Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
When I set out to rebrand my company and focus specifically on WordPress, one of the things that I wanted to do was also to offer actual, physical stuff for purchase.
You know, what I mean – it’s the typical stuff most companies offer: t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and so on.
As much as I’d love to eventually get to sharing more stuff, I figured it was best to start at the ground-level: Today, I’m proud to announce that The Pressware Shop is now officially open.
As I’m getting ready to tag and release version 2.6.0 of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, I’ve been thinking about the some of the lesson from open source that I’ve learned over the time of managing the project
So, I’ll be the first to admit that the boilerplate is by no means a large project; however, it’s the first project that I’ve had that’s received a number of contributions from people who have made the project better, who have taken part in good discussion around how things should be organized, and who are extremely forward thinking as it relates to future functionality.
What went from a couple of commits from myself over a couple of months and turned into:
It’s not large by any means, but it’s definitely fun to see something that went from a couple of commits from myself to something in which a number of others have gotten involved.
Last March, I wrote a post on How To Include a Page Template in a WordPress Plugin. The post and the associated code was a proof-of-concept that was never intended to be used in production environments.
But since then, I’ve received a few pull requests and have implemented some additional changes that have brought this plugin up to a stable `1.0.0` that I believe is capable of being used in a more stable setting.
Now that all the rage that responsive design has become a bit more common place in our day-to-day work, I think it’s worth sharing how to test for responsive design.
Specifically, this is how I think a lot of us has historically tested for responsive design:
Testing Responsive Design
It’s funny because it’s true, right?
But here’s the thing: Is this really a viable use case for properly testing responsive design?
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