At Silicon Dales, because we love Open Source, we use Gists to store and share all our little WordPress and WooCommerce (or anything else) snippets, after spending a heap of time a few years ago converting ALL snippets to be Gists in this here website… a pretty big operation.
Posts which contain Gists will be given this tag, too. You can find the most recently updated item containing a Gist in the list below or find more Gists on Github.
Sometimes, we need to find and replace certain strings or pieces of data in MySQL on the fly, for example if we’ve changed a Top Level domain (TLD) and want to update a bunch of links all in one go. For those times, the following command can be issued: The code from the Gist above …
Ever checked your website speed using GTmetrix, Pingdom, PageSpeed or Yslow… or any of the other many and various latest and greatest speed checking tools? ***2021 update: take a look at Lighthouse Well, if you have, you might have come across a request to “leverage browser caching…” or similar. What does “Leverage Browser Caching” actually …
The code snippet below will allow you to remove related products from your WooCommerce store, in case you had everything in your store setup just right, and you didn’t want to feature cross sells in your site. Cross sells and upsells Its worth first understanding which related products are being displayed in your site (the …
A long while back, I wrote a short piece about how to make Linux servers set their local time to Europe -> London, which you can find here. Today, I’m going to show you how to post a quick snippet into your WordPress to allow you to display what the local time is anywhere in …
Ever wanted to display a my account page link in your WooCommerce theme files, and to have this changed to “Login / Register” in case your user is not logged in, dynamically? Well the snippet below, when added into the relevant location in your theme template files will do just that! We tend to wrap …
Ever wanted to remove the description tab from your WooCommerce website? Maybe you put the short description at the top and its pretty much the same text? Whatever the reason, if you’d like to remove the description tab from WooCommerce, you can do so using the snippet below, which should be added to functions.php, or …
Are you looking to take out the outline (dotted or otherwise) from around menu (and other) links in your WooCommerce store – these links show up on click briefly, and look like this: Storefront added a host of accessibility features a while back – in version 1.4 – which specifically included adding these features to …
Have you ever wanted to remove or disable a particular tab, or tabs, from your WooCommerce store? The snippet below will allow you to do just that, from your theme’s functions.php file. Remove Tabs from WooCommerce Add the snippet below to your child theme’s functions.php file. Be sure to remove the tabs you wanted (the …
Back in 2015, we finally got Silicon Dales onto GitHub. It’s the versioning tool of choice for most of our partners and counterparts, so we hauled our assets from internal tools and SVN over to GitHub. There was no need to swim against the tide forever! Note all of our projects and most of our …
We recently had a request to add a padlock directly into the checkout button in a WooCommerce checkout, so I’m posting a snippet, below, which will allow you to do just that. Please note that several plugins add their own “checkout now” text, which is not the subject of today’s lesson, so you may want …
