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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 or find more Gists on Github.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to Use Shortcodes in your WordPress Theme Files
Got a plugin that does something really nifty, and turns out really good results in your WordPress posts and pages? Want to use that shortcode…
Tutorial: Customizing the WordPress Customizer – Image Uploads to use in your Theme
In the next few days, I am going to post a few code snippets which will help those looking to get started with some simple…
Transfer (Copy) a WordPress website, files & database, within Plesk (12.5+)
The instructions below will allow you to copy a complete WordPress website, and all files, from one domain to another, within Plesk version 12.5 or…
How to Remove Obscure Payment Logos (Icons) from WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
Please note that the snippet in this post applied to the WooCommerce Stripe extension before version 4.0 was released. If you are on version 4.x.x…
Tutorial: Use WP CLI to recount WordPress taxonomy terms
Sometimes in WordPress or WooCommerce website, you find that (for example) some custom post type or other content has been removed, but the taxonomy terms…
WooCommerce Tutorial: Allow users only to purchase items once
Ever had a store where you don’t want to let your users purchase the same item twice? There are a few use-cases where this might…
How to Change the Review Author Display Name in WooCommerce (stop using full name!)
Have you ever wanted to change the way that WooCommerce reviews are displayed in your store? The code below, when added to your theme’s functions.php…
How to lock out all traffic (except your IP) from WordPress Login and Admin pages
Today’s tutorial contains a couple of quick fixes which will block out everyone you don’t want from even trying to login to your site. Please…