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Tips and Tricks for Testing WordPress Themes
WordPress has become a popular choice for publishing Blog site or
Content Management System. There are various extensions available in
delivering WordPress themes effectively. Whether the theme is free or
premium, we often face tons of problems while publishing it.
The reason is to improper strategies in developing and testing for which
most of the people are not aware. Theme can make your site appealing
so if they don’t work properly then entire site will get to be pointless.
Testing should be a vital part of your website development process. By
planning in advance, you can help deter some bugs by design and that
helps you prevent others.
Here are a few tips and tricks for testing WordPress theme to achieve a
bug free product.
This article is split into three distinct sections:
- Setting up
- Development phase
- Final testing
SETTING UP WORDPRESS
Using a network (WordPress Multisite)
While not much different, developing for a network installation does
present some differences in methodology (especially with plugins).
Custom table prefix
Installing a custom table prefix helps in two ways. First, it ensures that
you don’t hardcode database queries. Secondly, it gives you an
additional layer of security.
Enable debugging information
To make sure you don’t accidentally trigger notices, simply make sure
that WP_DEBUG is set to true in wp-config.php.
Disable WordPress script concatenation
A more obscure feature of WordPress is the option to disable script
concatenation.
Advanced query analysis
If you set the define('SAVEQUERIES', true); constant in wp-config.php,
WordPress will save all of the queries performed into a variable.
Disable the trash
Disable the trash by setting define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 0 ); in wp-
config.php.
THE RIGHT TOOLS
LESS or Sass
Code Kit.
Snippets
Thumbnail Regeneration
User Switching
“Template Hierarchy”
Browser Development Tools
I hope these tips have been helpful to create a bug free WordPress
theme while development process. I think everyone does a lot of little
things we could all learn from.
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