Sometimes when developing a WooCommerce plugin you want to output a snippet of HTML, and do so in such a way that the content can be easily overridden by a theme. It’s part of the process of crafting a well-engineered, customizable plugin. The best way to achieve this is by using WooCommerce’s own templating mechanism, and what once took some effort and some filters is now a snap thanks to one of the recent WooCommerce…
Adding one of those nifty WordPress admin menu notification number bubbles to your custom menu/submenu is quite easy. Just append the following snippet to your menu/submenu name and you’re good to go:
I always prefer it when plugins make it as easy as possible to find their configuration page. When I install a new plugin the last thing I want to do is hunt around for some hidden menu item, I want to play around with my new toy! And what better place to link to a plugin’s configuration than right from the admin Plugins page where the plugin is activated, deactivated or (the horror!) deleted. These…
The following are some techniques I use nearly every day for debugging WordPress and WooCommerce, and can be used for plugin or theme development equally. Echoing or printing to the screen will only get you so far when debugging, especially in a complex framework like WordPress; to really understand the code flow, and to trace and fix issues, you need to be able to log messages to a file. For this WordPress makes use of…
Here’s a little snippet to add the order payment type to the WooCommerce Admin New Order email, in an upgrade-safe manner
Today marks the release of the WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers “Pro” plugin, the first of many practical and useful WooCommerce extensions to be released by Fox Run Software. If you don’t like the essentially random order numbers that WooCommerce uses, and you perhaps want to customize them a bit as well, then this plugin could be a good fit for you. The Pro version of the plugin builds upon the limited functionality of the free…
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…
Update: We no longer sell or support this extension for new customers, but we have open-sourced the code for the integration. Please read this post for more details! SkyVerge announces the release of the WooCommerce-Sage Connector plugin. This plugin allows you to easily export order and customer data from your WooCommerce storefront to your WebServices-enabled Sage ERP MAS 90/200 backend, for order processing. WooCommerce orders are assigned an MAS order number, and WooCommerce customer records…
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 –…
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…