A local development environment lets you make changes to dev sites quickly without having to transfer files. It also greatly reduces the risk of making and breaking changes on a live web server. In this article, we’ll discuss the key Continue reading The Best Local WordPress Development Environment: XAMPP vs MAMP vs Laragon vs Local
Offloading your media files is a well-known tactic for speeding up your WordPress sites, but WP Offload Media can also greatly reduce the time it takes to replicate a new environment on a staging or development site, as well as Continue reading Strategies for Handling Large WordPress Media Libraries in Dev and Staging Environments
Running a site that sends a lot of emails, like an ecommerce or membership site, needs a reliable service to keep up with that volume. Using an existing email provider through SMTP (such as Gmail), means you’ll often hit the Continue reading How To Set Up Amazon SES for WordPress Emails
“Learn JavaScript. Deeply,” is good advice, but jumping right into the deep end when you’re first learning to swim may not be the smartest move. In this article, we’re going to get our toes wet by editing JavaScript right in Continue reading JavaScript in the Shallow End: Browser-Based React Native With Expo Snack
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
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
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
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?
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
If creating or managing websites is something you do regularly, Assistant Pro can be a great tool to help you cut off redundant tasks from your routine. With Assistant Pro, you don’t have to upload, download, install files on a Continue reading Assistant Pro Review: Cloud-Based Tool for Faster WordPress Workflows
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
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
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