The biggest mistake novice website owners make is going with big name, cheap shared hosts, GoDaddy, BlueHost, 123-reg, IONOS and similar. They have great cheap deals which are very tempting for new businesses. Most of these brands are owned by Hosting Group Europe and Endurance International Group. Why are these brands not ideal, just search [Read the full article…]
Migrate from multisite to standalone WordPress
These are my notes relating to migrating a multisite site to a stand alone WordPress install. I tried various options in the past, including manual file extract and database manipulation, through to using Duplicator Pro, none were easy or totally successful and often I’d resort to completely rebuilding the site and exporting / importing the [Read the full article…]
Example Quick PayPal Payments Form
How can I Embed a Google Doc in a WordPress Post or WordPress Page without a plugin?
To have a dynamic section from Google Docs as below simply create ( and share to editors as required) your Google Doc and go to File>Publish to Web in the Doc – select embed – Create your post of page and where you want the Google Doc add an html block and put the generated [Read the full article…]
Sage Business Cloud Accounting Review
I don’t normally write reviews cloud software, I’m more of a geek than an author and prefer writing code to English. In fact I could only manage a C grade at O-Level English but A’s for Maths and Physics, so nothing is surprising. What is in a name? Sage renamed their Sage One Accounting to [Read the full article…]
Archiving old files after 18 months
In a WordPress installation I have an uploads folder that contains html files, that need to be archived away after 18 months. As the links are dynamically built I don’t need to worry about anything except moving them. If they were normal WordPress uploads that would be different. So in this case a simple monthly [Read the full article…]
Linking WooCommerce to a Spreadsheet using Google Sheets and the REST API
IMPORTANT NOTE As of 22 Oct 2019 – this script seems to be in an infinite loop – so use this as a coding concept ONLY. I will debug it in due course, and update – BUT if you spot the issue first please do leave me a comment below with your solution. Following on [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…]
