Fused Software Developer Assessment

As part of our hiring process, we have created a list of questions and tasks that we’d like you to complete, in order to find out more about your skills, abilities and attention to detail.

The tasks all up won’t take longer than 30 minutes to complete.

We ask that you complete them all at once rather than starting and stopping.

Part 3: Your Approach & WP Quick Questions
1. Awesome - you’ve just been given a new WP theme project.
You’ve got a brief, a list of pages, a list of design files for those pages and a staging environment setup for the build. At a high level, list the steps you would go through to take this project from start to finish.
2. What is the $wpdb variable in WordPress? And how can you use it to improve the following code?
3. How would you change all the occurrences of “Hello” into “Good Morning” in post/page contents, when viewed before 11am? Please explain your steps and include the code you’d write to create this.
4. Assuming we have a file named “wp-content/plugins/hello-world.php” with the following content. What is this missing to be called a plugin and run properly?
5. What is a potential problem in the following snippet of code from a WordPress theme file named “footer.php”?
6. What are the benefits of defining global styles?
7. What is the most effective way to ensure that images are being loaded according to the viewport, rather than large images, when working with ACF? Please provide a code example.

Part 1: Frontend Bug Finding