AutoQA vs Code Engine – PHP Snippets, AI Functions & Automation for WordPress

Ver 0.9.8.3 Beta AutoQA Automate the testing of your WordPress sites and plugins without the need for coding. AutoQA is a simple automation plugin designed to improve your regression testing process, reducing testing time by up to 70%. It comes equipped with a variety of useful testing steps and a WordPress-specific test runner, ensuring seamless integration and efficient performance within your WordPress environment. Website | Documentation Key Features Flows Each flow acts as a customizable test case, allowing users to simulate and verify various processes within their application. A flow consists of a series of steps, which represent specific actions or interactions. Whether it’s a simple user journey or a complex workflow, this feature enables detailed testing by breaking down tasks into manageable steps, ensuring that every aspect of your process works seamlessly from start to finish. Steps The Steps feature in the Flow plugin is designed to automate user actions, emulating how a real user would interact with your website or WordPress application. Each step represents a specific action, such as clicking a button, filling out a form, or navigating through pages. These steps are built within a Flow, where they combine to form a comprehensive test case. By using Steps, you can easily automate repetitive user interactions, allowing the plugin to test your site or app seamlessly. This saves you time and ensures that all key functionalities are thoroughly verified without manual intervention. With Steps, you can ensure a smoother, error-free experience for your users, all while simplifying your testing process. Runners Designed to efficiently handle and execute each step of your flow in sequence. It ensures that all steps are processed systematically, checking whether each step passes or fails based on predefined criteria. The Runner automatically records the results, including pass/fail status, directly into the database for easy tracking and review. This feature simplifies the management of test cases, making it easier to monitor progress and identify issues at any step in the process. Steps Start – This step initiates the test by directing the browser or test framework to navigate to a specific URL provided by the user. Input Click – Simulates a user clicking on an element (e.g., a button or a link) on the web page. Hover – Simulates a user hovering their mouse over a particular element on the webpage. Manual Input – Provides an opportunity for the user to input values or perform actions manually during the test run. Set Text – Automatically fills in a text field or text area with specified input. Set Select – Simulates selecting an option from a dropdown or selection field. Send Keys – Simulates the sending keys to field. Drag and Drop – Simulates the drag and drop event. Empty Field – Empty the text field. Scroll – Emulates the action of scrolling through a page or a specific element. Reload – Simulates refreshing or reloading the current web page. Upload File Upload Image – Generates test image and simulate the upload event. Upload PDF – Generates test PDF and simulate the upload event. Check Check Page Title – Verifies that the title of the current webpage matches the expected value. Check Text – Verifies that specific text is present within a non-input field element, such as a div, span, or p. Check Value – Validates the value of form field elements like input, textarea, or select. Check Attribute – Validates that a specific attribute of an element has the expected value. Check Element Count – Verifies the number of occurrences of certain elements (e.g., li, div, option) on the page matches the expected count. Check Visibility – Checks if a specified element is visible or hidden on the page. Check Data – Validates data stored in the browser’s local or session storage, using a user-assigned name and value. Delay Delay – Pauses the execution of the test for a specified amount of time (in seconds). Wait To – Pauses the test execution until a specific element performs a certain action (e.g., becomes visible, clickable, or contains text). Data Element Data – Stores the value or attribute of an element into a data variable for later use. Store Data – Allows users to store dynamic data into a variable, which can include system-generated values like date and timestamp, or data extracted from elements. WordPress Check Meta – This step verifies specific metadata associated with a WordPress post, page, or custom post type. Users can define which meta keys and values to check, ensuring that expected metadata is present and correct. Check Transient – This step inspects WordPress transients, which are temporary, cached data stored in the database. It checks if a specified transient exists and whether it holds the correct data, helping ensure that temporary data caching behaves as expected. Check Scheduler – This step reviews scheduled tasks (cron jobs) in WordPress to confirm their existence Check Post – This step validates specific details of a WordPress post, such as its title, content, status, or other attributes. It ensures that a particular post or custom post type is published, draft, or set up with the correct data as expected.

Code Engine is a snippets manager that doesn’t stop at snippets. Yes, it runs your PHP and JavaScript exactly where and when you want: frontend, backend, on a schedule, or inside your content. But its real magic is what happens after you write a function: the same little piece of code instantly becomes a tool your AI chatbots can call, a step you can drag into a visual workflow, and an endpoint the outside world can trigger. One function, three superpowers. Most “code snippets” plugins stop at a textarea and a toggle. Code Engine treats your functions as first-class building blocks for the whole Meow Apps ecosystem, and for anything that can speak REST. Think out of the box, let your creativity flow, because the possibilities really are endless! ✨ For more, check the official website and come say hi on the Discord. Quick Intro Hello! ☀️ I built Code Engine because I was tired of pasting mystery snippets into functions.php and praying. I wanted a place where small bits of code are organized, safe, AI-assisted, and reusable everywhere. Here’s the idea. You write a function (or let the AI write it for you from a plain-English description). That function immediately shows up in three places: AI Engine: your chatbots and MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code) can call it as a tool, with real arguments. Ask “how many orders shipped today?” and your chatbot runs your function to answer. Workflow Engine: your function appears in the step picker as its very own block. Drag it onto the canvas, wire it between an AI step and a Slack step, done. No glue code. REST / External tools: give it a secure endpoint and a token, then trigger it from Make.com, n8n, Zapier, a cron job, or a webhook. You never wrote an “integration.” You just wrote a function. Code Engine did the rest. 🤝 Core Modules 🧩 Snippets Manager Backend, Frontend, Persistent, Scheduled, Functions, and in-content (PHP/JS) snippets, all in one clean dashboard with tags, search, scope filters, and priorities. 🪄 AI-Assisted Coding Describe what you want in plain English and let AI Engine write the snippet: code, name, arguments, and scope included. Refine existing code or implement it straight from your comments. 🤖 Functions as AI Tools Every Function snippet becomes a function-calling tool and an MCP tool, so your AI Engine chatbots (and external AI agents) can actually do things on your site, not just talk. 🔀 Functions as Workflow Steps Workflow Engine surfaces each of your functions as its own draggable step. Your custom logic becomes a first-class citizen on the automation canvas. 🌐 External Access (REST) Expose any runnable snippet through a secured REST endpoint with a bearer token. Perfect for Make.com, n8n, webhooks, and scheduled external jobs. 🛡️ Safe Mode A snippet that throws a fatal error is automatically caught and disabled before it can take your site down. Code with confidence. ⏰ Scheduling Run a snippet daily at a chosen time via WP-Cron (reports, cleanups, syncs) without touching the server crontab. 🧱 Code Blocks & Shortcodes (Pro) Drop PHP or JS straight into a post or page with a Gutenberg block or the [code-engine] shortcode, with safety guards. 🧩 Snippets, the way they should be Code Engine organizes your code by scope, so each snippet runs exactly where it belongs: Persistent: runs everywhere (frontend and backend). Your everyday “add this to functions.php” code, but managed. Frontend: runs only on the public site. Backend: runs only in the admin. Function: a named, callable function with typed arguments and defaults. This is the reusable building block (see below). Scheduled: runs on a WP-Cron schedule, at the hour and minute you pick. Content (PHP / JS): runs inside a specific post or page, via a Gutenberg Code Block or the [code-engine] shortcode (Pro). Everything is searchable, taggable, sortable by priority, and importable/exportable. The CodeMirror editor gives you proper syntax highlighting and keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+S to save, Cmd+Enter to run). A nikic/php-parser pass validates your PHP before it ever runs. 🪄 Let AI write it for you Don’t feel like writing the boilerplate? Describe the snippet in plain language and Code Engine, powered by AI Engine, generates the whole thing: the code, a sensible name, a description, the right scope, and, for functions, the argument list with names, types, and defaults. Already have code? Ask the AI to modify it from a prompt, or write a few comments describing what you want and let it fill in the implementation. It’s pair programming, right inside your dashboard. ✨ The big idea: write once, use everywhere This is what makes Code Engine different. A Function snippet is not just code you call from other code. It’s a reusable capability that the rest of your stack can plug into. The moment you save it, the same function is available in three places at once: 1. As an AI tool, for chatbots and AI agents With AI Engine active, your functions are exposed through function calling and over MCP (Model Context Protocol). Your on-site chatbot can run them mid-conversation, and external AI agents (Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, OpenClaw) can call them too. Want a chatbot that checks stock, looks up a booking, or kicks off a process? Write the function; the chatbot gains the skill. 2. As a workflow step, for automation With Workflow Engine, every active function shows up in the Add-step picker as its own block, named after your snippet, with one input per argument. Drag it onto the canvas and wire it between other steps: an AI step that summarizes, your function that saves, a Social Engine step that posts. There’s also a generic “Execute snippet (by ID / by name)” step when you want to call one dynamically. You never write integration code; your function is the integration. 3. As a REST endpoint, for the outside world Give a snippet a custom endpoint name and a bearer token, and it’s instantly callable from anywhere: POST /wp-json/code-engine/v1/snippets-endpoint/your-endpoint Pass arguments as JSON in the body, secure it with a token, and trigger it from Make.com, n8n, Zapier, GitHub Actions, or a humble cron job. Automation without a middleware bill. 🛡️ Safe by default Running arbitrary code is powerful, so Code Engine takes safety seriously: Safe Mode catches fatal errors and auto-disables the offending snippet, so a typo never white-screens your site. REST whitelisting means global snippets only run on trusted REST routes by default, so you choose what to open up. Per-snippet tokens secure your external endpoints. Validation with a real PHP parser before code is saved. For developers who want fewer guardrails, there’s a “Bypass REST Security” option and filters (mwcode_rest_authorized, mwcode_rest_whitelist) to tailor exactly what’s allowed. Works beautifully with the Meow Apps family Code Engine is one engine in a connected set, each one useful alone, magical together: AI Engine: chatbots, content generation, and MCP. Turns your functions into AI tools. Workflow Engine: visual automation. Turns your functions into draggable steps. SEO Engine: smart, lightweight AI SEO. Social Engine: schedule and automate social posts. Why Code Engine? Reusable, not throwaway Other snippet plugins give you a place to paste code. Code Engine gives you a place to build capabilities that your AI, your workflows, and your external tools can all use. Native to WordPress Clean, fast, and built the WordPress way. No clunky external dashboards, no bloat. AI-native Write snippets with AI, expose them to AI. The whole loop lives in your wp-admin. Developer friendly REST API, MCP tools, function calling, scheduling, import/export, and plenty of filters to hook into. Cared for Part of the Meow Apps family, with regular updates and a real human behind it. 💕