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Delicious Brains has decided to shut…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

Delicious Brains has decided to shut down Mergebot, after three years of working on it. It was an ambitious project from the start, but they decided that it didn't meet their standards. Mergebot is by far the most ambitious product…

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online visual editor for PHP serialized data. Gilbert Pellegrom explains how and why this project came about, as well as the unique challenges it posed.

JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 12, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Joe are joined by Zac Gordon, and the three of them discuss the state of JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context.

Mobile apps that work with WordPress — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

August 30, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about various third party publishing apps available and how they work with WordPress.

Delicious Brains promises to solve one of WordPress’s most difficult problems, with Mergebot

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Mergebot is finally out of the bag. Brad Touesnard has been talking about it for quite some time on his Apply Filters podcast, but they've now posted on the Delicious Brains blog more about the why and how of MergeBot.…

Matt Shaw at Delicious Brains compares…

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2016

Matt Shaw at Delicious Brains compares the speed of admin-ajax to the WordPress REST API, and on average saw about a 15% improvement.

Ashley Rich over at Delicious Brains…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Ashley Rich over at Delicious Brains relates some lessons learned from building WP Scanner, a WordPress-centric web app. The app was built on Laravel with Spark, and there's a WordPress plugin that is installed that communicates with WP Scanner's servers. Ashley…

Here’s a nice roundup and comparison of…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2016

Here's a nice roundup and comparison of CDN options for your WordPress site on the CodeInWP site. Speaking of CDNs, you might also want to review this advice from Delicious Brains on why you might not always want to serve assets from Amazon…

WPSiteSync aims to make content deployment simple

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

WPSiteSync is a product that aims to improve the process for deploying content on your website. It allows you to create or edit a post or page on a staging environment, and then deploy those changes to your live website.…

Delicious Brains is starting a new…

April 14, 2016

Delicious Brains is starting a new series on building "Reactive" WordPress plugins with this first post on Backbone.js.

Developers might be tired of hearing…

March 21, 2016

Developers might be tired of hearing about Google's AMP project... but Delicious Brains Jeff Gould has a good summary. After the summary, Jeff actually goes into a bit on how to customize the output of the AMP WordPress plugin, which…

I really enjoyed learning more about…

March 15, 2016

I really enjoyed learning more about batch and background processing from Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard's discussion on Apply Filters. Ashley Rich did a post about the same topic on the Delicious Brains blog too, if you're more of a…

Delicious Brains concludes their fantastic series…

November 26, 2015

Hosting

Delicious Brains concludes their fantastic series on hosting WordPress yourself with examples of Nginx configurations.

A series on creating apps with the WordPress REST API and React

Brian Krogsgard

July 31, 2015

I really am excited about a new series on the Delicious Brains blog, where Jeff Gould is demoing how to use the WordPress REST API and React to create a mobile app. My favorite part is that they are creating…

Struggles developing a commercial WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2015

From Iain on the Delicious Brains blog: Building software to sell is a tricky business. It isn’t always as simple as writing code and getting people to buy it. WordPress commercial plugins come with their own set of considerations, issues…

A developer’s guide to contributing to WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

Ian Jones has written an incredibly comprehensive guide to contributing to WordPress core on the Delicious Brains blog. They've really been doubling down on good dev-centric content lately, which I love to see. The post includes a focus on an…