I had the pleasure of attending yet another WordCamp Europe this past weekend and was am pleased to report I have at least another year’s worth of inspiration for further projects. There were a few reasons why I was a little less excited about this past WordCamp. Firstly it was hosted in the city where …Continue reading
Author: Kirsten Cassidy
Installing Theme Unit Test Data with wp-cli
When building custom themes client sites it is important to test as many edge case as possible. Theme Unit Test Data is the way to go here and a minimum requirement for any professionally built WordPress theme (in my opinion anyway) If building a theme for the wordpress.org theme repository this will almost certainly be …Continue reading
Understanding and Using Resource Hinting in WordPress 4.6
Most of the changes to WordPress 4.6 were fairly easy to grasp. Among them were Shiny Updates, a more fluid update process with better UI, System fonts, which means not having to load a Google font in the WordPress admin, and the WP_Term Query class. Then there is resource hinting… For a more thorough explanation …Continue reading
Testing WordPress Plugins with WP-CLI and PHPUnit
Everyone agrees that extensive testing of WordPress plugins is necessary. The problem is that the tests we run as developers don’t take into consideration certain edge cases and rely on our experience to determine what needs to be tested. Testing is also time-consuming and quite frankly not very fun. Automated testing is recommended to ensure …Continue reading
Using WP-CLI for database synchronisation
There are a great many tools that duplicate sites and synchronise databases between sites. Some favourites are Duplicator, WP Migrate and WP Migrate Pro, as well as good old phpMyAdmin. However, sometimes all that is needed is to import the database and then do a search and replace. This is easier said than done however …Continue reading
CSS Fancy Quotes
There are all sorts of HTML elements that concern quotes and quoting things. I’ll let you sort out the appropriate one here. When it come to styling them you have several choices as well. You can put quotes around the quoted string or you can style the blockquote element. The main difference is whether you …Continue reading
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Facts & Coupons
So What are Black Friday and Cyber Monday Anyway? Black Friday is the Friday following the American (USA not Canada) Thanksgiving holiday which is always on the third Thursday in November. The Friday is really a bridge holiday and in the US retail market marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. In order to …Continue reading
WP-CLI Cheatsheet for site setup
For those who are comfortable with WP-CLI but haven’t yet memorised all the commands here are some of the more common ones I use when developing client sites. The object here is to save time and to avoid do repetitive (and unexciting) tasks in wp-admin. If you aren’t comfortable with WP-CLI and would like to …Continue reading
Unix Command Cheatsheet
This is a conglomeration of several online cheatsheets, the origins of which are noted in the resources section below. It also includes my own notes, any of this is open for discussion. Please feel free to correct any wrong information or to include any which are vital but may have been overlooked.
Responsive Images to be merged into WordPress 4.4
Edit: WordPress 4.4 is here! Update your WordPress installation to experience Responsive Images on your site. What are Responsive Images? If you’ve somehow missed all the excitement about browsers supporting responsive images you can read about it here. In short it is an HTML5 specification that allows the browser to determine which sized image to …Continue reading