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 […]
Tracking User Actions with Affiliates
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 […]
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 […]
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 referredIdentifies the referring affiliate for that visit This cookie is stored automatically in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 GitHubIncompatibility with BuddyBossPost Read restriction and Cron job The first one is related to a […]
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 […]