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WordPress Custom Functions For WooCommerce Checkout Page

November 18, 2016

Code Recipes, WooCommerce Functions, WooCommerce Tips, WordPress functions.php

Customizing the WooCommerce checkout page is a relatively common thing that needs to be addressed. This page is a collection of various ones I’ve used on projects. Most of them can simply be dropped-in to your functions.php file, but a few do require your to make small changes depending on your exact needs. For more…

WordPress Custom Functions For WooCommerce Product Category Page

November 10, 2016

Code Recipes, WooCommerce Functions, WooCommerce Tips, WordPress functions.php, WordPress Plugins

There are so many functions that help WooCommerce to change the way the Product Category pages work by default. This page is a collection of various snippets I’ve used on various projects. Most of them can simply be dropped-in to your functions.php file, but a few do require your to make small changes depending on…

WordPress Custom Functions For WooCommerce Product Detail Page

November 10, 2016

Code Recipes, WooCommerce Functions, WooCommerce Tips, WordPress functions.php

There are so many functions that affect WooCommerce Product Detail pages to customize it to meet the needs of your web site.. This page is a collection of various ones I’ve used on projects. Most of them can simply be dropped-in to your functions.php file, but a few do require your to make small changes…

WordPress Custom Functions For WooCommerce Taxes

November 10, 2016

Code Recipes, WooCommerce Functions, WooCommerce Tips, WordPress functions.php

There are so many functions that affect all aspects of WooCommerce defaults. Here’s one that we used to create a special tax rate that needed to be applied to a specific WordPress user role. For more information on using your theme’s function.php file, read this article first. Apply A Different Tax Rate Based On User…

WooCommerce Product Grouping – WordPress eCommerce

November 10, 2016

WooCommerce Tips, WooCommerce Tutorials

Have you ever needed to group products together that complement each other or are often sold together, but are also sold separately? If you sell smart phones, why not package it with a popular case for the phone. You might even add popular earbuds that are compatible. If you sell wine online and also sell…

Excluding categories from WordPress search

Excluding WordPress Categories from Site Search

November 10, 2016

WordPress functions.php, WordPress tutorials

There are times when you may want to exclude WordPress categories from your website search. For example you may want site visitors to be able to search the product article category but not company press releases. The code below will restrict this search. The code is entered into your functions.php file and will exclude category IDs…

WooCommerce PDF Invoices and Packing Slips tutorial - WordPress eCommerce

Add WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips – WordPress eCommerce

November 9, 2016

WooCommerce Shipping, WooCommerce Tips, WooCommerce Tutorials, WordPress eCommerce

Our company has built a lot of eCommerce site’s with WooCommerce and one thing that more than a few clients needed was the ability to send a customer and invoice and have a packing slip ship with their product. Some clients need both but some just need the invoice or the packing slip. This WooCommerce tutorial shows…

OnSale Page for WooCommerce Plugin

November 8, 2016

WooCommerce Tips, WooCommerce Tutorials, WordPress Plugins

WooCommerce is incredibly powerful out-of-the-box, however, the base installation doesn’t have everything one might need. The reason for this is because there are so many different types of eCommerce shops, each with varying needs. Instead of trying to build-in anything and everything a shop might need, they give you the basic things that all online…

Cleaning-up Post Meta Screens With Tabs

November 7, 2016

WordPress Admin, WordPress Plugins

When you first install WordPress, the Post and Pages screen has meta boxes that you don’t need often, or even at all for some sites. As you begin adding additional Plugins, you’ll begin to notice that some of them add additional meta boxes in your Post and Page WordPress editor screens — causing all sorts…

WooCommerce product options variation tutorial - WooCommerce beginners guide

How to Add WooCommerce Product Options – WordPress eCommerce

November 7, 2016

WooCommerce Setup, WooCommerce Tips, WooCommerce Tutorials, WordPress eCommerce

This article discusses how to add WooCommerce product options. Product options are built into the base WooCommerce install, but it isn’t clear to many how to implement them with their products. WooCommerce product options allow you to sell variations of your product such as sizes (eg. Small, Medium, Large), product colors, or different volume packaging…

WooCommerce - Woo Out of Stock image overlay

WooCommerce Custom Out of Stock Image Overlay

November 4, 2016

WooCommerce Tips, WooCommerce Tutorials, WordPress eCommerce

If out of stock products in your WooCommerce store are displayed, and not hidden — there is a plugin that allows you to use a custom out of stock PNG image to overlay your product. The plugin is called Woo Out Of Stock and you can find it in WordPress by going to Plugins > Add New…

Disable WordPress Plugin Deactivation

November 4, 2016

Code Recipes, WordPress Admin, WordPress functions.php

There are occasions when you have a WordPress plugin that your entire site is dependent on. Because the site is dependent the plugin simply can’t be disabled or your entire site may stop working. You could try to remember the particular plugin that, but that’s not advisable in some cases. I can almost guarantee that…

WordPress Theme Building Blocks - Theme Files and What They Are

Basic Elements of a WordPress Theme

November 3, 2016

WordPress for Beginners, WordPress tutorials

Customizing WordPress themes starts with understanding the building blocks of the WordPress theme. If you’re new at customizing themes we highly suggest using child themes. Click here to read about WordPress child themes and how to use them. In case you haven’t read our WordPress child themes article yet, WordPress child themes are separate themes that…

Restricting WordPress Author’s to Specific Categories

November 2, 2016

WordPress Admin, WordPress for Beginners, WordPress Plugins, WordPress tutorials

It’s common that you have multiple authors working within your WordPress web site, but you only want to allow them to publish to a specific category (or categories). A plugin in the WordPress repository named Restrict Author Posting allows for exactly that. Restrict Author Posting was created by plugin author Jam Viet who has six…

Import eCommerce products from another eCommerce into WooCommerce - Tutorial

Migration an Existing eCommerce System into WooCommerce – WordPress eCommerce

November 2, 2016

Product Migration, WooCommerce Migration, WooCommerce Setup, WooCommerce Tutorials

Manually migrating products from one eCommerce system to a WordPress eCommerce system can be a very time consuming data entry task. Do you or your client have eCommerce on another non-WordPress platform but you’d like to migrate all products, sales and customer data into WooCommerce? We have used Cart2Cart to automatically migrate eCommerce databases from one platform to WooCommerce…

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