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To remove WooThemes and IgniteWoo update plugin notices, add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file.
1 2 3 4 | //Remove WooThemes Updater remove_action('admin_notices', 'woothemes_updater_notice'); //Remove IgniteWoo Updater remove_action('admin_notices', 'ignitewoo_updater_notice'); |
This was taken from the WordPress Codex reference for is_plugin_active In the Admin Area:
1 | is_plugin_active($plugin); |
In the front end of a theme you need to include a reference to the following library
1 2 | include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' ); is_plugin_active($plugin); |
In this case $plugin is the directory of the plugin followed by the main php file. In this example below the event…
Adding an audit trail to WooCommerce completed orders emails is a fairly easy task. We can achieve this by employing the filter woocommerce_email_headers and adding in a check for the object name customer_completed_order. ** This will work for WooCommerce version less than or equal to 2.2 **
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | /** * BCC Email for orders completed for WooCommerce version 2.2 and below */ add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_headers', 'mycustom_headers_filter_function', 10, 2); function mycustom_headers_filter_function( $headers, $object ) { if ($object == 'customer_completed_order') { $headers .= 'BCC: Sales <contact@eversionsystems.com>' . "\r\n"; } return $headers; } |
** For WooCommerce version 2.3 and above…
With WooCommerce if a customer orders a virtual product there is no shipping address displayed on the checkout page. This makes sense as there is no physical item being posted to your customer. However, a few of my clients like to have the WooCommerce billing address match the shipping address. Subsequently, I wrote this piece…
To add custom fields WordPress user registration page we need to utilize the hook user_new_form because since WordPress 3.7 the hook register_form no longer works. Here is an example of adding a checkbox to the end of the user registration form.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | <?php //Add a new form element... add_action( 'user_new_form', 'es_plugin_register_form' ); function es_plugin_register_form() { ?> <table class="form-table"> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row"><label for="parent_account"><?php _e( 'Parent Account', 'eversion' ) ?></label></th> <td><label for="parent_account"><input name="parent_account" id="parent_account" value="1" type="checkbox">Create a parent account?</label></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <?php } //Save our extra registration user meta. add_action( 'user_register', 'es_myplugin_user_register' ); function es_myplugin_user_register( $user_id ) { if ( isset( $_POST['parent_account'] ) ) { update_user_meta( $user_id, 'parent_account', 1 ); } } ?> |
Here is the result of us adding custom fields to WordPress user…
You might want to override a WooCommerce core template file in your plugin rather than in the theme directory to future proof theme switching. WooCommerce searches the following locations in this order until a match is found. Let’s alter this slightly so that it searches out plugin folder in order to override the WooCommerce template….
Sending WordPress emails using SMTP is pretty straight forward so rather than using a plugin we can insert a small snippet to do the same thing. All you need for sending WordPress emails via SMTP are your mail server credentials such as username, password and server address. The WordPress email function wp_mail is essentially a…
Debug statements in WordPress can be displayed by using echo which will display the message on the page. It’s a bit of a messy way to debug but works for simple debugging purposes. A better way to do this is to create a function to write your own debug statements to the debug.log file. Debug…
As an administrator on various sites I was getting tired of receiving comment notification emails for websites. According to the WordPress support page comment notification email, administrators receive comment notifications for all posts. This was not sitting well with me and my email box was starting to fill up with spam approval notices! WordPress…
The wp-config.php file contained in the root of your WordPress install directory contains all the configuration items for connecting and interacting with WordPress. The most important information it contains is the credentials for connecting to the MySQL database which without this you’d just see an white page with an error message saying “Database Not Found. …
