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Prevent Refresh from Adding Another Product in WooCommerce
Prevent items from being mistakenly added to the cart multiple times. Mountain America Jerky uses the WooCommerce eCommerce plugin for WordPress, and they were having an issue: when users added a product to their cart then refreshed, the item was being added … Continue reading
Paginate Links in WordPress Link Manager
Links are not a first-class citizens in WordPress In developing the a website for professional genealogists, I was tasked with creating link directory functionality in WordPress. I didn’t want to install some big plugins; I wanted to use the Links Manager … Continue reading
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged Link Categories, Link Manager, Links, Pagination, Wordpress Customization
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Auto-Optimize WordPress Database without a Plugin
These horses are somehow not cool. Speeding up your blog is. I am working on a WordPress project that has a pretty heavy database, and I want to be able to auto-optimize the WordPress database. Even though they are integrating … Continue reading
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged Database, Functions.php, load time, Optimization, Speed, WordPress Development, WordPress Functions, WP-DBManager
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How to Prevent Loading WP-DownloadManager’s CSS File
If you want to disable the WordPress plugin WP-DownloadManager‘s download-css.css file from being loaded, add the following code to your functions.php file: remove_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘downloads_stylesheets’); Alternatively, if you would just like to use your own stylesheet, you can add a file … Continue reading
Posted in Code, QuickTip, WordPress
Tagged CSS, load time, Plugin, Plugins, WordPress Plugins, WP Plugins, WP-DownloadManager
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Add a Store Catalog XML Sitemap to the Shopp Plugin
The Shopp default RSS/XML/Google Base solution was not enough. I needed to have a Google Base feed that featured all the store products. For some reason, the recommended process wasn’t working for me. It was either showing only recent products, … Continue reading
Posted in Code, Shopp
Tagged Google Base, Google Base Feed, RSS, RSS Feed, Shopp Plugin, Shopping Cart, WordPress RSS Feed, WordPress Shopping Cart, XML
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Simple Taxonomies Formatting — Improve the Plugin’s Code Output
I’ve been using Joost de Valk’s Simple Taxonomies plugin for a couple of projects, and I’ve been very disappointed by the formatting of the terms output code. When configuring the plugin, you have the option of choosing “Add terms to … Continue reading
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged custom taxonomies, custom taxonomy, Joost, Plugin, Simple Taxonomies, Taxonomies, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, Yoast
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How to Display a Random Testimonial or Post in WordPress
Set up a testimonials category — no need for a plugin. There are a couple of plugins designed specifically for testimonials, but I didn’t want to use them; they use their own databases, and don’t keep with WordPress’ simplicity. If … Continue reading
Posted in Code
Tagged Categories, Code, How To, Plugins, Posts, query_posts, Random Post, Testimonials, WordPress, WordPress Development
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Get Adjacent Images – More WordPress Functions
WordPress, just get the adjacent image links. I’ll tell you what to do with them! WordPress is normally great about providing functions that have a return and an echo version. In WordPress, if a function has the prefix get_, then … Continue reading
WordPress Digg Shortcode Function – As Seen on WordPress.com
When moving from WordPress.com, my Digg shortcodes broke. I wanted a simple way to transition my Digg chicklets to a WordPress.org installation. I created a function that does nothing special, except for reproducing the Digg shortcode functionality on WordPress.com. All … Continue reading
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged Digg, Digg Shortcode, Functions.php, WordPress Shortcode, WordPress.com
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