Workflow is crucial to the success of your projects, and high-quality tools that are specifically designed for WordPress development significantly improve your efficiency and productivity. In this article, we’ll explore how builder and developer tools from WP Engine can work Continue reading Mastering Modern Site Creation With the Best Workflows in WordPress
We were recently contacted by Wordfence and Patchstack regarding PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities related to the use of unserialize() in Better Search Replace and WP Migrate, respectively. An additional internal review of all Delicious Brains plugins led to the security Continue reading Security Releases Regarding the Use of unserialize() in Delicious Brains Plugins
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look into contentious methods for measuring productivity in software development, new releases from ACF, WP Migrate, WP Offload SES, and WP Offload Media, the final results from the first-ever ACF user survey, Continue reading Delicious Brain Bytes: Measuring Developer Productivity, New Releases, ACF Survey Results, and the State of WordPress Dev Tools
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
WP Offload SES 1.6 uses the latest Amazon SES API v2 in order to increase the maximum size limit of messages from 10 MB to 40 MB. 📩 Larger Attachments A little while ago, Amazon increased the maximum size limit Continue reading WP Offload SES 1.6 Released: 40 MB Attachments Enabled
When we talk about templates in WordPress we are normally referring to page template files in the theme. However, there are plugins that use template files to display content, and that becomes another consideration when it comes to building WordPress Continue reading WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices: Template Files
Every WordPress site has to send emails, but there’s no built-in tracking for them. This makes it impossible to know if your emails are being opened and clicked or just sitting unread in someone’s spam folder. This problem tends to Continue reading Exploring Email Tracking With Amazon SES and CloudWatch
One question that I’ve been asked a few times while working on WP Offload SES is how it handles HTML email. By default, WordPress sends out all emails as plain text, and even though plain text emails perform better, it’s Continue reading The State of HTML Email in WordPress in 2022
Today we’re excited to announce the release of WP Offload SES 1.4 🎉 In this release we’ve added an email sending health report that you can configure to receive in your inbox daily, weekly, or monthly. The report will enable Continue reading WP Offload SES 1.4 Released: Email Health Report
When we talk about templates in WordPress we are normally referring to page template files in the theme. However, there are plugins that use template files to display content, and that becomes another consideration when it comes to building WordPress Continue reading WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices: Template Files
It’s no secret that I’ve been plugging away at WP Offload SES, a new plugin that we’re hoping to launch soon that will make it easier to send your site emails over Amazon SES. While I’ve mentioned it before on Continue reading How We Built an Email Queue that Can Send 100 Emails Per Second Through Amazon SES
Have you ever wondered why it’s so often recommended to use a dedicated email service like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or other email services? Maybe you’d rather set up your own email server? I’ve long been guilty of only having a Continue reading How Spam Filtering Works: From SPF to DKIM to Blacklists
Ever since building my first WordPress plugin I have been interested in the different business models around monetizing plugins. A while back I heard of Freemius, a monetization service for WordPress plugins and themes, that aims to do all the Continue reading Freemius Monetization Review: An Easy Way to Sell Your Plugins and Themes