Robin Hislop's Posts
Robin got his first modem in 1984 and has been in love with the internet ever since. He co-founded Spannerworks, one of the UK's first search marketing agencies in 1997. Based in Brighton, he builds great e-commerce and CMS web sites, and markets them online.
Disable Yoast WordPress SEO for certain roles
For some strange reason, Yoast SEO doesn’t set capabilities, so access permissions for SEO functions cannot be limited by role. Here are some workarounds to do that.
Brighton Steiner School
Responsive school website built in WordPress with event management and online application forms.
Tags: event management, gravity forms, responsive design, wordpress
WordPress comment tracking in Google Analytics without hacking core
How to track WordPress comments as a Google Analytics goal if your theme uses the WordPress comment_form function. This solution uses jQuery to avoid making changes to core files.
Tags: goal tracking, google analytics, wordpress
Cleaning up Gravity Forms file uploads
Uploaded files attached to Gravity Form submissions can quickly mount up, filling up server space. Find out how to remove expired form entries, including the attached files; and also to remove any temporary files left over from abandoned submissions.
Tags: file upload, gravity forms, woocommerce, wordpress
Customising WooCommerce notification emails with hooks and filters
WooCommerce has many hooks to customise the email notifications sent at various stages of the purchase process, but these are not very well documented. Find out how to use some of these useful filters.
Tags: filters, hooks, notification emails, woocommerce
WordPress Contact Form 7 user registration
You can use Contact Form 7 to create a simple membership system for WordPress. Create a user registration form and use this snippet to automatically create user accounts which can be approved in the admin area.
Tags: contact form, user registration, wordpress
The Vault Imaging
Ecommerce site build in WooCommerce with highly-configurable products using Gravity Forms.
Tags: ecommerce site build, gravity forms, seo, woocommerce, wordpress
Society for Acute Medicine
Responsive WordPress site build with tiered membership system and member directory using custom post types.
Tags: custom module development, custom post types, membership system, responsive design, wordpress
Barclay ePDQ payment gateway for WordPress and WooCommerce 2.1.x
The free Barclays’ ePDQ payment gateway for WooCommerce was never updated to use endpoints for WooCommerce versions 2.1 and greater. Find out how to modify the plugin to use the newer versions.
Tags: barclays epdq, endpoints, payment gateway, woocommerce