Enfold is a very popular premium WordPress theme with over 200,000 installs. The theme ships with many options, a builder and demos. Despite all of this, there are often requirements for enhancements that go beyond what the theme delivers. As a Seattle real estate company, Van Wyck and Porter wants to emphasize properties for saleDropdown Filters and Sitemaps for the Enfold Theme See the full project…
In a How WooCommerce Stores Product Variations Part 1, I discussed how variations are kept in the database as the relationship between the posts and postmeta table. However, the article did not address using global attributes with product variations. What are Global Attributes? Global attributes are the attributes that you can set in your dashboardHow WooCommerce Stores Product Variations<br/>Part 2 See the full project…
WooCommerce makes use of the standard WordPress SQL tables for both products and product variations. In the posts table, products are stored with the post_type of “product” and each variation for the product has a post_type of “product_variation”. The product variation has a post_parent set to the ID of the product it is related to.How WooCommerce Stores Product Variations<br />Part 1 See the full project…
For a long time WordPress has thrived as an open source community. Its mission stated as democratizing publishing. However, recent developments have made me wonder who or what we are supporting when we contribute. If I install Jetpack or WooCommerce, I am required to connect with a WordPress.com account. Both Jetpack and Woocommerce are ownedShould We Contribute to WordPress? See the full project…
I have been working on a project using a child theme based Allegiant Pro from https://cpothemes.com/. While the theme is generally well written and with easy to override functions, it still relies on floats for the headers. The first problem with this approach was adjusting the layout for different image sizes. Notice that the navigationWhy Use Flexbox for Navigation See the full project…
When I wrote the post on reusable blocks in a Custom Post type, I thought I had everything working. Unfortunately, I discovered a bug! While the reusable block seemed to load and work perfectly, once the post was saved and reloaded, an error occurred: The work around is to immediately edit and save the blockHow to Use Reusable Blocks when Building a Block Template in a Custom Post Type Follow-up See the full project…
Tuesday, January 15, 20196:30 PM to 8:30 PM Smart Building Center, Pacific Tower1200 12th Ave. S · Seattle, WA Want to give your online store a post-holiday checkup? Jonathan Martin, founder of Cool Blue Web, an agency providing eCommerce solutions, will be sharing some great tips with us. You spend a lot of time prepping your WooCommerceSeattle WooCommerce Meetup See the full project…
One of the great features of the Gutenberg editor, is the ability to create a reusable block. Reusable blocks are very powerful in that they allow you to create a block that can be used in multiple places and look and behave the same way no matter where that block is used. Plus, when youHow to Use Reusable Blocks when Building a Block Template in a Custom Post Type See the full project…
Bill Erickson describes the process of building a block with Advanced Custom Fields in his post Building a block with Advanced Custom Fields. I wanted to take his excellent post a bit further and describe how to do this for a custom post type. Here are the steps I will discuss: What to include inHow to Build a Gutenberg Block with Advanced Custom Fields and Custom Posts Types See the full project…
In Modern CSS part 1 and part 2, I discussed using flexbox for layout. In this post, I explain how I used CSS Grid along with fallbacks for IE and other older browsers. The Grid One of the design requirements for Chaffey Building Group is the display of properties in a grid format. An exampleModern CSS – part 3 See the full project…
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