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Why Use Plugins Instead of Theme Changes? February 25 2014
Since we develop a lot of plugins (mostly for WooCommerce) and do some custom development, we get a lot of questions on best practices or recommendations for adding functionality to a site. Many times we’ll provide suggestions or guidance and tell people they should create a custom plugin, which prompts the question, “Couldn’t I just modify my theme template or buy a theme with this built-in this instead? I don’t Keep Reading…
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Using the WooCommerce REST API – Introduction February 21 2014
This is post #1 of 2 in the series “For Developers: Using the WooCommerce REST API” My favorite feature from the recent WooCommerce 2.1 release is the REST API. I may be a bit biased, since it was my core contribution during the 2.1 release cycle, but it lays important groundwork. A platform like WooCommerce is strongest when shop data can be pushed or pulled from other systems, like a Keep Reading…
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Guide for Upgrading to WooCommerce 2.1 February 12 2014
WooCommerce 2.1 was released on Monday, and makes several changes to the core plugin. As a result, you may experience issues when upgrading if you don’t pay attention to a few of the changes. The guide that follows is a general overview of some things to look out for when upgrading to WooCommerce 2.1 to make the transition from WooCommerce 2.0 as smooth as possible. There are a couple of Keep Reading…
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Ask SkyVerge: How Do I Sort WooCommerce Order Items Alphabetically? February 08 2014
This week’s “Ask SkyVerge” question comes from Adrian, who wants to know: Can you sort the items in the order alphabetically? Ex: if someone orders broccoli, cabbage, string cheese Can your organize the items in the order alphabetically? Well, depending on where you need the items to appear sorted, you sure can! First, the code, which can be dropped into your current theme’s functions.php if you like: Which will give Keep Reading…
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Improvements to WooCommerce CSV Export for Customers / Orders January 30 2014
Hi everyone! We’ve been a bit quiet lately since we’ve been busy updating all of our plugins to be compatible with WooCommerce 2.1. However, we wanted to share some of the big changes we’ve made with you to some of the WooCommerce extensions we offer, so we’ll take a look at the WooCommerce Customer / Order CSV Export Suite first. Re-written to Maximize Performance We’ve rebuilt the extension from the Keep Reading…
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New WooCommerce Extensions! November 29 2013
Hi all! We’re excited to share that we have three new extensions for WooCommerce that were just released yesterday. Quick, grab them for 35% off within the next couple days! First, Admin Custom Order Fields has deployed, which takes you one step closer towards using WordPress and WooCommerce as a CRM rather than just an eCommerce platform. Admin Custom Order Fields (ACOF) will allow you to create text field, drop-downs, Keep Reading…
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WooThemes and First Data Give Back November 01 2013
We’re happy to announce a special for one of our WooCommerce products! WooThemes and First Data have partnered to offer a rebate on the First Data payment gateway integration, along with some other great benefits! Sign up (US merchants only) by December 31, 2013 to take advantage of this awesome deal that gives you over $650 of benefits FREE! First Data is a large payment processor, and is the backend Keep Reading…
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Introducing Amazon Simple Pay! August 30 2013
Your choices for easy payment processing just increased by one. SkyVerge has just released the WooCommerce Amazon Simple Pay payment gateway extension! While this extension was in the WooCommerce Extension store until about 5 months ago, it was pulled by another developer, so we’ve redesigned it from the ground up to give you the quality and security that we ensure in all of our products. Amazon Simple Pay will allow Keep Reading…
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New WooCommerce Product Documents Extension! August 29 2013
We’re very excited to announce the release of another great WooCommerce extension! We’ve just released the WooCommerce Product Documents Extension, which allows you to create an accordion-style menu to display any supplementary documentation you want to post for customers for any product in your store. Want to post some sample chapters and images for an ebook? Use Product Documents! Need to post technical specifications or assembly instructions? It’s easy! The Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce Amazon FPS 2.0 Release (and New Features!) August 23 2013
We all know that Amazon is customers’ favorite online retailer. If you take payments using the WooCommerce Amazon FPS Payment Gateway or another Amazon payment service (stand by – we’ve got another one coming out next week!), you know that the trust you gain by associating with Amazon helps convert customers, and the simple pricing structure saves you headaches when it comes to your bottom line. Now we’ve made integrating Keep Reading…
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Down the Rabbit Hole: WordPress and Timezones August 21 2013
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A few months ago, we were working on the WooCommerce Pre-Orders extension and had to think about how we wanted to store the release date & time. Like most concepts that look simple and easy at first, this turned out to be somewhat complex. Throughout development, I ended up learning quite a Keep Reading…
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How to Add a Custom WooCommerce Email August 20 2013
WooCommerce 2.0 introduced a lot of new features to the core plugin, one being a new class-based implementation for emails. This makes it really easy to add your own custom email types to WooCommerce. In this article, we’re going to create a sample custom email that’s sent when an order with expedited shipping is received. A lot of larger sites disable new order emails if they receive a lot of Keep Reading…
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Introducing the WooCommerce XML-RPC API August 19 2013
We know you’ve been waiting for a full-fledged WooCommerce API, and while that particular piece of greatness is still a few months away (see this Github issue for details), we’ve developed a simple XML-RPC API to help you start integrating WooCommerce with your backend systems today. This has been tested over the past few months with a handful of clients and we’re ready to release it to the world. Currently Keep Reading…
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Our Thoughts on the New WooThemes Pricing August 01 2013
UPDATE 2013-08-05: Since we published this, WooThemes has decided to offer the choice to existing customers whether they want to grandfather their unlimited licenses in or not. Read the update post Full Disclosure: Our company derives the majority of its income from sales of WooCommerce plugins we’ve written, and by performing WooCommerce-related client projects. Still, we think we can be fairly impartial as it’s not like we have someone ordering Keep Reading…
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New WooCommerce Plug-in: Authorize.net Reporting July 31 2013
Maybe this sounds a bit like you: You use an Authorize.net Payment Gateway, (maybe the WooCommerce Authorize.net CIM, WooCommerce Authorize.net AIM, or Authorize.net DPM payment gateways) to process payments for your WooCommerce store, but it’s really difficult to get transaction information. If you want to get a simple list of transactions, you need to login to your account and run all sorts of complex reports. You spend hours pulling those Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce First Data Upgrades! July 30 2013
First Data lovers, we may have just made your day. We’ve updated our First Data WooCommerce extension and added some new functionality that will probably knock your socks off. Just be prepared. First, we’ve used an updated API so that you get more stable, reliable performance and a future-proofed extension. We’ve also made sure you can capture more sales and reduce cart abandonment by taking advantage of First Data TransArmor Keep Reading…
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New and Improved WooCommerce Braintree Payment Gateway! July 29 2013
We know you’ve all been waiting for this moment! Okay, maybe not, but we’re really excited to share some news with you. Were you unsure of which Braintree extension you needed to make your WooCommerce store complete? Problem solved! We’ve merged the Braintree and Braintree Transparent Redirect extensions to support shiny new braintree.js, which means you now get the simplicity of a direct gateway with the reduced PCI compliance of Keep Reading…
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How to Use WooCommerce 2.0 Lightbox May 09 2013
WooCommerce 2.0 comes with prettyPhoto, a Lightbox implementation, bundled as part of the core. It’s used on the product pages to display the image gallery pictures, and a common question is “How do I use WooCommerce’s lightbox to do X”. This article will walk you through how to do just that. Enable Lightbox The first step is to ensure that the Lightbox is enabled by going to WooCommerce > Settings Keep Reading…
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Translating a WordPress Plugin on the Command Line Step by Step March 01 2013
The purpose of this article is to provide a quick and easy to follow step-by-step guide to extracting text strings from a WordPress plugin for translation from the command line. Although this is documented in the codex: I18N for WordPress Developers and Translating WordPress, those articles are somewhat lengthy and the first time I was asked to internationalize a plugin it took me some time to find the actual steps Keep Reading…
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Add Custom Options to WooCommerce Settings February 19 2013
This question comes in from blog reader Wilgert (thanks Wilgert!): could you help me find some simple code to add a custom option field to the general settings tab of the woocommerce admin area? Trying to avoid re-inventing the wheel here. Well, this may be more than you bargained for, but here we go! The WooCommerce settings can be found under the menu item WooCommerce > Settings and look like Keep Reading…
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Set a Default Stock Quantity for WooCommerce Products February 17 2013
Here's a quick little snippet that you can make use of if you want to set a default stock quantity for any newly added WooCommerce product Variations. This can be useful when bulk-adding variations and you don't want an initial quantity of ''.
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WordPress Get DB Table Column Names January 14 2013
To get the column names for a MySQL database table in WordPress, use the following: global $wpdb; $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . 'posts'; foreach ( $wpdb->get_col( "DESC " . $table_name, 0 ) as $column_name ) { error_log( $column_name ); } Which will result in something like the following being printed to your debug.log: ID post_author post_date post_date_gmt post_content ... You get the idea
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Guide to Migrating Your Plugin to WooCommerce 2.0 January 14 2013
With the release of WooCommerce 2.0 becoming more imminent (well, maybe not quite imminent yet, but certainly drawing nearer), those of us with WooCommerce plugins need to start work on getting them ready for the big release. WooCommerce has never been one to hold back on making plugin-busting implementation changes with a new release, and they’re setting the bar quite high with 2.0. It’s chalk full of code changes and Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce UPS Shipping Now Available January 11 2013
With the official WooCommerce UPS Shipping extension undergoing a rewrite, we’ve made our WooCommerce UPS Shipping extension available for purchase. This connects your WooCommerce store to UPS and displays real-time shipping rates and estimates. Some key features: Show Negotiated Rates Use simple Table Rates/Pack Tables to define how many products should be in different sizes boxes. Include delivery estimates (e.g. Delivers by Wednesday at 10:30 AM) with rates And much Keep Reading…
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