Version 3.1.0 of WordPress Libs is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on improving the Actions functionality as well as various enhancements and bug fixes. Introduce add_looping_action on Actions class WordPress supports short circuiting various methods using filters to allow handling the process in an external way. Sometimes you need to call the original API to run your external process. Complications arise when the short circuit is part of original API as … [Read more...]
Making PHPUnit 7 tests work with PHP8
A few months ago a new major version of PHP was released which brought many code style and functionality enhancements. A very useful update toward making PHP strict typed and running more computational complex programs natively on PHP. If you are running automated tests on WordPress it's likely you are running some form of the WordPress core integration testing library which is locked down to PHPunit version 7. Over the past couple years WordPress core was aware of this upcoming limitation … [Read more...]
Taking Privacy Seriously
We spend hundreds of hours each year making sure our systems, customers' information, and customers' identities are protected. While we have always taken our users' privacy seriously, this quarter we decided to take things to a whole new level when it comes to protecting our plugin customers. Cookie Settings Previously we had our cookie policy written within our Privacy Policy. Now it lives on its own page and contains much more information about how we use cookies. We've also added a … [Read more...]
Js-Boilerplate Version 6.3
Version 6.3 of @lipemat/js-boilerplate is now available and ready for use. Over the past month or so there have been a couple minor version updates. This post will cover all changes since version 6.0.0. The main focus of this release was to reduce the reliance on core-js in favor of improved browser targeting and tools to verify which browsers are actually targetted. Reduce Reliance on Core-JS Core JS is a set of polyfills which add support to older browsers for modern code structures … [Read more...]
Mobile Menu Reimagined
As part of our continued quest to bring a one-of-a-kind mobile experience to our users, today we have released our completely redesigned mobile menu. For years we have had a typical accordion style menu for mobile devices, but we just weren't happy, so we came up with something quite a bit different. Footer Bar Viewing the site from a mobile device will automatically remove the header menu in favor of a fixed footer bar containing icons which bring you to the most used sections. We … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 8.3.0
Version 8.3.0 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. The purpose of this version was to add translation support for both French and Spanish languages. Expanding Supported Languages Although several languages have been available from wordpress.org for quite some time, until now the only languages supported internally within the plugin have been English and German. When I say "internally" I mean the complete language files ship with each version of … [Read more...]