Silicon Dales introduce and review “WooCommerce Aramex”, a WooCommerce extension.
Gist
Gist is the name given to little snippets of code, hosted by GitHub, for the benefit of anyone.
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. That was almost poetry. Almost.
Heavy Products Stores – Customized Delivery and Payment Options
Online stores selling heavy goods such as firewood, construction supplies or liquids need custom delivery and payment options for local and long-distance delivery needs. Silicon…
October – a busy month for domains
Namecheap have released their big data insights for 2018 based on 10 million domains under management. One of the more interesting insights is the impact…
Silicon Dales on GitHub
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…
The Silicon Dales Guide to GDPR: What does it mean for WordPress & Open Source?
This guide looks at the impact of the GDPR with special regard to website admins, owners and developers – primarily those using the WordPress and…
Add a Padlock (or other) Icon into Checkout Button in WooCommerce
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…
How do I get a UPC?
If you are in the UK and would like to trade on Amazon, you can get a UPC by registering with GS1 UK. GS1 UK…
Black Friday Promotion: up to 98% off domain registration at Namecheap
Here at Silicon Dales we usually recommend Namecheap purely for domain registration, though the company offers much more in the way of hosting, security and…
Preset Namecheap DNS for New Domains
Are you looking to setup DNS records for Namecheap domains you may add in the future, so that your domain just resolves, and doesn’t go…
How to setup your own Nameservers with Namecheap
Namecheap allows you to host your own nameservers, and therefore point your domains at your VPS or dedicated server’s IP address more quickly in future,…
Why Should I Get a .uk Domain?
As we are domain name resellers, and we often register domain names on behalf of clients, we’ve recently been receiving lots of emails about the…
How To Remove Related Products from WooCommerce
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…
How to declare WooCommerce support in your theme
Received a WooCommerce help SOS through our contact form, so here is the simple answer to a question we’ve been asked more than once! Declaring…
Ensuring Business Security Despite Laptop Ban and Border Password Requests
How to ensure your business information is secure while employees and contractors travel. Whether travelling to conferences, or checking-in on work whilst holidaying, travel restrictions…
Local Time in London – Display in a WordPress website
A long while back, I wrote a short piece about how to make Linux servers set their local time to Europe -> London, which you…
Remove the Description tab from WooCommerce
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…
How to display WooCommerce my account page link to logged in users – or login / register link if not logged 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…
Remove “box” from around links and menu items in WooCommerce Storefront
Are you looking to take out the outline (dotted or otherwise) from around menu (and other) links in your WooCommerce store – these links show…
Introducing the “WooCommerce Waitlist” WooCommerce extension
Introducing the “UPS Shipping Method” WooCommerce extension
Introducing the “MyGate Payment Gateway” WooCommerce extension
How to Remove a Tab from WooCommerce
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…
Code to hide content on the front page of WordPress
Another day, another little WordPress tutorial for you guys. This time, I’m posting a how to for those of you who have rolled back the…
How to Automatically mark WooCommerce orders “Complete” on receipt of payment
Ever wanted your WooCommerce orders to be marked as “complete” straight away – for example if you never need them to be marked “processing” (maybe…
WooCommerce Tutorial – Add Additional Shipping Weight to Cart Items in a Shipping Class
Today’s WooCommerce Tutorial contains some fairly high level code which will allow you to do something really specific, that can help with getting your pricing…
How to add pictures to Flickr and put them into an album
On a project many moons ago, we used Flickr to display a variety of subject specific image galleries which fed into WordPress based on the…
Example CodeIgniter .htaccess for mod_rewrite
If you are like Silicon Dales, a few years back, you would have used CodeIgniter (CI) probably quite a lot 5-6 years ago, but perhaps…
Remove unwanted fields from Gravity Forms CSV export options
Ever had a situation where you’ve got Gravity Forms setup and you want to export entries in CSV format – but you don’t want certain…
How To: Leverage Browser Caching for Images, CSS and JS
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?…
How to Find & Replace in MySQL
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…