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Author: Kento
Free Lunch Optimizations
Looking at a recent support request which involves issues with an “optimization” plugin, it reminds me of why we assertively recommend to avoid using any generic optimization plugins … like the plague! From lots of years of experience in providing support for our tools, there are countless cases of issues caused by “optimization plugins”. Experience…
The Power of Newsletters
Newsletters are a popular way of reaching your audience. You can add this powerful communication tool to your WordPress site with the Groups Newsletters extension. A newsletter allows you to write meaningful content and provide it to your audience in an easy and automated way. Write one or more stories, combine them into a newsletter…
Using Custom Fields with WooCommerce Products
In this little tutorial, we will look at how you can use Custom Fields to add data to certain products and display the added information using a Child Theme we create for that purpose. In this particular example, we will show an external link as a button, after the Add to Cart button. This example…
Feedback we love and good Ideas
While attending several requests related to our plugins on WordPress, I was delighted to see new awesome feedback and rating on our Groups plugin and the support we provide for it: Excellent support – I have to say, these things provide a huge motivation to me and everyone involved in making the Groups ecosystem better…
Silence is Golden, Debugging is Silver
How to adjust PHP error reporting for WordPress Debugging It’s important to be aware of any issues in your code when you develop for WordPress. But sometimes, too much information is just … too much. Here is an efficient way of choosing which notices are important to you and which are not. When you develop…
Search Musings
The Everything-Recorder Recently I came across a mention of a new “search thing” which I found interesting. It’s an application called Rewind that allows you to “Find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard”. I say it’s interesting, because of the relatable experience of putting a Product Search Engine for WooCommerce out there that provides tremendous…
Decent Comments revamped
After a couple of years in development hibernation, I’ve tackled the task of reviewing the Decent Comments plugin and prepare a new release. It actually took two releases in a row, 1.11.0 yesterday and then 1.12.0 today, the latter of which fixes fatal errors caused by changes introduced in the former. Thanks to a user…
WordPress Support Session
It’s nice to see that people are working with Groups also over the weekend! We’ve had a few requests related to Groups which I’ve attended today and I wanted to summarize here: Groups PayPal – Publish GPLv3 Open Source on GitHub Incompatibility with BuddyBoss Post Read restriction and Cron job The first one is related…
Users managing WordPress Groups
A recent request we have received is related to managing things with the Groups plugin for WordPress. It touches on an interesting and important set of functions that would be great to have: Users creating groups? Pre-install question:Is it possible to allow all users to create groups and manage who goes into those groups with…
WordPress Support Session
Today I’ve attended to a few things as part of our regular WordPress support sessions, this time it was really nice to see two new 5* ratings users of the Groups plugin provided: What I needed to enhance security Elegant way of grouping your customers/members It’s really awesome to read about the use cases, not…
Affiliates 4.13.0 Releases & Happy Mother’s Day Sale
The latest versions of our Affiliates system have been released: These releases have been tested with the current latest versions of WordPress (6.0) and WooCommerce (6.5). Happy Mother’s Day! To celebrate, you can get the premium versions at a discount and you can use the coupon code mother today to get a discount on eligible…
New Affiliates 4.12.0 releases are out!
Hooray! We have just released the latest versions of our Affiliates system: These have been tested with the latest version of WordPress (up to 6.0) and WooCommerce (up to 6.2). Update or get them and enjoy more business! Image credit: Ankush Minda
Make it Sustainable
Why we decided to wind down all products sold via the Envato Marketplace and make them available only in our Shop. TL; DR : To maintain high quality software is feasible only if the ongoing costs of doing so are covered, while the time and work of the people who develop, maintain and provide support…
WordPress Mail Debugging
Sometimes you just want to see what emails are sent or what they contain, without actually having them sent. Cases where this might be desirable include … Working on a development site and you want to avoid that the site sends real emails. Tests during plugin development to see if your plugin sends the right…
