I don’t know what big agencies do, but I can tell you one developer tool that can be used to automate this kind of testing: Codeception. What this sort of testing is technically called is acceptance testing. Codeception allows you to write automated acceptance tests. It even has an extension that will take screenshots and … Read more
That seems to be an old repo, you should use https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/tests. Obviously trunk should be used if you want to use the tests with 4.6. Not sure how much difference there is in the infrastructure between the version (in other words, it is unlikely that you care how core does a specific test, therefor the … Read more
It’s the .MO file compiled saving the .PO file which is used by WordPress. Without .MO no traduction will be available. You can use another plugin to translate your theme : Loco for example ; or a Windows software : Poedit, which will create a .MO file when you’ll save your .PO file with your … Read more
You need to run do_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’) prior to executing your assertions. This article has more details and an example.
Mock a dependency of a WP_REST_Controller class
OK, I was reading from an outdated tutorial. Command for running tests is now: vendor/bin/phpunit <path_to_file> This command should be Run from root directory of wordpress.
I usually do this for just code (no HTML): add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘test’); function test() { // code goes here die; } For dealing with HTML I prefer blank theme, set up for testing. If you want to test in context of existing theme create custom page template, add/remove elements according to your needs and assign to … Read more
Your htaccess file seems to be a little off. I would suggest the first part of the file should look like the following… <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /testsite/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /testsite/index.php [L] </IfModule> And that you store it in the ‘testsite’ folder not the root.
I would be very hesitant in having the same database for staging and live as any changes to the database would affect both sites (especially when using software like WordPress where there is configuration in the database). The only time that I would think of pointing to the live database would be if I was … Read more
You can do this from the dashboard, enter the post and on the right hand side you can edit the published date.