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About the test:

The PHP & WordPress Developer online test uses scenario-based MCQ questions to evaluate a candidate's ability to build responsive WordPress websites (blogs, e-commerce, static sites) and customize them by creating and installing custom themes, widgets and plugins. The code-tracing questions evaluate HTML/ CSS basics, JavaScript basics, PHP basics and understanding of the inner workings of WordPress for fixing and troubleshooting. The test has coding questions to evaluate hands-on programming knowledge.

Covered skills:

  • Installing WordPress on self-hosted servers
  • Navigate around the WordPress core
  • Converting Bootstrap templates to WordPress theme
  • Understanding of plugin and theme architecture
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9 reasons why
9 reasons why

Adaface PHP & WordPress Developer Online Test is the most accurate way to shortlist PHP Developers



Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The Adaface WordPress developer online test screens candidates for the typical skills hiring managers look for in WordPress developers:

  • Basics of HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript
  • Understanding of WordPress API
  • Easily create dynamic templates for Pages and Posts
  • Building custom dynamic multi-level menus and navigation bars that work seamlessly on any screen size
  • Efficient usage of post excerpts, categories and tags to maximize visitor experience
  • Designing common pages (contact form, about us, legal)
  • Creating custom menus and navigation systems for efficient internal site linking
  • Developing custom-designed widgets in Elementor
  • Integrating Gutenberg into WordPress themes
  • Leveraging the WordPress Customizer to edit websites visually
  • Managing user accounts and permissions
  • The ins and outs of the Template Hierarchy
  • Speeding up WordPress sites with caching plugins

Along with WordPress, the test evaluates candidates on PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS skills using MCQ questions and coding questions.

Reason #2

No trick questions

no trick questions

Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.

The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.

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Reason #3

Non-googleable questions

We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.

These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this PHP & WordPress Online Test will be non-googleable.

๐Ÿง Question

Medium

Custom WordPress Shortcode
Shortcodes
Solve
You're creating a custom WordPress shortcode that users can insert into their posts and pages to display a promotional banner. Your initial PHP code is as follows:
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A user inserts your shortcode into a post like this:
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However, when the user previews the post, the content inside the `[promo-banner]` shortcode isn't displayed. Instead, the user sees the shortcode itself.

What change can you make to fix this issue?
A: Replace `'promo-banner'` with `'[promo-banner]'` in the `add_shortcode` function.
B: Replace `'promo-banner'` with `'[promo-banner]'` in the shortcode inserted into the post.
C: Change the `promo_banner_shortcode` function to accept only one parameter.
D: Use `do_shortcode` function to process the `$content` inside the `promo_banner_shortcode` function.
E: Replace `$content` with `$atts['content']` in the `promo_banner_shortcode` function.

Medium

Iteration in WordPress Plugin
Asynchronous JavaScript
Solve
You're developing a WordPress plugin where you need to fetch comments for a list of posts from a WordPress database using AJAX. The JavaScript code is as follows:
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The processComments function processes the comments for other operations and is working as expected.

However, when running the code, you notice that the console logs for fetched comments don't appear in the order of the post IDs. Instead, the logs appear in a seemingly random order each time.

What change can you make to ensure the comments are fetched and processed in the order of the post IDs?
A: Use a traditional for loop instead of forEach.
B: Use setTimeout to delay the execution of fetchComments.
C: Use sort on postIDs before calling forEach.
D: Change forEach to map and use Promise.all.
E: Make processComments function asynchronous and await it in the forEach loop.

Medium

Responsive load
Optimization
Solve
Hereโ€™s the code snippet of interest from a client's WordPress code:
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You are reviewing the client's code and have to make recommendations to improve speed of the WordPress site. Which of these are good recommendations?
A: Cache the website to improve the site but need to move the responsive logic to CSS. The conditional logic might not be cached if the cache provider does not trigger the conditionals

B: Cache the website to improve the site. No need to move the responsive logic to CSS

C: jQuery is very commonly loaded on live sites multiple times due to poorly written plugins/themes. Ensure required JS files are enqueued only once and when they are needed

D: CSS in <head> file will affect the speed of the site since the entire CSS file has to be loaded before rendering the site. It is advised to load only the CSS that is mandatory in the <head> and move the rest of the CSS to the later portions of the HTML

Medium

Shortcode Development in WordPress
Shortcodes
WP_Query
Loop
Solve
You're developing a WordPress plugin that provides a shortcode to display the latest posts. The shortcode is [latest-posts count="3"], where the "count" attribute determines the number of latest posts to display. 

Your initial PHP code is as follows:
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You test the shortcode on a page and find that the page content following the shortcode doesn't display.

What change can you make to fix this issue?
A: Use `return $query->have_posts();` instead of `$query->the_post();`.
B: Use `wp_reset_query();` after the while loop.
C: Use `the_content();` after the while loop.
D: Use `wp_reset_postdata();` after the while loop.
E: Use `return $output;` before the while loop.

Medium

WP REST API
REST API
HTTP Requests
JSON Response
Solve
You're developing a custom WordPress plugin to fetch and display a list of posts using the WordPress REST API. Your initial JavaScript code is as follows:
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This code works fine when the website URL is `http://localhost/wordpress`. However, when you move your website to a different domain (for example, `http://example.com`), the list of posts doesn't display.

What change can you make to fix this issue?
A: Replace `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` with `http://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`.
B: Replace `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` with `http://localhost/wordpress/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`.
C: Use `wp_localize_script` to pass the website URL from PHP to JavaScript, and prepend it to `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`.
D: Use `admin_url('admin-ajax.php')` to replace `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`.
E: Use `site_url('/wp-json/wp/v2/posts')` to replace `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`.

Easy

Background Properties
Solve
Consider the following shorthand CSS example:

background: #f7f7f7 url(jolie.jpg) no-repeat scroll 0px 0px;

Which of the following show the individual background properties represented by the shorthand:
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Easy

Colorful sentences
Solve
Our intern is writing a colorful blog post, and has written the following code. What colors will the sentences be?
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A: Sentence 1 will be gray, Sentence 2 will be pink.
B: Both sentences will be gray.
C: Sentence 1 will be pink, Sentence 2 will be gray.
D: Both sentences will be pink.
E: The code does not make sense; will throw an error.

Easy

Links
Solve
In the following HTML, what will be the color of link with class "mark"
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Medium

Let's Hack
CSS Property
Solve
Consider the following HTML and CSS:
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Which additional CSS rule(s) will render the following image? Choose ALL that apply.
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A:
div{
  flex-direction : column;
  align-items : center;
}
B:
div{
  flex-direction : row;
  align-items: center;
}
C:
div{
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;
}
D:
div{
  flex-direction: row;
  justify-content: center;
}

Medium

Async Await Promises
Promises
Async-Await
Solve
What will the following code output?
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A: 24 after 5 seconds and after another 5 seconds, another 24
B: 24 followed by another 24 immediately
C: 24 immediately and another 24 after 5 seconds
D: After 5 seconds, 24 and 24
E: Undefined
F: NaN
G: None of these

Medium

Bitcoin prices
Axios
Promises
Solve
Review the following JavaScript code and pick the correct options: 
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Assume that the API returns a successful 200 response code and a JSON object as the response body. What would the value of โ€˜aโ€™ be after the code is executed?

Medium

My Module
Scope
Solve
What will the output of the following JavaScript code be?
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Medium

Promise Resolve
Promises
Async-Await
Solve
What does the following code output? 
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Easy

Throw, Try, Async
Promises
Async-Await
Solve
What does the following JS code output?
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Medium

Dynamic Function Calls
Arrays
Strings
Functions
Solve
Consider the following PHP pseudo code:
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The processArray function processes the $data array based on the transformation operations defined in the $operations array. The operations array dictates which transformation function to call for each sub-array key. What will be the output of the above code?
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Hard

Alter and Change
OOPs
Solve
What does the following code output?
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Hard

Exceptions
Exceptions
Solve
What does the following code output?
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Easy

PDO MySQL
Database Connections
Solve
Consider the following table data and PHP code. What is the result?
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Medium

Session Management and Object Serialization
Sessions
Serialization
Solve
Consider the following PHP script:
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Assuming you run the script twice in a row without clearing the session data, what will be the output on the second run?

Easy

Registration Queue
Logic
Queues
Solve
We want to register students for the next semester. All students have a receipt which shows the amount pending for the previous semester. A positive amount (or zero) represents that the student has paid extra fees, and a negative amount represents that they have pending fees to be paid. The students are in a queue for the registration. We want to arrange the students in a way such that the students who have a positive amount on the receipt get registered first as compared to the students who have a negative amount. We are given a queue in the form of an array containing the pending amount.
For example, if the initial queue is [20, 70, -40, 30, -10], then the final queue will be [20, 70, 30, -40, -10]. Note that the sequence of students should not be changed while arranging them unless required to meet the condition.
โš ๏ธโš ๏ธโš ๏ธ Note:
- The first line of the input is the length of the array. The second line contains all the elements of the array.
- The input is already parsed into an array of "strings" and passed to a function. You will need to convert string to integer/number type inside the function.
- You need to "print" the final result (not return it) to pass the test cases.

For the example discussed above, the input will be:
5
20 70 -40 30 -10

Your code needs to print the following to the standard output:
20 70 30 -40 -10

Medium

Visitors Count
Strings
Logic
Solve
A manager hires a staff member to keep a record of the number of men, women, and children visiting the museum daily. The staff will note W if any women visit, M for men, and C for children. You need to write code that takes the string that represents the visits and prints the count of men, woman and children. The sequencing should be in decreasing order. 
Example:

Input:
WWMMWWCCC

Expected Output: 
4W3C2M

Explanation: 
โ€˜Wโ€™ has the highest count, then โ€˜Cโ€™, then โ€˜Mโ€™. 
โš ๏ธโš ๏ธโš ๏ธ Note:
- The input is already parsed and passed to a function.
- You need to "print" the final result (not return it) to pass the test cases.
- If the input is- โ€œMMWโ€, then the expected output is "2M1W" since there is no โ€˜Cโ€™.
- If any of them have the same count, the output should follow this order - M, W, C.
๐Ÿง Question๐Ÿ”ง Skill

Medium

Custom WordPress Shortcode
Shortcodes
2 mins
WordPress
Solve

Medium

Iteration in WordPress Plugin
Asynchronous JavaScript
3 mins
WordPress
Solve

Medium

Responsive load
Optimization
3 mins
WordPress
Solve

Medium

Shortcode Development in WordPress
Shortcodes
WP_Query
Loop
2 mins
WordPress
Solve

Medium

WP REST API
REST API
HTTP Requests
JSON Response
2 mins
WordPress
Solve

Easy

Background Properties
2 mins
HTML/CSS
Solve

Easy

Colorful sentences
2 mins
HTML/CSS
Solve

Easy

Links
2 mins
HTML/CSS
Solve

Medium

Let's Hack
CSS Property
3 mins
HTML/CSS
Solve

Medium

Async Await Promises
Promises
Async-Await
2 mins
JavaScript
Solve

Medium

Bitcoin prices
Axios
Promises
2 mins
JavaScript
Solve

Medium

My Module
Scope
2 mins
JavaScript
Solve

Medium

Promise Resolve
Promises
Async-Await
2 mins
JavaScript
Solve

Easy

Throw, Try, Async
Promises
Async-Await
2 mins
JavaScript
Solve

Medium

Dynamic Function Calls
Arrays
Strings
Functions
2 mins
PHP
Solve

Hard

Alter and Change
OOPs
2 mins
PHP
Solve

Hard

Exceptions
Exceptions
2 mins
PHP
Solve

Easy

PDO MySQL
Database Connections
2 mins
PHP
Solve

Medium

Session Management and Object Serialization
Sessions
Serialization
2 mins
PHP
Solve

Easy

Registration Queue
Logic
Queues
30 mins
Coding
Solve

Medium

Visitors Count
Strings
Logic
30 mins
Coding
Solve
๐Ÿง Question๐Ÿ”ง Skill๐Ÿ’ช DifficultyโŒ› Time
Custom WordPress Shortcode
Shortcodes
WordPress
Medium2 mins
Solve
Iteration in WordPress Plugin
Asynchronous JavaScript
WordPress
Medium3 mins
Solve
Responsive load
Optimization
WordPress
Medium3 mins
Solve
Shortcode Development in WordPress
Shortcodes
WP_Query
Loop
WordPress
Medium2 mins
Solve
WP REST API
REST API
HTTP Requests
JSON Response
WordPress
Medium2 mins
Solve
Background Properties
HTML/CSS
Easy2 mins
Solve
Colorful sentences
HTML/CSS
Easy2 mins
Solve
Links
HTML/CSS
Easy2 mins
Solve
Let's Hack
CSS Property
HTML/CSS
Medium3 mins
Solve
Async Await Promises
Promises
Async-Await
JavaScript
Medium2 mins
Solve
Bitcoin prices
Axios
Promises
JavaScript
Medium2 mins
Solve
My Module
Scope
JavaScript
Medium2 mins
Solve
Promise Resolve
Promises
Async-Await
JavaScript
Medium2 mins
Solve
Throw, Try, Async
Promises
Async-Await
JavaScript
Easy2 mins
Solve
Dynamic Function Calls
Arrays
Strings
Functions
PHP
Medium2 mins
Solve
Alter and Change
OOPs
PHP
Hard2 mins
Solve
Exceptions
Exceptions
PHP
Hard2 mins
Solve
PDO MySQL
Database Connections
PHP
Easy2 mins
Solve
Session Management and Object Serialization
Sessions
Serialization
PHP
Medium2 mins
Solve
Registration Queue
Logic
Queues
Coding
Easy30 minsSolve
Visitors Count
Strings
Logic
Coding
Medium30 minsSolve
Reason #4

1200+ customers in 75 countries

customers in 75 countries
Brandon

With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!


Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito

Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment PHP & WordPress Online Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidateโ€™s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.

Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the PHP & WordPress Online Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.

Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.

API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.

invite candidates
Reason #7

Detailed scorecards & benchmarks

Reason #8

High completion rate

Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.

This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.

test completion rate
Reason #9

Advanced Proctoring


How is the test customized for Senior WordPress developers

The questions for Intermediate/ Experienced analysts are based on advanced topics (that will require a few years of experience building and managing WordPress sites):

  • Converting any static HTML & CSS websites into a custom WordPress theme
  • Building WordPress themes translatable into multiple languages
  • Understanding of Custom Post Types and Advanced Custom Fields
  • Knowledge of how incorrect use of post categories and tags can cause search engine problems
  • Usage of Media library to manage media (images, videos, audio and files)
  • Inner workings of WordPress for fixing and troubleshooting websites
  • Build and edit websites within staging and development environments
  • Migrate and transfer WordPress websites from staging to live and vice-versa
  • Experience with advanced JavaScript concepts (ES6, OOP)
  • Improving WordPress workflow using Babel and Webpack
  • Setting up WordPress website migration to move sites among different hosts and servers.
  • Vetting plugins for usability, reputation and longevity
  • Testing WordPress sites for speed and performance issues
  • Setting up email systems: transactional emails, marketing emails, bulk emails
  • Using WooCommerce to build e-commerce websites on WordPress
  • Creating multiple back-ups and restoring systems.
  • Improving website security through "https://" and SSL Certificates
  • Integrating WordPress with Paypal and Stripe with API to accept payments
  • Installing and using Google Analytics and Google Search Console

Along with WordPress, there will be medium/hard questions to evaluate advanced PHP, JavaScript concepts and harder coding questions.

What roles can I use the PHP & WordPress Online Test for?

  • PHP Developer
  • WordPress Developer
  • Senior WordPress Developer
  • Web Developer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • Web Designer
  • Web Application Developer

What topics are covered in the PHP & WordPress Developer Online Test?

PHP basics
HTML/ CSS basics
Javascript basics
Installing/ hosting WordPress
Pages vs Posts
Blogs
Static pages
Plugins
Themes
Template hierarchy
Media library
Internal site linking
Optimizing for SEO
Troubleshooting
Migration
Email systems
Security
Page speed
Bootstrap
Database queries
Customizer API
Shipping
Payments
Ecommerce
HTTPS with SSL certificates
Action and filter hooks
Singapore government logo

The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.


85%
reduction in screening time

FAQs

Can I evaluate PHP, JavaScript along with WordPress?

Yes. You can review our standard PHP Online Test and JavaScript Online Test to get a sense of what kind of questions will be used to evaluate PHP and JavaScript. The final customized test will have MCQ questions to evaluate PHP, JavaScript, WordPress and coding questions to evaluate hands-on PHP and JavaScript skills.

Can I evaluate SEO skills along with WordPress?

Yes. You can review our standard SEO Online Test to get a sense of what kind of questions will be used to evaluate SEO skills. The final customized test will have MCQ questions to evaluate WordPress and SEO questions.

How is the test customized for junior WordPress developers?

The difficulty level and topics of the questions will be customized for junior developers. The questions will be relatively easy and focus on basics of HTML, CSS, WordPress and PHP.

Can I combine multiple skills into one custom assessment?

Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify.

Do you have any anti-cheating or proctoring features in place?

We have the following anti-cheating features in place:

  • Non-googleable questions
  • IP proctoring
  • Web proctoring
  • Webcam proctoring
  • Plagiarism detection
  • Secure browser

Read more about the proctoring features.

How do I interpret test scores?

The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.

What experience level can I use this test for?

Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.

Does every candidate get the same questions?

Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.

I'm a candidate. Can I try a practice test?

No. Unfortunately, we do not support practice tests at the moment. However, you can use our sample questions for practice.

What is the cost of using this test?

You can check out our pricing plans.

Can I get a free trial?

Yes, you can sign up for free and preview this test.

I just moved to a paid plan. How can I request a custom assessment?

Here is a quick guide on how to request a custom assessment on Adaface.

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