Welcome to WP Beaches
WordPress Websites design specialists, based in the Northern Beaches, Sydney
Design, Develop, Host
RECENT POSTS
Removing Scheduled Actions from WooCommerce Action Scheduler
The Scheduled Actions that sit in WooCommerce Action Scheduler can get stuck with thousands of actions piling up, just stuck in a failed, canceled, pending or complete state. This can result in bloated database tables in particular wp_actionscheduler_actions and wp_actionscheduler_logs tables. Since the states of failed, canceled or complete are already passed, you would be…
Image Carousel Thumbnail Slider with ACF Gallery Field in WordPress
Here is a guide on how to make an image carousel thumbnail slider with ACF in WordPress using the ACF gallery field. Lightslider, a lightweight image slider seems to fit the bill perfectly – I need it to just display simple thumbnails below the main image which on click/touch show the image in the main slide…
Add WooCommerce Cart Icon to Menu with Cart Item Count
Here is a way to add WooCommerce cart icon to a menu with the cart item count, it links to the cart page and displays the number of items that have been added to the cart. The code uses three functions which need to be added to functions.php and some CSS in style.css. (If you just…
Redirect all pages to a ‘Coming Soon’ Page in WordPress
You can redirect all your WordPress pages to a designated Coming Soon page for all non-logged in users with the template_redirect action hook whilst leaving all pages visible to logged in users. add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘themeprefix_coming_soon’ ); function themeprefix_coming_soon() { if( !is_user_logged_in() && ! is_front_page() || is_home() ){ wp_redirect( site_url() ); exit(); } } So in…
Adding Expires Header to htaccess
Expires Headers are a set of rules or directives from a website to tell a user’s local browser to either look in its own cache for files or to request the files off the webserver, the former is better for speed of the web page load and a reduction in the webserver processing. For Apache…
Block xmlrpc.php requests from Cloudflares firewall apart from JetPack
You can block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests from Cloudflare but exclude the JetPack IP addresses by creating a custom firewall rule, attacks on xmlrpc.php are frequent and it is best now disabled as it will be deprecated from WordPress in the future. However, some of the more popular WordPress plugins such as JetPack still need to…
Change WooCommerce Sold Out text
You can change WooCommerce ‘Sold Out’ text set by the inventory setting of Sold Out with the WooCommerce filter woocommerce_get_availability_text Add the below snippet with your custom sold text to functions.php add_filter(‘woocommerce_get_availability_text’, ‘themeprefix_change_soldout’, 10, 2 ); /** * Change Sold Out Text to Something Else */ function themeprefix_change_soldout ( $text, $product) { if ( !$product->is_in_stock()…
Using WooCommerce with Varnish, exclude pages and cookies
To use WooCommerce with Varnish server-side caching you need to exclude some of the generic WooCommerce pages and cookies. Some web hosts will partially do this for you and others will give you an interface to add them yourself, make sure you ask the host what options are available Exclude from Varnish these WooCommerce pages…
Redirect all pages to non-www and HTTPS in WordPress
To redirect all URLs from www to non-www and also to redirect from http to https, this code snippet to be added to .htaccess file at the top should do the trick. So https://example.com # BEGIN Redirects RewriteEngine On # 301 redirect www to non-www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L] # 301…