Following on from my previous tutorials on Google Sheets and WordPress Rest API some people have asked me if you can do the same with WooCommerce. Indeed you can. WooCommerce has REST API that provides access to any data you need. You can find the technical documents here. One of the main differences is that [Read the full article…]
Code snippet to change notification of new users
Example plugin to set admin notification of new users. In this case it uses the first user defined as shop_manager role <?php /* * * Plugin Name: Notify New Users to Shop Manager * Plugin URI: https://fullworks.net/products/custom-plugin-development/ * Description: Needs Woo Commerce of Course * Version: 1.0 * Author: Fullworks * Author URI: http://fullworks.net/ * [Read the full article…]
Putting it all together – authenticate, read and update WordPress from a spreadsheet
This is my fourth post in my series of how to build a script to manage WordPress data via the API and a spreadsheet. If you have arrived here without looking at the others you probably should start at the beginning here. In this tutorial I’m going to handle updating and then pull it all [Read the full article…]
How to authenticate WordPress Rest API from Google Sheets / Scripts
This is the third tutorial in my series relating to integrating Google Sheets and WordPress using the REST API. The first post covered reading basic post information into a spreadsheet. The second post was about getting meta data from the REST API, which can be a little tricky. This one covers authentication. Basically as an [Read the full article…]
Getting post meta via WordPress REST API
This the second post post in my series about getting and updating WordPress data via a spreadsheet. The first post focused on the basics of Google Apps Scripting and the API call to the WP REST API – if you haven’t seen it you can read it here. This post is about meta data. In [Read the full article…]
Linking WordPress to a Spreadsheet using WP REST API and Google Sheets scripts
This post shows you how you can link a Google Spreadsheet to a WordPress website to extract data. I will write some further posts covering authentication and updating too. However a little warning, this is a programming task and a basic understanding of javascript is really required to follow what is going on. WordPress is [Read the full article…]
Recipe for a Raspberry Pi Kiosk
Ingredients Raspberry Pi 3 B wireless 16Gb micro sd card HDMI Cable USB power cable Case Temporary USB Keyboard & USB mouse Preparation and Cooking time About 1 to 2 hours depending how many mistakes you make and start again 🙂 Method Preparation Download Raspberian Stretch Lite from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Unzip on to your computer Obtain [Read the full article…]
Submit A Post via Front End using Gravity Forms
The following is a Gravity Form Form, that allows you to submit a post via the front end. It can submit as ‘draft’, ‘pending review’ or even ‘published’. Feel free to try it, and if you include a valid WordPress tip or other news I may even publish it.
jQuery to remove a link and just replace it with anchor text
Occasionally a WordPress plugin is not templated, so difficult to customise the output, so in these circumstances one solution is to use jQuery to modify the output. Now this is not pure and a bit hacky, as ideally you would change the code that is producing the output. However the situation is just sometimes that isn’t [Read the full article…]
WordPress Roles and Capabilities
WordPress comes with a standard set of roles and capabilities e.g. Super Admin ( only applies to multi-site networks ) Administrator Editor Author Contributor Subscriber These roles are described here https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities However these are only the default, and can easily be customised to meet virtually any requirement. Traditionally this has been a programming task, and many [Read the full article…]
