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Selenium IDE Rollups With StoredVars Logic

July 10, 2017Lance Cleveland

#Selenium IDE Rollups With StoredVars #Logic (#qa #webtesting #seleniumide)…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With StoredVars Logic

Adding Columns To WordPress Screen Options

June 16, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

Adding the Screen Options drop down to a custom WordPress admin page takes some trickery which was described in the prior Screen Options blog post. Using the “magic sauce” of…Continue readingAdding Columns To WordPress Screen Options

Plugin Development WordPress

Adding Screen Options To WordPress Admin Pages

June 15, 2017Lance Cleveland

Many of the built-in WordPress admin pages have a Screen Options drop-down tab on the top right of the page. This is used to set how many items are…Continue readingAdding Screen Options To WordPress Admin Pages

Development Technology

Adopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

May 23, 2017Lance Cleveland

A couple of months ago I noticed SmartGit, my preferred git management tool, had a GitFlow button in the toolbar when I updated to the latest version. Curious I…Continue readingAdopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

Development Plugin Development Technology WordPress

WordPress As An Application Framework

May 15, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

A summary of my notes from my SyntaxCon 2017 “WordPress As An Application Framework” presentation. Constraints Constraints of working in and around the WordPress application. Built-In Overhead Using any…Continue readingWordPress As An Application Framework

Quality Assurance Technology

Selenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

April 18, 2017Lance Cleveland

As I prepare another release of Store Locator Plus with some new features I’ve decided it is time to up my QA-fu with Selenium. I’ve been using Selenium IDE…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

Plugin Development WordPress

WordPress Plugin Overhead

March 24, 2017Lance Cleveland

I recently wrote an article on why you should bury the bulk of your plugin PHP code at least TWO levels deep from the top-level directory. The short version: WordPress…Continue readingWordPress Plugin Overhead

Development Technology

Better Release Management For Distributed Teams: GitFlow

March 21, 2017Lance Cleveland

Despite having a number of git interfaces available including a half-decent one built right into phpStorm (my fav for any PHP development ESPECIALLY WordPress) , my go-to tool after 5…Continue readingBetter Release Management For Distributed Teams: GitFlow

Technology

xDebug Remote Debugging With WordPress and phpStorm

March 20, 2017Lance Cleveland

I’ve been using phpStorm to do local debugging of my WordPress app on a VVV box for a few years now. This week I have been running into some challenges…Continue readingxDebug Remote Debugging With WordPress and phpStorm

Plugin Development Technology WordPress

Why Your WordPress Plugin Should Have Almost Nothing In The Main Folder

March 3, 2017Lance Cleveland

As we continue to roll out our Store Locator Plus SaaS service built on top of WordPress as our application foundation we continually refine our plugin, theme, and API architecture. …Continue readingWhy Your WordPress Plugin Should Have Almost Nothing In The Main Folder

Graphic Design Technology

Hacking Snagit PNG Files For Clarity

March 1, 2017Lance Cleveland

While working on some updates to the Store Locator Plus website I ran into a rather annoying issue when it came to the logo for the website. On the documentation…Continue readingHacking Snagit PNG Files For Clarity

AWS gSuite Technology

Save Money With RDS / Get Your gSuite Mail Forwarding

February 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

Two quick hacks I learned today while doing some general “tech life” maintenance. Amazon Web Services – Saving Money The first “hack” is an easy one that I am now…Continue readingSave Money With RDS / Get Your gSuite Mail Forwarding