iThemes Exchange: Adding Products
Almost every eCommerce website will need to add, edit, and delete products. Throughout the series, we’ve been taking a look at iTheme Exchange and in this article, I will show you how to add, edit,...
View ArticleCreating a Custom WordPress Registration Form Plugin
Out-of-the-box, WordPress provides a custom registration form that can be used to setup a new user, or to add a new user when adding them to an existing WordPress installation. But what if you want to...
View ArticleUsing New Relic to Monitor WordPress Performance
What You’ll Be CreatingIf you arrived here from the Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache tutorial, you already have a pretty well optimized WordPress installation. If not, you may want...
View ArticleWooCommerce: General and Product Settings
WooCommerce is one of the most popular eCommerce add-ons for WordPress: At the time of writing it’s been downloaded no less than 3.6 million times. The core WooCommerce plugin is free and you can...
View ArticleWordPress Error Handling with WP_Error Class I
Even if you wear an S on your chest, when it comes to programming, errors will undoubtedly creep into your application. These errors are either caused by we the programmers as a result of code error...
View ArticleCreating a Portfolio with Projects
Projects is a plugin by WooThemes that is designed to provide a simple way of creating portfolios within WordPress. Out of the box, Projects allows you to have categories, galleries, client details,...
View ArticleA Guide on Using the iThemes Security Plugin
Every popular service or product constantly gets threatened by evil minds. No matter which measures you take, you can’t achieve 100% security on the Internet. But with the right tools and some common...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Checkout, Shipping and Accounts Settings
In the first part of this tutorial, I showed you how to install WooCommerce and start setting it up. By now you should have the following settings configured on your site:GeneralProductsTaxIn this...
View ArticleWordPress Error Handling with WP_Error Class II
In the first part of this series on handling errors in WordPress with the WP_Error class, we took a look at an introduction of the PHP class, we examined the class properties and methods and their...
View ArticleCreating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: The Front-End
This series is focused on tips and strategies that we can employ to write WordPress plugins – specifically those that employ meta boxes – that are logically organized and easy to maintain.In the first...
View ArticleFactors to Consider in WordPress eCommerce Plugins
Setting up an online shop has never been easier, with so many options available, one can easily get lost in the maze of plugins that developers launch every single day. More: Factors to Consider in...
View ArticleUtilizing WordPress Shortcodes and Custom Fields for Footnotes
In terms of web design and development, the things you can do with WordPress are near limitless. You can run a news aggregator, create a crowdfunding platform, sell tickets for your band’s first...
View ArticleConfiguring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Page Cache II
In the previous post, we started configuring advance settings of Page Cache in W3 Total Cache plugin and configured the General and Cache Preload settings. In this article, we will be covering the...
View ArticleCreating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: Finish The Front-End
In this series of articles, we’re reviewing a handful of tips and strategies that we can use in order to build more maintainable WordPress plugins, and we’re going that all through the context of a...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Adding Physical Products to Your Store
In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to install WooCommerce and configure its settings, followed by how to configure product settings. Now it’s time to add some products to your...
View ArticleCreating Dummy Text in WordPress
When developing a new WordPress site, you’ll often want to add some dummy text to your posts and pages so you can see what the site will look like before the content is published. In this tutorial,...
View ArticleCreating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: Verify and Sanitize
Throughout this series, we’ve been creating a plugin that’s meant to provide authors with a way to collect, manage, and save ideas and references to content that they’re creating within...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Adding Virtual Products to Your Store
In an earlier tutorial, I demonstrated how to add physical products to your WooCommerce store, as well as how to add affiliate products.In addition to physical products which you ship, you can also...
View ArticleEvaluating Your Business for a WordPress eCommerce Solution
There is a general perception that WordPress is free and easy to set up, and that one can rapidly set up an online store and start trading. The truth of the matter is, there are a lot of...
View ArticleCreating a PayPal Buy Now Button With Variable Shortcodes
PayPal is a great payment processor that allows anyone to send you money, which you can then send directly to your bank account. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a WordPress plugin allowing...
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