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Rebuilding Our Jekyll Website with Next.js and Theme UI

Recently we redesigned and rebuilt our marketing site that was built in Jekyll and I thought it might be interesting to explain why we did it, as well as talk about the choices we made like using Next.js, React (JSX and MDX), CSS in JS, and Theme UI.

Brandon Weiss — 5 Apr 2021

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Browser & System Updates — July 2019

We’re in the process of rolling out a number of updates and improvements to Ghost Inspector’s test running system this month. Here’s a complete rundown of everything that is changing.

Justin Klemm — 10 Jul 2019

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Continuous Integration Testing for WordPress

While continuous integration is a common practice for most development teams, the stateful nature of WordPress makes it difficult, but not impossible, to setup. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to build a CI UI testing build with CircleCI and Ghost Inspector.

Jordan Kohl — 28 May 2019

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Automated UI Testing for WordPress

Many websites and even applications online are built on top of a CMS. According to recent survey data, WordPress has a 60% market share, making it the most popular CMS by far. The next closest competitor, Joomla, has only 5.2%! But unlike bespoke software, many people don’t test their WordPress website.

Jordan Kohl — 15 May 2019

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Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack and React

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build your own WordPress plugin using React, Webpack, and the Ghost Inspector API. Going back to server-side rendered markup with PHP feels like stepping out of a time machine. Fortunately, the modern frontend stack can be integrated with PHP fairly easily.

Jordan Kohl — 1 May 2019

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Ghost Inspector’s New WordPress Plugin

We just released the first version of our WordPress plugin that allows you to view Ghost Inspector test results in your WordPress.org admin dashboard. Keep reading to learn what it does and how it get it setup on your website.

Jordan Kohl — 11 Apr 2019

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Headless Browsers and Testing at Scale

The Ghost Inspector team got together for our annual company off-site in Austin, TX this year. We always plan our off-site around presenting at an industry-related event. This year we were thrilled to present to the Austin Automation Professionals Meetup on the topic of headless browsers and testing at scale.

Justin Klemm — 19 Mar 2019

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