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The Trouble with WordPress Frameworks
This isn’t an “always/never”-type article: frameworks have their strengths, and their place in the WordPress ecosystem. Our goal is to give you a chance to consider the strengths and liabilities of WordPress theme frameworks and other frameworks, and how you want to approach them in your own WordPress work.
Introducing the WordPress e2e Tests
The purpose of e2e (end to end) testing is to simulate the real user scenario and validate the different flows. In concrete, running an e2e test involves setting up a production-like environment, opening a browser and interacting with the application as it was a real user manipulating the interface. This is one of the best testing methodologies to avoid regressions.
Google Launches Effort to Make Robots Exclusion Protocol an Internet Standard, Open Sources Robots.txt Parser
Google is working together with Martijn Koster, the original author of the protocol, webmasters, and other search engines to create a proposal to submit to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for standardizing the REP.