Wordpresto

A testing framework for reliable, repeatable testing of wordpress plugins.

The problem with testing a wordpress plugin is that you need to install wordpress, a database, initialize and activate your plugin.

Any unit or integration tests ideally should run off the same test environment each time.

Wordpresto provides a Makefile that allows you to easily install the latest Wordpress installation, link it to your ~/Sites folder, or Apache folder.

It also isolates your MySQL database to run in a local db/mysql folder so you can run this wordpress installation completely independently of your main MySQL database.

Commands

make clean

Cleans the wordpress installation and wipes the MySQL database in db/mysql

make mysqlinit

Initializes a brand new blank MySQL database in db/mysql

make wordpressinit

Downloads the latest version of wordpress and install it, and a new database in ./wordpress

It will blow away the existing local MySQL instance in db/mysql as well as making a copy or "snapshot" of a fresh wordpress database instance and stores it away for quick restoration under db/mysql.snapshot.

make wordpressreset

Blows away the local MySQL database in db/mysql and replaces it with the snapshot copy in db/mysql.snapshot.

This would be the script that you run before running unit or integration tests to ensure you have a fresh wordpress install for running tests.

make wordpresssnapshot

Take the current data in the local db/mysql directory and back it up with a "snapshot" in db/mysql.snapshot.

This allows you to modify the live wordpress instance to be the way you want it prior to testing, and then you execute this command to save a snapshot.

You can then easily roll back to this snapshot by running make wordpressreset.

make mysqlup

Fire up a MySQL server to serve your wordpress data from db/mysql.

This will run on port 3308 by default (which is different from the default MySQL port). The .sock file will be stored in db/mysql/mysql.wordpress.sock by default too so it doesn't interfere with any other MySQL instances that you're running.

make mysqldown

Shuts down the local MySQL wordpress instance.

make plugininit

This will install the current directory as a plugin for the local ./wordpress Wordpress installation.

It will also activate the plugin.

make build

This will build the current plugin and exclude all the testing infrastructure files and build it out to the ./build folder.

Typical Usage

The main use case would be for plugin development.

1. Firstly fork the repository and clone it to a directory name that will be the name of your Wordpress Plugin.

2. Rename plugin.php to the name of your plugin.

3. Run make plugininit which will install a test installation of Wordpress and a test MySQL database, and links this plugin to the wordpress installation and install and activate your plugin, and link this folder to your Apache folder.

Make variables to override.

By default this script assumes that you're running OS X and that you want to install worpress in ~/Sites. To override these defaults, either edit the APACHE_PATH and WORDPRESS_URL to be the path where you want to symlink the ./wordpress to so you can access it through Apache, and the full wordpress URL of your testing wordpress installation.