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Easy Digital Downloads comes with a PayPal Standard payment gateway, which lets us get our store up and selling quickly and cheaply. Let's get it to select a better landing page with PayPal Standard, and make our credit card customers happier.
The Gravity Forms Add-on Framework makes the job of creating an add-on really easy. But there's a couple of problems with letting it load our text domain for us:
Page caching is important for the performance of your WordPress website. Here's how to configure WP Super Cache to serve up your site's content from the cache, without bogging down your server.
Gravity Forms email notifications can be used to send simple payment receipts for eWAY transactions.
TIL that you need to give Gravity Forms add-ons some capabilities, otherwise they might disappear from the WordPress admin.
Sometimes the WooCommerce out of stock message isn't quite appropriate. Here's a couple of ways to change that message.
Ever needed to search for a post by something other than the title or post content? If you've built a website with custom post types that have additional fields, it's a good chance that admins will need to search on your custom meta.
Gravity Forms normally loads its stylesheets in the page head, where they belong. It does that only on pages which have forms, which is nice. If you use a widget to host your form, however, it can't detect that until it renders the widget... too late to load the stylesheets in the head. At that point, it just pulls them directly into the page body.
Events Manager is a really nice, easy to customise plugin for showing events on WordPress websites. One gripe I always have with it is that the location maps zoom when you use the mouse scroll wheel, something I always turn off when I add a map to a page. Here's how to fix it.
Customising the AJAX output of WordPress plugins can often be a breeze, when the authors oblige other developers by peppering their code with action and filter hooks. But if they don't, you can always fall back on hacking the plugin's AJAX action.
I've moved nearly all of WebAware's websites to DigitalOcean, and stuck NginX in front of everything.
WordPress 4.1 brings with it the twentyfifteen theme, which I find to be a rather nice blog theme. Unfortunately, it adds a new wrinkle to any tables on your website -- often breaking them! Here's the simple fix.