WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1

This is post 5 of 8 in the series “Build a WooCommerce Extension” This series walks you through some of the beginner to intermediate skills you’ll need to build your first WooCommerce extension. Building Your First WooCommerce Extension Hooking into WooCommerce Actions How to Create a WooCommerce Widget Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1 Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2 WooCommerce Class Members Example: Create…

WordPress development tutorials

How to Generate a Post Excerpt Outside the Loop

When you work with WordPress, you become pretty familiar with using the WP_Post object or objects for custom post types. For example, while working with WooCommerce, products use the WC_Product post object (or the object for a class that inherits this, such as WC_Product_Variation). If you’re in the loop while working with posts or custom post types, get_the_excerpt() is a beautiful function, as it returns the excerpt if it’s set by the user, and automatically…

month in review

September in Review

We decided to start publishing a “month in review” last month, so here’s what happened with team SkyVerge in September 🙂 General updates Subscriptions 2.0 Released Fix Releases Social Login 1.6.0 WooCommerce Fulfillrite WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro Braintree Rewrite October To Dos General Updates We’re sponsoring another workshop hosted by BobWP along with Prospress! If you’re in the Seattle area, check out Building Your Membership Site with WooCommerce on October 8 — 9:30 am –…

New year

Four Years of WooCommerce

Congratulations to our friends at WooCommerce this week! In case you didn’t know, WooCommerce is just about 4 years old, with the first release on September 27, 2011. Since they wrote about WooCommerce turning 1 on September 24, we decided we could post this a bit early as well 🙂 First, we couldn’t be happier to be a part of the WooCommerce ecosystem, and it’s hard to believe four years have gone by. Our founders…

WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget

This is post 4 of 8 in the series “Build a WooCommerce Extension” This series walks you through some of the beginner to intermediate skills you’ll need to build your first WooCommerce extension. Building Your First WooCommerce Extension Hooking into WooCommerce Actions How to Create a WooCommerce Widget Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1 Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2 WooCommerce Class Members Example: Create…

WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

How to Create a WooCommerce Widget

This is post 3 of 8 in the series “Build a WooCommerce Extension” This series walks you through some of the beginner to intermediate skills you’ll need to build your first WooCommerce extension. Building Your First WooCommerce Extension Hooking into WooCommerce Actions How to Create a WooCommerce Widget Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1 Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2 WooCommerce Class Members Example: Create…

Next Evolution of the WooCommerce iOS App

Just over a year ago, we shipped a product we’d partnered with WooCommerce to build that we thought would be a great addition to the WooCommerce platform: the WooCommerce iOS app. Our goal was to build something that would let store owners keep a pulse on how their store was doing, and that this would evolve into a tool that would let WooCommerce shop owners manage some of their store on-the-go as development progressed. We…

month in review

August in Review

While we send out a weekly newsletter (which you should sign up for if you haven’t!), we thought that a monthly recap of changes, updates, and new releases would be a great addition for our blog. We’d like to cover some of what we were up to throughout August and what’s changed with our plugins to share them with you, along with a preview of next month. General updates Subscriptions 2.0 support Memberships v1.3 Product…

Pagely staging site

How to create a Pagely staging site (for the non-developer)

Chances are that you’ve heard of Pagely, as they were the first company to offer managed WordPress hosting. They’re one of two hosts we recommend, and we migrated all of our own sites to Pagely early this year. One feature that many eCommerce sites need as part of their managed hosting services are staging sites, as these help you test updates and debug issues so you don’t have to deactivate plugins or try out new…

Team

Welcome, Chase!

We want to give a SkyVerge welcome to Chase Wiseman, who has joined our team as a full-time WordPress Engineer! Chase helps us expand our fully remote team to 3 countries and 5 U.S. states. Chase is from Portland, Oregon (by way of Michigan), and has most recently been the lead developer for Simmer, a recipe publishing tool for WordPress. He’s been on board for a couple of weeks, and has hit the ground running,…