Yoast SEO ("wpackagist-plugin/wordpress-seo")
- Create a new News article
- Select an SEO keyword (banana, car, anything)
- Enter the keyword in the Focus keyphrase field
- Save as Draft
- Keep an eye on the SEO score as you:
- Use the keyword in the title of the article
- Use the keyword as the beginning of the first paragraph
- Add outbound links (to Google, or cornell.edu)
- The plugin should register the SEO improvements and flag them with a green light
Download monitor
- Add a new download
- Add file > Upload file > Upload a PDF
- Assign at least a tag, and a category
- Assign a Google Analytics Label
- Publish the new download
- Embed the shortcode on a page / article
- Turn Google Tag Assistant's (Google browser extension) recording on
- Click on the download button
- Turn the recording off and check the the even has fired up
- In the download admin, check Redirect to file and check if the PDF opens in the browser
- Test the download on mobile
- Check that the download counter is working and reflects the number of times you've tested it
AMP
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/
On mobile:
- Navigate to a news article
- Append amp to the URL: https://alumni.cornell.edu/article/this-is-a-test/amp
- Check that the AMP format kicks in
An alternative would be to use the AMP Accelerated Mobile Page Reader, a Chrome extension.
Native PHP Sessions for WordPress
- Check for error messages (this is a Pantheon plugin)
WP Redis
- Check for error messages (this is a Pantheon plugin)
WPforms
- Create a simple contact form with email notification (to the submitter)
- Publish it
- Submit an entry
- Check that the entry is captured in the db
- Check that the email notification is sent
Events-calendar-pro (Alumni site only)
- Check that the events are displaying on the events page, as well as in the modules on homepage. (multi-dev db is different from prod, so the events are not exactly the same as live sites.)
solr-power (this is a Pantheon plugin)
- Redo the index on multi-dev (
terminus wp cornell-alumni.pr-214 -- solr index) - Try search using different keywords such as "csv", "reunion", "homecoming"
wp-saml-auth
- Check to see if you can log in using netid at pr-site/wp/wp-admin
oscarotero/env
vlucas/phpdotenv
- Both plugin are for getting environmental variables. Since SAML auth login uses $_env to connect to the db and check netid. All we need to do is checking to see if you can log in using netid at pr-site/wp/wp-admin
cmb2/cmb2
- Edit a test page in draft.
- Fill the "Fixed content" module or "Call to action" module and save.
- Check if custom fields and metaboxes are still working.
cmb2-attached-posts
- Check to see if post search is still working
wpackagist-plugin/post-type-archive-descriptions
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-archive-descriptions/
Enables an editable description to display on post type archive pages. Show the description with WordPress’s the_archive_description() function that also displays taxonomy term descriptions.
- Edit description for the Clubs or Groups Archive. Alumni Profile, Contacts, and Events also use this plugin.
- Check if everything looks right
wpackagist-plugin/public-post-preview
https://wordpress.org/plugins/public-post-preview
- To enable a public post preview check the box below the edit post box.
- The link will be displayed if the checkbox is checked, just copy and open the link in incognito.
- To disable a preview just uncheck the box.
wpackagist-plugin/stream
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stream/
- Check to see if Stream records user activities (log in, post, edit, log out)
maxmind-db/reader
https://packagist.org/packages/maxmind-db/reader
This is the PHP API for reading MaxMind DB files. MaxMind DB is a binary file format that stores data indexed by IP address subnets (IPv4 or IPv6).
wpackagist-plugin/wp-cfm
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cfm/
WP-CFM lets you copy database configuration to / from the filesystem. Easily deploy configuration changes without needing to copy the entire database. WP-CFM is similar to Drupal’s Features module.
- Check to see if WP-CFM admin interface still displays in settings
