Serving lightweight WebP images can help boost your site speed, critical as both a ranking factor and as part of the user experience. Not too long ago, you needed a plugin to get WordPress to recognize WebP images at all. Continue reading You Don’t Need a Plugin for WebP Images on WordPress in 2022
In 2018 Google started advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption, by marking sites not using an SSL certificate as “not secure” in their Chrome browser. This was widely accepted as a good idea, as securing web traffic protects both the Continue reading Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
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
As you may have noticed from reading our blog, we’ve highly favored Mac and Linux for WordPress development. And we’re not alone – through my very scientific and thorough research, most other WordPress developers seem to be using Mac as Continue reading Switching to Windows for Local WordPress Development
When running a WordPress website it’s best practice to at least run a local copy of the site so you can make changes without running the risk of completely ruining the live site. Running a WordPress dev environment for your Continue reading The Best Setup for Your Local WordPress Development Environment
In my last article, I reviewed the best WordPress development environment apps out there. But that’s not all of it, there are a number of great options available as well for those of you who would prefer a CLI-based local Continue reading Valet vs VVV vs Chassis: A Comparison Guide to CLI-Based Local WordPress Development Environments
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
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
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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
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
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Here at Delicious Brains Inc., the entire team enjoys the perks of remote work. Personally, I love having the freedom to start and end my day pretty much whenever I want, but there are some downsides to that lack of Continue reading Using Amazon SNS to build good habits with daily SMS reminders
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