Easy way to improve the “No products found” page in WooCommerce.
An easy to change this page is by hooks and filters. One example is to show featured products, plus a slider at the top (after the no products found message). […]
Coffee table arcade machine.
Arcade machine made from a coffee table shell. The controllers, which were created using 165° cabinet hinges, which were positioned at an angle on a timber block underside of the […]
Upstanding retro arcade machine.
An old Lenovo, all-in-one, was used with RetroPie to create an arcade machine. The joystick was actually a USB bare-bones joystick, with multiple buttons added. The arcade machine could play […]
Football website, established in 1999.
The Sassco.co.uk website was established in 1999 (under different names), but evolved from an original PageMill website, to Joomla and then to WordPress. All historical articles were exported and content […]
Sending an automated email when a user role is updated in WordPress / WooCommerce
We needed a feature where a user was automatically informed if their role changed on our eCommerce site. An example was that a user signs up, but we manually change […]
Changing WordPress search to show products instead.
When WooCommerce is added, the main search facility is still finding posts and pages. To change this so the search returns product information, the following code can be added to […]
Adding ALT and TITLE on product images (in category pages).
This simple snippet within functions.php will add ALT and TITLE tags to the images. I haven’t discovered how to add the same to the product category thumbnails yet and will […]
Minification of JS without a plug-in
On occasions where plug-ins such as WP Rocket cause issues when using minification, then a simple minification can be added in functions.php while being disabled in the plug-in.