I have recently been having a few issues with bots and malicious attacks trying to breach WordPress websites via brute force attacks. From my experience 90% of the websites, I have built or worked on never utilise the xmlrpc service, which is included with WordPress, due to this I decided to simply block any access
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A client was having issues sending emails and receiving a number of alerts regarding delayed emails. After looking investigating a number of outbound emails where queued with a failure reason of
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A client recently asked me to add a filter to the WooCommerce admin products list so they can filter items based on if the item had an image or not. This allowed them to easily find products which had missing images so they could correct.
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Recently been contacted by a user who needed the ability to delay the WooCommerce webhooks by x time, this would allow other processes happening on the site to finish instead of firing the webhook straight away, for example waiting for the payment process to finalise. Delaying webhooks is not common practice, however some time special
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Updating a product via the WooCommerce API would fire an update webhook, causing a loop of webhook and API activity which never ended. Created a script which keeps stock levels synced between WooCommerce and a stock management system, WooCommerce WebHooks are used to set products stock levels in near real time.
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I’ve recently been working on a project which synced data between WooCommerce and an internal warehouse system, I was utilising the WooCommerce webhooks to achieve near real time syncing between the two systems, without having the creating API scripts to poll for data on a regular basis. The Problem? There was a delay ranging from
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Need the ability to filter the WooCommerce products list within admin by tags? Snippet of code below is for you. This concept can be edited for other purposes.
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Easily remove the Yoast SEO filter options from WordPress posts and pages within the admin. Yoast SEO is a great SEO tool, I install it on most of the websites I build, but somes times I just dont need or want the filters it adds at the top of the admin posts pages.
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A small fix to correct the missing brand and mpn structured data when using WooCommerce. WooCommerce seems to miss off these two fields which can cause warnings to appear within your Google Search Console.
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