For anyone who has worked with me or talked about picking a WordPress theme, they’ll know that I almost always suggest the Canvas theme from WooThemes.com. With a nice clean slate and a huge selection of user-facing options, Canvas can be modified to fit any need – as shown by the growing variety of Canvas Child […]
We got two scenes in Star Wars Uncut!
YOU GUYS. I’M SO EXCITED. Almost two years ago, I grabbed some friends over the weekend and directed two scenes for Star Wars Uncut, a fan-made recreation of The Empire Strikes Back split into 15 second segments. Just last night, I got news that it’s finally releasing… And that both of my scenes made it in! That’s […]
Speaking at WordCamp Providence
Today, I was lucky enough to speak at WordCamp Providence about the Flexibility of WooCommerce. Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry, neither could I! Instead, we recorded it via Google Hangouts, so everyone can enjoy it here. Watch & Listen Download the Slides Since the video seemed to get stuck and miss some slides, you can download […]
3 Easy Ways to Find the Page ID in WordPress
One of the common questions I come across involves page IDs – specifically, how can a user tell what the page ID is for the current page they’re viewing? This is important for a lot of custom code jobs, so here are three quick and easy ways to find the Page ID in WordPress. Method […]
How to Sell your Photography with WooCommerce
Update: January 27, 2015 Exciting news, everyone! WooThemes now offers a WooCommerce Photography plugin, which is built FOR photography, so much less work than this solution. If for some reason the plugin isn’t an option, though, then the method below should always still work 🙂 Introduction One of the most common requests we get at WooThemes […]
Customize WooCommerce Order Status Icons
A situation recently came up where a user thought that the WooCommerce Order Status Icons in the Orders page were too small and difficult to distinguish. This could be especially true on older monitors, smaller screens, or even different lighting, so let’s change it up! What this will achieve is increasing the size of those […]
Add Custom User Fields to your WordPress Installation
I wanted to make a quick post to show off a neat little trick in WordPress – adding custom user fields to a user’s profile. This could be used to add in space for a Twitter Handle, a Facebook link, a second portfolio site, or any combination of the above. For the demo purposes, let’s […]
Skip WooCommerce Cart Page
Some WooCommerce sites have very little use for the included WooCommerce cart – either they’re only selling one item, a subscription, or just want their users to get through faster. Although it’s not included in the vanilla WooCommerce, we can add that feature with a function – copy the text below into your functions.php file […]
Change the “Add to Cart” Button Text in WooCommerce
One of the most common requests is that users want to change the “Add to Cart” text on their WooCommerce installations. Although there isn’t a built-in way to do this, we can achieve it through some quick functions – just copy the text below into your functions.php file. Then, change the “Buy Now” text to […]
WooCommerce Image Issues – Stretching, Distortion, and Blur
One of the most common issues we seem to come across with WooCommerce is images, and how certain a WooCommerce image could seem blurry or distorted. Almost always, this is due to some confusion on how WooCommerce (and WordPress in general) handles images – so, here’s a quick post to help clarify! The Mission Let’s […]