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How To Add An Admin Menu Item With Sub Menu Items

April 20, 2020 Marc WordPress Tips No comments yet

If you're in the business of making plugins, you'll eventually run into an instance where you want a place for people to be able to configure settings for that plugin. Yesterday, I was dreaming up a new plugin idea that is significantly more complicated than [...]

Hide Out Of Stock Products By Category In WooCommerce

April 15, 2020 Marc WooCommerce, WordPress Plugins No comments yet

I made another plugin! The process of getting this one approved only took about 1 hour from when I uploaded it to Wordpress.org - nice job on that Automattic, well done! Because I know a few things from the first plugin, this one was much [...]

Add Custom Field To Category Settings Pages

April 14, 2020 Marc WordPress Tips No comments yet

I ran across something today where I wanted to add a checkbox to a WooCommerce product category page. Just a simple checkbox. I wanted to be able to use that to change how the front end of the website handled products in that category. It [...]

How to check WooCommerce Version In PHP

April 13, 2020 Marc WooCommerce No comments yet

In writing plugins for Woocommerce, it's generally good to check to make sure it's installed, activated, and is a version your plugin supports. I've released one plugin and am now writing another and realized that not having Woocommerce could cause your website to break if [...]

How To Remove The Company Name Field From The WooCommerce Checkout

April 10, 2020 Marc WooCommerce No comments yet

WooCommerce is a fully-featured ecommerce system that comes with a lot out of the box. With zero alterations, it can power just about any store. Just add your products and choose how you'll get paid and you're done! But what if you don't want all [...]

Automatically Restock Woocommerce Products

April 9, 2020 Marc WooCommerce, WordPress Plugins No comments yet

I made a plugin! This is my first plugin submitted to Wordpress and their repository. Having it up there means a lot to me because being included means that I've followed their standards when it comes to code quality and usefulness. Get it here: Automatically [...]

How To Enable SSL On WordPress

April 9, 2020 Marc WordPress Security No comments yet

If you have a Wordpress website you'll probably want to protect it with an SSL certificate. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer that, simply, encrypts data from a person's web browser to the server. This stops anyone from intercepting messages from a website to the [...]

Does WP Rocket Work With LiteSpeed Cache?

April 7, 2020 Marc WordPress Optimization No comments yet

No. WP Rocket does not work with Litespeed cache. You need to choose one or the other. If you can, I'd go with Litespeed if you're server knowledgable. Otherwise, WP Rocket for everyone else. If you're like me and aren't too familiar with Litespeed, you'll [...]

LiteSpeed Cache Server & Plugin Review – 2020

April 7, 2020 Marc WordPress Optimization No comments yet

In starting this website (nerdywp.com), I wanted to make sure that I had the fastest possible server + Wordpress instal possible. I've used many Wordpress side solutions that make Wordpress itself faster, which usually do great job. I've seen plugins drop website load times from [...]

How To Hide WPBakery Visual Composer Plugin Updates

April 5, 2020 Marc WordPress Tips No comments yet

We've been using the Visual Composer plugins for years. It's great and makes editing websites super simple. Even this website uses it. If you're not familiar with it, it adds stuff to the editor that turns it into a drag and drop interface. It's sooooo [...]

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