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 together to help streamline your workflow and make…
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Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} Registration Open, Plugin Madness, and Running Doom on Bacteria
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we open the doors on DE{CODE} 2024, look into the “sustainability crisis” in open source, and much more. Registration Open for DE{CODE} 2024 Registrations are now open for DE{CODE} 2024, the virtual WordPress developer conference hosted by WP Engine! The…
How to Use Next-Gen Images With WordPress
Improving the Core Web Vitals for your WordPress site is one of the best ways to boost its rank in Google. Serving “next-gen images” is one of the more frequent recommendations for getting those scores up, as fast loading images means users spend less time waiting for pages…
How to Set Up AMP on WordPress
Should your WordPress sites use Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer. In this article, we’ll cover how AMP works, how to use both the official AMP plugin and AMP for WP, as well as a method to boost your site speed…
How to Use WebP Images on WordPress
Serving lightweight WebP images can help boost your site speed, critical to the user experience and as a ranking factor. In this article, we’ll look at a few different ways to convert existing images to WebP, including Google’s cwebp utility, cloud converters like Convertio, and EWWW Image Optimizer…
Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Accessibility Day, Dodge – A WordPress Game, and Improving WordPress Search
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dip into the latest from the WordPress Developer Blog, play around with making sure WordPress stays free, see how text compression saves data, and much more. WordPress Developer Blog Looks Back on 2023 The WordPress Developer Blog’s year in review…
Creating UI Elements With HTMX
HTMX is a JavaScript library that enables developers to perform AJAX requests, trigger CSS animations, and invoke WebSocket and server-side events directly from HTML elements. It is designed to remove a lot of the developer-managed JavaScript from the frontend by adding more properties to HTML. In this article, …
WordPress Developer Trends to Watch in 2024
The 20th anniversary year of WordPress is drawing to a close. It’s tempting to take a look back as we enter the last weeks of 2023, but we thought it might be more helpful to take a look around instead. How fast are WordPress versions being adopted after…
Delicious Brain Bytes: PHP_CodeSniffer Needs Support, the WP Awards 2023, and HTML Hacks
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dive into changes with PHP_CodeSniffer, report on the WP Awards 2023, dive into HTML hacks that helped build the modern web, and much more State of the Word This year’s State of the Word is set for 1500 UTC on…
Everything You Need to Know About Installing WordPress in a Subdirectory
Using JavaScript FileReader to Upload Large Files in Chunks and Avoid Server Limits
If you’ ve spent any amount of time messing with PHP config files to get a file to upload, you know that uploading large files can be a real pain. You have to find the loaded php.ini file, edit the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size settings, and hope that you never…
Delicious Brains, Advanced Custom Fields, and WP Engine Cyber Savings
As we slide into the tail end of our first full year at WP Engine, it’s pretty awesome to look back and celebrate all the big releases! From custom post types and taxonomies in ACF to full-site export/imports between WP Migrate and Local, it’s exciting to see…
Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.4, Awards Season, and the Future of Yelling at Your Computer
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we take a look at what’s coming in WordPress 6.4, awards that honor the best in WordPress and awards that honor the ability to cough up $20, why LLM prompts sometimes work best in ALL CAPS, and much more. 💻 WordPress…
Is HTTP/3 the Future of the Web?
The web as we know it simply wouldn’ t exist without our old friend Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The latest iteration, HTTP/3, promises to revolutionize the way we interact with the web. In this article, we’ ll delve into the differences between HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, look into why TCP got…
Delicious Brain Bytes: Measuring Developer Productivity, New Releases, ACF Survey Results, and the State of WordPress Dev Tools
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, and much more. You can subscribe to Delicious…
Strategies for Handling Large WordPress Media Libraries in Dev and Staging Environments
Offloading your media files is a well-known tactic for speeding up your WordPress sites, but WP Offload Media can also greatly reduce the time it takes to replicate a new environment on a staging or development site, as well as the disk space needed to do so. There’s…
Getting the Best Results From WordPress Code Reviews
How To Set Up Amazon SES for WordPress Emails
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 rate limits. In this article, we show you…
JavaScript in the Shallow End: Browser-Based React Native With Expo Snack
“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 the browser with Expo Snack. Expo Snack Expo…