WooCommerce iOS 1.1.1 released

…re that updating your shop from your mobile device is communicated to your site’s server. As this is the first piece of the app that sends information to your store rather than receives it, we’ve been working on ensuring that as many server configurations as possible are supported. If you do experience any other small bugs, please let us know! We’re constantly on the lookout and will continue to push patches if needed while we work on the 1.2 vers…

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Ask SkyVerge

How to remove WooCommerce product sorting

…is pretty easy to do as well. If you’ve never added a code snippet to your site, check out our tutorial on how to do so, and we can snip this sorting dropdown right out of the shop. The product sorting dropdown is added here, so all we need to do is remove that action so that it’s never added into our shop loop. To do so, add this snippet: remove_action( ‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop’, ‘woocommerce_catalog_ordering’, 30 ); Now we’ll have shop and…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce First Data: Refund Support Added

…refund, helping you to keep even more of your store management within your site. To begin a refund, you’ll start the same way as a manual refund by clicking the “Refund” button when editing the order. However, you’ll click “Refund via Credit Card” instead of “Refund manually”. Begin a Refund Once you’ve determined what to refund, you can click this button, and the refund information will be sent directly to First Data to complete the refund automa…

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month in review

August in Review

…ou could always use this shortcode to restrict portions of content on your site, but you can now use it to drip content to delay access as well. The delay and start_after_trial arguments have been added to support this. Here’s an example of an advanced usage of this shortcode: [wcm_restrict plans=”silver” delay=”2 months” start_after_trial=”yes”] This content can be viewed by silver members 2 months into the membership; otherwise, the delayed acce…

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WordPress development tutorials

How to Generate a Post Excerpt Outside the Loop

…not. This makes it easy to show posts with excerpts on the frontend of the site. In the case of WooCommerce, this lets you show products along with the short description (if set), or an excerpt generated from the regular description if the short description does not exists. However, once you’re outside of the loop, you can’t use this function to get an excerpt for the post. If you want to display a list of posts and excerpts outside of the loop, s…

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month in review

September in Review

…ospress! If you’re in the Seattle area, check out Building Your Membership Site with WooCommerce on October 8 — 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. Aside from workshop sponsoring, we got busy writing this month. WooCommerce turned four years old in September, so we published a look through four years of WooCommerce from version 1.0 to now, which was a fun look through history. We also wrote 5 other blog posts this month: The Next Evolution of WooCommerce iOS How…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce FreshBooks Updated to v3.6.0

…te for FreshBooks shortly, along with all of our other WooCommerce plugins, as we’re starting WooCommerce 2.5 compatibility this week! We’re in the beta 2 phase for version 2.5, so it’s a great idea to start testing if you have a staging site and report any issues. Once we’ve deployed extension updates, please be sure to update all extensions before WooCommerce itself! We’ll be deploying these updates after the Christmas holiday and prior to the r…

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Ask SkyVerge

Stop WooCommerce Customers from Editing Addresses

This Ask SkyVerge question comes from Bojan: I have a WC catalog site dedicated to a closed user (buyers) group only, so no unknown people can register. All users are preregistered by admin and no free registration is available. Now I need to find the way to remove the buyers ability to edit their data, everything except maybe First/Second name. All the other fields (Company, Address etc.) should be read only. Is this possible? We can definitely…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro Released!

…merce stores, what if you need more detailed tracking for your WooCommerce site? You could use a premium service like Kissmetrics or Mixpanel, but if you’ve historically used Google Analytics, you may not want to switch away from something you know to get more detailed tracking insights. We’re proud to release our new WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro plugin ($29), which adds all of the advanced event tracking a store owner could need to your WooCo…

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