The WordPress Flatsome eCommerce theme has a really neat feature called Featured Items. Essentially, it's a custom post type you can use for ... well, featuring stuff like portfolio items. Though there is one issue: it will only show related featured items from ONE category, which happens to be the...
How To Get WooCommerce Featured Video
WooCommerce featured video done right. It's not too difficult to get this done right though it does take a little bit of work and patience. In this video I show you the 4 (well, 5 really) plugins that can help you do just that and the 2 extra ways you...
The WordPress 4.2 & 4.2.1 Update For Business Owners
Understanding The WordPress 4.2 & 4.2.1 Update For Business Owners and made easy! This update features a few main things: A critical security update (4.2.1) Improved backend API Non-English character support for Asian languages (this also includes official support for Emoji) Improved plugin management (same-screen install and update) Improved embedding support Slight admin...
WordPress Security Essentials – Overview + Plugin List
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Clear The WooCommerce Shipping Rate Cache
WooCommerce has a performance feature where it caches (saves) shipping rate information for future use in-order speed up system performance and reduce the workload. That's great and all, except that the 'clear transients' and 'clear cache' buttons inside of WooCommerce do NOT delete the WooCommerce shipping rate cache; it does...
Don’t Expect Magical Instant Results From Your Blog
A blog is a great tool to improve your branding, to expand your reach and to even generate leads ... but it's misunderstand. Many people expect magical and great instant results from it. Putting up a single blog post won't get you much of anything. It's a tool that needs...
Better Code For WooCommerce Order Complete Email Notes
I previously wrote a post to help you add code to WooCommerce Order Complete emails that would display the proper order notes(original article: Add Order Notes To WooCommerce Completed Order Email). This is an updated article with newer code that also includes some error checking. Read that article to get...
Add Order Notes To WooCommerce Completed Order Email
Sometimes you want to add order notes to WooCommerce completed order emails, thankfully that's rather easy and only requires a little bit of programming. Even better, you can use WooCommerce's built in tools to make these changes! UPDATE: Newer (cleaner and better) code available for the WooCommerce Complete Order Email!...
Video Tutorial: wordpress rss error on line 2 at column 6 Fix
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGathYQHHzk] Back in 2010 I wrote a nifty little article about fixing this pesky WordPress RSS error (WordPress Remove Blank Line From RSS Feed – wordpress error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document) and how to fix it. Since...
Protect Your Business WordPress Site Using Proper Backups
This is a rather nerdy post, so bear with me here. Many of us use Wordpress for our websites, which for the most part is great. Though nobody wants to get to the office one day to find their website in complete disarray, disfigured or hacked. The reality all of...