Labs are hands-on coding projects that you build along with Tonya as she explains the code, concepts, and thought processes behind it. You can use the labs to further your code knowledge or to use right in your projects. Each lab ties into the Docx to ensure you have the information you need.
Each lab is designed to further your understanding and mastery of code. You learn more about how to think about its construction, quality, maintainability, programmatic and logical thought, and problem-solving. While you may be building a specific thing, Tonya presents the why of it to make it adaptable far beyond that specific implementation, thereby giving you the means to make it your own, in any context.
Like we did for the post type, let’s extract the runtime configuration parameters out of the FAQ Module and move them to the configuration file. You and I will walk through the process together, step-by-step and talk about the strategy of identifying these parameters, the extraction process, and then how to layout the configuration file.
Let’s test the registration code for a single custom post type. This test will ensure that our automatic supported features and label generations do work as we expect.
In the last episode, you extracted the FAQ’s custom post type runtime parameters out of the FAQ module. In this episode, I want to show you how PHP can load this file and then assign the returned array to a variable. This technique demonstrates the configuration architecture and design approach. After this episode, my goal is to help you visualize how we inject these parameters back into the code for use when a web page is requested by a viewer or user.
I think it will best to start with extracting the runtime configuration parameters out of the codebase and move those into a configuration file. Let’s walk through the process together, step-by-step and talking about the strategy of identifying these parameters, the extraction process, and then how to layout the configuration file.
Let’s do a little clean up before you commit these changes. Then let’s commit the final changes to your GitHub repository. What’s the whole point to the ModularConfig architecture? The point is to help you to build your projects faster. ModularConfig puts code to work for you to generate code for you. It abstracts away redundant code so that you have less code to build, test, and maintain. It saves you a ton of time! What happens when you remove the common tasks and redundant code? What happens? It takes less code to build your projects. If a bug happens, […]
In this episode, you and I are going to test all three shortcodes. Here is the test content we’ll use:
Let’s build the shortcode configuration “store” and then the API wrapper functions to work with the store. The store does two separate functions: Stores configuration by the shortcode name as the key Get the shortcode configuration out of the store by its name (key) We use a static variable to retain the array of stored configurations, as a static retains even after the function completes.
Next, let’s work on the registration handling within the Custom Module. This function needs to do the following: Loads the configuration file for the shortcode. Merge the configuration with the defaults. Add the shortcode and its callback. Store the configuration. In this episode, you and I will complete the registration code. Then we’ll register all three shortcodes from our Collapsible Content plugin.
Let’s start by building the beginning of our Shortcode boilerplate within the Custom Module. This boilerplate code will be responsible for: Registering the shortcode configuration from each of the modules, plugins, and/or theme within your project. Loading each configuration file into memory. Storing the configuration for the shortcode to access. Registering the shortcode and its callback with WordPress, i.e. add_shortcode and processing and rendering the shortcode’s HTML. Let’s walk through the thought process together step-by-step.
Let’s test out all of our new code and make sure everything works as intended. There will be a few typos and boo boos. You’ll see me think through when I’ve made a mistake and find the root cause.
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