WP Development

Debugging WordPress

…fault WordPress will use minified CSS/JavaScript files, which is great for site performance, but not so great for finding and fixing issues with them. Sure you could learn to read minified JavaScript, or you could use yet another handy constant: SCRIPT_DEBUG, which will cause the un-minified scripts to be loaded instead. Query Debugging With SAVEQUERIES WordPress is obviously heavily dependent on the database, and this is an area that can be diffi…

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Hide Certain WooCommerce Sub-Categories in Catalog

…You can put this code as always, in your theme’s functions.php or a custom site plugin, whichever you prefer. Some Other Approaches The nice thing about the above solution is that it does not require overriding any functions or templates. The only real potential drawback to that approach that I can see is that it will indiscriminately apply to any and all calls to get_categories() which are made for product categories when those is_shop(), is_prod…

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WordPress development tutorials

Don’t Share Terms Between WordPress Taxonomies

…that you can add to your theme’s functions.php, or to your very own custom site plugin and explained below. The Code The implementation is actually fairly simple: we hook a filter to ‘pre_insert_term’ and temporarily rename the term as needed to generate a unique slug and thus a separate term record, then after the term is created we fix the name back to what the user originally specified. This is done only if a term slug is not given; we assume t…

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Redesign

Welcome to the New SkyVerge.com

…ws, hosting, and other products or services. Have something you’d like to see? Ping us via our contact page to let us know. We hope we caught everything when we migrated our changes over to our live site, but if you find anything that’s broken, we’d appreciate it if you drop us a line in the comments. 🙂 Let us know what you think of the changes, and enjoy your weekend!…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

9 Cool Updates to WooCommerce FreshBooks

…s a sale of that item in FreshBooks for improved reporting. Link Items to Products In short, the entire extension now supports a far more robust workflow and synchronization between your WooCommerce-powered site and FreshBooks invoicing and accounting. You can view more details on the WooCommerce product page or see the full plugin documentation for more information on all of these features….

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Chase Paymentech re-listed

…chant to ensure that all transaction types are processed correctly in your site environment. These test transactions will be submitted to Chase for review. Following this, Chase will issue a production username within 7-10 days. Based on the test group of merchants that we were able to go through this process with, we’re currently putting together some documentation on any questions that arose throughout the process to make this as seamless as pos…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Order Status Control Available at WooCommerce

…not want customers to have access to certain things (like protected content) by orders that are autocompleted without payment. We previously sold the WooCommerce Order Status Control extension via our own site, but have now updated it and released it in the WooCommerce marketplace! You can check it out now and take back all of the snippets of time you waste on completing orders every day!…

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Ask SkyVerge

Ask SkyVerge: 20 WooCommerce How To’s

…This takes a tiny snippet in your custom CSS option or a child theme stylesheet: .sku_wrapper { display:none; } Q: How to I get rid of the “(Free)” label on shipping methods with costs of $0? A: If you’ve set a shipping method aside from the built-in free shipping as free or $0, this label is added. You can remove it with this snippet in the bottom of your theme’s functions.php: //Remove (Free) label on cart page for “Shipping and Handling” if cos…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

New WooCommerce Social Login Providers

…ents option to your checkout. It simply allows customers to sign into your site securely using PayPal credentials. Checkout Sign In Notice Many users wanted to display social sign-in more prominently in the WooCommerce checkout, and used our shortcode to do so rather than use the “Log In” notice. You can now use a separate checkout notice for non-logged in users instead via the WooCommerce Social Login settings: Instead of “Checkout & My Account”,…

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