In this tutorial, you will learn how to compose a new Shop page using the exclusive blocks provided by the WooCommerce Product Search extension. The search engine is available exclusively on Woo.com and is an essential extension for every shop powered by WooCommerce. For this tutorial, we are using the Twenty Twenty-Four theme. As a […]
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WooCommerce Product Search – Building with Blocks
Using the exclusive blocks provided by the WooCommerce Product Search extension, we show how easy it is to set up live search and filter blocks for the shop. The search engine is available exclusively on Woo.com and is an essential extension for every shop powered by WooCommerce. In this video tutorial we cover the steps […]
How to install Redis on Debian or Ubuntu
In this quick guide, you will install a free Redis server in what takes just about a minute. After you have followed the steps, you will have your Redis server instance running as a service on your host. You can use it to power the cache of your WordPress site with appropriate plugins that support […]
How to install Memcached on Debian or Ubuntu
This brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to quickly install a free Memcached server on a Debian or Ubuntu host. After you have gone through the steps, you will have a Memcached server running as a service and you can use it to power your WordPress site with plugins that support it. You […]
Small Tools Big
We had a recent request to put out an update for a free tool for WordPress that has a small user base. The tool is really useful but is not well-known. What it does is to substitute keywords in your pages with links – it does this automatically, based on a set of keywords and […]
WordPress and WooCommerce Compatibility Requirements – June 2023
As of this month, we are updating relevant WordPress plugins and WooCommerce extensions to meet the following minimum version requirements and version compatibilities: WordPress 6.2 compatible WooCommerce 7.8 compatible PHP 8.x compatible WooCommerce HPOS compatible Minimum WordPress 6.0 required Minimum WooCommerce 7.4 required Minimum PHP 7.2 required Our first new update to cover these is […]
WordPress Database Collation Troubles
If you ever come across this kind of error message in your WordPress debug.log (assuming that you have debugging enabled) … WordPress database error Illegal mix of collations (utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8mb4_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) … … then you have a query that involves tables which have clashing collations. In my case, one table used utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci for a row […]
The unsettling Truth about the Global Unset
In PHP, there is a pitfall when using unset on a global variable within the scope of a function or method. When referred to using the global keyword within a function, unset will not destroy the global variable within the global scope. global $banana; $banana = ‘yellow’; function monkey() { global $banana; unset( $banana ); […]
1-Click Memberships with Groups for WordPress
The Groups plugin allows users to become a member of a group by simply clicking a button. It provides a convenient shortcode for that purpose. At the end of this article, we will also look at alternatives to shortcodes that you can use in a template. Let’s understand a simple use case where such memberships […]
Free Lunch Optimizations
Looking at a recent support request which involves issues with an “optimization” plugin, it reminds me of why we assertively recommend to avoid using any generic optimization plugins … like the plague! From lots of years of experience in providing support for our tools, there are countless cases of issues caused by “optimization plugins”. Experience […]
The Power of Newsletters
Newsletters are a popular way of reaching your audience. You can add this powerful communication tool to your WordPress site with the Groups Newsletters extension. A newsletter allows you to write meaningful content and provide it to your audience in an easy and automated way. Write one or more stories, combine them into a newsletter […]
Using Custom Fields with WooCommerce Products
In this little tutorial, we will look at how you can use Custom Fields to add data to certain products and display the added information using a Child Theme we create for that purpose. In this particular example, we will show an external link as a button, after the Add to Cart button. This example […]
Feedback we love and good Ideas
While attending several requests related to our plugins on WordPress, I was delighted to see new awesome feedback and rating on our Groups plugin and the support we provide for it: Excellent support – I have to say, these things provide a huge motivation to me and everyone involved in making the Groups ecosystem better […]
Silence is Golden, Debugging is Silver
How to adjust PHP error reporting for WordPress Debugging It’s important to be aware of any issues in your code when you develop for WordPress. But sometimes, too much information is just … too much. Here is an efficient way of choosing which notices are important to you and which are not. When you develop […]