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New Year, New Goals: Happy 2015 & our Year in Review

…loyment processes, building a team culture, and all of the challenges that come with scaling your team and company. We’ve devoted a significant amount of time this year to outsourcing non-core activities like bookkeeping/payroll so that we could free up time to document and improve the way we build extensions. We’ve also built the internal structure to handle team-based development plans and schedules, communication (via Slack, Google Hangouts, an…

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News December 31, 2014
WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

WooCommerce Class Members Example: Create a WooCommerce Upsell Shortcode

…idget Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1 Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2 WooCommerce Class Members Example: Create a WooCommerce Upsell Shortcode How to Create a Simple WooCommerce Payment Gateway When building your first WooCommerce plugins, it’s a good idea to look at other extensions or WooCommerce core itself for ideas. You’ll notice that many of them take an OOP (object-oriented programming) approach. Rather than being comp…

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Tutorials WooCommerce Development March 23, 2016
WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

WooCommerce 1.4 SSL Admin Mixed Content Bug

…cent news posting, WooCommerce 1.4 while a great update to the excellent E-Commerce offering from WooCommerce, did include at least one very minor bug. This issue would apply only to those who serve their administration over SSL, which is most likely just me, and by now you can probably guess is the age-old mixed content issue. I first realized something was amiss when soon after updating my production server to the latest and greatest I saw the t…

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Engineering WooCommerce Development February 2, 2012
WP Development

WordPress Comments Feed 404 Fixed

…pecifically 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 there before you start blaming plugins and permalinks; as an experiment I installed a fresh Word…

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Engineering WordPress Development February 3, 2012

Exclude Your Traffic From Jetpack Site Stats

…me is that this filters logged-in user traffic indiscriminately and as an ECommerce site running WooCommerce I could have any number of visitors logged in as Customers, who’s traffic I most assuredly would want to track. What I really need is a way to exclude only my traffic, as the site’s Administrator. Also since I’m generally, though not always, logged in it would be nice to have a failsafe to always exclude page views from my computer regardle…

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Product Tips & How To April 22, 2012
WP Development

WordPress Settings API Hidden Field

…destruct.com/blog/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/ http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-complete-guide-to-the-wordpress-settings-api-part-1/ Luckily those two articles cover the basics of the Settings API so well that I won’t have to, and can focus on this one specific case. Adding a Hidden Field Again, the reason I even wanted to add a hidden field to a Settings page was because I wanted to display a number of checkboxes all within a single…

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Engineering WordPress Development April 22, 2012

SkyTrip 2018 Recap

…have an exceptionally long journey, or major time zone adjustments (those coming from Hawaii, South Africa, Estonia, and Taiwan), we offered them the opportunity to come out a few days early, stay in an Airbnb together, and adjust for a couple days prior to the retreat. This went really well, and resulted in a well-rested team for the retreat. Separate rooms As a team of predominantly introverts, it was really important to us to give team members…

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Company building May 29, 2018
New year

SkyVerge in 2018

…r team was fully responsible for first-level and escalated support (the WooCommerce.com marketplace was restructured late in 2017 to shift first-level support to 3rd party developers), which made looking back especially interesting. Plugin development By the numbers, we made huge strides this year. Our development team released 327 extension updates — that’s an average of 1.30 deploys per work day. If scotch is for shippers, we’re going to need so…

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Company building News January 2, 2019

How to Exclude Traffic From Google Analytics in Magento

…her way, I hope you find it useful: GitHub Repository Page: https://github.com/foxrunsoftware/GoogleAnalyticsExclude Magento Connect Page: Google Analytics Exclude Google Analytics Filters For completeness I decided that I had better also experiment with and outline the filter option of excluding from Google Analytics. There are two main drawbacks I can identify with this method: You still appear in the Real Time (Beta) view. Perhaps not the end o…

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Tips & How To Tutorials January 29, 2012
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