Testing

Jamie Indigo has written a technical…

Dan Knauss

January 28, 2021

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…

Dan Knauss

November 24, 2020

If you had a "Yes or No" question to ask in your UI, would you use one checkbox or two radio buttons? ☑️🤔🔘 Sara Soueidan asked that question on Twitter and collected the responses in a blog post. She came…

A new action wp_after_insert_post has been…

Dan Knauss

November 20, 2020

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 needs…

Fränk Klein has a new online…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Fränk Klein has a new online video course about WordPress Unit Testing. It's described as a “step by step roadmap for learning WordPress unit testing in a weekend, starting from scratch.” I plan on diving into this over the holidays,…

🧪 Helen Hou-Sandi announced that WordPress…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

🧪 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 people…

Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform…

Dan Knauss

October 9, 2020

Hosting

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: "Our…

A long-standing goal of the WordPress…

Dan Knauss

October 9, 2020

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.…

🧪 A proposal from Francesca Marano…

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2020

🧪 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 user…

The WordPress 5.5 Beta release that’s…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

The WordPress 5.5 Beta release that’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 with…

Tobias Ahlin has written an informative…

Dan Knauss

June 23, 2020

Tobias Ahlin has written an informative introduction to A/B testing 🧪 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 to…

Oyetoke Tobi Emmanuel demonstrates how to…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

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 and…

Google has published Schema.org 7.0, which…

Dan Knauss

March 27, 2020

Google has published Schema.org 7.0, which includes schemas for Coronavirus special announcements, Covid-19 Testing Facilities and more. 🏥

Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course dedicated to automated testing for WordPress plugins. 🧪

Felix Arntz has a possible solution…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

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). 💤 "With WordPress enabling native lazy-loading by default, it would significantly impact performance and user…

Brad Touesnard did a review of…

Dan Knauss

January 9, 2020

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]…

24 Days in December is a…

Dan Knauss

December 13, 2019

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 the…