The Importance of Modern Tooling & Automated Testing in WordPress Development with Josh Pollock

WordPress provides a powerful platform for creating low/no-code site builds, thanks to a strong ecosystem of plugins and themes. What creates WordPress' potential teams is code in the form of custom plugins, themes, integrations, and more. If you're writing custom code to extend your own site in new and interesting ways or building plugins and themes to distribute, not using modern developer tooling and automated testing can open up additional risks for you or your clients and drastically slow you down.

In this episode of PressThis, we interview Josh Pollock of Plugin Machine about his thoughts on why modern development tooling & automated testing are super important in WordPress development, some of his favorite developer tools, and how to approach automated testing with your WordPress development projects.

If you're looking to harden your current WordPress development approach or you're looking to expand your developer skillset, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!