One of the most common questions I get about Restrict Content Pro is “how can I create a pricing page with a pricing table of my subscription options?“. There are numerous ways to do it and in this quick video tutorial I’m going to show you one of the simplest. We will use a free pricing…
One of the best ways to take your short codes to the next level and make them more developer friendly is to provide template files that can be copied to a theme folder and then modified to suit the needs of each individual user.
In the Basics of the Shortcode API, we briefly covered shortcode attributes and the shortcode_atts() function. Now it is time to dive deep into setting up attributes for shortcodes and learn a few tricks can that be exceptionally helpful when building shortcodes in your plugins or when modifying the shortcodes of other plugins.
Before we dive too far into the technical aspects of creating shortcodes in plugins, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the good ways that shortcodes can be used, and some of the scenarios where shortcodes should probably be avoided.
Shortcodes are one of the most ubiquitous features used throughout thousands upon thousands of plugins. If a plugin does anything more than very basic or specific tasks, it is likely that it uses one or more shortcodes as a means for the user to apply the functionality of the plugin to their site. Gallery plugins…
Now that we have gotten through setting up our unit tests and we know the difference between tests and assertions, it is time to begin writing our actual unit tests for our plugin.
There are two terms we use often when talking about unit tests: tests and assertions. It’s important to know the distinction between the two and to fully understand what each refers to.
In part one of this tutorial series we briefly looked at what unit tests are and we walked through a couple of simple examples to illustrate how we can use them to help ensure our code is working properly. Now it is time to actually setup our testing suite and run our first unit test.
Unit tests are a tool that developers use to test that code is performing properly. The idea behind them is to create a set of tests to determine if your code, given a known data set, gives the expected response.
WordPress provides a nice, simple API for loading scripts in plugins and themes. We use the wp_enqueue_script() and wp_register_script() to instruct WordPress to load the scripts we need, and it works exceptionally well. Sometimes, however, we don’t need to just load a script, but instead we need to detect if a specific script has been…
