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 […]
WooCommerce Product Search Filters and Divi Product Pages
One of the supported features of the Divi WooCommerce Products module is to render products from a specific category. This allows you to create uniquely designed category pages for each one of your shop categories. For example, let’s assume that we run an apparel shop and have created a dedicated page on Divi Builder. The […]
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 […]
Customer Members Club with Discount Privileges
You are an online store owner that wishes to create a members-only club for its customers. The purpose of this club is to reward its members with discounts. Access to the club is granted through an annual paid membership. Privileged customers are eligible for a discount on the shop This setup consists of two parts. […]
How to create a time-limited Membership Product
In this post we will show you how to create a Membership product in WooCommerce using Groups and Groups for WooCommerce. The customer(s) will become members of the Premium Club group for one year after buying this product. A preview of the Membership product Please note that the setup of the Membership product is the […]
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 ); […]
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 […]
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 […]
Getting started with Eclipse and Xdebug for PHP and WordPress Development
The quest to find the easiest way to debug PHP is something most PHP and WordPress developers suffer with. Though some developers argue that logging messages to a log file can be a way forward, I must admit, it turns out to be overly complicated when dealing with a complex project, where tracking the execution […]
Exploring WooCommerce Catalog Visibility Options with the Product Search Engine
We present a set of considerations that are useful to test WooCommerce Catalog Visibility Options and the search and filter results provided by the WooCommerce Product Search engine. Tests Important to note: There are two contexts that are considered. One is that of a Shop Page and the other is that of Search. All filters […]