11 July 2024

Make some pages for Visual Regression Testing only in Drupal

When you do visual regression testing, it can be a great idea to have some dedicated pages with all the different elements of your site combined. So instead of running screenshots of many pages on your site, you could do just a few and cover all the UI. These are also sometimes called style guides.

On the other hand, you do not want your site visitors to accidentally open these pages and be surprised by what they are for.

One of the approaches to hide these pages could be setting up access rules to only allow certain IP addresses (like Diffy's IP address) to access those pages.

Here is a code snippet that can do that for your regular nodes.

Code snipped was provided by Felix Eve

Also, make sure to exclude this page from your sitemap.xml as Google won't be happy to index the page it doesn't have access to (as advised by Kevin Reynen

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