WooCommerce is the leading e-commerce solution on WordPress, and powers millions of online stores. However, customizing certain elements in WooCommerce isn’t always as obvious as one might presume. This tutorial looks at how to change one of those elements, the review stars.
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WordCamp Sacramento 2015 Slides: iThemes Security
Just a few days ago, the very first Sacramento WordCamp took place. WordCamps are conferences centered around WordPress, the platform that powers one out of every four websites on Earth. This was significant, as Sacramento was perhaps the largest American city to never host a WordCamp prior to now. I had the opportunity to give […]
Add Featured Image To RSS Feed In WordPress
Let’s say you have a WordPress site, and the theme adds a Featured Image at the beginning of each post. Here’s the problem. When you have an RSS feed, or an email campaign hooked into your RSS, that Featured Image doesn’t show up. This happens because most themes add the Featured Image to posts as […]
Dates and Times In WordPress
WordPress has built in functions that deal with dates and times. A few of these of these functions are the_date, the_time, and the_modified_time. Let’s look at each of these, and how they work. We’ll also show you a chart of how to write dates and times in PHP, so you can output those exactly as […]
Automatically Change The Copyright Year In WordPress
A common question for website owners is “How do I automatically change the copyright year in WordPress?” Most WordPress themes have a place in the footer for copyright information or site credits. Sometimes this is in the footer.php file, sometimes it’s not. It depends on the theme. I’d like to show you not only how […]
Strong Passwords in WordPress
One of the best new features in WordPress 4.3 is the addition of strong passwords by default. Why is this important? How does this affect new users? What should you do if you already have a user profile? A Quick Overview of Passwords Website security is always going to be a concern, no matter what […]
Change Return To Shop Link In WooCommerce
WordPress currently powers over 43% of all websites. The most popular e-commerce plugin on WordPress is WooCommerce, by a wide margin. So it’s natural that you might to modify some of the user interface copy that comes with WooCommerce out of the box. Recently, a reader asked how would you change the Return To Shop […]
Add Name Attribute To Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is one of the most widely used free plugins on the WordPress platform. It’s a very extensible way to create a basic contact form that doesn’t require any conditional logic. The trouble is, straight out of the box, this contact form will cause your HTML pages to no longer be valid. The […]
Load Google Fonts Asynchronously For Page Speed
Web developers who are mindful of user experience, performance, and SEO pay attention to page speed. If you’ve ever tested your website on
Using A Child Theme In WordPress Development
There are many reasons you should be using a child theme when working with a premium WordPress theme that you want to alter. Professional WordPress developers will always use a child theme when customizing an existing theme. Inexperienced developers will make changes directly on a premium theme. This has some negative consequences. If you’re already […]