Dhanendran's Blog

It's all about my technology & social adventures…

Page 3 of 6

WordPress Security Tips: Security Risks of WordPress xmlrpc.php and Why We Need to Disable It

While WordPress’s user-friendly interface and extensive plugin library make it a favorite among website owners, it’s crucial to be aware of potential security risks. One often overlooked vulnerability is the XML-RPC functionality, which is enabled by default in WordPress. In… Continue Reading →

WordPress Security Tips: Protecting Your Website from Vulnerabilities

Introduction WordPress is undoubtedly one of the most popular and user-friendly content management systems (CMS) available today. It powers millions of websites, from personal blogs to major media agencies and e-commerce stores. But its widespread use also makes it a… Continue Reading →

WordPress Hooks and the Class: A Powerful Combination for Extending Functionality

WordPress is renowned for its flexibility and extensibility, allowing developers to build websites that go beyond the basics. At the heart of this extensibility are WordPress hooks, which enable you to modify or extend the core functionality of WordPress. In… Continue Reading →

Streamlining Your Development Workflow: Automatic PR Creation in CircleCI

In the realm of modern software development, efficiency, and automation are paramount. Every moment saved on manual tasks is an opportunity gained for innovation and improvement. Enter CircleCI, a robust and versatile continuous integration and delivery platform. In this guide,… Continue Reading →

Unit testing WordPress plugin in isolation with WP_Mock

In Unit Testing, the word “Unit” actually denotes testing the code in small chunks, that is small units. So what does it mean? Testing each method in a class without any other dependencies. In the WordPress world, testing code without… Continue Reading →

Custom WP-CLI command and Unit testing with PHPUnit

WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress to interact, manage and maintain it. Writing some custom CLI commands are necessary when we manage a large customised website or a complex plugin. It’s obvious that we need to write PHPUnit tests… Continue Reading →

Unit Testing Custom WordPress REST API

In a real-world scenario, we have to write some custom REST API endpoints to satisfy our business requirements, as one shoe will not fit for all right? So how do we make sure that our custom REST API always works… Continue Reading →

An Introduction to unit testing WordPress plugin using PHPUnit

Doing a complete test of our code is very important whenever we make some code changes or release a new version to make sure new functionality doesn’t break the existing ones. Doing it all manually is the very hard part… Continue Reading →

TDD; The Right Way

Test Driven Development (TDD) the right way. It is a process or practice of writing software that proves and satisfies the requirements.

packet_write_wait: Connection to XXX : Broken pipe

When you are connected to the remote machine or server you tend to get this error. It will be very hard when we are importing large database into the server. There are few things we can do to speed up… Continue Reading →

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2026 Dhanendran's Blog — Powered by WordPress

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑