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A little more than one out of every four websites run on WordPress and at least 42% of online stores run on WooCommerce. Simply put, WordPress – and its most-used ecommerce software – is popular. Unfortunately, hackers like popular things. That is
If you've enabled cross-sells in WooCommerce on a product by product basis but would like to remove them from the cart in one motion, add the following script to your functions.php file or a custom functions plugin: You can also move the
What is a Premium Plugin? A premium plugin is a WordPress extension that requires its own license in order for you to use it. There will also be a license fee that gives you access to future updates and developer support for
Does deleting a WordPress Taxonomy also Delete the Associated Post?
When the time comes to clean your post taxonomy house, it's good to get rid of old or non representative tags, categories, or custom taxonomies. Every time I remove one however, I get that nagging feeling - what if all these posts
Apparently, jetpacks are dangerous for more than the obvious reason. It was announced yesterday that the popular WordPress plugin, Jetpack was discovered to have a security hole that allows a serious Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to be injected. This security hole is
WooCommerce Bookings – Abandoned Cart Items not Auto Deleting [SOLVED]
A customer recently reached out with an issue with WooCommerce Bookings. Abandoned cart booking items weren't being cleared out for others to book. When a customer adds a booking product to their cart, it becomes unavailable for other customers to simultaneously book.
We recently had a customer request that the entries in a custom post type get automatically alphabetized. Clicking on the title certainly does the job here, but who's got time for that? There are a few ways to order posts, but if
Improves discoverability of permalinks by adding permalink panel to the document sidebar.Improves margins, column child block, and mobile display of columns.Allow for programmatically removing editor document panels.Replaces the uploading indicator of images and galleries with a spinner and faded out image.Toolbar for
WordPress Recovery Mode Without Access to Admin Email
An awesome feature was added to WordPress 5.2 that created a recovery mode when a fatal error on the site occurs. Prior to adding this feature, a fatal error would cause a blank white screen with no further information on the problem.
How to Remove ?v=XXXXXX String from WooCommerce URLs
We recently had a question from one of our WooCommerce Support customers about why their site was showing random numbers at the end of their URL. They were concerned that it looked messy and maybe even a little scary and wondered how
https://fast.wistia.com/embed/iframe/5uxv3q0fl1 We update a ton of plugins for our customers each and every day. 99.9% of them go very smoothly with no issues. But what about WooCommerce? What's the best way to keep it updated? WooCommerce is special We give WooCommerce extra
Unfortunately, hacking is a very real and prevalent problem faced by countless online entities. WordPress, as one of the internet’s most popular platforms for running independent websites, is no exception; approximately 25% of WordPress sites will be hacked at some point during
It happens to all of us. You log into your website and something has gone terribly wrong. All you see is a white screen, or a strange error message keeps popping up. The first instinct is to reach out to your support
WooCommerce 3.2 rescheduled for October 11 release date
WooCommerce has updated the schedule for the next major release: We have a small number of remaining open issues that need to be fixed before we can tag and send out the release candidate (RC) for WooCommerce 3.2. When we ship an
WordPress themes from ThemeForest are perhaps the most popular premium themes available. Themes like Avada, X | The Theme, and Enfold have over 100,000 sales each (Avada has nearly 400k sales). These themes provide their users a ton of control and options,
Emojis have become a regular part of life with the proliferation of messaging apps. They're cute, quick, and can put emotion on a text based message that would otherwise come across flat. So let's get that emotion on your website ???? WordPress
WooCommerce 3.9 is currently in development and is set to be released early January 2020. One change of note will be the new minimum PHP requirement: PHP 7.0 - any site running on an older version will not be able to update
Alt title: How I cut GIGABYTES off a WordPress database One of the things we care about here at Cinch is website performance. We provide our customers support and guidance on how to keep a website fast, as well as managing some
Why Independent Cloud Backups Are Vital to Your WordPress Website
In the immortal words of Elanor Shellstrop, when it comes to using free web hosting backups: “Ya basic.” And in this instance, “basic” isn’t as delightfully harmless as the current pop culture obsession with all things pumpkin-spiced. Unfortunately, the cost of relying
We've recently come across a handful of reasons to ditch WordPress' built in cron scheduler (wp-cron). As with many things, I never remember exactly how it's set up, so this is quick step by step I can refer back to. I'm not