Add Lets Encrypt SSL Certs on ServerPilot Free Plan

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ServerPilots’ free plan does not offer SSL certs from Lets Encrypt, it is only available on the paid plans,  here is a guide below that can allow you to install and renew the SSL certs with a custom script. You…

Filter WooCommerce Order Received Thank You Text

You can filter the text on a WooCommerce order received after checkout, by default the text reads ‘Thank you. Your order has been received’, but you may want to add some further instruction, which you can do using the filter woocommerce_thankyou_order_received_text…

No Header Footer Genesis Template

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Below is the code to create a Genesis template with no default header or footer elements, perfect to slot in to a page builder page. Add it in your child theme and add any other CPT names in the Template…

Customize WooCommerce Product Search Field

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The WooCommerce Product Search field can be added via a widget and also via a template tag… get_product_search_form() Another option is a filter get_product_search_form() by which you can create your own custom search field including using an icon. The Original…

WooCommerce Skip Cart, Go Straight to Checkout Page

WooCommerce workflow can be a little too long for simple products, you can provide a better user experience, here’s how to get the product to skip past the cart page and go straight to the checkout page. First, uncheck the…

Change, Edit & Rename WooCommerce Endpoints in My Accounts Page

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Here is how you can change, edit and rename WooCommerce Endpoints in My Accounts Page. Since the release of WooCommerce 2.6 Woo has a revamped My-Account page, it appears as a vertical menu of links that display the corresponding table of…

Make the Top Bar Sticky in Beaver Builder Theme

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Beaver Builder Theme has the option to make sticky the page header which shrinks after a little scroll and sticks to the head of the page, but this does not apply to the ‘page top bar’ if used which just…

Setting up a WordPress VVV2 Vagrant Workflow

Using VVV2 Vagrant as a WordPress local development workflow is a great flexible platform, here’s mine which uses 3 bits of software, (plus 2 as options) to create a vagrant box. VirtualBox, Vagrant, VVV, VVV Dashboard (optional) and VVV Base…

Deploying a WordPress site via Git Hooks on a ServerPilot Server

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This guide looks at setting up a git deployment using hooks to push local commits from a local development to a remote development branch which then published those changes live, stored on a staging domain using a ServerPilot set up.…

Optimise wp_postmeta table and remove custom fields meta keys

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Overtime a wp_postmeta WordPress database table may become bloated and use redundant custom field meta_keys. The table may have thousands of rows worth of dead data such as old custom fields. You can remove these keys quite quickly in the MySQL…