Thorsten Frommen

Thorsten is a certified web development professional and tester. He is working in the web since 2000, and with (and on) WordPress since 2005. Thorsten has a computer science MS degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Since the first official German WordCamp in Hamburg in June 2014, Thorsten fell in love with both the WordPress community and WordCamps, in particular, where he likes to both gain and share knowledge. Thorsten is a big fan of Open Source, as well as an advocate of object-oriented design, and software testing.

Articles

  • Why you shouldn’t use a Super Admin account on WordPress
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    Why you shouldn’t use a Super Admin account on WordPress

    Within WordPress, site owners give control over different hierarchical permissions of users by using roles. For multisite configurations, the six available roles, in descending order of authority, are: Super Admin Administrator Editor Author Contributor Subscriber Now, if you’re a project leader or run an editorial team, it probably makes sense to want to take the…

  • A primer on acceptance testing

    Foreword Last week, I took the exam for the ISTQB® Acceptance Testing certification. This is a Foundation Level certification, specializing on acceptance testing, including all related activities. In this post now, I would like to share the, in my opinion, essential information included in the official learning material, plus one or two things I learned…

Case Studies

  • Stellar open source collaboration: NASA x Lone Rock Point x HM

    Stellar open source collaboration: NASA x Lone Rock Point x HM

    Home » Archives for Thorsten Frommen Home » Archives for Thorsten Frommen Case study Stellar open source collaboration: NASA x Lone Rock Point x HM NASA’s CMS replatforming offered the perfect opportunity for Lone Rock Point to harness Human Made’s open source technology Industry Government, Publishing Services Open Source, Plugin Humans John Blackbourn Rob O’Rourke…