Without further ado, I present to you Version 5 of @lipemat/js-boilerplate. This is a brand new major version which focuses on clearing out previously existing pain points from version 4 and before. Version 5 is stable and ready for general use. Admin.js Support: Previously, if you wanted to add another entry-point to the app, it was possible by using a config override and specifying your entry there. We have found (especially since the implementation of Gutenberg) that within the … [Read more...]
WP-Unit Version 1.9.0
Over the past couple weeks we've actual had 3 releases of this library which bring us now to stable version 1.9.0. Together these releases have included a few new features as well as stability enhancements. Further streamlining of Ajax testing: Back in version 1.6.0 we introduced the ability to test custom ajax responses with a new helper method called _handleAjaxCustom. While this works great, it still requires the boilerplate of a try/catch block then using $this->_last_response. … [Read more...]
Introducing – Use Immer ReactN
If you have been part of the modern JavaScript community, it is likely you have run across a handy library called Immer. While I won't go too far into detail about what Immer does, the gist is it allows you to mutate immutable objects and pass the changed objects back as a new immutable one. This certainly comes in handy when dealing with React state which works almost exclusively with immutable objects and expects new ones to be passed for state updates. It is equally as likely you have run … [Read more...]
A Journey To One Million Downloads
This month OnPoint Plugins hit another milestone, 1,000,000 downloads! What an amazing journey this has been and continues to be. It all started with a small problem I was trying to solve with sidebar menus that spawned an entire WordPress plugin business. At the time, I simply needed something that did not exist so I built it. Giving it to the WordPress community seemed like the right thing to do because I was using many other community plugins and wanted to be a team player. But then … [Read more...]
Go Live Update URLS Version 5.2.0 = Bulletproof
Today marks the day when version 5.2.0 of Go Live Update URLSÂ was released into the wild! When the plugin was first written, the WordPress ecosystem included a few interesting variation of saving data but followed a fairly common pattern. Historically the main concern has been handling serialized data when doing database search and replacing. Handling serialized data was the sole purpose of this plugin's first version. Over the years, additional data patterns started showing up with new … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu Pro 3.0
Last summer while visiting a good friend mine in Minnesota, I took a hard look at my architecture and decided it was time to give it an overhaul. The biggest challenge was bringing my great processes and tools into the mix while still maintaining PHP 5.2 compatibility. When it comes to things like unit testing and code sniffing, the general consensus is, "Can't be done with PHP 5.2". I was not satisfied with that answer so I took a crack at it. After spending many many hours, I not only … [Read more...]