How to run WordPress tests offline.
So you want to add unit tests to your plugin or theme and you have a local install setup. You’ve followed the instructions for installing your tests from somewhere like https://pippinsplugins.com/unit-tests-wordpress-plugins-setting-up-testing-suite/ and written your first test. It’s all good. The only downside to this is that every time you bootstrap your tests then the latest […]
Monitoring progress using wp_remote_get
The WordPress HTTP API provides a number of methods which abstract away the details of handling remote data, but doesn’t provide a way of monitoring those interactions. Here is one approach when getting data from a remote resource. The WordPress HTTP API – What is it? WordPress provides a number of APIs to abstract away […]
Storing Data in WordPress Custom Fields
WordPress Custom Fields Often when you read about WordPress custom fields what is actually being referred to are the meta tables in the WordPress database. Three tables are provided for storing meta data about some object or table types in the WordPress ecosystem. In my
