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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 updates on your live site while …

Tutorials August 6, 2015

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 fu…

Updates & New Releases July 29, 2015

For Translators: Environments

While translating our plugins, you’ll commonly come across words like “test” and “production” for environments (especially related to payment gateways), which can be a bit difficult to understand. Here’s an overview of what these mean. Environment Environment is a software term that refers to the conditions in which a plugin or integration acts. If a WordPress site runs PHP version 5.3 and WordPress 4.2, these are part of the site environment, ju…

July 23, 2015

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, already knocking out tons of issues…

News July 31, 2015

August in Review

While we send out a weekly newsletter (which you should sign up for if you haven’t!), we thought that a monthly recap of changes, updates, and new releases would be a great addition for our blog. 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 A…

News August 31, 2015

Four Years of WooCommerce

Congratulations to our friends at WooCommerce this week! In case you didn’t know, WooCommerce is just about 4 years old, with the first release on September 27, 2011. Since they wrote about WooCommerce turning 1 on September 24, we decided we could post this a bit early as well 🙂 First, we couldn’t be happier to be a part of the WooCommerce ecosystem, and it’s hard to believe four years have gone by. Our founders (Max and Justin) have been involv…

News September 24, 2015

Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget

This is post 4 of 8 in the series “Build a WooCommerce Extension” This series walks you through some of the beginner to intermediate skills you’ll need to build your first WooCommerce extension. Building Your First WooCommerce Extension Hooking into WooCommerce Actions How to Create a WooCommerce Widget Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1 Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2 WooCo…

Tutorials WooCommerce Development September 16, 2015

How to Generate a Post Excerpt Outside the Loop

When you work with WordPress, you become pretty familiar with using the WP_Post object or objects for custom post types. For example, while working with WooCommerce, products use the WC_Product post object (or the object for a class that inherits this, such as WC_Product_Variation). If you’re in the loop while working with posts or custom post types, get_the_excerpt() is a beautiful function, as it returns the excerpt if it’s set by the user, and…

Tutorials WordPress Development October 14, 2015

September in Review

We decided to start publishing a “month in review” last month, so here’s what happened with team SkyVerge in September 🙂 General updates Subscriptions 2.0 Released Fix Releases Social Login 1.6.0 WooCommerce Fulfillrite WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro Braintree Rewrite October To Dos General Updates We’re sponsoring another workshop hosted by BobWP along with Prospress! If you’re in the Seattle area, check out Building Your Membership Site with …

News October 7, 2015

Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1

This is post 5 of 8 in the series “Build a WooCommerce Extension” This series walks you through some of the beginner to intermediate skills you’ll need to build your first WooCommerce extension. Building Your First WooCommerce Extension Hooking into WooCommerce Actions How to Create a WooCommerce Widget Widgets, Part Deux: Create a Smart WooCommerce Widget Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 1 Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2 WooCo…

Tutorials WooCommerce Development October 28, 2015