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Our plugins include WP Migrate DB Pro, WP Offload Media, and WP Offload SES. We also offer a modern, cloud-based server control panel we call SpinupWP.

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2026 19

  1. WP Offload Media 3.4 Released: WordPress 7.1 Compatible, Preparing For Future Features & Performance Improvements
  2. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Market Share Declines, State of the Community Survey, and Building an Admin Copilot
  3. Environment Variables vs. Database: Securing the Connectors API
  4. Managing Third-Party API Bottlenecks in WordPress
  5. Automating Database Syncs with WP Migrate and WP-CLI
  6. Building Custom WP-CLI Commands for Massive Data Migrations
  7. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 7.0’s Beta Pivot, DE{CODE} 2026, and the 81 Flavors of Copilot
  8. Beyond `wp_enqueue`: Surgical Asset Management for High-Performance Sites
  9. The Developer’s Guide to wp_usermeta: Scaling Membership Sites
  10. Scaling the REST API: Defensive Architecture for Custom Endpoints
  11. Delicious Brain Bytes: Code Redefined, “Clippy” for WordPress, and Customizing Publication Checklists
  12. Database Indexing: The Missing Manual for WordPress
  13. Architecting Reliable Remote Requests with the HTTP API
  14. Taming the Heartbeat API: Preventing `admin-ajax.php` Overload
  15. The Art of the WordPress Transient: Performance, Persistence, and Database Bloat
  16. Debugging WP-Cron With WP-CLI
  17. WP Offload Media 3.3 Released: Modern Standards, Global Regions, and Enhanced Stability
  18. The Anatomy of theme.json: A Developer’s Cheat Sheet
  19. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 7.0 Roadmap, Gutenberg 22.3, and the Rise of the Agentic Web

2025 36

  1. How the Self-Hosting Trap Costs You Innovation
  2. The Ultimate Savings Event for WordPress Professionals
  3. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.9 RC1, FAIR’s Security MVP, and Finding Hidden Gems
  4. Minimizing DNS Propagation Issues With a Reverse Proxy
  5. Delicious Brain Bytes: FAIR 1.0 Arrives, ACF Survey Results, and Hosting a Site on a Disposable Vape
  6. Protecting Your WordPress Media: Private Files, Signed URLs, and Access Control
  7. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.9, ACF PRO 6.5, and Unleash the Wapuu
  8. Using Cloud Storage for WordPress User-Generated Content
  9. Preparing Your WordPress Site for High-Traffic: Media Optimization Strategies
  10. Moving WordPress to a New Domain: A Step-by-Step Guide Without Breaking Links
  11. The Power of Partial Migrations: Syncing Only What You Need
  12. Merging WordPress Sites: Consolidating Multiple Installs into a Multisite Network
  13. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Set for Another Major Release in 2025
  14. Splitting a WordPress Multisite: Migrating a Subsite to its Own Single Installation
  15. Debunking WordPress Security Myths: What Developers Often Miss
  16. Essential Soft Skills for WordPress Developers
  17. Creating a Headless WordPress Site from a Blueprint
  18. How to Unlock Recurring Revenue from One-Time Clients
  19. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Launches AI Team
  20. Set Up Visual Studio Code and xDebug as the Ultimate Editor for WordPress Development
  21. Project Red Flags for the Solo Dev
  22. WordPress Handoffs: Because ‘Figure It Out’ Is Not a Client Strategy
  23. How to Tame Scope Creep in WordPress Development
  24. Free vs. Premium WordPress Themes: Costs and Benefits
  25. Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} Sessions on Demand and WordPress 6.8
  26. Vetting AI Tools in 2025
  27. React in 2025: What’s Next?
  28. DE{CODE} 2025: The Virtual Event for Developers, Agencies, and Marketers in WordPress
  29. Why Agencies Use Low-Code Tools
  30. Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} 2025 and ACF’s New Guides
  31. Creating a WordPress Plugin With Cursor
  32. Using ARIA Roles for Accessibility in WordPress
  33. Optimizing WordPress for Core Web Vitals
  34. Delicious Brain Bytes: Upcoming Releases and WordPress Accessibility Day
  35. Best Practices for WordPress Themes in 2025
  36. SQL Query Optimization for Faster WordPress Sites

2024 35

  1. WordPress Accessibility Plugins for Inclusive Web Design
  2. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Release Schedule, PressConf, and the Advent of Code
  3. The Best WordPress Backup Plugins for 2025
  4. 5 Ways to Create a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  5. How to Boost WordPress Performance with NitroPack
  6. Delicious Brain Bytes: Trends and Insights From the 2024 ACF User Survey
  7. The Complete Guide to Installing WP-CLI
  8. What I Learned at WordPress Accessibility Day 2024
  9. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.7 Now in Beta Release
  10. Golden Guides and Hidden Gems From the WordPress Developer Blog
  11. 7 Awesome Add-ons for Advanced Custom Fields
  12. Delicious Brain Bytes: New Ways to Learn WordPress
  13. Syncing WordPress Database Changes Between Environments: How We Handle Merging
  14. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.6 RC2 Ready for Testing, ACF Annual User Survey Now Open
  15. WP Offload SES 1.7 Released: Enqueue Only Mode and Improvements for High-Volume Senders
  16. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.6, ACF 6.3, and Jamie Marsland Fills Our Need for Speed
  17. What You Need to Know About WordPress 6.6
  18. Writing Functional Tests for WP-CLI Packages
  19. What’s New in WP-CLI
  20. Where to Start With Headless WordPress
  21. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.5 New Features, DE{CODE} 2024 Recap, and the Fun Way to Learn Git
  22. From Beginner to Pro: Leveraging the WordPress Playground’s Versatile API Suite
  23. The Best Local WordPress Development Environment: XAMPP vs MAMP vs Laragon vs Local
  24. WP-CLI Packages: Supercharge Your WordPress Development
  25. Mastering Modern Site Creation With the Best Workflows in WordPress
  26. Two Ways to Create Custom WordPress Blocks
  27. Delicious Brain Bytes: DE{CODE} Registration Open, Plugin Madness, and Running Doom on Bacteria
  28. How to Test Webhooks From Public APIs in Local Development
  29. How to Use Next-Gen Images With WordPress
  30. Security Releases Regarding the Use of unserialize() in Delicious Brains Plugins
  31. How to Set Up AMP on WordPress
  32. How to Use WebP Images on WordPress
  33. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Accessibility Day, Dodge – A WordPress Game, and Improving WordPress Search
  34. Creating UI Elements With HTMX
  35. Using Npm Scripts as a Build Tool

2023 29

  1. Online Conferences for WordPress Devs in 2024
  2. WordPress Developer Trends to Watch in 2024
  3. Delicious Brain Bytes: State of the Word 2023, PHP_CodeSniffer Needs Support, and HTML Hacks
  4. Everything You Need to Know About Installing WordPress in a Subdirectory
  5. Using JavaScript FileReader to Upload Large Files in Chunks and Avoid Server Limits
  6. Delicious Brains, Advanced Custom Fields, and WP Engine Cyber Savings
  7. Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.4, Awards Season, and the Future of Yelling at Your Computer
  8. Why You Should Use the WordPress HTTP Functions to Make API Requests
  9. Handling AJAX Requests in WordPress: WP REST API vs admin-ajax.php vs Must-Use Plugin
  10. Is HTTP/3 the Future of the Web?
  11. Should You Use Bun for Your Projects?
  12. Examples of Refactoring PHP Code for Better Readability
  13. Delicious Brain Bytes: Measuring Developer Productivity, New Releases, ACF Survey Results, and the State of WordPress Dev Tools
  14. Catching Up on CSS Features
  15. What MySQL 5.7 EOL Means for WordPress Developers
  16. Strategies for Handling Large WordPress Media Libraries in Dev and Staging Environments
  17. Getting the Best Results From WordPress Code Reviews
  18. How To Set Up Amazon SES for WordPress Emails
  19. JavaScript in the Shallow End: Browser-Based React Native With Expo Snack
  20. WordPress Security Fundamentals: How to Not Get Hacked
  21. Why Developers Should Use SVG Files
  22. WP Offload Media 3.2 Released: New Status Indicators and Peace of Mind
  23. Mastering Migrations: Faster, Easier, and Safer Ways to Move Your WordPress Sites
  24. DE{CODE} 2023: Developer Focused WordPress Education
  25. WP Offload SES 1.6 Released: 40 MB Attachments Enabled
  26. Head-to-Head: WordPress Export/Import vs. WP Migrate
  27. SQL Query Optimization for Faster WordPress Sites
  28. WP Migrate 2.6 Released: Full-Site Exports and Import to Local
  29. Delicious Brains 2022 Year in Review: High-Speed Towards the Future

2022 21

  1. WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices: Template Files
  2. WP Offload Media 3.1 Released: Efficient Offloading and Performance Gains
  3. WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices: Plugin Templates
  4. WP Migrate 2.5 Released: High-Performance File Transfers for All
  5. WordPress, Spam Filtering, and You: From SPF to DKIM to Blocklists
  6. Remotely Back Up Your WordPress Database and Media With WP Migrate CLI
  7. Exploring Email Tracking With Amazon SES and CloudWatch
  8. WP Offload Media 3.0 Released: New User Interface, Media Library Enhancements, and More
  9. The Developer’s Advanced Guide to the wp-config File
  10. WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More
  11. Managing WordPress Dev Environments With WP-CLI and Robo
  12. How to Switch Your WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS
  13. Installing, Updating, and Managing WordPress Plugins With WP-CLI
  14. Managing Your WordPress Site With Git and Composer
  15. Our Guide to WP-CLI Command Structure
  16. WP Engine Has Acquired the Delicious Brains Plugins!!
  17. How to Use tmux for Remote & Local Development
  18. WP Migrate 2.3 Released: Database-Less and Subsite-to-Subsite Migrations, Version Comparisons, and a New Name
  19. Debugging React, JavaScript, and PHP at the Same Time With PhpStorm
  20. WP Offload Media 2.6: BuddyBoss Integration, Offloading Files Outside of the Media Library, WP 5.9 Compatibility
  21. 2021 Year in Review: Tripled, Acquired, Reborn, and Humming

2021 23

  1. Get Started with PHP Static Code Analysis
  2. Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
  3. Understanding WordPress GUIDs: What They Are, and Why Change Them
  4. The State of HTML Email in WordPress in 2022
  5. WP Migrate DB Pro 2.2 Released: Find & Replace Preview, Support for Different Table Prefixes, UX Improvements, and More
  6. Best Ways to Encrypt Passwords, Keys, & More with PHP in 2022
  7. The Ultimate Overview of the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) for Developers in 2022
  8. WP Migrate DB Pro 2.1 Released: Regular Expression and Case-Sensitive Find and Replace, Accessibility Improvements, and More
  9. Reviewing Craft Nitro & DevKinsta for WordPress Local Development
  10. A WordPress Announcement of Epic Proportions
  11. WP Migrate DB Pro 2.0 Released: New React-Powered UI, New Media Files Addon, Remote Plugin Updates, and More
  12. How to Use Xdebug for Advanced PHP Debugging
  13. Why You Should be Using WP_DEBUG_LOG in Your WordPress Development
  14. Delicious Brains Labs: Our Experiment with an AI Content Bot
  15. PHP and cURL: How WordPress Makes HTTP Requests
  16. Vue vs React: Which is the Best JavaScript Framework in 2021?
  17. Advanced Custom Fields: A Guide to Custom Fields and ACF Blocks
  18. Introducing the Elementor Integration for WP Offload Media
  19. Amazon SES vs SendGrid vs Mailgun vs Sendinblue: Pricing, Features, and WordPress Plugin Quality
  20. MailPoet and WordPress Newsletter Plugins vs Mailchimp and Drip in 2021
  21. How Unicode Works: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Strings and 🦄
  22. VS Code Wins Best PHP IDE/Editor for WordPress Development in 2021
  23. 2020 Year in Review: Business in the Front, Business in the Back

2020 12

  1. How We Use PhpStorm for WordPress Development
  2. WP Offload Media 2.5 Released: Improved WooCommerce Integration and New Tool for Already Offloaded Files
  3. Switching to Windows for Local WordPress Development
  4. The Best Setup for Your Local WordPress Development Environment
  5. Valet vs VVV vs Chassis: A Comparison Guide to CLI-Based Local WordPress Development Environments
  6. WP Offload Media 2.4 Released: Private Media with a Custom Domain and Amazon CloudFront
  7. Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools
  8. The Ultimate Developer’s Guide to the WordPress Database
  9. Vagrant vs Docker: Which is better for WordPress development?
  10. Amazon S3 vs CloudFront: Why Delivering WordPress Media Directly From S3 is a Bad Idea
  11. WordPress, JavaScript and PHP Conferences to Add to Your Calendar in 2020
  12. 2019 Year in Review: Double the Products, Double the Fun

2019 27

  1. Automated API Testing For Your WordPress Site With Codeception
  2. WP Offload SES 1.4 Released: Email Health Report
  3. Inertia.js: Building Single-Page Apps the Old Way
  4. WP Offload Media 2.3 Released: WordPress 5.3 Support & More
  5. How Laravel Valet Works Exactly
  6. The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin
  7. Getting Started with Lottie: An Overview of Airbnb’s Awesome Animation Framework
  8. Optimizing Laravel Part 4: Queues, Front-end & Opcache Considerations
  9. Delicious Brains In Berlin: Our Fifth Annual Company Retreat
  10. WP Offload SES 1.3 Released: Search, View, and Resend Sent Emails
  11. PHP Scoper: How to Avoid Namespace Issues in your Composer Dependencies
  12. WP Offload Media 2.2 Released: Offload Existing Media Items in the Background & More
  13. Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching
  14. How Much Money Do WordPress Developers Make? That and More Insights on the Life of a WordPress Developer in Our First-Ever Industry Report
  15. New in WP Offload SES: Subsite Settings for WordPress Multisite
  16. How to Get MinIO and Other S3-Compatible Storage Providers to Work with WP Offload Media
  17. Behind-the-Scenes: Replacing All of WP Migrate DB Pro’s jQuery with React
  18. How to Decrease Your Site Testing Time: Automated Acceptance Testing for WooCommerce
  19. Optimizing Laravel Part 2: Improving Query Performance with Database Indexing
  20. How We Improved Composer Support For Our Premium Plugins Again
  21. WP Offload Media 2.1 Released: Google Cloud Storage Now Supported
  22. How to Make Your MU-Plugins Compatible with Composer (And Why)
  23. Advanced Migration Workflow Tips For The Lazy WordPress Developer
  24. Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics
  25. WP Offload SES: Announcing A New WordPress Plugin For Amazon SES
  26. 2018 Year in Review: Our Most Productive Yet
  27. Blog Comments Are Dead. Or Are They?

2018 22

  1. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.9 Released: New Backups Tab and Refactored PHP
  2. An Introduction to WordPress Penetration Testing
  3. Side Project Marketing That’ll Actually Deliver Results
  4. Behind-the-Scenes: Planning The Future of WP Migrate DB Pro
  5. How We Built an Email Queue that Can Send 100 Emails Per Second Through Amazon SES
  6. End-to-End Testing with Cypress
  7. WP Offload S3 is now WP Offload Media and Adds Support for DigitalOcean Spaces
  8. Introducing the Theme & Plugin Files Addon for WP Migrate DB Pro
  9. What Can A Developer Really Get Out of a WordCamp?
  10. Vue vs React: 2018 Edition
  11. Improve Page Load Time For Your WordPress Site with WP Offload S3: A Case Study
  12. Build a WordPress Plugin with Vue 2
  13. Delicious Brains In Jamaica: Our Fourth Annual Company Retreat
  14. Getting into Go for PHP developers
  15. GDPR for WordPress Developers: Announcing the (Free) Anonymization Addon
  16. Updating WooCommerce: Our Safe & Thorough Guide
  17. How We Create WordPress Plugins: From Idea to Release
  18. The Surprising Benefits of Speaking at a Technical Conference
  19. How We Built Full Composer Support For Our Premium WordPress Plugins
  20. WP Offload S3 1.6 Released: Lighter and More Independent
  21. Using Devilbox for Local WordPress Development in Docker
  22. 2017 Year in Review: Hiring, Firing and Revenue Details

2017 24

  1. Delicious Brains in Nova Scotia: Our Third Annual Company Retreat
  2. Introducing the All-New Assets Pull Addon for WP Offload S3
  3. Announcing X-Ray For Mergebot: Visualize Your Database Changes
  4. Multisite Tools Addon 1.2 Released: Migrate Single Sites To and From Multisites
  5. How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3, React and the REST API (part 2)
  6. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.8 Released: Import SQL File & More
  7. Creating a Custom Table with PHP in WordPress
  8. Running WordPress in a Kubernetes Cluster
  9. Behind-the-Scenes: How We’re Automating Acceptance Testing
  10. How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3 & React (Part 1)
  11. WP Offload S3 1.5 Released: Copy Between Buckets & More
  12. Announcing serializededitor.com: A Visual Editor for PHP Serialized Data
  13. The WordPress Developer’s Guide to ES2015 (ES6)
  14. Building a Command Line Daemon in PHP to Emulate AWS SQSD
  15. Refactoring JavaScript: How to Avoid Technical Debt While Working with Legacy Code
  16. Using the New PDF Preview Images in WordPress 4.7 in the Real World
  17. Mergebot Now 1,200% Faster: Tuning a Laravel App with Blackfire
  18. Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal
  19. WP Offload S3 1.4 Released
  20. Introducing WP Image Processing Queue – On‑the‑Fly Image Processing Done Right
  21. Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 3: Automating the Rest
  22. Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home Part 2
  23. Hooks, Line, and Sinker: WordPress’ New WP_Hook Class
  24. 2016 Year in Review

2016 30

  1. Deploying WordPress Plugins with Travis CI
  2. On The Fly Image Processing Causes More Problems Than It Fixes
  3. Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code
  4. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Giving a Talk
  5. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7 & CLI Addon 1.3 Released
  6. Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts Part 2: Creating a WP-CLI Package
  7. WP Offload S3 1.2 Released
  8. Creating a Custom addon for Local by Flywheel
  9. Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm
  10. Freemius Monetization Review: An Easy Way to Sell Your Plugins and Themes
  11. Scaling a Cron: Checking Hundreds of Sites Every Minute
  12. Assets Addon 1.2 for WP Offload S3 Released
  13. Delicious Brains in Vienna: Our Second Annual Company Retreat
  14. Tips for Power Users of WP Migrate DB Pro
  15. Building a SaaS app with Laravel Spark: Web Uptime
  16. Hey WordPress Developers, Your Clients Should Own Their Plugin Licenses
  17. Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js
  18. How Our Team Pushes Each Other to be Better Developers
  19. How My JavaScript Almost Crashed Your Browser and How I Fixed It
  20. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.6 Released
  21. Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 1 – Backbone.js
  22. Using Codeception to Automate WordPress Plugin Testing
  23. Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts
  24. WP Offload S3 1.1 Released
  25. Creating a WordPress Theme using the REST API and Vue.js
  26. Let’s Encrypt HTTPS + Linode NodeBalancer
  27. Assets Addon 1.1 for WP Offload S3 Released
  28. WordPress Plugin Review: WP Pusher
  29. How to do Background Processing in WordPress Plugins and Themes
  30. The Awkward Addon Pricing Model For WordPress Plugins

2015 21

  1. Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home
  2. HTTP/2, HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt and WordPress
  3. WP REST API Part 2.5: Using it in WordPress 4.4
  4. Using React and Laravel Lumen to Build a Company Status Board
  5. Unit Testing Ajax and API Requests in WordPress Plugins
  6. WP Offload S3 0.9.7 & Pro Upgrade 1.0.2 Released with 3 New Addons
  7. Using Amazon SNS to build good habits with daily SMS reminders
  8. Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 4 – Installing WordPress in a Subdirectory
  9. WP Offload S3 Launched
  10. Managing Custom Tables in WordPress
  11. WP REST API Part 2: Customizing Default Endpoints and Adding New Ones
  12. Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 3 – Using Git Submodules to Manage Themes and Plugins
  13. WP REST API Part 1: Creating a Mobile App with WP-API and React Native
  14. Managing Your WordPress Site with Git and Composer Part 2 – Using Composer to Manage Themes and Plugins
  15. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.5 & Multisite Tools Addon 1.0 Released
  16. WordPress Library Review: Extended CPTs
  17. Delicious Brains in Miami: A Distributed Company’s First In-Person Meeting
  18. Struggles Developing a Commercial WordPress Plugin
  19. A Developer’s Guide to Contributing to WordPress Core
  20. How We Unit Test WP Migrate DB Pro
  21. Media Files addon 1.3 & CLI addon 1.1 Released

2014 4

  1. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.4.4 & Media Files 1.2 Released
  2. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.4 & CLI Addon Released
  3. Media Files addon 1.1 released: Now supporting push
  4. WPMDB Pro 1.3.1 and Media Files 1.0.1 Released

2013 3

  1. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.3 & Media Files Addon Released
  2. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.2 Released
  3. WP Migrate DB Pro 1.1 Released – Now up to 50% faster