…ers). The best part is that these test cases can be completed on a staging site – the testing site simply needs to be publicly accessible using your test credentials so data can be sent to Chase. Once you’ve completed the certification mode, you can submit the documentation to Chase and await your shiny new API credentials! All-in-all, this certification process was an intensive task, so we’re very thankful for the merchants that went through this…
…ghtly with WooCommerce styling. It’s designed to provide a shop-centric website, while still allowing you to maintain a blog or add your own features and templates as needed. The shop and product pages show off your WooCommerce product images, while allowing you to adjust button colors via the built-in options. They feature flat buttons and inputs with a clean, sharp layout. Shop page Product page The cart and checkout flow are great as well. Do…
If you use Jetpack on your (self-hosted) WordPress site, you probably use the sharing buttons (sharedaddy) capabilities that Jetpack has. By default, these sharing buttons are shown at the end of your post following the content. Default Jetpack sharing location This tutorial will show you how to move Jetpack Social Sharing buttons elsewhere in your post, such as before your content. You can also check out this overview from the Jetpack team. We’l…
…n your theme first, this version of the template will be served up by your site instead: This can be done for any third party plugin that loads its own templates using wc_get_template. You can search the plugin for this function to see if you can override template files yourself. Disclaimers Again, we recommend using more appropriate methods to make changes first. You should always try to use a filter or action to change / add information to your…
…rs 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, just as trees or desert would be part of a physical environment. With respect to payment gateways or integrations, the environment can be a testing or production environment. This changes to let the software know if “real” data or “fake” / test data is being passed back and forth so the sof…
…product-specific custom tab you add will have its content included in your site and product search results, and you can opt to include global tabs in search if desired (best for global tabs you use for some products, but not all products): Compatibility has also been added for the free Relevanssi plugin in case you use this for your site search so that tab content will continue to be searchable. WooCommerce AvaTax Chase has also been hard at work…
…w, PCI-compliant payment method via Authorize.net. Customers are taken off-site to a hosted payment page to complete a transaction (similar to PayPal Standard). SIM Pay Page The plugin also supports eChecks, letting you securely process ACH transactions. The old “SIM”, a bundled AIM gateway Previously, a very old SIM / Authorize.net emulation protocol was bundled into our WooCommerce Authorize.net AIM extension. This let merchants who had Authoriz…
…rom a terminal. We added support to WP-CLI! To quote the WP-CLI project website itself: WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, configure multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser. WooCommerce added support for WP-CLI in v2.5 – there’s an extensive set of commands which you can use to manage your WooCommerce installation, including orders, products, coupons and more. M…
…ge makes it easy for members to use a social login button to log into your site with one or two clicks, rather than using the account sign in form, to access restricted content. While we have this kind of compatibility planned for our plugins, it can be achieved with a code snippet in the meantime. There are a few steps we’ll need to take to add social login buttons to our “restricted content” messages. Modifying Restriction Messages There are sev…
…“content restricted” notice instead of products to buy? In this case, the site wasn’t selling Memberships, but rather taking applications for them, so the plan names made more sense. This question can show us a couple interesting concepts today to look at: (1) creating a helper method to get plans that restrict a product, and (2) how to filter restriction messages to add your own merge tag. This tutorial requires intermediate to advanced PHP and…