Matt Schwartz
Founder & CEO
Matt founded Inspry in 2011 and has spent over 15 years building on WordPress. He started CheckView after one too many “the form was broken and nobody noticed” calls.
Posts by Matt Schwartz
How to Monitor WooCommerce Checkout: 5 Methods Compared
To monitor WooCommerce checkout properly you need something that completes a real purchase on a schedule, not something that pings your homepage. There are five practical approaches: manual test orders, uptime monitoring, order-volume alerting, synthetic browser tests you write yourself, and automated checkout monitoring services. Each catches a different class of failure, and the most…
August 2026 Platform Updates
In May, we promised AI-built test flows. They’re now live in beta. We’ve also added full support for automated testing of Elementor Pro’s classic forms, expanded webhook data, improved login testing, and spent the summer eliminating false failures. Here’s what’s new in CheckView. Elementor Pro Form Testing Is Live We partnered directly with the Elementor…
May 2026 Platform Updates
Last month we shared a Coming Soon list. This month, we shipped all of it and then kept going. May was our biggest coverage release yet, CheckView now tests more of your forms (including with your AI of choice), gives you control over how integrations behave during tests, and runs more reliably across modern WordPress…
April 2026 Platform Updates
We’ve been especially busy since our last platform update. Nearly everything on our “Coming Soon” list has now shipped, including UX Audits (Beta), AI Failure Summaries, and our REST API. On top of that, we’ve rolled out major improvements to test reliability, security block detection, and abort controls. UX Audit Reports (Beta) Turn every website…
Join Me on the WP Legends Live Panel
I am excited to announce that will be joining an upcoming WP Legends live panel discussion: The Line Between Good and Great AgenciesLive on March 1110:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET / 3:00 PM GMT You can view the panel and register for free below:Register Our team at CheckView spend a lot of time…
Spring 2026 Updates
Since our last big update in October, we’ve shipped a number of features focused on smarter test execution, better integrations, and stronger security for your test data. Here’s what’s new. Auto-Retry Failed Tests Scheduled tests that fail can now automatically be retried before reporting a failure. This catches transient issues like WordPress brief network hiccups…
Pre-Launch QA for WordPress Sites
Launching a WordPress website is more than pushing a button and hoping for the best. Even well-built sites can ship with broken forms, incomplete flows, or subtle issues that only show up once real users start interacting with them. A structured quality assurance process before launch helps prevent avoidable problems, reduces post-launch fire drills, and…
How to Verify Form and Checkout Success in Automated Testing
Forms and checkouts are often the most valuable and vulnerable parts of a website. Whether you are capturing leads, registering users, or processing paid orders, a single silent failure can cost revenue and trust. Yet verifying whether a form or checkout actually succeeded is not always as simple as waiting for a confirmation message. WordPress…
Black Friday 2025 Deals Roundup Live
Black Friday 2025 is here, and as always, it’s shaping up to be one of the, biggest and busiest, shopping moments of the year for site owners, developers, agencies, and anyone running a digital business. To make things easier, we’ve curated a live, continuously updated roundup of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals…
CheckView Nominated for Monster’s Award 2025: Maintenance Plugins
We’re excited to share that CheckView has been officially nominated for Monster’s Award 2025, the largest community-driven WordPress award hosted by TemplateMonster. This annual event celebrates the top innovations, plugins, and platforms in the WordPress ecosystem, and being selected as a nominee is a true honor for our team. Monster’s Award is 100 percent community-powered….
Winter 2025 Platform Updates
As we get ready for the holidays, we’re rolling out several enhancements designed to make your automated testing faster. Forms in Popups or Modals You can now easily test forms that appear inside popups or modals. When creating a new test flow, click the “Form in Popup or Modal” checkbox and enter the class or…
WordPress Testing with CAPTCHA
CAPTCHAs are great at blocking spam and bots, but they’re equally good at breaking automated tests since automated tests also rely on bots (just good ones!). If you’re testing your own WordPress forms or WooCommerce checkout with an end-to-end testing tool, you’ve likely run into CAPTCHA challenges interrupting test runs. The good news? You don’t…
Fall 2025 Platform Updates
As the leaves fall this season, we’re excited to share some major updates we’ve rolled out to make your automated testing even easier, more flexible, and more powerful. Here’s what’s new: Monthly Testing Cadence We’ve heard your feedback, not every site may need daily or weekly testing. CheckView now lets you schedule automated tests to…
Why Automated Testing Has Become Non-Negotiable in Vibe Coding WordPress
Whether good or bad, as of late we have been witnessing a shift in how code gets written. The term “vibe coding” has gained traction: developers or non-devs prompt AI LLMs to generate code snippets, functions or even full WordPress plugins with minimal to no hands-on coding. The appeal is obvious: speed, convenience, and the…
Platform Update – Summer 2025
This summer’s CheckView update delivers one of two major behind-the-scenes upgrades we have in progress. While much of this work happens under the hood, the changes you’ll see will make your testing more reliable, more flexible, and more reflective of real-world user behavior. 🕵️♂️ Next-Generation Browser Bot for Improved Stealth and Compatibility We’ve rebuilt the…
Testing WooCommerce Checkout Manually
The checkout process is the single most critical part of your WooCommerce store. If customers can’t complete their purchase, it doesn’t matter how great your products are or how well you’ve designed your site, you’ll lose sales and, potentially, customer trust forever. That’s why regularly testing your WooCommerce checkout is essential. While automated testing solutions…
Why Don’t More WordPress Agencies and Plugin Developers Use E2E Testing?
In the relatively fast world of WordPress development, delivering reliable WordPress products is quite crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and trust. This is especially true for WordPress plugin developers who need to ensure their products are stable and functional and can be used across a variety of site setups and configurations with other third party…
How to Reliably Test Date Pickers in WordPress
Date pickers are a staple of modern websites, used for booking appointments, event registrations, product reservations, and more. But when it comes to automated end-to-end testing for WordPress sites, they’re one of the trickier form fields to get right. If you’ve ever written a test that passed today but failed tomorrow because of a date…
“Not Our Bug”: Why WordPress Site Owners Must Take Ownership of Their Own Site Reliability
If you’ve spent any time managing a WordPress website, especially one with eCommerce or lead generation, you’ve probably run into a situation that goes something like this: You wake up to find out checkout is broken. Or a contact form is throwing errors. Or users are stuck on a login loop. You trace the issue…
Platform Update – April & May 2025 Edition
Spring has brought a wave of powerful new features to CheckView! From smarter iframe handling and Stripe test mode enhancements to new white-label options and precise click control, we’ve focused these past two months on giving you deeper testing flexibility and better client-facing presentation. Here’s what’s new across the platform: ✅ Stripe Test Mode Support…
How to Test Date Pickers in WordPress (The Smart Way)
Date pickers are a core part of many WordPress forms, whether you’re letting users book appointments, schedule services, select delivery dates, or filter content by time. But despite their common use, date pickers are often tricky to test reliably, especially in automated workflows. If you’re managing a WooCommerce booking plugin, a custom form built with…
How to Check if Your WooCommerce Checkout Is Still Working
Your WooCommerce checkout is the final, and most critical, step in your customer journey. If it stops working, even for a few hours, you could be losing sales without even realizing it. Unfortunately, checkout issues often go unnoticed until customers start complaining or conversions drop. So how can you proactively make sure your WooCommerce checkout…
The 8 Best Ghost Inspector Alternatives for Automated Website Testing
If you’re looking for alternatives to Ghost Inspector for automated website testing, you’re likely searching for a tool that balances reliability, affordability, and ease of use. Ghost Inspector is a solid option, but its pricing, limitations in test customization specifically for WordPress sites, and integration requirements might lead some users to explore other choices. In…
Platform Update: February & March 2025 Edition
As we power into 2025, we’re excited to share a huge set of updates rolled out across February and March. From major form testing enhancements to UI improvements that save you time, we’ve been listening to your feedback and making CheckView smarter, faster, and more helpful. Let’s dive into what’s new and what’s coming next….
How to Bypass CAPTCHAs When Testing Forms in WordPress
CAPTCHAs are great for blocking spam, but they can also block your automated testing. Whether you’re running routine QA or using a platform like CheckView to test form submissions across multiple WordPress sites, CAPTCHAs like reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, or Turnstile can cause your tests to fail if not properly handled. In this post, we’ll cover how…
Why Automated Testing Matters for WordPress Sites (And How to Actually Get Started)
When most people think about testing websites, they picture a developer manually clicking through pages, hoping to catch something broken before it goes live. For WordPress, that approach might work—for a while. But as your site (or your client list) grows, manual testing becomes a bottleneck. Worse, it leaves plenty of room for error. That’s…
CheckView vs. Other Automated WordPress Testing Tools
If you’re testing WordPress or WooCommerce, you’ve likely come across tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Ghost Inspector. While these are great for general web testing, they aren’t designed for WordPress or WooCommerce-specific challenges like checkout flows, plugin conflicts, and complex forms. That’s where CheckView.io stands out. It’s built specifically for WordPress agencies, WooCommerce store…
Top 5 Reasons Your WordPress Forms Might Be Failing (And How to Fix Them)
WordPress forms are essential for generating sales leads, capturing customer questions and even processing online orders and payments via WooCommerce checkout. However, form failures can lead to frustrated users, missed opportunities, and detrimental loss of revenue in no time. Why WordPress Forms Fail Here are the top reasons your WordPress forms might be failing and…
Platform Update: January 2025 Edition
As we step into the new year, we’re thrilled to share the latest enhancements to CheckView! While the weather may be chilly, we’re turning up the heat with exciting new features and improvements inspired by your valuable feedback. Recent Updates What’s Coming Next? Here’s a sneak peek at the exciting features we’re working on for…
Unlocking Hidden WooCommerce Performance Tips
If you’re running a WooCommerce store, you probably know the basics of performance optimization, caching, image compression, and quality hosting. But once those are checked off, what’s next? There’s a hidden layer of WooCommerce performance tuning that many developers and store owners miss. And if you want to scale your store without slowdowns or sales…
Platform Updates: Black Friday Edition
The past few weeks have been a dynamic and productive period at CheckView! Despite the bustling demands of Black Friday, we’ve continued to deliver significant updates to make automated WordPress testing easier and robust for our users. Now that the Black Friday rush is behind us, our team is diving back in with renewed focus,…
For Agencies: Email Blast Template to Announce Automated Testing
Adding CheckView’s automated testing to your service offerings is a significant step forward for your agency. It showcases your commitment to proactive, high-quality WordPress maintenance and gives your clients peace of mind knowing their forms and checkout processes are continuously monitored. To help you share this exciting news with your clients, we’ve created a professional…
Why Automated Testing is Essential for WordPress Website Owners
Automated testing is a vital but often overlooked aspect of WordPress website management. With WordPress’s open-source flexibility and expansive plugin ecosystem, site owners can achieve robust, customized functionalities. However, this flexibility comes with a significant trade-off: vulnerability to third-party code conflicts and potential security risks. Unlike SaaS solutions, where a single provider controls updates and…
No Code End-to-End Testing: Protect Your Website from Unexpected Breaks
End-to-end testing (E2E testing) is a critical process that ensures your website performs reliably and maintains optimal functionality. Unlike unit or integration tests, end-to-end tests simulate real user scenarios, verifying that every aspect of your site, from front-end interactions to back-end processes, works as expected. This testing approach helps identify issues that can cause a…
CheckView vs Ghost Inspector for WordPress Testing
When it comes to automated testing for WordPress sites, choosing the right platform can make all the difference in efficiency, accuracy, and peace of mind. Two popular choices are CheckView and Ghost Inspector, but they serve different needs and offer distinct advantages. In this post, we’ll dive into the key differences between the two platforms…
What WordPress Can Learn from the 2024 CrowdStrike Incident
In 2024, CrowdStrike’s auto-update incident knocked 8.5 million devices offline globally, making headlines and causing massive chaos. Though WordPress sites weren’t directly impacted, there’s a crucial lesson for WordPress site owners and agencies alike: automated updates, while convenient, can be risky. Just as CrowdStrike’s faulty update grounded flights, disrupted online banking, and left healthcare systems…
Guide to WordPress Testing
A fluid user experience can make or break a business. For WordPress users, ensuring that their site is error-free, secure, and performs optimally is critical. This is where conducting a thorough WordPress test becomes indispensable. From checking functionality to ensuring compatibility across various devices and browsers, WordPress testing covers a broad spectrum of essential areas….
Automated WordPress Testing: Tools and Strategies to Succeed
By checking for errors, bugs, and performance issues, automated WordPress and WooCommerce testing ensures that websites function smoothly. This enhances site reliability and performance and also significantly reduces the time and effort required for manual testing. As a result, developers can focus more on creating features and improving user experience and website owners can breathe…
Adding Value to Your WordPress Maintenance Plans with Automated Testing
In the ever-evolving world of web development, WordPress remains a dominant platform due to its flexibility, user-friendliness, and robust features. However, maintaining WordPress client websites can be rather involved, especially as the number of clients grows. For agencies, providing top-notch maintenance and care plans is crucial not only for maintaining clients but also for generating…
Stripe Test Mode for WooCommerce Testing
When running an eCommerce store on WooCommerce, one of the most critical aspects to ensure smooth operation and customer satisfaction is the checkout process. A broken checkout not only leads to a poor customer experience, but can negatively impact your Woo store’s bottom line. The good news is that if you’re using Stripe as your…
3 Automated Testing Software Platforms for WooCommerce Stores
If you’re running a WooCommerce store, ensuring everything from cart functionality to checkout flow works seamlessly is critical to your revenue and customer experience. Yet, manually testing your store every time you make changes or apply updates is time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient. That’s where automated testing software comes in. Below, we break down three powerful…
Automated Testing in WordPress: A Comprehensive Approach for Optimal Performance
With WordPress powering over 40% of all websites globally, comprehensive testing of WordPress procedures is essential. Software updates, plugin conflicts, and other changes can easily break a site if not properly tested. Automated tests catch these problems before they impact end users. Automated testing utilizes code to simulate user interactions with a website. This allows…
How WordPress Troubleshooting Can Solve Common Problems
WordPress stands tall as the preferred platform for millions of users globally. Its user-friendly interface and extensive plugin ecosystem make it an excellent choice for creating diverse websites. However, like any technology, WordPress isn’t immune to occasional hiccups. That’s where WordPress troubleshooting comes into play, untangling the web of issues that may arise. In this…