How To Start Testing Your WordPress Code With the Pest PHP Testing Framework
We can all agree that WordPress has come a long way since its beginning and that it grew into something a lot more than blogging software. At its core, it’s still a content management system (CMS), but with over 59,000 plugins in the wordpress.org directory, you can customize it to be much more. The reason for its popularity is its low entry barrier for both content creators and developers. Sometimes this comes with a cost. It’s no secret that WordPress has a bad reputation when it comes to development. It has a lot of legacy baggage and die-hard rules that prevent any backward compatibility breaking change when it comes to PHP code (Gutenberg is another story I won’t get into). That legacy PHP code is often used by the developers that are starting to enter the world of programming, and the issue with that is they can learn some bad programming patterns. That in turn means they will reuse the poorly written code, increasing the amount of bad code in the world. This is where WordPress gets its bad reputation in the developer community. Breaking the cycle So how can we break this cycle of bad code? By teaching new…
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