Hosting Updateable WordPress Plugins on GitHub

Introduction If, like me, you enjoy writing custom plugins for WordPress, you may know the daunting feeling of managing the versions of your plugins across many websites. While you can use a PHP package manager like Composer for your plugins, this isn’t appropriate for most WordPress deployments. For most, using WordPress’ interface to install and […]

Testing Laravel & Livewire in Github Actions

The Issue We’re Resolving When running a Laravel test suite with Livewire components, the default workflow file provided by GitHub for Laravel likely won’t pass. When using their default config, I was presented with errors such as this: The test in question was simply checking if the component was rendered when a certain page was […]

Squashing Commits with Git Interactive Rebase and Reset

When working on projects both personally and professionally, I use Git for version control. More often than not, If I’m working on a fix or a new feature, I will work from a new branch which has a single, specific focus and then merge it into the main branch when the work is complete. This […]

Run NPM & Composer in Git Deployment Actions

What are Git additional deployment options in Plesk? Within Plesk, you can set up a website to pull its code directly from a Git repo. By using webhooks, you can have Plesk automatically pull new versions of the project whenever commits or merges are made to the main/target branch. This way, when you deploy your […]