Author: Kento
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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…
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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…
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Search Musings
The Everything-Recorder Recently I came across a mention of a new “search thing” which I found interesting. It’s an application called Rewind that allows you to “Find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard”. I say it’s interesting, because of the relatable experience of putting a Product Search Engine for WooCommerce out there that provides tremendous…
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Decent Comments revamped
After a couple of years in development hibernation, I’ve tackled the task of reviewing the Decent Comments plugin and prepare a new release. It actually took two releases in a row, 1.11.0 yesterday and then 1.12.0 today, the latter of which fixes fatal errors caused by changes introduced in the former. Thanks to a user…
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WordPress Support Session
It’s nice to see that people are working with Groups also over the weekend! We’ve had a few requests related to Groups which I’ve attended today and I wanted to summarize here: Groups PayPal – Publish GPLv3 Open Source on GitHub Incompatibility with BuddyBoss Post Read restriction and Cron job The first one is related…
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Users managing WordPress Groups
A recent request we have received is related to managing things with the Groups plugin for WordPress. It touches on an interesting and important set of functions that would be great to have: Users creating groups? Pre-install question:Is it possible to allow all users to create groups and manage who goes into those groups with…
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WordPress Support Session
Today I’ve attended to a few things as part of our regular WordPress support sessions, this time it was really nice to see two new 5* ratings users of the Groups plugin provided: What I needed to enhance security Elegant way of grouping your customers/members It’s really awesome to read about the use cases, not…
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Affiliates 4.13.0 Releases & Happy Mother’s Day Sale
The latest versions of our Affiliates system have been released: These releases have been tested with the current latest versions of WordPress (6.0) and WooCommerce (6.5). Happy Mother’s Day! To celebrate, you can get the premium versions at a discount and you can use the coupon code mother today to get a discount on eligible…
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New Affiliates 4.12.0 releases are out!
Hooray! We have just released the latest versions of our Affiliates system: These have been tested with the latest version of WordPress (up to 6.0) and WooCommerce (up to 6.2). Update or get them and enjoy more business! Image credit: Ankush Minda
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Make it Sustainable
Why we decided to wind down all products sold via the Envato Marketplace and make them available only in our Shop. TL; DR : To maintain high quality software is feasible only if the ongoing costs of doing so are covered, while the time and work of the people who develop, maintain and provide support…
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WordPress Mail Debugging
Sometimes you just want to see what emails are sent or what they contain, without actually having them sent. Cases where this might be desirable include … Working on a development site and you want to avoid that the site sends real emails. Tests during plugin development to see if your plugin sends the right…
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How to pass Affiliate info to a WhatsApp Chat
WhatsApp can be quick way to allow customers to get in touch when they have questions. If a customer has been referred by an affiliate and contacts you via chat, you might want to know whether the customer has been referred by an affiliate. This quick guide explains how to do it using the free…
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The WooCommerce Product Search Engine, Caching and Performance based on Memberships
In a recent release of our WooCommerce Product Search extension, we introduced caching based on WordPress roles and group memberships with Groups. Previously, it was often necessary to disable object caching or caching for users who are logged in. The reason for this was that the systems involved were not able to discern between content that…
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Why Influencer Marketing?
Many definitions of Influencer Marketing start somehow like this: Influencer Marketing is a form of social media marketing … – I really think that those definitions suck. It’s like saying The Apple Fruit is a kind of fruit … – true, but no good. Let’s make it simple and clear. Influencer Marketing is a form…
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How to: WordPress Multilingual CMS Content Blocks, Widgets and Sidebars
Building multilingual sites with WordPress and WPML is easy. The additional control with WYSIWYG Content Blocks, powerful visibility control over widgets and sidebars you get with Widgets Control and its compatibility with WPML (1) make it a very powerful combination. WPML lets you translate pages, posts, custom types, taxonomies, menus and even gives you control…
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Tracking Social Media Campaigns
So here we sit brainstorming in the morning over coffee, around how we are going to maximize the potential revenue obtained through promoted Tweets. As interesting as that is by itself … why am I sharing this with you? Because we are going to use our own product, Affiliates Enterprise, to analyze the effects of those promoted…
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Widgets Control
The new Widgets Control plugin adds visibility management to widgets, so you can decide on which pages individual widgets should be shown and where not. For each widget, you can choose where it should be displayed. The plugin provides appropriate options which allow you to … Display the widget on all pages – this is…
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WooCommerce Product Search
Enhanced Product Search for WooCommerce The WooCommerce Product Search extension brings Search Relevance and Instant Search Results to WooCommerce. The extension helps to improve and control the relevance of products in search results and adds facilities that supply instant results helping visitors to find products faster. Key Features Increase Sales with Relevant Results Instant Search…
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New Import and Export Extension for Groups
Groups Import Export is an extension for Groups, providing import and export facilities. Import Users : Users can be imported and assigned to groups in bulk from a text file. Export Users : Users can be exported in bulk, including all users or users that belong to specific groups. This extension is now available in…