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 wp-

config.php.

THE RIGHT TOOLS

LESS or Sass

Code Kit.

Snippets

Thumbnail Regeneration

User Switching

“Template Hierarchy”

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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