Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course…
Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course dedicated to automated testing for WordPress plugins. 🧪
Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course dedicated to automated testing for WordPress plugins. 🧪
The WordPress 4.4 train is rolling and rolling fast still. oEmbed, Responsive Images, and the REST API infrastructure have all been committed to core. The links for the merge tickets are as follows: oEmbed, #32522 Responsive Images, #33641 REST API Infrastructure, #33982 Twenty Sixteen, which has thus far used Github for development, will also be…
WP-dev-lib (WordPress Development Library) from XWP has reached its v1.0.0 release. These are tools used “to facilitate the development and testing of WordPress themes and plugins,” which XWP has made available to the public.
We’re just one week away from WordPress 6.2. Have you tested it and read the field guide yet? If you write code for a plugin that is in the WordPress Plugins Repo, you’ll want to ensure the code is GPL compatible.
Many developers have heard the term unit testing, but some might have nightmares about how complex it might be. That’s why I enjoyed Thorsten Frommen’s straightforward introduction to unit testing for WordPress. There are five questions that every unit test should answer: What are you testing? What should it do? What is the actual result…
Gutenberg 3.4 was recently released with “a multitude of improvements when converting existing content to blocks,” a REST API search controller, additional documentation, and more than a dozen bug fixes. Gary Pendergast also shared a sample plugin on Github that shows how to convert existing shortcodes into shiny new Gutenberg blocks. Brady Vercher has created a Gutenberg…
A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that comes with block templates. For example, you can allow a user to edit and build…