Nicola Mustone

Support Lead @ Automattic


Leadership, web, programming. Short essays and hands-on guides, focused on results, not hype.


PHP

Short PHP snippets and examples that make development easier.

  • I already talked about how to add custom CSS to your site. It’s now time to learn how to add custom PHP code as well!

    In most of my posts on this website, I tell you to add custom code to the functions.php file. How should you do it? And what is the best way to do it?

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  • With WooCommerce 2.5 a new feature has been added to the checkout page: the password strength meter.

    If you allow customers to create an account from this page and they also choose their own password, they will see a password strength meter next to the password field.

    Why is this useful?

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  • Ever needed to tweak a Processing order after payment?

    By default, WooCommerce doesn’t let you edit orders once they’ve been paid. That’s because once the payment is complete, changing totals or quantities could cause accounting or fulfillment issues.

    Still, there are legitimate cases where you might need to adjust an order after it moves to Processing: maybe to fix a product note, update a shipping field, or correct a simple mistake.

    Let’s make that possible.

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