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A Christ-follower, husband, father, and WordPress Developer with Forum One.
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Daybreak / Health / Relationships / RunningMy 1st Group Run
Had an awesome time this morning running with the HWP Daybreak Team. Enjoyed running with and getting to know Todd Sadler. [endomondowp type=’workout’ workout_id=’861942037′ ] Bauer, Michigan, United States of America
Using WordPress As My Note Taking Tool
So this past Sunday, in a continued effort to find my replacement note taking tool for Evernote, I decided to give my blog a try as a not taking tool. I have the Android app on my phone and tablet so that step made things fairly easy. For the most part things went very well, except I still don’t like the lack of Post Format editing support in the mobile app. I still had to switch over to the web to refine my final note the way I liked it to be. Did some Googling to see what other people’s experiences have been with trying this. Might have to give some of their suggestions a try as well. WordPress as a note taking tool Use…
Live 80s Music at the Daybreak Volunteer Celebration
I had the pleasure to join the regular staff at Daybreak and serve all our amazing volunteers. On top of that I enjoyed taking in an 80s music concert as well. I was in elementary school in the 80s so some would think that I would identify more with 90s music. It’s a both/and relationship for me, but for whatever reason I gravitate to 80s music. The following song was played last night and came up on my Google Play Music station this morning. For sure a 80s favorite. Check out Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey:
WordCamp GR 2017 – Plugins: The WP Box of Chocolates – Stacy Vanden Heuvel
Stacy Vanden Heuvel – http://www.mtnwebs.net/ (blog) http://mtnwebs.com/ What are they? Premanufactured code that adds function and features. 51,000+ plugins available today. Dropped into a site. There is a plugin or everything. Why does anyone care? Makes website building easier. How do you choose? How many active installs? Does it have reputable developers? When was it last updated? What are the ratings? – need to take these with a grain of salt Is it compatible with the current release? Does it fit with exactly what you need it to do? Plugin Examples WP-Polls Auto Terms of Service and Privacy Policy – doesn’t support translations WPFront Scroll – scroll-to-top button Hummingbird – page speed optimization, gives you an optimization report WP Smush – image optimization, optimizes as you upload,…
WordPress US 2019 – Design Systems: Crafting For Crafters – Jon Quach
Jon Quach – https://jonquach.com/ Design Systems are important but can be complicated and hard to understand. What Are Design Systems? They are about process. They make up the interfaces and designs of a product. They help answer many design and development questions. What Are The Challenges of Design? There can be a breakdown of handoff between design and development. Things don’t always end up the way they were intended. No documentation. Nobody knows how developer created things. It’s not because people are bad at their jobs or don’t care. Lacking the understanding of how user interfaces and experience should work together. How Do You Create A Design System? You create a Design System to empower the team building the product. End users don’t care about…
WordCamp GR 2019 – Confidently Testing WordPress – Steve Grunwell
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 Test (SUT) The system we’re currently testing: A single method A class A whole feature WordPress Testing is Complicated Tightly-coupled system Difficult to test anything in true isolation Testing Toolbox PhpUnit – https://phpunit.de/ Structure Test Suite – Collection of test classes Test Class (class) – Collection of test methods Test Case (method) – A single scenario to be tested Assertions True or False Equality Verify Contents – contains, regular expression…






