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Delicious Brains has decided to shut…

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

Matt Shaw at Delicious Brains compares…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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Brian Krogsgard

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.…

Developers might be tired of hearing…

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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…

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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…

Struggles developing a commercial WordPress plugin

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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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…
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