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10 Helpful Tools to Boost Your Agency’s Productivity
With the right tools and processes in place, we save at least an hour of time, per staff member, every week. Here’s how… Last month, I was having a discussion with one of our long-term clients and I asked if they used Trello for managing their content creation process. His response surprised me, “I’ve just…
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Drop by and visit us at WordCamp Atlanta 2017!
The GoWP team will be at WordCamp Atlanta this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (March 17-19). If you’re planning to attend, drop by our sponsor table and get some GoWP swag. If you don’t have ticket yet, you can purchase one here: https://2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org/tickets/ As always, WCATL will have awesome speakers and plenty of fun. We hope…
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WordPress 4.3 bug causing high CPU load for some sites
Over the weekend we became aware of a bug (#33423) in the recently released 4.3 version of WordPress that can cause high CPU load for some sites. A fix for this bug will be included in the first maintenance release, 4.3.1. If you are a GoWP customer your site has already been patched to address this…
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Apply the price of a WooCommerce product variation to all variations
If you have a WooCommerce product with a lot of variations that are all the same price, entering/updating the price can be a little frustrating as you must update the price manually for each variation. For a product with three colour and size attributes this is only nine total variations, but if you could update…
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WooCommerce Wholesale Prices and Product Bundles conflict
A few weeks back one of our customers began using the WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin and reported an issue to us where the cart total was double what it should be. After some investigation we found there to be a conflict with the WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugin. In this article we’ll outline the details of the…
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Issue in WooCommerce v2.3.6 prevents checkout using Internet Explorer
Today we received a report from a customer that her WooCommerce checkout was malfunctioning, preventing her own customers from completing the checkout process. After some investigation we were able to determine that the issue is specific to the latest version of WooCommerce (2.3.6) and only affects visitors using Internet Explorer (versions 10 and 11 in our…
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Display a random post using a custom URL
Last week a user on the WordPress subreddit was asking about displaying a random post using a unique permanent link – something like domain.com/random-post/, for example. This is something that can be done via the pre_get_posts filter with just a few lines of code.
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Watch WordCamp talks from around the world on WordPress.tv
If you are new to WordPress then you might be unaware that conferences called WordCamps are held on a regular basis, all around the world. At these events attendees can improve their knowledge on all aspects of using WordPress by sitting in on presentations from local and international speakers that are experts in their respective…
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Inserting custom posts into the loop
Today on the WordPress subreddit, someone asked if it was possible to have posts from a custom post type (recipes, in their example) show up in the main blog at a set frequency (ie. every 5th post). My initial thought was, probably not. But I decided to do a little digging anyway. Turns out there’s a…
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Dynamically exclude empty terms from nav menus
Last week a user on WordPress StackExchange inquired about excluding categories from a nav menu on they fly if the category contained no posts. I was able to provide a very simple solution using the wp_get_nav_menu_items action filter and the global $wpdb object [codex]. Today we will expand on this solution slightly to remove empty terms…
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Display product-specific role-based prices with the Dynamic Pricing extension
The Dynamic Pricing extension for WooCommerce is a great plugin that allows you to change prices on the fly under a number of different circumstances. One way in which we see this plugin being used quite often is per-product pricing for registered customers with a specific role – wholesalers, for example. However, when this approach is used…
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Easily import data into WordPress with WP All Import
Here’s a quick tip for importing products into WordPress: use WP All Import. It’s the easiest way we’ve found to import data from a CSV or Excel file into WordPress. We often use it for importing products into WooCommerce but it can be used to import custom post types, taxonomies, custom fields and more.