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Jamie Indigo has written a technical…

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Jamie Indigo has written a technical SEO guide to Lighthouse performance metrics. Jamie offers some instructions for testing your performance and understanding the metrics behind Lighthouse's Performance score.

If you had a “Yes or…

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If you had a "Yes or No" question to ask in your UI, would you use one checkbox or two radio buttons? ā˜‘ļøšŸ¤”šŸ”˜ Sara Soueidan asked that question on Twitter and collected the responses in a blog post. She cameā€¦

A new action wp_after_insert_post has been…

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A new action wp_after_insert_post has been added to WordPress 5.6 to allow theme and plugin developers to run custom code after a post and its terms and metadata have been updated. The 5.6 Release Candidate is available now and needsā€¦

FrƤnk Klein has a new online…

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FrƤnk Klein has a new online video course about WordPress Unit Testing. It's described as a ā€œstep by step roadmap for learning WordPress unit testing in a weekend, starting from scratch.ā€ I plan on diving into this over the holidays,ā€¦

šŸ§Ŗ Helen Hou-Sandi announced that WordPress…

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šŸ§Ŗ Helen Hou-Sandi announced that WordPress core is now running automated tests using GitHub Actions as a runner, in addition to the existing Travis CI and Appveyor runs. Helen explains where this testing is headed next and shares how peopleā€¦

Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform…

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Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. It includes improvements in speed for sites that might be slowed down a bit by plugins or hosting limitations effectively creating a "zero-config edge HTML caching solution." Garrett Galow explains: "Ourā€¦

A long-standing goal of the WordPress…

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A long-standing goal of the WordPress project is to be compatible with new versions of PHP on release day. There's a call right now for both manual and automated testing to ensure the core codebase is ready for PHP 8.0.ā€¦

šŸ§Ŗ A proposal from Francesca Marano…

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šŸ§Ŗ A proposal from Francesca Marano aims at bringing E2E (End-to-End) testing to WordPress core: "E2E testing tests the higher-level functionality of an application that the user sees, typically including the interface and the inputs and controls that the userā€¦

The WordPress 5.5 Beta release thatā€™s…

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The WordPress 5.5 Beta release thatā€™s now in testing includes Block Directory support enabled by default, and you can add your own plugins to it. Alex Shiels shows how to get your block plugin added to the directory along withā€¦

Tobias Ahlin has written an informative…

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Tobias Ahlin has written an informative introduction to A/B testing šŸ§Ŗ that also explains very clearly why testing matters: "The more users you have, the more damage you can cause by shipping features that, despite your best intentions, happen toā€¦

Oyetoke Tobi Emmanuel demonstrates how to…

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Oyetoke Tobi Emmanuel demonstrates how to automate front-end application testing with Selenium, a popular testing tool for web apps. As an example, Oyetoke takes you through the steps to automate testing for a simple Svelte to-do app using Node andā€¦

Felix Arntz has a possible solution…

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Felix Arntz has a possible solution for lazy loading images in WordPress core and is calling for testing it in a feature plugin (WP Lazy). šŸ’¤ "With WordPress enabling native lazy-loading by default, it would significantly impact performance and userā€¦

Brad Touesnard did a review of…

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Brad Touesnard did a review of 2019 for his company, Delicious Brains. After launching two products and working toward a major release of WP Migrate DB Pro, Brad notes that they're doing very well and plan to "step up [their]ā€¦

24 Days in December is a…

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24 Days in December is a series of blog posts on different subjects from the PHP community, including yours truly. All of them are worth a read, but here are two that stood out to me: Milana Cap on theā€¦
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