Custom WordPress plugin to hold the RECORDS-entity logic for the Pressody system (infrastructure-side).
Pressody Records is part of the Pressody (PD for short) infrastructure.
It is the part that manages the deployable code to WordPress sites. All the code that we account for (i.e. take responsibility for) should be managed and exposed through PD Records.
At a fundamental level, the WordPress instance that has this plugin active (let's call it the Pressody Records instance) is a private Composer repository. This means that in the same way Packagist.org or WPackagist.org provide a public Composer repository, we provide to our users private packages (of code) that Composer can install and update. Even if we deliver public packages from the public repositories, we will ingest them and expose them as Pressody packages for redundancy and control.
Needless to say that we have built Pressody with Composer at its core — Composer being the most used PHP package manager. Every entity and data-flow is structured to take advantage of the wonderful logic that Composer delivers when it comes to managing code.
Pressody Records focuses on two entities: PD Packages and PD Parts.
An PD Package is the most fundamental, low-level entity in the entire Pressody ecosystem. It is basically a regular Composer package managed by Pressody Records and made available to be included in PD Parts.
PD Packages are to remain internal to PD Records, not to be used directly by external entities. This way we remain free to manage PD Packages without wondering about unexpected, external side effects.
PD Packages can depend/require only other PD Packages.
An PD Part is the upper hierarchical level above PD Packages. This is the only entity that Pressody Records exposes externally to be used by other Pressody entities (like Pressody Retailer).
PD Parts group PD Packages into meaningful functional entities. While a PD Packages may not be able to be used as a standalone piece of functionality, a PD Part should deliver actual functionality while allowing for further composition into bigger PD Parts.
While the bulk of the code delivered by a PD Part will be provided by the required PD Packages (i.e. actual WordPress plugins, themes, etc.), the code specific to a PD Part should handle the integration of those PD Packages.
An PD Part must provide its own code in the form of a dedicated PD Part Plugin. Even if there is no integration to be made, an "empty" (skeleton) plugin must be attached to each PD Part release since PD Parts are not Composer metapackages. An easy way to generate such a PD Part Plugin will be provided.
All the (public) PD Parts managed by Pressody Records are available to be included in PD Solutions by the Pressody Retailer instance. Only by being part of a PD Solution that a PD Part can become part of an actual site.
Contributions are more than welcomed! In any shape or form: open up Github issues, give your input to existing issues, propose changes through pull requests, or send a though or two may way. Either way, you are welcomed!
To start developing, clone this repository (or a fork of it) into your WordPress' installation wp-content/plugins directory. Open a console in the newly cloned repository directory (wp-content/plugins/pressody-records/) and run:
composer install
npm install
After you've made your changes or additions, please open a pull-request and we'll work through it.
To run the PHPUnit tests, in the root directory of the plugin, run something like:
./vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite=Unit --colors=always
or
composer run tests
Bear in mind that there are simple unit tests (hence the --testsuite=Unit parameter) that are very fast to run, and there are integration tests (--testsuite=Integration) that need to load the entire WordPress codebase, recreate the db, etc. Choose which ones you want to run depending on what you are after.
You can run either the unit tests or the integration tests with the following commands:
composer run tests-unit
or
composer run tests-integration
Important: Before you can run the tests, you need to create a .env file in tests/phpunit/ with the necessary data. You can copy the already existing .env.example file. Further instructions are in the .env.example file.
This WordPress plugin took the wonderful work from SatisPress and adapted/expanded it to our specific needs.
Copyright (c) 2021, 2022 Vlad Olaru (vlad@thinkwritecode.com)