Category: WordPress
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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…
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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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Track Visits and Grant Commissions with Affiliates
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 referred Identifies the referring affiliate for that visit This cookie is stored automatically in…
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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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WordPress Support Session
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…
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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 Core Functions
WordPress has an extended API which is documented in Developer Resources. This comes extremely handy when you are developing your new custom addon. Even though it is absolutely correct to use pure PHP for your implementation, there are several core functions you can use and save time. For example if you wish to load your…
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WordPress Support Session
During my session, I responded to a user’s request in which he mentioned observing wrong redirects as soon as his users logged out of groups to which they belonged. More precisely, he mentioned observing permanent redirects (301) and temporal redirects (302). Although this behavior isn’t common in Groups, considering Groups typically only yields 404s and…
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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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WordPress Basics
On our support forums we mainly focus on advanced topics related to specific functionalities of WordPress and our plugins. These can be either special use cases or even questions looking for business consultation and how we can cover them with our tools. However, there are many users that have just started using WordPress and issues…
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WordPress Support Session
I began today’s support session by directing a user to the Referrals section of Affiliates where he could easily view referrals made by affiliates. This was geared towards helping him identify all the referrals made by specific affiliates. I then moved on to an interesting case in which the client wanted to use Groups to…
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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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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…
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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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How to protect Amazon S3 Files with WordPress for Members
Do you manage or sell digital assets? Do you handle confidential documents and media? This tutorial is for you, if you want to use the affordable Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) to host sensitive files and serve them to a select group of users on WordPress. It goes without saying that Amazon S3 provides…
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All you need to know about automating a Black Friday Campaign
How to prepare a trouble-free Black Friday Campaign Learn how to create your Black Friday publicity campaign for discounted products and have your WordPress site display them automatically during relevant days. Follow our content-dripping tutorial below, we show you how to achieve that in simple and easy steps. Use this tutorial and improve your customers’…
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Grow Traffic to your Site with Pay-per-Click Affiliates
In this article, we explain how you can grow your revenue from Display Ads, with the help of an Affiliate Program that compensates your affiliates using a Pay-per-Click system. Imagine that you are running a News site where you publish stories from around the world. You wish to boost the income which is generated by…
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How to use WordPress to provide Confidential Documents
Leveraging the right Tools to provide Stakeholders with Access to Confidential Documents and Digital Assets Showcasing project reports on your website for stakeholders to view, is one of the best ways to demonstrate your ability to attain project goals and objectives. However, in many cases, you want to protect your original content, digital assets, ideas,…
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How to monetize Affiliate Memberships in Niche Markets
An affiliate program can be really successful when you have naturally motivated participants. An ideal affiliate is someone who enjoys your product or service and is comfortable recommending it to his peers. This can be especially fruitful in niche markets, where personal recommendations are welcome among those who share their interest in the niche. You…