Add a wrapper div to Woocommerce Single Product page without editing plugin files

Posted by on Apr 28, 2014 in Blog, E-Commerce, Themes, Woocommerce, Wordpress | No Comments

The problem I was re-arranging the items on my themes Woocommerce Single Product page. See the info panel at the end of this post for more on that. I realized that the various sections with description, price, add to cart button etc would flow independently when the browser was resized. This may be desirable in […]

Add, remove, re-order items on Woocommerce single product page

Posted by on Apr 28, 2014 in Blog, E-Commerce, Woocommerce | No Comments

The title says it all. This is not a thorough tutorial. Just some handy code with a very quick explanation. I was working with the free MyStile theme from Woothemes (v1.3.0) and Woocommerce (v2.1.7) on WordPress 3.9. This solution should work for most themes I believe, although I can not guarantee it. Remove Woocommerce items […]

Remove Tabs but keep product description in Woocommerce

Posted by on Apr 28, 2014 in Blog, E-Commerce, Woocommerce | 25 Comments

The problem. A client did not like the Tabs on Woocommerce Single product pages. The ones that include product description, Product specifications if you have entered any and product reviews. That is easy, a single line of code will remove all of the tabs (see below), but she still wanted to display the product description. […]

Remove WooCommerce styles and scripts

Posted by on Apr 20, 2014 in Blog, E-Commerce, Woocommerce | No Comments

This is not a tutorial, more a record of a handy bit of code. You may not want to remove all of this in a real world scenario, although you never know. More likely there will be a particular script and css that you wish to remove as I did in this tutorial on using […]

Use a different Lightbox with Woocommerce

Posted by on Apr 20, 2014 in Blog, E-Commerce, Woocommerce | 10 Comments

At first it seemed it should be pretty easy to change the lightbox used by Woocommerce to display the product images. Well it was not as simple as I thought so I decided to record the solution in a post for others. Why would you want to change the lightbox? Well there are a few […]

WordPress From 10,000 ft.

Posted by on Sep 19, 2013 in Blog, Themes, Wordpress | No Comments

How does it work? It is surprising how long many people have worked with WordPress without really having a basic understanding of how it actually works under the hood. The goal of this post is to provide a broad overview of how WordPress works with different technologies from a non-techie perspective. This is not about what […]

Temporarily close your WP e-Commerce store

Posted by on Apr 18, 2013 in Blog, E-Commerce, Storefront Themes, WP e-Commerce | 2 Comments

The question Everyone needs a break and not all of you are giant companies. Some of you are small one or two person operations making gorgeous things with love. I received this question about the online store of one such artisan manufacturer, ‘Coco Suisse” whose chocolates are awesome by the way…. “I’m actually taking off […]

WP e-Commerce and GoldCart replace $0.00 prices with message.

Posted by on Apr 1, 2013 in Blog, E-Commerce, Gold Cart, WP e-Commerce | 2 Comments

The question I’ve been searching for some code so that if the price is £0.00, then a piece of text along the lines of ‘Price on application’ is pulled through. I have found this post on your site and attempted to make it work. I think the different plugin versions mean that I can’t get […]

WP_Query how to display posts from a specific Category

Posted by on Dec 23, 2012 in Blog, Wordpress | 3 Comments

I received a question about how to display posts from a specific category. You may want to do this in a newspaper style layout or just to show a featured category on your homepage. You need to use WP_Query There are 2 numbers in the line of code highlighted below which are the arguments we […]

Storefront Elegance theme. Change the size of the homepage slider

Posted by on Nov 26, 2012 in Blog, Elegance, Storefront Themes | One Comment

I have had a couple of people ask how to change the size of the slider on the homepage of Storefronts Elegance theme. So prepare to venture into some PHP code. This is really easy stuff, just changing a couple of numbers, show no fear and jump in even if you have never done it […]