased to announce the release of WP Offload S3 1.2. For now you’ll need to download it from My Account. Updates through the WordPress dashboard will be enabled soon, hopefully next week. In Continue reading WP Offload S3 1.2 Released
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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Over 25% of all websites use WordPress, and over 10% of all internet traffic flows through CloudFlare; WordPress + CloudFlare has always been a winning combination, and now with CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin, it’s easier than ever to make your Continue reading CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin
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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
Recently, a new brute force attack method for WordPress instances was identified by Sucuri. This latest technique allows attackers to try a large number of WordPress username and password login combinations in a single HTTP request. The vulnerability can easily Continue reading A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack
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