month in review

August in Review

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 Reviews Pro v1.2 Checkout Add-ons v1.6 WooCommerce Mollie v2.7 Product SKU Generator v2.0 Jilt version 2.0 rewrite Improved Internationalization for better translations General Updates We’re proud to sponsor one of BobWP’s upcoming workshops along with the…

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,…

WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Authorize.net CIM 2.0 Released

WooCommerce Authorize.CIM 2.0 is here (finally)! We’re super excited to announce that we’ve released a large update to our WooCommerce Authorize.net CIM payment gateway 🙂 While development took far longer than we would’ve liked (initial estimate was 50 hours, the final tally was over 200 hours), we’re really pleased with the final product and we can’t wait for you to update and try it out! This update has undergone many hours of testing and is…

Ask SkyVerge

How to Remove WooCommerce Product Images from the Cart

This Ask SkyVerge question comes from Frank: Is it possible to remove the product thumbnails and the links to the product page on the cart page? By default, the WooCommerce cart page includes product images and links to product pages in your shop for each item in the cart. However, the cart template is pretty flexible, and there a couple of handy filters in it that can let us change these cart elements. First, we…

WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Memberships version 1.1 Released

Version 1.1 of WooCommerce Memberships was released this week, which adds a few new features to make content public, display content to non-members, and improves the User Switching plugin integration. We also added a public feature voting list to our documentation, which shows the features we have on our roadmap, and allows users to vote for their favorites so we can better prioritize them. Make Content Public WooCommerce Memberships makes it super easy to restrict…

WordPress development tutorials

Developers: Stop Using sslverify = false — WordPress has you covered

I listened to a talk recently about using WordPress to communicate with external APIs, which is something we do frequently at SkyVerge. We’ve built over 20 payment gateway integrations for WooCommerce, each of which needs to communicate with the payment processor’s API. One thing that I noticed in the talk is that setting sslverify = false when using wp_remote_get or wp_remote_post was recommended. This is a fairly common practice and has thus become recommended for…

WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Memberships is here!

It feels so incredible to finally launch a project that our team has been building for almost a year: WooCommerce Memberships is here! First, a Brief History We build a lot of plugins at SkyVerge, and we use even more. While we don’t have the capacity to do much client work now, we’ve had several long-standing relationships and retainers with clients, and we’ve done a lot of custom work over the past couple of years….

Ask SkyVerge

Changing the Storefront My Account Page

Today’s Ask SkyVerge question is from Harshad: The “My Account” page used to display the login and register forms side by side, but now that I switched to Storefront and updated WooCommerce they are below each other, taking up a lot of space on the page. Can the Storefront My Account page be changed? If you use WooCommerce in a default theme, like TwentyTwelve, you’ll see that the “My Account” page layout is in two…

Birthday Contest Winners

First, thanks so much to all of you who participated in our birthday celebration this week! We really appreciate you being a part of our journey over the past two years and participating in our birthday sweepstakes. Our grand prize winner has been contacted — congrats Amber! She’s getting $200 worth of WooCommerce extensions from WooCommerce.com. Our second place winners have also been notified via email, and we’ll be shipping out some swag to them…