Add Payment Type to WooCommerce Admin Email
Here’s a little snippet to add the order payment type to the WooCommerce Admin New Order email, in an upgrade-safe manner
GitHub Repository Not Found Workaround
Today I encountered an issue with GitHub where I was unable to fetch a remote repository to merge into my local clone. Everything seemed to be configured correctly, and I am able to fetch repositories from the same user without a problem, so it seems like there is some issue with this particular repository. Although I have a support ticket open with GitHub to try and determine the root cause of the issue, for now…
How to Upgrade Magento
I’ve been meaning to write an article on safely upgrading Magento for some time now, and with the release of Magento CE version 1.7.0 yesterday, April 24, 2011, now seems like a great time. These steps and commands are the actual ones I follow to upgrade client Magento sites, and I perform these core upgrades from the command line only. Please read through and understand all the steps before starting to follow them. Backup –…
WordPress Settings API Hidden Field
This short article covers one way of creating hidden fields with the WordPress Settings API. This is useful for more than just creating hidden input fields; for instance I used it when I wanted to render a number of checkboxes in a single field, yet still have the checkbox options managed by the Settings API. The WordPress Settings API The WordPress Settings API is a great, if poorly documented addition to WordPress. The two best…
Import Remote Repository with EGit on Windows
Honestly sometimes I’m not sure why I continue to persist in using Eclipse as my editor of choice for most projects. Maybe it’s that I’ve been using it for so long now (7 years) and it’s gone the distance for me, though as with any long term relationship there are fights. Today was one of those fights, as I attempted to import a remote Git repository and create a project for it on a Windows…
Configure Magento Products by URL
Being able to link to a configurable product page with particular product options configured is clearly a valuable feature to have in an ecommerce platform. Both to satisfy one of the primary goals of ecommerce: reducing friction in the sales process (by having a product configured and ready for purchase for a visitor), and to meet requirements of services like Google Checkout by providing unique URLs to pre-configured products, are among the many reasons. Happily…
Add a WordPress Custom Bulk Action
Good news! There are now core APIs to do this as of WordPress 4.7. You can read more here. Like me you probably woke up this morning assuming that adding a new bulk action to WordPress would be as easy tracking down the correct filter or implementing the right action hook. If so, then you might have had a rude awakening when you attempted to make use of the promising-looking filter named bulk-actions-screenid and failed….
Magento/WordPress Development and Deployment
First off, this post owes a debt of gratitude to Ashley Schroder and Colin Mollenhour, without whom it would not exist. The goal of this article is to describe a development environment configuration that’s ideally suited for developing and deploying version controlled plugin/extension code, that is plugged in to a much larger system codebase. This is precisely the situation when developing extensions/override code for Magento, or plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce, and is a fairly…
Date Range Picker Similar to Google Analytics
I’ve always loved the calendar date range selector in Google Analytics, it’s extremely user-friendly for the task of selecting a range of dates; much more so than the typical dual input boxes with independent calendars. There are a few options out there for replicating the Google Analytics range picker, however I couldn’t seem to find any that offered the functionality, looks, and ease of use right out of the box. The closest I could find…
WordPress Comments Feed 404 Fixed
I logged in to Google Webmaster Tools today and was greeted with a new crawl error, specifically a 404 Not Found for the Comments Feed url https://www.skyverge.com/comments/feed/. I requested the page and sure enough, it was indeed a 404. A quick search turned up a number of threads and discussions regarding this issue, which seems to stem from having a new site without a single comment yet. How embarrassing. Now, let me stop you right…