Darren PinderAt Vatu Ltd, we have 3 main goals: Create high-quality websites Give great customer service to our clients Create a happy, safe,...
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Updating multiple WooCommerce variant product shipping classes at once with SQL
I came across a problem recently whereby I needed to update a few thousand WooCommerce product variations’ shipping classes. To explain, this store had hundreds of products, each with at least a dozen variations. These variations were typically split into 2 types, we’ll call them Type A and Type B. Type A variations were [...]
Darren Pinder
Why you should switch to SSL
If you haven’t been paying attention, some of the big players like Google and Mozilla are on a mission to make the web more secure. Google search has been using HTTPS as a ranking signal for a few years, but now there’s a browser penalty, too. Beginning in January 2017, browsers like Chrome and Firefox started displaying [...]
Sydney Alcala
Checking for a Plugin Dependency on Activation
Often, WordPress plugins that we create are meant to extend or build on other plugins that already exist. For example, if you search “WooCommerce”, you can find hundreds of other plugins that modify, extend, or otherwise change the capabilities of the base WooCommerce plugin. Whether these plugins are from the official [...]
Dan Dulaney
Adding SMS Notifications to Your Bash Scripts
Hello! Today, we’re going to add text message notifications to our bash scripts. To do so, we’re going to use the Amazon Web Service’s SNS SMS api, via AWS CLI. For this tutorial, you will need to have an Amazon Web Services account. Signing up for an AWS account is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Cost Note: The [...]
Dan Dulaney