It is a common occurrence to receive requests for invoices that include a customer's VAT for use with their country's tax records. While WooCommerce does not ship with support for generating invoices, there are many great plugins which add invoice functionality. Previously, when someone requested a VAT to be added, we simply directed the customer to cram it into the existing address fields - not anymore! As of today, we've added a special field to the billing address for entering a VAT which … [Read more...]
Case Study: Displaying Highlighted Search Terms With Limited Content
As the content of a WordPress site grows (using this site as my case study) search results will also grow. Typically on a WordPress site the search results will either show the post content, the excerpt, or a limited version of the content. WordPress does not highlight the words in the content which match the search terms, nor does it automatically display the relevant sections of a post's content when using the excerpt or a limited version of content. This can lead to potentially unintuitive … [Read more...]
Node As A CLI
This is an exhaustive article on creating command line run scripts/executables with node and how it all works. It is broken into sections for convenience if you are looking for a specific topic. Otherwise, grab a coffee and prepare to learn more than you ever wanted to know about node cli. For the purpose of this article the words package and project are interchangeable and both mean a node app which is defined by the package.json standard. For the purposes of this article all project … [Read more...]
Responsive Image Srcset Sizes
So you are using WordPress right? Or maybe another modern CMS which supports responsive image srcsets? Alright, so you are a true pioneer rocking your own framework? Regardless of how your images get those helpful "srcset" attributes, this article will apply to you. Real quick refresher... the srcset attribute allows your browser to select the appropriate image src based on the current screen size and pixel density. This way you can load retina images or smaller versions depending on how you … [Read more...]
Installing A PRO Plugin
Here are the basic steps to install a PRO plugin after purchasing it. When you complete your checkout you will receive and email which contains a download link to download your plugin. You may also download it any time from the My Account area. Go to the plugins settings page found by going to your WordPress admin and clicking Plugins in the sidebar menu. Click the "Add New" button at the top Click the "Upload Plugin" button at the top Select the plugin file (.zip) which you … [Read more...]
Saying Goodbye To Cssnano
If you have been using PostCSS, there is a good chance you have been using cssnano to create your final minified style-sheet. Cssnano has been a great library and the community go to for a long time. Version 6 of PostCSS changed the api a bit which causes some method to be deprecated including Node#moveTo. If you updated to PostCSS or even started a fresh setup including PostCSS and cssnano, you are likely getting this message in the console. Node#moveTo was deprecated. Use … [Read more...]