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Fall 2025 Platform Updates
As the leaves fall this season, we’re excited to share some major updates we’ve rolled out to make your automated testing even easier, more flexible, and more powerful. Here’s what’s new: Monthly Testing Cadence We’ve heard your feedback, not every site may need daily or weekly testing. CheckView now lets you schedule automated tests to…
Why Automated Testing Has Become Non-Negotiable in Vibe Coding WordPress
Whether good or bad, as of late we have been witnessing a shift in how code gets written. The term “vibe coding” has gained traction: developers or non-devs prompt AI LLMs to generate code snippets, functions or even full WordPress plugins with minimal to no hands-on coding. The appeal is obvious: speed, convenience, and the…
How to Automatically Test Contact Form 7 Forms
Contact Form 7 is one of the longest-running form plugins in WordPress, and a big part of its appeal is how little it asks of you. You write the form in a simple tag syntax, set up the mail it sends, drop in a shortcode or block, and you are done. There is no entries…
Platform Update – Summer 2025
This summer’s CheckView update delivers one of two major behind-the-scenes upgrades we have in progress. While much of this work happens under the hood, the changes you’ll see will make your testing more reliable, more flexible, and more reflective of real-world user behavior. 🕵️♂️ Next-Generation Browser Bot for Improved Stealth and Compatibility We’ve rebuilt the…
Testing WooCommerce Checkout Manually
The checkout process is the single most critical part of your WooCommerce store. If customers can’t complete their purchase, it doesn’t matter how great your products are or how well you’ve designed your site, you’ll lose sales and, potentially, customer trust forever. That’s why regularly testing your WooCommerce checkout is essential. While automated testing solutions…
Why Don’t More WordPress Agencies and Plugin Developers Use E2E Testing?
In the relatively fast world of WordPress development, delivering reliable WordPress products is quite crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and trust. This is especially true for WordPress plugin developers who need to ensure their products are stable and functional and can be used across a variety of site setups and configurations with other third party…
How to Reliably Test Date Pickers in WordPress
Date pickers are a staple of modern websites, used for booking appointments, event registrations, product reservations, and more. But when it comes to automated end-to-end testing for WordPress sites, they’re one of the trickier form fields to get right. If you’ve ever written a test that passed today but failed tomorrow because of a date…
How to Automatically Test Gravity Forms
Plenty of sites run Gravity Forms less for the form builder than for what happens after someone presses Submit. Its add-on library turns an entry into a Mailchimp subscriber, a HubSpot contact, a Zapier trigger, a webhook call or a PDF, and each of those connections is a feed you set up once and then…
“Not Our Bug”: Why WordPress Site Owners Must Take Ownership of Their Own Site Reliability
If you’ve spent any time managing a WordPress website, especially one with eCommerce or lead generation, you’ve probably run into a situation that goes something like this: You wake up to find out checkout is broken. Or a contact form is throwing errors. Or users are stuck on a login loop. You trace the issue…
Platform Update – April & May 2025 Edition
Spring has brought a wave of powerful new features to CheckView! From smarter iframe handling and Stripe test mode enhancements to new white-label options and precise click control, we’ve focused these past two months on giving you deeper testing flexibility and better client-facing presentation. Here’s what’s new across the platform: ✅ Stripe Test Mode Support…
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