InstaWP WordPress Testing Automation

This custom action automates your WordPress testing. Integrate it with your InstaWP account and get going within minutes.

Pre-req

• Register an account at instawp.com
• Create a site and upload your plugin/theme (download a zip from github and upload)
• Save the site as Template, give a unique slug
• Go to Deployment, enter the details of your WordPress plugin/theme repo.
• Go back to Templates, connect the git repo to the template.
• Paste this Yaml file into your repo as shown below.

Yaml File

Paste this code in your .github/workflows/instawp.yml file

name: InstaWP WordPress Testing

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  create-wp-for-testing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: instawp/wordpress-testing-automation@latest
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
          INSTAWP_TOKEN: ${{secrets.INSTAWP_TOKEN}}
          EXPIRY_HOURS: 24 //optional
          INSTAWP_TEMPLATE_SLUG: gutenademonew //instawp template slug
          REPO_ID: 123 //instawp repo ID
          ARTIFACT_URL: https://yoursite.com/url.zip //optional

• INSTAWP_TOKEN can be obtained from your "API Tokens" screen inside the InstaWP interface.
• INSTAWP_TEMPLATE_SLUG is shown on the "Templates" screen.
• REPO_ID is shown in the "Deployment" screen.
• EXPIRY_HOURS is the number of hours the site will be active.
• ARTIFACT_URL is the URL of the artifact to download. This is useful if you have a custom build process and generated a zip file, you can use this input to specify the URL of the zip file.

Changelog

• 1.0.2 - Updated to use the new InstaWP API v2 and updated the Node version to 16
• 1.0.1 - Added support for expiry hours
• 1.0.0 - Initial release