Testing

Scott Bolinger did an interview on HollerBox with Patrick…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Scott Bolinger did an interview on HollerBox with Patrick Garman of Mindsize, and their conversation focused on scaling WooCommerce. Patrick brought up some unique problems that emerge when a site is taking ten orders a second or more. That's a great problem to have,…

In a recent episode of How…

Brian Krogsgard

October 25, 2017

In a recent episode of How I Built It, Joe Casabona interviews Alex Cancado, one of the founders of Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms is one of the oldest commercial plugins I can think of. Alex talks about the company as well…

Beta 1 for WordPress 4.9 is…

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

Beta 1 for WordPress 4.9 is out. A full list of changes with links to trac tickets is available. You all should know by now, but testing these betas is really helpful for the team working on them.

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

BusinessDesign

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide to writing unit tests for developers based on his experience at Delicious Brains. Iain's testing framework of choice is PHPUnit. He covers what to test and how to write tests, with many helpful tips…

Gutenberg is in beta, and an…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Gutenberg is in beta, and an official testing page has been published on Make WordPress, with links to forms to provide generic feedback via a Google form, or you can contribute via GitHub. They are looking for specific task based…

Robot Ninja is an automated testing…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Robot Ninja is an automated testing service for WooCommerce stores. Jason Conroy explains that Robot Ninja uses end-to-end (e2e) testing principles and technologies. They are planning additional features in the future, but in the meantime they are looking for participants in…

The future of the WordPress economy, and why I’m not worried

Joshua Strebel

June 22, 2017

BusinessHosting

Joshua Strebel -- the CEO of Pagely -- shares his view of the current state of the WordPress economy, and why he is confident in both its strength and future.

WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing

Brian Krogsgard

June 22, 2017

BusinessHosting

WooCommerce has — at least for now — decided to end renewal discounts for extension sales. This is a smart business move and the right thing to do, even if it could've been rolled out better. Matt Mullenweg said in…

Steven Henty, a developer at Rocketgenius…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Steven Henty, a developer at Rocketgenius and maintainer of Gravity Flow, writes about creating and running acceptance tests for WordPress plugins. Steven stresses how the end user's trust is at stake and tries to make the testing process more understandable…

Thinking about blockchain

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

My thoughts aren't fully formed on the matter yet, but I've been thinking a lot about blockchain technology recently. Yes, my interest was piqued due to the massive price rise in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies' values; but I…

WP-CLI version 1.2.0 has been released…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

WP-CLI version 1.2.0 has been released with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. In a big organizational change, the main wp-cli/wp-cli repository only contains the framework itself now. All the bundled commands can be found in separate repositories. This…

Here’s a unique plugin: Better Plugin…

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2017

Here's a unique plugin: Better Plugin Recommendations for WordPress. It removes the default featured and recommendations tab in the backend WordPress "Add Plugin" screen. It then replaces the recommendations tab with plugins that Nick Hamze hand selects. Joey Kudish assisted…

The WooCommerce team has recently developed…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

The WooCommerce team has recently developed an end to end testing suite. How it works is particularly interesting - it uses ChromeDriver, which simulates a real user by moving the mouse around, clicking on things, and filling out forms. The…

WordPress.com is testing custom plugins and themes for Business plans

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

BusinessHosting

Automattic is testing the ability for Business plan customers to upload custom plugins and themes on WordPress.com. The test has only been open a few days, and they are enabling the feature for around 10 sites per day, so it's…

Scott Bolinger did an interview on HollerBox with Patrick…

In a recent episode of How…

Beta 1 for WordPress 4.9 is…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide…

Gutenberg is in beta, and an…

Robot Ninja is an automated testing…

The future of the WordPress economy, and why I’m not worried

WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing

Steven Henty, a developer at Rocketgenius…

Thinking about blockchain

WP-CLI version 1.2.0 has been released…

Here’s a unique plugin: Better Plugin…

The WooCommerce team has recently developed…

WordPress.com is testing custom plugins and themes for Business plans

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