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Restrict plugin (or all) autoupdates to business hours – WordPress
We love the plugin autoupdate functionality in WordPress, but we really don’t want them to update on a Saturday night, potentially bringing a site down and messing up our weekend. Update I’ve made this into a downloadable plugin here: https://github.com/a8cteam51/plugin-autoupdate-filter/ When do plugin autoupdates happen? Every time someone hits admin: add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘_maybe_update_plugins’ ); This function checks if…
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Auto-add free shipping coupon for initial orders only for WooCommerce Subscriptions
Synopsis Customer wanted to offer free shipping on any orders of at least $25. Additionally, they wanted any subscription renewals to charge shipping normally – the free shipping should only apply to the initial order. To solve this, I’ve suggested using a free shipping coupon, which is applied automatically to the cart if it’s $25…
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Remove Coupons from Cart with Subscriptions
Remove coupons from cart if there’s a subscription product in it.
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WooCommerce Subscriptions Restrict Product
Here’s a mini-plugin I wrote which extends the functionality of WooCommerce Subscriptions. It restricts subscription products to a certain number of total active (unended) subscriptions on a site. Use case: store owner wants products and subscriptions to have a one-to-one relationship, i.e. each product should only be subscribed to once. For example, subscription product is…
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Confirm WooCommerce Subscriptions Cancellation
We recently witnessed some issues occurring when customers using WooCommerce and Subscriptions deleted their payment methods (when they have a credit card “on file”). When they also have active subscriptions using the card they just deleted, most customers don’t realize that they also have to update their card for each of the active subscriptions. We’ve…
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Taylor Land Services
There’s still a place for commercial themes. An old acquaintance called up asking for help: he was rebranding his family business with an emphasis on heavy machinery and he wanted help with a website and logo. I said sure, as long as he wouldn’t mind using a pre-made theme. It had been so long since I…
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Reid Health
Acted as lead developer on complete redesign and overhaul of hospital website as they transitioned to an umbrella health organization. We used WordPress as a CMS to provide a user-friendly experience for the non-tech-savvy content administrators. Heavy use of custom fields allowed us to provide places for lots of custom editable content while preventing design creep.…
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Weather Dashboard
Last year, we installed a wi-fi enabled weather station on our property: the Rainwise MK-III-LR. Every few seconds, it sends updated weather data to the cloud. We chose to route the data to Wunderground, allowing it to be a peer among many personal weather stations in the area, which also opens up the data to the public.…
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Hunting Check-In
Sometimes, a simple solution is all that is needed for a simple problem. As is common for developers and programmers of all varieties, I can’t help but enjoy finding a clever solution to a particular problem, but that pales in comparison to the joy that I obtain from coming up with a dead simple, smack-you-in-the-forehead answer.…
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DQP
I worked as lead developer on an informational site for the Degree Qualifications Profile, a joint project between the Lumina Foundation and the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). The primary goal was to present the concept and overview of the project in an easy-to-understand fashion, while still providing a depth of resources and…
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Lumina Focus
This spring, I was the sole developer for creating a WordPress publishing tool for billion-dollar education policy foundation. For the last six years, they have been using a custom MVC PHP framework, and we aided their transition into the era of responsive designs and ability to manage their own content.
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WooCommerce Casket Store
I was the sole developer for the online storefront for a cremation products vendor. We quickly settled on WooCommerce as the most robust e-commerce platform, and though the designers based their design on a commercial theme, we quickly decided that the custom functionality would require us to create our own, while starting with the theme…
