WordPress has it’s own rewrite API which it uses to prettify URLs, to give a specific WooCommerce example the shop URL http://wooexp.local/shop/ can be rewritten as http://wooexp.local/index.php?post_type=product If you type the URL above into a browser (changing the host from the I’m using on a Local by Flywheel test site to your site) then you … Read more
If you’ve ever done any coding in WordPress then you may have used the is_single() function, it’s super useful for finding out if you’re on a specific single post page function hwn_filter_content_using_issingle($content) { if( is_single(35) && is_main_query() ) { $new_content = ‘<p>This bonus content is added to the bottom of post 35.</p>’; $content .= $new_content; … Read more
If you’ve thought about modifying your WooCommerce store then you’ve probably come across code snippets online, code snippets can be useful and provide the ability to add extra functionality to your store with a simple copy and paste, but how should you add a snippet to your store? What’s the best way to add a … Read more
Filters in WordPress allow you to alter content without directly altering core WordPress files, they also allow you to alter dynamically generated content before it is shown to users. As WooCommerce is built on top of WordPress filters are used extensively, and if you want to learn how to modify WooCommerce you’ll need to build … Read more
When I first started messing around with WordPress I wanted to add a PHP page to a site that I could use as a sandbox to test code, I ideally wanted the page to be able to access all of the WordPress libraries and functions so I could test WordPress functionality and not just PHP … Read more
What are the Benefits of Creating a Storefront Child Theme Let’s imagine that you want to make a change to your WooCommerce store, if the change can’t be made via options available in the WordPress/WooCommerce admin, then you’ll need to write/alter some code or CSS files. If you’ve done any coding in the past your … Read more
The other day I was looking at how to bulk load test products into WooCommerce with the aim of load testing for speed etc. It occurred to me that it would be hard to approach the topic of bulk loading test products without first looking at the WP Cli. So here’s an article that looks … Read more
In this article, we’re going to take a look at how to set-up a development environment for Woocommerce, by the time we’ve finished we should have an environment that will allow us to – Quickly spin up a fresh Woocommerce site that includes test data Edit code productively using an IDE Step through code using a debugger … Read more
What are “Sticky Add-To-Cart” and “Product Pagination”? Hmmm, they’re not all that easy to describe. If you go to the single product page in the Storefront child theme you’ll see some floating images towards the far right and left of the screen, they look like this. If you hover over one of the images then … Read more
It’s quite hard to give an easy to understand definition of what do_action and add_action do, so I’m just going to launch straight into some code and hopefully, the purpose of the two methods will become clear reasonably quickly. Here’s a very simple example of do_action do_action(“display_some_numbers”); If we add the code above to a … Read more