Mar 5th, 2013
WooCommerce 2.0 – Major Upgrade, be sure to test first!
WooCommerce 2.0 (code name Daring Dassie) has been released and pretty major code changes. According to WooThemes, Version 2.0 is the start of a new era for Woocommerce…. One of the features I like best is the hooks and filters which allow developers (like us) to enhance the look and feel of the cart and [...]
Feb 17th, 2013
WooThemes, WordPress SEO and woo_title()
Whilst I was updating one of my websites this week to use WooThemes Canvas (I created a child theme) and Yoasts WordPress SEO, I noticed that the separator in “title” attribute was missing. This meant that my page (and post) titles ran into my site name and looked dreadful. The issue appeared to be a conflict between [...]
Jan 19th, 2013
Securing WordPress: Two Factor Authentication
Securing WordPress is always a hot topic, but lately it’s become a lot hotter to us. We are noticing an increasing number of hacking attempts against websites. A number of these attacks attempt to compromise user accounts through brute force attacks. A brute force attack is literally multiple attempts against a username to ‘guess’ the [...]
Oct 15th, 2012
doing_wp_cron Appended to Site URL – Backup Buddy & All In One Events Calendar
Are you seeing the string ?doing_wp_cron=1349974125.3131980895996093750000 (or similar) appended to your site address when you visit it in a browser? The guts of the matter is, is that ?doing_wp_cron is generally triggered by the WordPress Constant ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’ being set to true. According to the WordPress Codex, ALTERNATE_WP_CRON: “this alternate method uses a redirection approach, which [...]
Jan 18th, 2012
FREE INTERNET
Do you want to see your favourite sites be removed from the net by the US government? If not do anything you can to prevent your member voting to pass SOPA and PIPA. If you live in the US you can sign the petitioning at http://americancensorship.org/ to send a message to your member, and everyone [...]
Sep 5th, 2011
Using Robert Planks’ “Backup Creator”
Here’s a new backup plugin for wordpress written by Robert Plank that works as an alternate solution to iThemes “Backup Buddy“. Here’s a video on how to use it. To buy backup creator please follow this link.
Sep 2nd, 2011
Wishlist Member: Show Member Counts
On the Wishlist Insider Forum, a question was asked about how to the number of members for each level to display on a page or post. As of today, there is no shortcode to do that but it is relatively simple to add your own shortcode using the Version 1.0 API of Wishlist Member. The [...]
Aug 28th, 2011
Adding Code To The Wishlist Member Registration Page
I was asked a question on Ask Charly Leetham asking ‘how to’ add Google Website Optimizer code on the appropriate Wishlist Member (WLM) Registration Page. The Registration Pages on WLM are generated dynamically, and can’t be edited but the ability to add the appropriate script(s) on the page to check the effectiveness of your marketing [...]
Aug 8th, 2011
Paypal: Letting subscribers update their Recurring Payments
On Wishlist Insider (which is a great community!), there has been a lot of discussion about how to manage membership upgrades, when using Paypal as the payment processor. Until today, my position has been that the BEST way to handle this is to setup a new subscription payment and then manually cancel the ‘older’ subscription [...]
Jun 26th, 2011
Wishlist WL Post Login, Themes & RSS
As a Wishlist Insider, I am really fortunate to get access to the plugins the Wishlist Products team create to help us manage our membership sites better. The June 2011 Bonus Plugin is called WL Post Login – and can be used to direct a member to a specific Page or Post after they have [...]
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