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Choosing an SSL Certificate for WooCommerce Shops

…oocommerce.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 with any subdomains. As some store owners like to locate their store at shop.mysite.com instead of mysite.com/shop/, this can sometimes save…

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8 Lessons Learned by building the WooCommerce iPhone App

…y for, and what’s most important to them. We needed to validate our ideas before we invest tons of time and money into building them into an app. Does this affect the happiness with the app currently? Yep, but it’s a risk we need to take in order to improve the app and WooCommerce in the most efficient way possible. Otherwise, we could spend time adding tons of features that nobody actually cares about. The moral of this lesson is that getting peo…

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WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

Building Your First WooCommerce Extension

…’columns’] = apply_filters( ‘loop_shop_columns’, 4 ); This means that, by default, four columns of products are displayed: Default Shop Page Our tag, which we’ll use to add our function to this filter, is loop_shop_columns, and the value is 4. We can change that value within our own function. Create a function with a unique name — we typically prefix ours with ‘skyverge’ or ‘sv’. Then, we’ll need to “pass in” the value to our function so it can be…

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New year

Four Years of WooCommerce

…e after versions 2.0 and 2.1. The major features included: order statuses refactored (moved to custom post status) refunds from WooCommerce added The changes to order statuses allowed for automatic refunds in core, and the Simplify Commerce gateway was added in place of Mijireh to provide a core gateway aside from PayPal that supported Subscriptions and automatic refunds. The structural changes in version 2.2, however, continued to help make WooCo…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Order Status Manager Version 1.3

…atus to bulk actions or include it in reports. Besides being of semantic usefulness to admins or shop managers, marking order statuses as “Paid” will also produce a few effects for the end user, such as showing downloads (if enabled after purchase) and purchase notes to the customer. – Purchase notes require WooCommerce 2.5+ to be shown with paid statuses. Remember, WooCommerce 2.5 is coming soon in January 2016! Reassign Deleted Statuses What if…

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How to Print Invoices for WooCommerce Orders by Date Range

…plugin can add the ability to filter your posts by date range, and the benefit here is that you’ll also have these filtering controls added for WooCommerce orders. Once you install and activate that free plugin, you’ll see some a new filtering option dropdown that starts with “Show All Time”. This dropdown can allow you to select “Custom Date Range”, and when chosen, this will add the start and end dates for your order filtering. You can select t…

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SkyVerge WooCommerce Extensions

Add Member Area Links to the Sidebar with WooCommerce Memberships

…ps ) ) { echo ‘<p>Click on a membership to view your member content and benefits.</p>’; } } add_action( ‘sidebar_login_widget_logged_in_content_start’, ‘sv_wc_membership_sidebar_login_message’ ); Now I have two new components for active members: the widget text, and extra links to the member area for each membership. My non-members will still see the default widget links when logged in: However, my members have their member area links and welcome…

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Disable Repeat WooCommerce Purchases for a Product Category

…that does one thing given a product: checks if the customer has bought it before. Typically the wc_customer_bought_product() function would do just fine, but we want to see if the product is in a given category before making this check. Let’s write a helper function whose only purpose is to run this check if the product is in our target category (the one for which repeat purchases are not allowed). Note that to our helper requires WooCommerce 2.5…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce PDF Product Vouchers 3.0

…that gives the record value, and the ability to subtract from that value (refund / redeem). View / Edit Voucher Therefore, adding a redemption to a voucher from here is very similar to adding an order refund: Add Redemption They’re even displayed similarly once added: Redemption added Voiding a voucher is similar to redeeming it. Once voided, the voucher can no longer be redeemed. You can also edit other voucher details here, such as the purchaser…

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