5 Ways to Create a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
The extensibility of WordPress has always been one of its strong points. Not only are there thousands of plugins available, you can build your own. At some point, you might…
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Writing Functional Tests for WP-CLI Packages
Functional tests are crucial for WP-CLI packages as they simulate real-world scenarios, test integration with WordPress, and how they behave in a command line environment. In this article, I’ll show…
Matt Shaw
May 9, 2024
Best Ways to Encrypt Passwords, Keys, & More with PHP in 2022
A few years ago I attended Laracon EU where Marcus Bointon gave a great talk on Crypto in PHP 7.2. I left the talk having a much greater appreciation for…
Ashley
Sep 29, 2021
Automated API Testing For Your WordPress Site With Codeception
I’ve previously written about how we use Codeception to perform automated testing on our WooCommerce site where we sell our plugins. Automated tests give us peace of mind that our…
Iain Poulson
Dec 31, 2019
How to Decrease Your Site Testing Time: Automated Acceptance Testing for WooCommerce
We’ve written before about how we are using automated acceptance testing to test our WordPress plugins which has decreased manual testing time and helped catch bugs before they are released.…
Iain Poulson
Apr 9, 2019
An Introduction to WordPress Penetration Testing
Recently I had Tim Nash, the WordPress platform lead at 34SP.com, speak at the local WordPress meetup I help run. It’s the third time Tim has spoken at the meetup,…
Iain Poulson
Nov 20, 2018
End-to-End Testing with Cypress
This week on the blog we’re going to talk about something I’m a big fan of: testing. Don’t fall asleep juuuust yet. If you’re like me, during development, you probably…
Peter Tasker
Oct 2, 2018
Build a WordPress Plugin with Vue 2
It’s been a while since we’ve played with Vue JS on this blog, so why don’t we take a beginner-focused look at how one might go about building a simple…
Jeff
Jul 10, 2018
How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3 & React (Part 1)
This is article 1 of 2 in the series “How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3” If you’ve been working with JavaScript in the last couple years you’ve…
Peter Tasker
Jul 19, 2017
Deploying WordPress Plugins with Travis CI
Ever since I built my first WordPress plugin, the process of deploying the code to the WordPress.org Subversion repository has been a painful one. With Git as the widespread VCS…
Iain Poulson
