Version 1.5.0 of Product Extras for WooCommerce features a couple of important new features plus some fixes and updates. Read more
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How to display out of stock variations as unavailable in WooCommerce
This is a quick solution to how to disable out of stock variations in variation select fields. By default, WooCommerce doesn’t grey out any variations that are out of stock – it allows the user to select the variation first, then lets them know it’s out of stock. Read more
WooCommerce – update product price programmatically
There are many reasons you might want to update a WooCommerce product price programmatically. For instance, in Bookings for WooCommerce the booking (product) price is set dynamically according to certain parameters – e.g. length of stay, etc. In Product Extras, you can specify extra fields for your products (like checkboxes and text fields) which will add extra cost to the product when selected. In this article, I’ll share some simple code to achieve this. Read more
Gutenberg will push average users away from WordPress
I wrote this article because I felt enough wasn’t being said about Gutenberg.
Well, we all know that’s not strictly true. There’s been more written about Gutenberg in the last couple of months than on any other WordPress topic. It’s the most emotive subject ever for developers and designers and everyone involved in WordPress.
But I think there’s one area where there hasn’t been enough discussion and that’s the effect of Gutenberg on average end-users of WordPress. I think we will see a significant subsection of WordPress users totally alienated by Gutenberg, which will impact on developers, consultants and agencies. Read more
Showcase 1.1.0 release notes
Version 1.1.0 of Showcase, the Easy Digital Downloads theme, was released this week. It includes the following new features: Read more
Top 20 most popular WordPress plugins and themes in 2017
I have a personal dislike for list posts – you know the kind of thing, just cut-and-pasted round-ups of the ’20 top this’ or the ’10 top that’. They’re easily compiled articles that (as far as I can see) have very little value for the reader. However, I feel that this post is somewhat different. Read more
Replace featured image with slider in WordPress
Have you ever wished you could replace the standard featured image in your WordPress theme with a slider? In this short article, I’ll show you how you can do this really easily using the Super Hero Slider plugin. Read more
Wisdom 1.3.0 release notes
Wisdom 1.3.0 has just been released. It contains a couple of bug fixes, one significant update and two significant new features: Read more
Interview with Brian Hogg
I first heard from Brian Hogg earlier this year when he contacted me with some questions about Wisdom, my plugin that tracks data for plugin developers. I already knew of Brian through his newsletter for developers and I felt that he would be the ideal choice for the first in a new series of interviews that I’d like to run on this blog, focusing on individuals in the WordPress community who are involved in plugin development. Read more