Hi, I’m Jermayne

WordPress E2E & Unit Testing

About the Project

This project is a work in progress, exploring how to set up a testing environment for WordPress.

My Project Goals

• Create end-to-end tests using Playwright to test the front end interface.
• Use PHPUnit to create unit and integration tests for the WordPress backend.
• I want to connect all of these tests to Jenkins or Github Actions to create a full CI/CD pipeline.

Technical Highlights

This project is about building a robust testing environment for WordPress, a practice I’ve seen widely used in other software companies but rarely on WordPress sites. On the front end, I’m using Playwright to build automated end-to-end tests that ensure the interface works as expected. On the back end, I’m using PHPUnit to create unit and integration tests that verify WordPress core functionality and any custom code.

I currently use GitHub Actions for automated deployments, and I’m working on connecting all of these tests to Jenkins or GitHub Actions to create a full CI/CD pipeline that handles both testing and deployment. The goal is to provide full-stack coverage and a scalable workflow that can grow with the project and be reused for future WordPress applications.

Build & Price

About the Project

Build & Price is a custom WordPress lead generation plugin built for a residential home builder. It gives homebuyers a fully interactive experience to configure their home model, see real-time pricing, and submit a lead all from a single, seamlessly integrated tool.

The tool has three main features:

• Model filters that can be added to community pages to list all of the models in the community.
• A model customizer that allows a user to customize their home model.
• A Summary that populates a page based on a JWT generated when submitting a lead form on the model builder.

Key Features

• Floorplan customization with dynamic option selection
• Real-time pricing that updates as users build
• CRM integration for automatic lead capture
• Custom CSV data pipeline for bulk inventory management
• JWT-based summary pages tied to submitted lead forms
• Model filter system deployable across multiple community pages

Technical Highlights

The most interesting architectural decision on this project was the data layer. Rather than a traditional database, we used WordPress custom post types to give the client a familiar, maintainable interface for managing home models. 

The challenge was ensuring a single model change could cascade across every model without manually updating dozens of posts, solved through a dual post type structure using a parent-child relationship, with one type serving as the source of truth and the other storing community-level overrides. 

On the data pipeline side, off-the-shelf CSV importers couldn’t handle the complexity of the ACF field mapping required, so we built a fully custom solution with additional transformation logic, which was the right architectural call for the long-term health of the project.

The customized home model is then encoded into a JWT token added to the clients CRM for email campaigns and used to generate a summary page to avoid bloat on the website.