This is a useful way to display popular posts on your blog to encourage users to read more articles rather than just bounce away. Read more
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Product Extras for WooCommerce version 2.0
Version 2.0 of Product Extras for WooCommerce has been released today. Read more
Flat rate product add-ons in Product Extras
Version 1.7.0 of Product Extras is now live and it brings a much-requested feature: flat rate pricing. Flat rate pricing is the ability to apply pricing for WooCommerce product add-ons only once, whatever the quantity of product selected. You can enable flat rate pricing for any options that do not multiply with product quantity. Read more
How to add custom fields to a WooCommerce product
In this post, I’m going to walk through the entire process of adding custom fields to a WooCommerce product. Custom fields (also called product addons) include text fields, select fields, checkboxes, and so on. They allow the user to enter additional, personalised information about a product. The post will cover creating and displaying the custom fields, adding the custom field data to the cart, and inserting the data in emails and orders. Read more
How to add a custom field to a WooCommerce Subscriptions variation product
There may come a time in your life when you’re working with WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions and you realise that you need to add a custom field to a variable subscription product. Admittedly, most people will live their entire lives without encountering this need but if you’re one of the few who do, then hopefully this article will help. Read more
WooCommerce Name Your Price
Name Your Price plugins allow you to be flexible in how much you charge for your products – to such an extent that you let your customers choose how much they want to pay. You can set minimum and maximum price ranges, if you wish, or leave the price completely open-ended. You can even allow customers to set the price for optional extras within the product rather than for the entire product. Use Name Your Price to accept donations, build trust, or run special promotions.
How to personalize WooCommerce products with additional options
WooCommerce is a very flexible and, at times, complex ecommerce plugin for WordPress. But sometimes it doesn’t give you quite the functionality you’re looking for out of the box so you need to start looking for extensions to help you accomplish what you want to achieve. One example of this is allowing your customers to create personalized or customizable products by using a WooCommerce products addons plugin. Read more
Three steps to reduce plugin deactivations
This case study looks at the positive steps I took to decrease the number of deactivations on one of my freemium plugins. The steps are based around identifying the problem, analysing the data, and making changes to the product. There’s probably a clever acronym for this approach but I’m afraid I don’t know what it is. Read more
Add WooCommerce tags to your plugin
I wasn’t aware of these two tags for WooCommerce till I noticed one of my plugins was reporting as not tested with the latest version of WooCommerce. In your main plugin file, not the readme, you can add:
* WC requires at least: 2.5 * WC tested up to: 3.1
These declare the minimum version of WooCommerce that your plugin requires and the latest version it’s been tested against.
More information here.
Get next post and previous post by meta key
There are a number of standard WordPress functions to help you add navigation buttons to your posts, notably the_post_navigation which you can use on a single post to print links to the next and previous posts. However, next and previous are defined by publication date – but what if you want to get the next and previous posts according to some other parameter? Read more