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What Is Faith Without Action? – James Day 2
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All Registered For The Next Journey
I’m officially registered for the GR Half Marathon. Looking forward to the journey and the community! What a great night for the Hope Water kick off! I’ll be doing the half marathon, which seems crazy, but my wife is my inspiration. I also can’t wait to be a part of the the amazing work God is doing with the Hope Water Team to provide clean water to people in Africa. So proud of my wife who is joining the team headed to Africa in a week to dedicate some of the wells the team helped to put in and serve the people.
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…WordCamp US 2019 – Code Like A Writer – Alex Ball
Writing Principles Punctuation Saves Lives Separate your metaphors separate your concerns making good comments Coding Principles Syntax Form – code formatting Spellcheck – code linting DRY – Don’t repeat yourself Redundant words just take up time Code is Poetry Being creative Clean and concise Doing as much as it can with as little as possible In Stories Someone Usually Dies in the End In AJAX function wp_die() at the end.
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…WordCamp US 2019 – Just Enough React for WordPress – Shannon Smith
New Block Editor Discover the Possibilities Block templates Blocks instead of custom fields, shortcodes, etc How Does the New Block Editor Work? Uses React, JavaScript/JSX Blocks are like plugins There is a Core Layer & Editorial Layer React abstraction is built-in Cool Stuff Blocks can be reusable Backend Workflow-only blocks Block level locking – you can remove blocks that are not needed. React Uses JSON literals It’s in the HTML but doesn’t negatively affect the HTML Templates You can create block templates Can be assigned to existing post types You can have nested templates Compatibility Shortcodes Will continue to work as before but contained within a block Custom Post Types Metaboxes Can be converted to blocks Can be used in the block editor Themes You…




