Last Wednesday, WooThemes celebrated its 6th birthday, which in startup years is no small feat! Throughout its life cycle, WooThemes has evolved alongside WordPress, and established itself as a leading WordPress theme and plugin provider. In fact, WooThemes has even built the leading eCommerce plugin for WordPress—WooCommerce. I had the pleasure of emailing with Magnus Jepson—one of the co-founders of WooThemes—and he was kind enough to answer my questions regarding the hardships, accomplishments, and growth that WooThemes has experienced over the years. Here’s what he had to say: As the co-founder of WooThemes, does the vision you had 6 years ago […]
JavaScript Much? Get Better Testing with JSHint
Besides being lovers of WordPress you’re also probably a lover of a few other coding and scripting languages as well, one of which might be JavaScript. It’s now such an essential piece of the web so how could you not? You may already have a good way to test the quality of your code but if not then you may want to check out this detection tool which might be very useful:
Make Plugin Unit Testing Easier, Quicker
Cristi Burcă, otherwise known as scribu, has shared a fantastic resource for unit testing your plugin with an easy-to-understand system for automating and setting up this “chore” that most plugin developers never really get around to. With a simple command you can download the configure the WordPress testing library and get your testing done so that you don’t have to deal with as many issues when it gets released publicly, because it’s not nice to get hate mail from angry users about your broken plugin, right? [code]wp scaffold plugin-tests <your-plugin>[/code] And I understand it, I really do. I don’t like […]
Where Do I Start with WordPress?
This weekend, we received the following tweet basically asking “where do I start with WordPress?” @wpdailyco If I want to get serious about WP code, where do I start? I got basics, but I go deeper and feel overwhelmed! Tips? — Josh Wagner (@jbwagner) December 15, 2012 Love this kind of stuff! Not only is it the kind of tweet that we can provide insight on, but it’s something that you guys in the community can chime in on as well. Remember, our Manifesto specifically states: Collaboration, not Competition Community, not Agendas Friendship, not Formality People, not Personalities Participation, not […]
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