A custom WooCommerce extension script, called via a shortcode, to show a list of random products from a category. This script was actually created for a client who uses the Avada theme. The Avada theme overrides most of the WooCommerce product display shortcodes with their own library so it makes certain parameters unavailable. This script…

How to make sure your jQuery code is compatible with WordPress, theme’s and other plugins. WordPress installations these days are loaded with many plugins. To make sure that your custom plugin, that contains jQuery/Javascript, does not break other plugins it is important to wrap your code in their own private containers. Page functionality can break…

Here is a code example of how to add shortcodes dynamically to a WordPress Post or Page. Why do you want to do this? It happened that I had a request from a client to only show an introduction part of the description section and hide the rest with a “read more” feature. I found…

Add extra features or extra content to a page builder if that page builder “module” does not have that functionality you are looking for by the means of code via the WordPress’s shortcode API. Page builders are not my preferred tool and I would rather code templates than use a page builder. For the novice…

Having a WordPress child theme setup is one of the most important setups on your website, especially if it has WooCommerce installed. It prevents the loss of any custom changes done on your site with the next theme update. How does a child theme work? A child theme is a copy of your parent theme,…

A custom WooCommerce extension script, called via a shortcode, to show a list of random products from a category. This script was actually created for a client who uses the Avada theme. The Avada theme overrides most of the WooCommerce product display shortcodes with their own library so it makes certain parameters unavailable. This script…

Hosting request is one of the requests that come up with every new estimate that involves a website build, migration or if a site is slow. There is many hosts and many hosting packages to choose from. If you don’t have the technical experience this can become overwhelming quite fast. &nbsp; <h2>What is the best…

Here is a nice tip when you would like to speed up your database query for a given page. When you make a query for certain specific data in WordPress, WordPress by default will return ALL the data in an object. 95% of the time it is not required to return all the data from…

I have quite a bit of experience performing Bazaarvoice integration into a WordPress(custom posts articles, product catalog) & WooCommerce setup. I have done this setup for a couple of clients over the last two years. My code is dynamically loaded, following WordPress best practices, onto each page. Bazaarvoice will supply you with 2x Workbenches.: Staging…

On the odd occasion, we get customers who supply us with a budget and deadline for a project upfront. “This can’t take more than 1 or 2 hours and it should not cost so much”. If only some problems would take 1 to 2 hours… WordPress is developed and design to provide a great User…

Why a consultation is so important. I do understand why some clients do not see the value in a consultation session. It is because they don’t understand what value it could bring to the table. All they see is a risky unnecessary expense where in fact this is the single most important stage to the…

WPEngine is a service I became fond off that truly delivers and just works out of the box. I have used numerous hosting environments and companies over the years. Hosted some website myself for clients. WPEngine has crafted a hosting platform geared towards WordPress websites that delivers good results in the hosting space. It’s WordPress…

  The Datafeedr plugin reset product categories, after a update, back to default categories when the product sets was defined. There is a way to fix this. Chris from https://fashionandbusiness.nl approach me with a little issue they had when they update their products via the Datafeedr API. The Datafeedr API pulls in a collection of selected products into…

Ever wondered how those {{custom variables}} in email or pdf templates get replaced by a dynamic variable value? Just a quick run-down what a custom variable is. A custom variable is a placeholder where you want to add a username or email address dynamically to a template file or document. You might have noticed these predefined custom…

The agency Follow, acquired my services to build them a solution that would sync content between sites for the new variety.org.au website. They had one master site, called national and many other slave sites, called state. Each state site represented a state in Australia. They where looking for a solution that could easily migrate data…

In this tutorial I will show you how to include customers details (name or email address) next to WooCommerce Coupons under the admin interface in WooCommerce so that you can see who used coupons with a purchase.

The other day I was busy integrating the Google Calendar API for a events website and after working with the API you begin to realise how limited your are with the fields the Google Calendar API makes available to you. It only returns limited fields that is available for a event. In the article I am going…

In this article I am going to explain WordPress hooks 101. WordPress hooks are areas inside code made available to you to add functionality or change values without physically changing the original software’s code. Code that is connected by hooks can also be disabled and replace by other code. With the use of hooks your code…

In this guide I will explain to you how to use best practises in updating WordPress, WooCommerce & Plugins so that you don’t have a dilemma on your hands if you have a website that operates live and crashed because of a update.

So your are currently staring at a blank screen / page of death and can’t understand what is going on with WordPress or WooCommerce? Well for starters you did not lose information or any settings. What happened is that WordPress is upset about something, something is causing WordPress to crash.