Yes, if you are asked to create a feature branch, do that. If you already have code in your IDE, you may have the main branch. Creating a branch, you’ll create a copy of the code separate from the main branch, then make your commits to that feature branch.
Eclipse with it’s PHP Development Tool is good and recently I also experienced Visual Studio with it’s PHP extension, that’s also good. But nothing exceeds PHP Storm. Yes it’s a paid IDE, but it’s worth it. It’s some core features like suggestion, code revision and error reporting is pretty awesome. By doing some modifications you … Read more
Two lines of code could hide many things but I find an error: post_title is an attribute and not a method. echo $post->post_title; Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Post
Yes, you absolutely should use a proper code editor like Eclipse instead of the web interface. Another good idea that will save you tons of headaches is to install git and create a local repository for you changes. Commit your changes every time you complete a feature or fix a bug and you’ll have a … Read more
Never mind. After long hours, I realized I was using JQuery in the .js and not jQuery. The difference one letter cap makes.
Take a look at this answer to a similar question: How do I edit the php/html for a particular post? You will need to understand how WP ‘builds’ a page. Page content is stored in the database. The output is generated through the theme’s templates. The actual template used depends on the Template Hierarchy. The … Read more
In the process of looking this up I determined the correct answer is to use the full local path in my dev environment, and add a comment in the code like /** @define “get_template_directory()” “/home/myuser/mywpproject/wp-content/themes/mytheme” */ And this works for the subsequent references in that file in JetBrains IDE / PHPStorm immediately. Thanks to here … Read more
In order of preference: composer require wp-phpunit/wp-phpunit –dev. Depending on the IDE you use you might need to mark the package in vendor/ as a source directory. Each IDE allows you to add definitions from external libraries. In PHPStorm it’s Settings → Languages & Frameworks → PHP → Include Path. Just copy the files over … Read more
If you are comfortable with Composer — by all means that’s precisely what you should use to manage your WordPress site! I have made a mini site Composer in WordPress on topic in general and your cornerstones will be: johnpbloch/wordpress package for WP core WPackagist for proxying official plugin repo
Well, as it usually goes, after banging my head on this for hours yesterday and then finally deciding to ask for help, I was able to solve it within a few minutes. Here is what I needed to change: public function init() { // add_action(‘admin_menu’, array($this, ‘add_plugin_admin_menu’)); $this-> add_plugin_admin_menu(); } Clearly, I have much to … Read more