Tips and Tricks for Testing WordPress Themes

Tips and Tricks for Testing WordPress Themes

WordPress has become a popular choice for publishing Blog site or Content Management System. There are various extensions available in delivering WordPress themes effectively. Whether the theme is free or premium, we often face tons of problems while publishing it.

The reason is to improper strategies in developing and testing for which most of the people are not aware. Theme can make your site appealing so if they don’t work properly then entire site will get to be pointless.

Testing should be a vital part of your website development process. By planning in advance, you can help deter some bugs by design and that helps you prevent others.

Here are a few tips and tricks for testing WordPress theme to achieve a bug free product.

This article is split into three distinct sections:

- Setting up - Development phase - Final testing SETTING UP WORDPRESS Using a network (WordPress Multisite) While not much different, developing for a network installation does present some differences in methodology (especially with plugins).

Custom table prefix Installing a custom table prefix helps in two ways. First, it ensures that you don’t hardcode database queries. Secondly, it gives you an additional layer of security.

Enable debugging information To make sure you don’t accidentally trigger notices, simply make sure that WP_DEBUG is set to true in wp-config.php.

Disable WordPress script concatenation A more obscure feature of WordPress is the option to disable script concatenation.

Advanced query analysis If you set the define('SAVEQUERIES', true); constant in wp-config.php, WordPress will save all of the queries performed into a variable.

Disable the trash Disable the trash by setting define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 0 ); in wpconfig.php.

THE RIGHT TOOLS LESS or Sass Code Kit.

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Browser Development Tools I hope these tips have been helpful to create a bug free WordPress theme while development process. I think everyone does a lot of little things we could all learn from.

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