Since WordPress 3.0, released in June 2010, the themes bundled with WordPress core have been named twentysomething, starting from twentyten. The latest is twentyseventeen. [Read more…]
PHPUnit tested with WordPress 4.7
Version 3.1.0 of the oik base plugin has been tested with WordPress 4.7, using the WordPress develop tests for WordPress 4.7, and PHPUnit 5.7.2. New versions of my plugins will be available soon from the usual places; wordpress.org, oik-plugins and bobbingwide. [Read more…]
Disable caching of style.css when developing a Genesis child theme
If you’re developing a Genesis child theme and making quite a few changes to your style.css file you may want a quick and easy method of ensuring the style file is reloaded every time it gets changed.
One way is to ensure that the ver parameter on the stylesheet definition changes each time you update the file. [Read more…]
Multi rate weight zone shipping for WooCommerce 2.6 v0.1.0 now available
Over the past few weeks I’ve been updating the premium version of my WooCommerce weight zone shipping extension. oik-weight-zone-shipping-pro v0.1.0 is now available from oik-plugins.com. This version has three enhancements: support for WPML and WooCommerce MultiLingual, support for shipping classes, and a self update capability. [Read more…]
Restoring access to your own files after Windows 10 updates
After the latest update to Windows 10, my Windows temporary directory was updated such that I re-encountered some of the problems I’d experienced earlier in the year. When I fixed the problem I didn’t write down the actions that I’d taken to restore access to my own files. This time I did. [Read more…]
Learning Pro React including node.js and other stuff
This post documents my experiences of getting started with React.js. Note: this is a work in progress. [Read more…]
Installing node.js on Windows – pre-requisite to Pro React
This is a work in progress post, cloned rather prematurely from my development machine so I can refer to from my iPad when my development machine is not available. [Read more…]
How to run PHPUnit tests for WordPress plugins in situ
For every new release of WordPress, plugin and theme developers are expected to test that their products are compatible with the new version, and to update their “Compatible up to” status. But if you have lots and lots of plugins, how do you test them all? WordPress uses a tool called PHPUnit. Plugins and themes can do the same. This post discusses the solution that I’ve been developing to PHPUnit test my WordPress plugins in situ. [Read more…]
Weight zone shipping for WooCommerce 2.6 now available
Two versions of my new Weight zone shipping for WooCommerce 2.6 plugin are now available. [Read more…]
What image do you see?
This is a simple blog post to test what image I actually see when I view the cached version of a file which once showed “Multiple Rate Weight and Country based shipping” and now shows “Add shipping method”.
The image URL is.
http://i2.wp.com/herbmiller.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/screenshot-1-1.jpg
This is the image.
Try it on each of your devices and browsers. On my laptop with Chrome it still shows the “Multiple Rate Weight and Country based shipping” () image. See Jetpack photo cache issue #2752333.
Summary of tests.
| Device browser etc | Displays expected image? |
|---|---|
| Laptop Chrome | |
| Laptop Chrome incognito | |
| Laptop Chrome after clearing cache | |
| Laptop Firefox | |
| Laptop IE | |
| iPad Safari | |
| iPad Chrome | |
| iPhone Safari | |
| iPhone Chrome | |
| Wife’s Samsung Galaxy Chrome | |
| Wife’s laptop Chrome | |
| Wife’s laptop Edge |