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Improving wp_delete_post in WordPress Core

February 8, 2018Lance Cleveland

One of the common processes that runs in Store Locator Plus is deleting locations. For sites with a few dozen locations the process runs smoothly. For sites with thousands…Continue readingImproving wp_delete_post in WordPress Core

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Optimizing JavaScript for Chrome

February 7, 2018Lance Cleveland

A recent discussion with a tech guru at Automattic posed a great question — how does JavaScript asynchronous processing work on a single-threaded app? Great question, but before I found…Continue readingOptimizing JavaScript for Chrome

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Automated Web App Testing With phpStorm

January 5, 2018Lance Cleveland

Selenium IDE was a great way to handle automated web app testing like the Store Locator Plus plugins for WordPress. Selenium IDE is a simple script recorder and playback…Continue readingAutomated Web App Testing With phpStorm

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Should The WordPress PHP Version Be Updated?

December 15, 2017Lance Cleveland

WordPress LOVES backwards compatibility as can be witnessed by the minimum-allowed WordPress PHP version remaining at 5.2.4 a decade after its end-of-life date. It may be one of the reasons they…Continue readingShould The WordPress PHP Version Be Updated?

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Uncovering A WordPress Walker Class Inconsistency

December 9, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

Took an hour tonight to figure out why the new Store Locator Plus Premier Button Bar is not working properly. The odd thing is this WAS working properly two…Continue readingUncovering A WordPress Walker Class Inconsistency

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wp_enqueue_scripts Deep Dive

December 4, 2017Lance Cleveland

While trying to figure out why the footer-loaded scripts in Store Locator Plus are not being output on some admin page, I went deep down the rabbit hole of the…Continue readingwp_enqueue_scripts Deep Dive

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Getting Foundation, Sass, and phpStorm To Play Together

November 26, 2017Lance Cleveland

In an effort to improve the overall user experience inStore Locator Plus™, my business locator plugin for WordPress, I have been playing with pre-defined interface frameworks. I’ve been working…Continue readingGetting Foundation, Sass, and phpStorm To Play Together

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Selenium on JavaScript : New WordPress Site Config Script

September 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

This article continues the journey into learning Selenium on JavaScript (SoJa). It builds on the lessons of the previous articles and adds some common library functions to make our tests…Continue readingSelenium on JavaScript : New WordPress Site Config Script

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Selenium on JavaScript : User List Test

September 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

I wasn’t quite sure what to name this article. The Selenium on JS example here can be used to scan any table to ensure every entry on a list of…Continue readingSelenium on JavaScript : User List Test

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JavaScript Selenium Newb Cheat Sheet

September 26, 2017Lance Cleveland

Finding documentation on Selenium is hard enough for the “main languages” of Java or Python. There are lots of examples of how to do things there in those languages…Continue readingJavaScript Selenium Newb Cheat Sheet

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Selenium : Hiding Login Credentials In An Automated Test

September 25, 2017Lance Cleveland

With most web automation and testing tasks you are going to want to login to a secure system. You are also going to want to keep your login credentials…Continue readingSelenium : Hiding Login Credentials In An Automated Test

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Selenium Web App Test: Are My Web Parts There?

September 24, 2017Lance Cleveland

As per my previous articles, I am building new test cases using Selenium as a replacement for my older Selenium IDE tests. Selenium IDE is no longer supported by Firefox…Continue readingSelenium Web App Test: Are My Web Parts There?