WordPress Playground is a serverless version of WordPress that runs entirely in the browser. In this article, we’ll discuss the trio of APIs that form the backbone of how you use the WordPress Playground: the Query API, the Blueprints API, Continue reading From Beginner to Pro: Leveraging the WordPress Playground’s Versatile API Suite
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
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
After eight years of general availability, no one can say MySQL 5.7 didn’t have a good run. MySQL 5.7 officially reaches its End of Life (EOL) in October 2023. The good news is that MySQL 8.0 offers enhanced security, potential Continue reading What MySQL 5.7 EOL Means for WordPress Developers
“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
SVG images have advantages that should make them an essential part of any developer’s toolkit. While they share a few similarities with JPG, PNG, and WebP image types, SVGs have very different DNA. In this article, we’ll highlight the characteristics Continue reading Why Developers Should Use SVG Files
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
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of WP Migrate 2.6, which introduces full-site exports and a new integration for seamlessly importing to Local. Together, WP Migrate and Local are simplifying migrations with a new remote-to-local workflow that is 100% Continue reading WP Migrate 2.6 Released: Full-Site Exports and Import to Local
Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Migrate 2.5, which brings High-Performance File Transfers out of beta and into its new role as the standard file transfer method in WP Migrate. This means if you migrate big Continue reading WP Migrate 2.5 Released: High-Performance File Transfers for All
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
Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Migrate 2.4. With new capabilities for migrating must-use plugins and other files in the wp-content directory, it’s now possible to migrate an entire site from WP Admin, including all the Continue reading WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More
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
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
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?
Today we’re pleased to announce the official release of WP Migrate 2.3. Yep, you read that correctly, we’ve dropped the “DB Pro.” We’ll discuss more about the name change later in this post, but first let’s dive into what’s new. Continue reading WP Migrate 2.3 Released: Database-Less and Subsite-to-Subsite Migrations, Version Comparisons, and a New Name
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
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