In this tutorial, you will learn how to customize the Product Catalog template of your WooCommerce shop. This default WooCommerce template uses the Product Catalog variation of the Product Collection block and is used for the Shop page. We extend the template with several blocks that allow to search and filter the products, making it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We had a recent request to put out an update for a free tool for WordPress that has a small user base. The tool is really useful but is not well-known. What it does is to substitute keywords in your pages with links – it does this automatically, based on a set of keywords and […]
In WordPress, the user permissions are defined by Roles and their deriving Capabilities. This Role-based model allows the Administrator – which is also a role – to determine the privileges assigned to each user. These privileges, in turn, are expressed through capabilities where each one of them determines a specific permission for the user. Furthermore, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
