ekspresyon / buvisreg

Visual Regression plugin for BU WP site

BU WordPress Visual Regression assist plugin

This plugin is intended to facilitate gathering URLs from a specific WordPress site. The idea is geared towards visual regression testing. It is Initially developed with the use of BackstopJS in mind but can be adapted as it simply helps in the management of the URLs for testing.

Routes

In use

Get output of all post types URLs {yoursite address}/wp-json/visreg/v1/allposts

Admin page

The link to the admin page for this plugin is located under “Tools” in the dashboard menu

Usage

Flagging pages manually for custom selection

On any page, post, or custom post types, there is a check box on the sidebar to flag a specific page for URL testing. Check the box and hit update if you wish to include such post into the flagged selection.

URL Request

In admin page, select the type of post or content you wish to get the URLs from and hit “Generate list”. To use the list, hit “Export list” and the list of URLs will be available for download as a JSON file.

How it works

The plugin contains a set of custom API endpoints that helps with sending request via the wp-json option built into WordPress. For more information on wp-json visit the WordPress developer codex.

Working features

• Copy url request
• Quick filter
• Advanced filter with date filtering and post-type filtering (one post typa at a time)

Not working features

• Multiple post-type filtering
• Flagged filtering
• Randomized selection filtering