We have written come acceptance tests in the last tutorial. Time to run them on the cloud. No way I would spend 10 minutes to wait for my tests ran for multiple PHP and WordPress versions. Continue from the last tutorial, I’ve removed some unused pieces and added PHP_CodeSniffer to…

Ever anxious about pushing new release of WordPress plugin causing the white screen of death on your clients’ sites? You should write some acceptance tests! I will demonstrate how to leverage Varying Vagrant Vagrants, Codeception and wp-browser to write acceptance tests for WordPress plugins. The Tools Codeception Codeception is a PHP testing framework…

WP Cron is the schedule system implementation of WordPress. Unlike linux cron, it doesn’t guarantee jobs are performed on time. Ever wondered why your scheduled posts not posted at specific time but suddenly published when you log in to WordPress dashboard to check out what’s wrong? …

What is worst than having downtime? Answer: Having downtime without noticing it. Here come Uptime Robot, a free service let you create 50 monitors that checks every 5 minutes, not to mention email alert, mobile apps, API support and public status pages. Start Monitoring in 30 Seconds

Syndicating content to third-party sites may not be safe. If don’t support the use of the rel=”canonical” tag. Chance are they outrank you on SEO and makes Google thinks they are the original authors. Worse still, Google penalise you on duplicate content. Good news is Medium do support canonical tags…

Because no developer should ever cowboy coding, it’s important to have a local development WordPress environment. Varying Vagrant Vagrants lets you create and remove testing WordPress sites on local machine with ease.

By no doubt putting a nice set of eye-catching social share buttons on your pages is the first step to seduce visitors to share your content. There are thousands of share button plugins on the WordPress plugins repository makes choosing the right one become difficult than ever. The Requirement Responsive Social Share Buttons According to We…

Ever think about hosting WordPress sites on Heroku? Think again. It’s not as easy as deploying Rails applications. In fact, it’s a headache. Besides the limits you find in the official document, I am showing you some of my thoughts on Heroku WordPress hosting. Heroku is great for prototyping Rails…