Translating a WordPress Plugin on the Command Line Step by Step
The purpose of this article is to provide a quick and easy to follow step-by-step guide to extracting text strings from a WordPress plugin for translation from the command line….
WordPress Get DB Table Column Names
To get the column names for a MySQL database table in WordPress, use the following: global $wpdb; $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘posts’; foreach ( $wpdb->get_col( “DESC ” . $table_name, 0…
Guide to Migrating Your Plugin to WooCommerce 2.0
With the release of WooCommerce 2.0 becoming more imminent (well, maybe not quite imminent yet, but certainly drawing nearer), those of us with WooCommerce plugins need to start work on…
Tweaking the WooCommerce Order Admin: Searching For Custom Fields
The WooCommerce Order Admin allows you to search for orders by the following fields: order key billing first name billing last name billing company billing address 1 billing address 2…
Don’t Share Terms Between WordPress Taxonomies
By default WordPress will reuse terms with the same name and slug between different taxonomies (at least for now). For instance, if you add the term ‘red’ as a tag,…
WooCommerce Order Admin Calc Line Totals
Compatibility Notice: The following article and code applies to pre-WooCommerce 2.1 only. It is not compatible with WooCommerce 2.1+ As of version 1.6.5.2 at least, WooCommerce does not provide a…
Hide WooCommerce "Free" Price Label
A common WooCommerce question lately has been how to hide the “Free” price label in the product/category/shop pages. Thanks to WooCommerce’s judicious use of filters/actions, this is very easy request,…
Extending the WordPress XML-RPC API
The purpose of this article is to describe the WordPress XML-RPC API, explain how to use it, and demonstrate how to extend it to create custom API methods for interacting…
Writing a Plugin That Can Be Localized by WPML
Writing a custom plugin that can be translated by WPML (WordPress Multilingual) using .mo files is actually quite simple once you figure out how to generate the .mo file. My…
Hide Certain WooCommerce Sub-Categories in Catalog
WooCommerce provides some coarse control over displaying sub categories in your shop/category pages with the “Show subcategories on category pages” and “Show subcategories on the shop page” options on the…