Should you test this? Yes. How should you test this? That depends. There are several different approaches to unit testing WordPress plugins. The one that I prefer and am most familiar with is more like integration testing. I can’t tell from your post whether you are using this approach or not, but I’ll answer from … Read more
So as far as I know, WP does not support “async” yet, for scripts. Which means the only way you’ll be able to add any script async is by including them directly in your theme’s header (or footer) file… And that is going to be a bit hard to manage, since a lot of queued … Read more
Woo (the makers of WooThemes) announced their integration with shopify recently, from the looks of it… http://themes.shopify.com/themes/air/styles/air would do what you want.. I would look into hosting the shop at Shopify, and seeing if your base website can be wordpress. Woo has announced that they’re working on a e-commerce framework as well, but until that … Read more
Here is the code that will let you return your single-event.php if the post type is event: function my_event_template($single_template) { global $post; if ($post->post_type == ‘event’) { return dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/single-event.php’; return $single_template; } add_filter( “single_template”, “my_event_template” ) ;
You can use ShrimpTest for this. Basically, you need to reverse the test idea. You’re making three separate posts, one of which will be displayed on the front page. That means that two others will not be displayed on the front page. So you’re doing an exclusion. Say your three posts have id’s of 101, … Read more
Digging through the code, it’s pretty straight-forward to find. First, look at the template used for product archives – /templates/archive-product.php. Among other things, it sets up the regular queries and begins building the markup of the page. But when it actually starts looping through each product, it delegates the work to /templates/loop-shop.php. This template is … Read more
If you use WP-CLI then that will automatically delete those sizes that you don’t need. You would run the following command on your server via SSH. You will need to have WP-CLI installed on the server. wp media regenerate –only-missing You could also use find . -name “*-*x*.*” | xargs rm -f to delete all … Read more
Network activation will activate a plugin for every site in a network whereas regular activation will only activate a plugin for the site you’re currently on. As far as implementation goes, there is one other important difference: If your plugin is built to do something when it’s activated (via register_activation_hook()), this will fire automatically when … Read more
If you search for plugins at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ rather than through your WordPress install you get more options on your search results.
If your current plugin version is 1.2.5, and you have a beta version for the next version, it should be called 1.2.6-beta. Your user can install it, and when the real 1.2.6 version is released on the repository, WordPress will notify the user on the Plugins page and let him update. WordPress uses a PHP … Read more