https://stevegrunwell.github.io/confidently-testing-wordpress/#/ Testing Fundamentals Automated Testing Reduces time + chance of human error Easily reproducible Gateway to CI/CD Test Types Unit – Test the smallest possible unit of an app. Often a single function Integration – How individual components interact End-to-End(E2E) – An entire path through an application Automated Testing Pyramid ROI for Testing System Under…
scaledynamix.com/WCUS 0-Day Vulnerabilities Recently discovered No current fix Already being attacked Reference – wpvulndb.com Why My Site? They want to send your traffic somewhere else to boost SEO rank They want to use your site as a “bot” to attack a targeted site. How Do You Protect Your Site? Protection Against Redirects Hardcode your site/home…
J Andrew Scott – http://rubberchickenfarm.com/ History of APIs RSS Advantages Fast & reliable Easy to consume Almost no technical footprint Disadvantages Read-only Static content No authentication No user-driven content (i.e. comments, favorites, etc) DIY API Advantages Dynamic content User-driven content App & user authentication Roles & permissions based Connected applications Disadvantages DIY OAuth Redundant URI scheme…
Why SEO is Important For search engines Why Technical SEO is Super Important Search Engines: Crawl / Index / Rank If technical SEO isn’t working search engines can’t crawl/index/rank. Visitors wont’ find your site. The Ultimate SEO Checklist Basic/Traditional Items Domain & CMS Run by a well designed platform Meta Robots Search Engine Visibility checkbox…
Why Talk To Other Sites? Ask them questions – Getting Data Tell them things – Process Requests. How is This Done? GET – wp_remote_get() POST – wp_remote_post() HEAD – wp_remote_head() Cache API Content WordPress Sites (/wp-json) – pull public WordPress site data