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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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

A few weeks ago I ran into someone on the WordPress StackExchange wanting to sort his list of authors by recent activity – the author with the most recently published article first, etc. This type of sorting isn’t currently possible using the get_users() function(codex), nor the WP_User_Query class (codex), but it can be done –…

A question we get asked quite often is how to create a link to an email address. There’s a small trick to it, but once you know it, it’s quite easy to do. As a bonus, we’ll also talk about how to create a link to a phone number.

In a recent blog post, Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, outlined his thoughts on how companies can give back to WordPress: