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Page builders and multilingual WordPress websites

WPML.org, the web home of the WordPress Multilingual Plugin runs this blog post about the upcoming support for WordPress page builders. Apart from the good news themselves, there are some insightful results of the survey that the team did, trying to understand who uses page builders and how. I found the stats on which page builder solutions people use the most interesting:

At work we are primarily using Divi (when we are not building our own themes), but we’ve also done a few sites with Enfold. I’ve also seen Avada in the wild. But I can’t tell you which ones are better, because when it comes to using page builders, I’m mostly not involved. These tools are so awesome these days that they can be easily used by a non-technical person. Which is exactly what we do ;)

Analyzing 2+ Million Travis Builds

TravisCI – a continuous integration service – shares some of the insights from over 2,000,000 builds they’ve run, in an blog post called “What We Learned about Continuous Integration from Analyzing 2+ Million Travis Builds“. For me, the most valuable bit is about the reasons for failing builds, which clearly indicates the need for and the importance of unit, integration, and UI tests:

Around 20% of all builds fail. There is a variation based on the language – for some programming languages, testing is part of the process and culture – for others it’s an acquired tool. Once you do implement testing, most of your builds will run. You’ll cancel very few. But about 20% will fail due to failed unit tests, configurations, or environment setups. Catching these 20% before it hits production is super important.

GitHub private repository contributions on your profile

GitHub blog says that from now on your profile can include the private repository contributions on your profile.

When enabled, these can make quite a difference in the number of the green boxes, showing your GitHub activity. Here’s an example from mine. Before enabling those, showing only Open Source contributions:

And here’s one after, including private repository contributions:

Indeed, it is a more accurate representation of my GitHub activity. Given that these days most of my private repository activity happens on BitBucket and not on GitHub, this is quite surprising.

Common files in PHP packages

Jordi Boggiano looks at some common files in PHP packages, using Packagist as a data source. There are some interesting metrics in there. For example:

58% of packages include a src/ directory and 5% a lib/ one. That’s surprisingly low to me, that means a lot have the code simply in the root folder.

4% have a bin/ directory, including some sort of CLI executables.

55% have a LICENSE file, that’s.. pretty disastrous but hopefully a lot of those that don’t at least indicate in the README and composer.json

49% have some file or directory indicating the presence of tests (phpunit.xml & co). I am not sure if this is good or bad news to be honest, that depends on your expectations.

Visualization of the European refugee crisis

The flow towards Europe project provides a vivid visualization of the refugee migration. It is an interactive map with breakdowns by country, and with a timeline covering the years 2012-2015.

Europe is experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Based on data from the United Nations, we clarify the scale of the crisis.