We absolutely love where WordPress is going with Gutenberg, but on a recent project we discovered that there’s currently one glaring absence in the list of blocks: The ability to lay out a grid of content. Enter GenerateBlocks. A clean, fast, minimal set of blocks that allow you to create incredibly flexible responsive grids. Unlike … Read more
Need to clean out a product file? Old crusty sale prices sitting around from 6 years ago? Run these mysql commands to make the nothing but a faint memory: DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price’;DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price_dates_to’;DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price_dates_from’; As with all database manipulation. Make sure … Read more
We can’t believe it’s been over 9 years since our original “Low Cost or Free Stock Photography sites“. It’s definitely time to update it. After all these years, we’re still using Deposit Photos, but we’ve added a few more low-cost image repositories. Yay Images has become indispensable to us over the last year, and we’ve … Read more
To start with. You can’t. Not directly, anyway. There is no “drop table prefix_%;”, so stop looking. This seems to be the easiest workaround that we’ve found based on information shared here. So here’s how we did it. For reference, anywhere a word or a phrase is wrapped in greater than / less than signs, … Read more
We have a customer where all of their items are variable products. As you can imagine, there ends up being requests to change sizes, colors, or other variations. Once they’ve paid for the order, the status of the order gets set to “Processing” and WooCommerce won’t let you edit that order. Thanks to Nicola Mustone’s … Read more
Does it frustrate you when it seems that more and more plugins and themes feel like their particular offering is so incredibly critical that you HAVE to have it front-and-center on your admin bar? What happens when too many plugins start vying for that precious real estate? You end up with a cluttered, wrapping admin … Read more
From WordPress.org: WordPress 5.5 is the second major release of 2020 and aims to include a navigation menus block, automatic updates for plugins and themes, a block directory, XML sitemaps, lazy loading, and update Gutenberg to the latest release version as we continue to focus in 2020 on full site editing via Gutenberg. By far, … Read more
Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability present in two themes by Elegant Themes, Divi and Extra, as well as Divi Builder, a WordPress plugin. Combined, these products are installed on an estimated 700,000 sites. This flaw gave authenticated attackers, with contributor-level or above capabilities, the ability to upload arbitrary files, including PHP files, and achieve … Read more
Need to send a text message via email? Say, for an order notification from your WooCommerce website? Easy enough….. If you know the secret domain names for emailing to text:
You need a CSS formatter. We’ve been experimenting with https://www.codebeautifier.com/, and it seems to do a great job. Not only will it format your CSS into something legible, it will combine duplicate entries to help you be able to clean up messy CSS entries.