A common support request we get for the WooCommerce Product Search extension, is the following: I’m using a custom taxonomy on my WooCommerce shop, but when I search by its terms, I get no results. How can I achieve this? For the majority of shops out there, the core taxonomies provided by WooCommerce should be […]
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 […]
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 ); […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the most common requests we get on our support forums is: How to track user actions and compensate affiliates? or other variations that basically ask the same thing: How to integrate Affiliates with the xyz plugin? With the free version of Affiliates plugin this is pretty easy using an API function provided exactly […]
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 […]
Affiliates plugin can track visits to your site and grant commissions when an action is completed. This whole process of tracking visits and granting commissions depends mainly on the affiliate cookie which: Notifies the system that a new visitor has been referredIdentifies the referring affiliate for that visit This cookie is stored automatically in the […]
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 […]
There are several different setups and even more different use cases out there. This in turn makes it quite normal to read customers’ requests for new features on our plugins. One of them that I stumbled upon today, has to do with some extra content that needs to be rendered by the groups_user_groups shortcode of […]
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 […]
