…t you might be interested in! We’re also starting a new page full of our recommendations for news, hosting, and other products or services. Have something you’d like to see? Ping us via our contact page to let us know. We hope we caught everything when we migrated our changes over to our live site, but if you find anything that’s broken, we’d appreciate it if you drop us a line in the comments. 🙂 Let us know what you think of the changes, and enjo…
…ge plugin improvements (like a nicer library in this case), so we highly recommend merchants look to update PHP if you’re on something older than PHP 5.6. You can check your PHP version under WooCommerce > System Status. Aside from plugin internals like libraries and PHP versions, we’ve also made structural and merchant-facing improvements. First, in order to improve the voucher creation experience, we’ve renamed a “voucher” to a “voucher template…
…d certificate. Let’s take WooCommerce as an example. Their main site is WooCommerce.com. However, they also have a support site (support.woocommerce.com) and documentation site (docs.woocommerce.com), which are subdomains of their primary domain name. If you purchase a regular SSL certificate, you’ll have to protect each of these domains with a separate SSL cert. If you purchase a Wildcard certificate, you can protect your primary domain along wit…
…te a new script. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see the webhook URL. Copy this and then log into your Heroku account and go to the deploy hooks add-on. Enter the webhook URL and hit save. Copy in this code for your script: This script does a few things. First, you can enter multiple URLs that accept Heroku’s deploy hook without any changes. The format is a simple application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST with few parameters. The most important…
…-documents.php’, we need to put a “single-product” folder inside of the WooCommerce folder, then we can copy the template file into this. The path to this template file should now look like: childtheme/woocommerce/single-product/product-documents.php Once I’ve copied this file in, I can make the changes needed to my template. For example, I can add text above the Documents accordion by inserting this line of text: <h3><?php echo ‘<span style=”colo…
…e icons for your custom order statuses, so feel free to use them in any WooCommerce store. WooCommerce Custom Order Statuses First, you can easily add your own order statuses to your WooCommerce shop with a tiny bit of code. We’ve written a tutorial on creating WooCommerce custom order statuses at SellwithWP.com if you’d like to add one of your own. That example adds “Building” and “Awaiting shipment” order statuses, so let’s use these in our test…
…m the admin in System > Tools > Compilation, click ‘Disable’. Or, from the command line: $ php compiler.php disable No Cache – Disable caching, if enabled, from the admin in System > Cache Management: select all, action: disable. Protection – Next, we need to protect the site from being requested from any random visitor, as the first page request after upgrading will trigger any database updates, which can be time consuming, and must be allowed to…
…is a general overview of some things to look out for when upgrading to WooCommerce 2.1 to make the transition from WooCommerce 2.0 as smooth as possible. There are a couple of known issues that are being updated already, so keep an eye out for Version 2.1.1 in the next couple of days if this guide doesn’t address an issue you’re experiencing. (Update: This has now been released.) Preparing to Upgrade First, you should always back up your site bef…
…ockie, and Claudio Sanches, all of whom do really fantastic things with WooCommerce. After quickly becoming close to one another, https://twitter.com/WooConf/status/718117497782853632 we had a great chat about the future of WooCommerce, plugin development, and theme development 🙂 Following lunch, it was my turn to speak after Max and Justin gave it a go at last WooConf (though unlike Justin, I wasn’t brave enough to go on stage with the flu!). I c…
…mote_post was recommended. This is a fairly common practice and has thus become recommended for developers when integrating with an external API. The reasoning behind this was that doing the verification could cause issues with servers that are unable to validate the certificate or had improper cURL configurations. Why Use Verification When using remote requests, your site needs to connect to the external API you’re communicating with. For many ex…