Tag: eCommerce

Tips, Insights, and Customizations for some of the most popular eCommerce solutions for WordPress.

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I’ve contributed to 3 of the major WordPress eCommerce plugins and have done work on popular eCommerce sites ranging from domain registrars to SaaS solutions. You can checkout Easy Digital Downloads, the leader in digital file sales with WordPress.

Conditionally add CSS classes to WordPress Widgets

How to conditionally add CSS classes to a WordPress Widget wrapper element, based off it's instance settings.

/ February 9, 2017

Hide categories with no visible products in the Product Category Widget

By default, the WordPress wp_list_categories function will…get a list of categories. Surprising, I know. It will also even exclude empty categories if you want, meaning if a category has no items...

/ November 7, 2015

How Writing One Plugin Changed My Lifestyle

Outside of the development world, it’s difficult to describe how I landed on my current ‘remote worker lifestyle’. The concept of working from home isn’t new to most people. Some...

/ September 2, 2015

WooCommerce – Hide out of stock products, only when backorders aren’t allowed

A while back I wrote about how I was using WooCommerce for a site my Wife was running. It’s been running totally solid since then, with very minimal involvement from...

/ June 17, 2015

How We Updated 37 Plugins in 4 Days

If you haven’t heard by now, there was a massive day of security releases for several WordPress plugins, and Easy Digital Downloads was no different. We were included in a...

/ April 23, 2015

Protect All the Reputations

When developing software, particularly web applications, you are hardly giving your product to the end user. There’s typically a relationship that looks more like: You › Business › Customer Sure,...

/ April 9, 2015

Prevent additional discounts when renewal discounts are applied

Update: This is now a feature that’s built directly into the Software Licensing add-on for Easy Digital Downloads. It can be accessed in Downloads > Settings > Extensions > Software...

/ April 7, 2015

Not Everything Is a Nail

Often times, as a developer, I’m asked the question we all dread… Do you have a minute? I have an idea I want to run past you. <insert generic idea...

/ November 29, 2014

Showing EDD File Download Sizes

The other day I got an interesting support thread for Easy Digital Downloads, asking for the list of files, and their sizes be displayed when viewing a product. Being that...

/ July 18, 2014

Using Easy Digital Downloads Software Licensing as an API GateKeeper

It’s no secret I’m a fan of Easy Digital Downloads as I’m a contributor and support technician Lead Developer for the project. I’m also a HUGE fan of the Software...

/ April 19, 2014