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I’m JuanMa, a Developer Relations Advocate at Automattic.
In this blog, I'll be sharing my insights and learnings in development, with a particular focus on WordPress development.
I write in both Spanish and English
If you’re building a React, Next.js, or Vue frontend that talks to WordPress as a backend, you’ve probably seen this before: That’s not WordPress being picky — it’s your browser…
A few days ago I started developing my own JWT authentication plugin for WordPress sites using my own approach and criteria for client-side workflows. The result has been jwt-auth-pro-wp-rest-api —…
For years, CodeRabbit has been a trusted tool for AI-assisted code review on GitHub. By integrating with your repository, it reviews Pull Requests (PRs), flags issues, and helps teams maintain…
If you’ve ever run composer install or composer update only to be greeted by: or had Composer suddenly stop and ask you for a GitHub OAuth token, you’re bumping into…
Automattic recently introduced Telex, an experimental tool that blends AI with the WordPress editor to unlock new ways of building. If you haven’t seen it yet, Telex is all about…
When I was debugging WordPress integration tests with Xdebug, I ran into something that really confused me. I used the WordPress test factory to create an administrator user: I paused…
I’ve been focused on understanding deeply how unit tests work in WordPress for PHP code. One of the things that don’t come out of the box is direct access from…
When we talk about adding “tests for a WordPress plugin”, we can talk about two different kind of tests: In this article, I go step-by-step through setting up robust testing…
This article is focused on the practical implementation of WordPress plugin testing. With WP-CLI we can generate a production-ready plugin structure that include comprehensive testing infrastructure from the start. We’ll…
When setting up a local WordPress development environment, most developers (including me) reach for modern tools like wp-env or WordPress Studio. These tools are excellent choices — they’re fast, reliable,…
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