Jesús Amieiro

Updating WordPress to the nightly version

Sometimes, it is useful to use the WordPress nightly version on your local environment, to avoid problems with your code in the near future.

Testing WordPress functions in the CLI

Sometimes you need to test some code, API functions,… in a WordPress plugin or theme without using anything else.

To do this, you can use the WP-CLI. Make sure you have installed it.

Running the GlotPress tests

GlotPress has some PHPUnit tests. In this post, I will go to explain how to run it in your local machine.

How to sign a Git commit

I think it is a good practice to sign your Git commits. In this post, the author explains why and how to sign your Git commits. An interesting reading.

Using the dump() and dd() debug helpers in WordPress

dump() and dd() are two useful debug helpers available in the Laravel framework.

Using e() or esc_html_() when translating on WordPress

In a talk at the WordCamp Spain online 2021 Adriá Cobo asked me one interesting question about these 2 functions (e() and esc_html_()):

If everything that is printed must be escaped, what is the point of _e()? Is it a legacy code?

In this post, I try to answer this question.

Documenting GlotPress with phpDocumentor

The current GlotPress API documentation (October 2021) was generated by ApiGen. Last commit was made on April 4th, 2016.

The last ApiGen commit was made on 23 Apr 2018, so I think this tool is deprecated. Furthermore, I was not able to use it with PHP 7.4 and GlotPress, so I look for another tool. The most PHP used tool is phpDocumentor. In this post I explain how to use it with GlotPress.

Install phpDocumentor globally on the machine, using the .phar tool.

cd ~/code/utils
mkdir phpDocumentor
cd phpDocumentor

Get the last .phar URL.

wget https://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor/releases/download/v3.1.2/phpDocumentor.phar

To run phpDocumentor, execute:

php phpDocumentor.phar run \ 
-d ~/code/wordpress/glotpress-env/glotpress.git \ 
-t ~/code/wordpress/glotpress-env/gp-docs \
--ignore "vendor/"

Where:

~/code/wordpress/glotpress-env/glotpress.git is the GlotPress folder.
~/code/wordpress/glotpress-env/gp-docs is the documentation folder.
vendor/ is the folder where Composer stores all the information. It is located in the root folder of the project.