In PHPUnit-testing, it is often encountered a code which depends on internal PHP functions like phpversion(). Approach to testing is described in the current article.
Let us consider as a simple examle a class which checks current PHP version and tells if it satisfies requirements.
Editing a page in the block editor has an unpleasant feature – strip with the page mock is too narrow – 610px only, and this cause inconvenience with big number of columns. Page mock is narrow, but there is too much empty space around.
Some amendments in the code to make plugin compatible with WPML, were made in May, 2019. Recently, plugin got official status of compatibility to WPML.
In last two months, WPML team have rewritten plugin String Translation completely, and added many performance improvements to Multilingual CMS and Translation Management plugins.
Cyr-To-Lat plugin, in which development we take active participation, grew recently to more than 100,000 active installs. In the last 10 months it grew by 30% (from 70,000 active installs).
New impulse to the popularity of the plugin gave such features as:
In the nearest plans – support of Serbian, Turkmen, and Chinese languages, official WPML compatibility status, performance improvement.
The new version 2.2 of the WOOF by Category plugin, whose number of active installations exceeded one thousand, has a significant improvement in performance.
On client sites with a long list of product categories, there was a significant slowdown in the generation of WooCommerce pages with WOOF filters. The reason is that the WOOF plugin requests its options hundreds of times during page generation. These calls are handled by WOOF by Category to ensure its functionality.
On the site with 2,000 products and 70 categories option was requested 800 times during the generation of the page. The caching used in version 2.2 reduced the number of executions of the main WOOF by Category function to one, and the page generation time on the above site was reduced from 4.5 to 1.5 seconds.
When translating with WPML custom fields created by the ACF plugin, the question arises – how to make all fields translatable? Usually on the site there are quite a lot of such fields (hundreds – a typical example) and to click in the WPML settings hundreds of times – quite tedious work.
Below is an example of how to do this with the code.
In one of the projects customer asked to make a realistic animation of Christmas balls which to be started to swing being touched by the mouse. That’s what came out of it.
There many strange solutions on it. It seems that the authors simply did not understand how and when the shortcode [embed] works. Here is the simple code which can be added to functions.php.
The question often arises: how to count downloads and hide the real link to the file?
To solve the task we need to two things: intercept a click on the link and send the real file to the user by php.
What happens by the click on the fictitious link, pointing to an non-existent page? WordPress inits own core and tries to show 404 page. At this moment, we need to intervene by our function, update download counter, and send the real file. Here is code of such a function:
