New year

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

…Moneris Customer / Order CSV Export FreshBooks PayPal Express Cybersource SA SOP URL coupons and Chase Paymentech also saw some significant changes, and we’ve added a lot of “for developers” hooks to our Measurement Price Calculator extension. Q3 2014 Between June and September, we onboarded Tamara and Illimar, and revamped our internal development systems. This is were Tam took the lead on automating our plugin deploy processes so that we can no…

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WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

Hooking into WooCommerce Actions

…her example in which we remove actions hooked into a do_action call: Remove the product sorting dropdown. Our SKU Generator Plugin is a fairly simple plugin, but it uses actions in a couple different ways: we use an action as a trigger to update product meta when a product is saved, and we hook into one to conditionally disable the SKU field. Further Reading Here’s an overview of WordPress hooks from Bryce Adams that covers both actions and filter…

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WordPress development tutorials

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

…ot be verified. This means that sensitive information being sent from your site can be intercepted, and that information returned to your site can be spoofed and be inaccurate or malicious. While a couple of years ago sslverify = true may have caused more issues than it solved due to validation issues, this is no longer the case. When WordPress 3.7 was released, WordPress began to bundle CA certificates into core to validate them itself, bypassing…

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New year

Four Years of WooCommerce

…, simplifying the display of the orders list: This version also added the “sales by category” and “sales by coupon” reports: In terms of administrative changes, WooCommerce 2.0 contained several other tweaks and features: Support for multiple files for downloadable products Cash on Delivery could be enabled for select shipping methods only Added zip code restriction for local pickup shipping method Added the ability to mark products as “sold indiv…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Customer / Coupon / Order CSV Import Rewrite

…limited the number of orders you could import at a time to just a few thousand, and in some cases, just shy of a thousand orders, depending on the host. If your store was migrating from a different platform, it could be cumbersome to break a CSV file up into several files to import your orders, customers, or coupons. As a result, all import processes now take place in the background on your site. This means that import files are processed in batc…

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Ask SkyVerge

Hide WooCommerce Product Reviews Until Purchase

…are one of the most important indicators of social proof for an eCommerce site, and they’re an excellent tool to help customers make purchasing decisions and learn about your products. They also provide a great source of user-generated content on your site (that’s why we built WooCommerce Product Reviews Pro to help you enhance your review display). However, if your store doesn’t yet have a lot of reviews, the lack of social proof could negativel…

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WordPress development tutorials

Screen ID checks with WordPress Submenu Pages

…ID directly for any page under the WooCommerce menu, you’ll need to do the same thing WordPress does: sanitize the menu title, which will be the translated version of “WooCommerce”: $screen_id = sanitize_title( __( ‘WooCommerce’, ‘woocommerce’ ) ) . ‘_page_{screen}’; This will ensure your screen checks are valid in any language. If you have a class of helper or compatibility methods in your plugin, it’s best to add a function to get the screen ID…

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New year

2016: Year in Review

…ore consistent with other WooCommerce reports and more performant on large sites. We plan to continue updating a lot of plugin codebases in 2017 to modernize more plugins. Developers and merchants, now is your chance to share feedback! Which projects have been tough for you to accomplish or what have you wished some of these plugins did? We’re always happy to hear from you, so contact us. Memberships Updates Speaking of refactors, Memberships has…

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WooCommerce Bambora

…t processing. Accept payments via credit card directly on your WooCommerce site for a seamless checkout experience. Bambora automatically allows you to accept Visa and Mastercard payments, and you can enable American Express, Discover, Diner’s Club, and JCB for credit card payments as well. WooCommerce Bambora will allow you to process whichever credit card types are enabled in your Bambora account. WooCommerce Bambora allows your customers save t…

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New year

SkyVerge in 2018

…ll plugins used the latest framework to make maintenance easier. With that said, we’re pretty happy with progress here given updating our framework was the hardest part of this change, and we’ll be meeting this goal in early 2019. We also wanted to focus on plugin updates that helped to reduce support. That meant investing time on better error handling and user messages, better onboarding, and product refinement. Automated testing contributes to t…

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