Testing

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

There's a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed "content endpoints" into WordPress core with the 4.7 release -- which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development…

WebPageTest is an open source performance…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

WebPageTest is an open source performance testing tool, maintained primarily by Google. Developers can use to extract vital information you can use to optimize the performance of a site. A well-written article on CSS-Tricks from Eduardo BouÇas shows how you can…

Testing hosted eCommerce, with Pippin Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

I spoke to Pippin Williamson for the Post Status podcast, and in the podcast proper (which will come out soon), we discussed the revival of Restrict Content Pro. It was a lot of fun, and we talked about why he…

Delicious Brains promises to solve one of WordPress’s most difficult problems, with Mergebot

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Mergebot is finally out of the bag. Brad Touesnard has been talking about it for quite some time on his Apply Filters podcast, but they've now posted on the Delicious Brains blog more about the why and how of MergeBot.…

Pressmatic wants to be the new standard for local WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2016

Clay Griffiths -- co-founder of Headway Themes, which he's run since 2009 -- has a new unaffiliated venture, called Pressmatic. With Pressmatic, Clay hopes to set the new standard for local WordPress development. Pressmatic is a GUI-driven utility for creating…

Aaron Jorbin has a “half-baked” idea…

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Aaron Jorbin has a "half-baked" idea about having hosts help more with automated testing for WordPress. I think he's on to something.

Google News is attempting to feature…

Brian Krogsgard

May 10, 2016

Google News is attempting to feature more local blogs and news sources during breaking news cycles. "The changes will help smaller and local news publishers who wouldn't typically appear in national news or at the top of Google's news story sources."…

Thoughts on WooCommerce Connect

Brian Krogsgard

May 10, 2016

Last week, Automattic introduced WooCommerce Connect, a Jetpack-esque suite of tools for WooCommerce, where modules could utilize the processing power of WordPress.com to run particular elements of eCommerce websites. WooCommerce Connect requires Jetpack, and therefore also a WordPress.com account, in…

This is a really cool project:…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

This is a really cool project: 10up has partnered with Joyent to bring WordPress to their Docker infrastructure. 10up created a Docker Compose project, housing several Docker containers which work together to create a scalable, complete WordPress stack, which includes…

Scott Bolinger talks about what was…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

Scott Bolinger talks about what was learned after professional user testing was conducted on the new WooCommerce Smart Checkout product. Testing was done with usertesting.com. In the end, Scott definitely recommends it. I know it's not on every client (or…

WebDevStudios has released the wd_s Pattern…

April 21, 2016

WebDevStudios has released the wd_s Pattern Library 1.0. It contains: 36 user interface patterns including accordions, carousels / sliders, effects, layout, media, navigtion, etc. An auto-generated color swatches page, which watches the _color.scss for changes, and recompiles as needed. A…

WordPress 4.6 to be a release for refinement

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2016

WordPress 4.6 is officially underway, and release lead Dominik Schilling announced in the weekly chat that the goal of this release is to fix as many longstanding bugs as possible, and to refine existing features, rather than to focus on…

WordPress 4.5 planned release date is…

April 8, 2016

WordPress 4.5 planned release date is coming up quickly - April 12. The team is looking for some final help and testing to get them to the finishing line. On a related note, the regular "things that have changed and…

Iain Poulson talks about using Codeception,…

April 8, 2016

Iain Poulson talks about using Codeception, a behaviour-driven testing framework -- particularly in how it relates to automating WordPress plugin tests.

1.4 million WordPress.com custom domains have just gone fully SSL

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2016

WordPress.com makes up for a huge number of LetsEncrypt's total SSL certificates. This morning, Automattic flipped the switch on enabling LetsEncrypt certificates for 1.4 custom domains on the platform. They had already enabled SSL on all WordPress.com subdomains, but this…