Custom WordPress and WooCommerce Development

  • Change the sort order of WooCommerce Grouped Products

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    WooCommerce has a small army of filters and hooks that you could customize almost every aspect of the plugin. If you have a grouped product the default display method is by menu_order. But recently, someone wanted to display the grouped items by the date they were published. This is very easily accomplished by filtering the…

  • Hustling for Handball

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    When I am not coding WooCommerce-related things, my other career as an international athlete. From a purely logical standpoint it has been a terrible career choice because it tends to pay negatively and has put a lot of wear and tear on my body. There have been times when I’ve seriously considered buying a cane…

  • Modifying the WooCommerce Product Query

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    UPDATE 9/28/2019: Example 2 no longer works as WooCommerce now links the product in a grouped product via meta data instead of via post_parent. I recently answered a few questions on Stack Overflow and they all seemed to related to how to change what products show up in the shop loop… or any other of…

  • WooCommerce Customize Checkout Fields

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    Note: This was updated for compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0+. This will cause fatal errors if used with older versions of WooCommerce. I was digging around in WooCommerce while trying to come up with a quote for a client. Part of the scope had me wondering if you could remove some fields from the checkout process.…

  • Custom styles for TinyMCE 4.0 in WordPress 3.9

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    The release of WordPress 3.9 saw the update of the included TinyMCE editor to version of 4.0 and this caused no small amount of havoc for people who’d been customizing the text editor. In the past, one was able to define one’s own custom styles and modify the block formats like so: function my_mce_buttons_2( $buttons…

  • WooCommerce Name Your Price 2.0 released!

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    In the summer of 2012, I was visiting one of my best friends in New Orleans… cooking lots of tacos and mixing lots of margaritas. While there, one of my earliest clients contacted me and wanted to be able to sell his books for whatever the customer was willing to pay. Did I know a…

  • Simple User Listing

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    This plugin has been out in the wild for some time now and it seemed appropriate to give it a post on my blog. Once upon a time I was working on a magazine site with a lot of authors and my client wanted to display all the authors in a cool way. Every other…

  • Featured Item Metabox

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    I found I constantly needed a way for clients to mark a post as something they wanted to feature and I’ve never found sticky posts particularly intuitive. In fact, the sticky post UI is about the least obvious thing possible for a WordPress newbie.  The simplest solution was a checkbox in prominently located metabox. So…

  • Add a Repeating Text Field to Options Framework Plugin

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    I don’t hardly even know why I was working on this today.  Well a friend wanted to be able to control the radio buttons in a metabox, from the backend (since the otherwise brilliant WP-Alchemy is all dev-level coding) and for some reason  my brain went to theme option.  He ultimately went a different route…

  • WordPress Filters Fundamentals

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    Ok, so you’ve read my previous articles on PHP basics and how to use WordPress action hooks. Now you want to play with the big boys and girls and try your hand at filters. Just a reminder that you are still essentially learning a new language. Be patient with yourself. It took me close to…