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How to Determine the WooCommerce Current Page June 04 2012
WooCommerce makes it a snap to programmatically determine the current page through the use of their Conditional Tags. These functions can be used to check whether the current page is the shop page: is_shop(), or a product page: is_product(). See WooCommerce Conditional for the full list. These functions are based on the standard WordPress Conditional Tags, and thus behave in the same manner. Meaning that if you try to determine Keep Reading…
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Add ‘Sold Out’ to WooCommerce Variable Product Dropdown June 04 2012
Note: Due to a change in WooCommerce 2.0 the following code no longer works, and I’m not seeing any way of making it compatible again – Justin This is a quick little ‘how to’ that came up in a recent client WooCommerce request. The client wanted to add the text ‘sold out’ to the variable product configuration dropdowns on the product page to make it more clear to customers when Keep Reading…
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CyberSource Payment Gateways for WooCommerce June 04 2012
The CyberSource payment gateway is now available for WooCommerce. Recently FoxRunSoftware released two CyberSource payment gateway plugins for accepting credit card payments on your WooCommerce storefront, and which described below. CyberSource SOAP The CyberSource SOAP payment gateway is a “direct” or “server-to-server” implementation which uses the CyberSource SOAP protocol to provide the most seamless checkout process possible for accepting credit cards. Though customer credit card data is not stored on Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers Pro Released May 24 2012
Today marks the release of the WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers “Pro” plugin, the first of many practical and useful WooCommerce extensions to be released by Fox Run Software. If you don’t like the essentially random order numbers that WooCommerce uses, and you perhaps want to customize them a bit as well, then this plugin could be a good fit for you. The Pro version of the plugin builds upon the Keep Reading…
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How to Find Product by SKU in WooCommerce May 21 2012
Here's a little snippet of code which you can use in your WooCommerce plugin development to get a particular product by its SKU.
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GitHub Repository Not Found Workaround May 17 2012
Today I encountered an issue with GitHub where I was unable to fetch a remote repository to merge into my local clone. Everything seemed to be configured correctly, and I am able to fetch repositories from the same user without a problem, so it seems like there is some issue with this particular repository. Although I have a support ticket open with GitHub to try and determine the root cause Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce Sage ERP MAS Connector Plugin Available May 06 2012
SkyVerge announces the release of the WooCommerce-Sage Connector plugin. This plugin allows you to easily export order and customer data from your WooCommerce storefront to your WebServices-enabled Sage ERP MAS 90/200 backend, for order processing. WooCommerce orders are assigned an MAS order number, and WooCommerce customer records are created/updated in MAS. Pricing / Support The Connector plugin is offered for a flat price, and may likely require some amount of Keep Reading…
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How to Upgrade Magento April 25 2012
I’ve been meaning to write an article on safely upgrading Magento for some time now, and with the release of Magento CE version 1.7.0 yesterday, April 24, 2011, now seems like a great time. These steps and commands are the actual ones I follow to upgrade client Magento sites, and I perform these core upgrades from the command line only. Please read through and understand all the steps before starting Keep Reading…
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WordPress Settings API Hidden Field April 22 2012
This short article covers one way of creating hidden fields with the WordPress Settings API. This is useful for more than just creating hidden input fields; for instance I used it when I wanted to render a number of checkboxes in a single field, yet still have the checkbox options managed by the Settings API. The WordPress Settings API The WordPress Settings API is a great, if poorly documented addition Keep Reading…
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Exclude Your Traffic From Jetpack Site Stats April 22 2012
I recently installed Jetpack by WordPress, solely because I wanted to use Site Stats, and even that I wanted mostly so that I could see my site traffic in the WordPress iPhone app. I quickly realized that Site Stats was tracking my own internal page views as I browsed around foxrunsoftware.net, throwing off my true page view/visitor numbers. Site Stats comes with some built in ability to exclude site traffic, Keep Reading…
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Creating a Custom Plugin For Your WooCommerce Shop April 19 2012
I plan to put together a mini series covering the basics of properly planning, engineering, launching and maintaining a WooCommerce shop. In the future as I write additional articles I will link them together, for now this first article will cover the basics of creating a custom plugin for your WooCommerce site, and provide you with a plugin skeleton to download and use as a starting point. This article assumes Keep Reading…
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Double Notification and Comment Emails Explained April 14 2012
I finally took the time to investigate why I receive two notification emails each time a comment is posted at this blog. Granted, it didn’t hurt anything, but it was annoying to get the multiple emails on my iPhone. Initially I assumed the issue had something to do with my use of the WP-Mail-SMTP plugin (which I highly recommend if you want to use GMail to send your emails from Keep Reading…
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Import Remote Repository with EGit on Windows April 13 2012
Honestly sometimes I’m not sure why I continue to persist in using Eclipse as my editor of choice for most projects. Maybe it’s that I’ve been using it for so long now (7 years) and it’s gone the distance for me, though as with any long term relationship there are fights. Today was one of those fights, as I attempted to import a remote Git repository and create a project Keep Reading…
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Configure Magento Products by URL April 07 2012
Being able to link to a configurable product page with particular product options configured is clearly a valuable feature to have in an ecommerce platform. Both to satisfy one of the primary goals of ecommerce: reducing friction in the sales process (by having a product configured and ready for purchase for a visitor), and to meet requirements of services like Google Checkout by providing unique URLs to pre-configured products, are Keep Reading…
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Add a WordPress Custom Bulk Action April 05 2012
Like me you probably woke up this morning assuming that adding a new bulk action to WordPress would be as easy tracking down the correct filter or implementing the right action hook. If so, then you might have had a rude awakening when you attempted to make use of the promising-looking filter named bulk-actions-screenid and failed. Thanks to a couple of posts on the subject I was able to create Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce Sample Data April 02 2012
A sometimes overlooked, but useful feature of WooCommerce 1.5.3 is the included dummy data file, which can be imported to create a number of products, and even attaches product images! This is useful when setting up test/development environments and you want a range of products available without having to manually create them. Step 1 – Locate the Dummy Data File The sample data file is included with the woocommerce plugin. Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers April 02 2012
Update 5/25/2012 – While this free version of the plugin will always remain available, I now offer an officially supported “Pro” version which can be purchased from the WooCommerce shop: Sequential Order Numbers Pro. The Pro version has additional features including: start the order numbers at any particular number, set a custom number prefix/suffix with date pattern substitutions, set an order number length, exclude free orders from the order number Keep Reading…
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Theming WooCommerce: How to Override WooCommerce Template Files March 24 2012
To override WooCommerce template files in your theme (or better yet, child theme) simply make a folder named ‘woocommerce’ within your theme directory, and then create the folders/template file you wish to override within it. Example As an example, lets override the price template for the single product page to add a notice. First we locate the template file in question at: woocommerce/templates/single-product/price.php (see the full list of templates). Next, Keep Reading…
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Magento/WordPress Development and Deployment March 21 2012
First off, this post owes a debt of gratitude to Ashley Schroder and Colin Mollenhour, without whom it would not exist. The goal of this article is to describe a development environment configuration that’s ideally suited for developing and deploying version controlled plugin/extension code, that is plugged in to a much larger system codebase. This is precisely the situation when developing extensions/override code for Magento, or plugins for WordPress and Keep Reading…
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Date Range Picker Similar to Google Analytics March 14 2012
I’ve always loved the calendar date range selector in Google Analytics, it’s extremely user-friendly for the task of selecting a range of dates; much more so than the typical dual input boxes with independent calendars. There are a few options out there for replicating the Google Analytics range picker, however I couldn’t seem to find any that offered the functionality, looks, and ease of use right out of the box. Keep Reading…
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How to Add Custom Product Tabs to WooCommerce March 07 2012
The free Custom Product Tabs plugin for WooCommerce lets you add a custom tab to the product view page. The new tab is easily configured from the Product admin page where you can set the tab name, and content containing plaintext, HTML or shortcodes. This plugin has been tested with the Wootique theme, but should be compatible with any WooCommerce theme. Create the Custom Tab View the Custom Tab Installation Keep Reading…
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WooCommerce vs. Jigoshop March 01 2012
If you’re considering ECommerce options in general, and especially WordPress ECommerce in particular, you may find yourself asking whether WooCommerce or Jigoshop is the best fit for your online storefront. Maybe these are the only two ECommerce solutions you’re considering, and just maybe you’re not even interested in reading a lengthy article comparing and contrasting and delving into the minutia of what are still two very similar options. If you’re Keep Reading…
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Adding a Notification Bar to Magento February 20 2012
One of the first modifications I wanted to make to my first installation of Magento was to create a simple notification bar across the top of the site for displaying announcements and notices to visitors and customers. My initial solution was to simply make use of the built-in Magento Demo Store notice, which I will describe next. Magento Notices Template A quick and easy way to display a notification bar Keep Reading…
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WordPress Comments Feed 404 Fixed February 03 2012
I logged in to Google Webmaster Tools today and was greeted with a new crawl error, specifically a 404 Not Found for the Comments Feed url http://www.skyverge.com/comments/feed/. I requested the page and sure enough, it was indeed a 404. A quick search turned up a number of threads and discussions regarding this issue, which seems to stem from having a new site without a single comment yet. How embarrassing. Now, Keep Reading…
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