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How to Use Square and WooCommerce for Point-of-Sale

How to Use Square and WooCommerce for Point-of-Sale

WooCommerce is the most popular way to build an online store. Square is the most popular way to build a point-of-sale solution in many countries. Why not bring the two together?

That's the idea behind the new Square for WooCommerce plugin. This was the most popular requested feature by WooCommerce customers.

Here's an overview of how the Square integration works with WooCommerce. If you enjoy this tutorial, check out WooCommerce Explained, the comprehensive (and best-selling) introduction to WooCommerce.

What New Features Will Users See in WordPress 4.6?

What Will Users See in WordPress 4.6?

WordPress 4.6 is here and it's time to update.

This version has a ton of developer-focused changes, and you can find those in the Field Guide to 4.6.

However, what new features will users see in WordPress 4.6? There are 3 new features that users will notice, and we'll explain each one.

Conditional Logic with Gravity Forms in WordPress

Conditional Logic with Gravity Forms in WordPress

WordPress' Gravity Forms plugin allows you to have certain forms appear, based on conditions being met.

However, when a form is complex, it's not always intuitive how to set up the conditional logic.

This tutorial will show you how and we'll use an example. Let's get started.

How to Uninstall a WordPress Theme

How to Uninstall a WordPress Theme

We always recommend uninstalling WordPress themes that you aren't using. Themes can have security holes, and your site will be safer with fewer installed themes.

However, uninstalling a theme in WordPress should be simple, but it's harder than you might think. The setting to delete a theme is well hidden.

This tutorial will show you how to uninstall a WordPress theme.

Display Your Category Hierarchy in a WordPress Widget

Display Category Hierarchy in a Widget in WordPress

One of our members at OSTraining set up an ecommerce site using Easy Digital Downloads. She wanted to create a widget to show the store's categories to visitors. However, she could only get the top level categories to display.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create a widget that can show any number or level of WordPress categories.

How to Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets

How to Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets

One of our OSTraining members was having an issue with shortcodes in widgets, so we created a tutorial for her.

By default, WordPress allows you to run shortcodes in many different places. You can use shortcodes in the text area of Posts and Pages. You can use shortcodes in WordPress emails.

However, by default, WordPress doesn't execute shortcodes inside the default text widget. This tutorial will show you an easy way to get shortcodes working in widgets.

Protect WordPress Email Addresses From Spammers

protect emails from spammers

Adding your email address to your site is helpful to your users. But, it also makes it available to spammers. Spammers can use scripts that visit websites and harvest the email addresses that are publicly available. This is called scraping.

This tutorial will show you a great way to mitigate scraping.

How to Reorder Your WordPress Posts

How to Reorder Your WordPress Posts

One of our members asked for a way to reorder his WordPress posts.

Luckily, with Simple Custom Post Order plugin this task is a piece of cake. Let's start...

Am I Too Old to Learn WordPress?

Am I Too Old to Learn WordPress?

It keeps surprising me whenever I hear this question by a potential customer.

Am I too old to learn WordPress?

Too old? You're never too old. If others can do it, you can do it too.

Add a Custom Sidebar to a WordPress Theme

How to Add a Custom Sidebar to WordPress Themes

Sidebars allow you display widgets inside your theme.

And yes, despite the name, you can use "sidebars" to display widgets anywhere you want.

By default, themes come with at least one sidebar.

In this post, I'm going share with you a quick way to add a custom sidebar to your WordPress theme.

3 Free WordPress Themes to Start your Blog

3 Free WordPress Themes to Start your Blog

WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. Even though that used to be its original purpose, with time WordPress has evolved to offer many more features.

In this post, I'll recommend 3 free WordPress themes to make your blog stand out.

Use Facebook Comments on Your WordPress Site

facebook-comments

WordPress does provide a default comments system. However, many people find the default comments to be limited and hard to manage.

I've seen a lot of WordPress sites move to Facebook comments so that they can provide a better alternative.

In this post, I'm going to show you how to run Facebook comments on your WordPress site.

Reinstall Your WordPress Files and Databases

How to Reset Your WordPress Files and Databases

"Have you tried restarting it?" is the age-old wisdom of the IT world.

In this troubleshooting guide, I'll show you some simple steps to reset the WordPress core files and database.

Decide Where to Show WordPress Widgets with Dynamic Widgets

Decide Where to Show WordPress Widgets with Dynamic Widgets

This week an OSTraining member had a question: "How do I show a WordPress widget on one page, but disable it on other pages?

Our answer was Dynamic Widgets, a useful plugin that will provide control over where widgets are displayed based on several settings, including pages, URLs, categories, and user roles.

Continue reading this post to discover how easy it is to control your WordPress widgets by using Dynamic Widgets.

Connect Calypso and JetPack to Multiple WordPress Accounts

Connect Calypso and JetPack to Multiple WordPress Accounts

One OSTraining member is really enjoying Calypso, the new desktop blogging app from WordPress.com.

They wanted to know if it was possible to allow multiple team members to use Calypso on the same site.

Yes, that's definitely possible although it requires some configuration. Here's how to make it work:

Use Font Awesome Icons in WordPress Menu Items

Insert Icons in WordPress with AGP Font Awesome Collection Plugin

Font Awesome is the most popular way to add font icons to your website.

The AGP Font Awesome plugin makes it easy to insert icons into WordPress posts and pages. It also allows to add icons to menu items.

In this post, I'll tell you how to add icons to your menus.

WordAds: is it a WordPress Rival to AdSense?

WordAds: is it a WordPress Rival to AdSense?

One OSTraining member was investigating ways to monetize their site and asked us about WordAds, the WordPress-based advertising program from Automattic.

They were curious about how WordAds works and how it compares to Google's Adsense offering. It probably doesn't help that the name is confusingly similar to Google's AdWords program.

Here's our introduction to WordAds and whether it's worth testing on your site.

How to Create Audio mp3 Playlists in WordPress

How to Create Audio mp3 Playlists in WordPress

One of the strongest features in WordPress is media management.

The WordPress core makes it really easy to create advanced functionality with images and also multimedia.

In this video tutorial, Topher shows you how to create multimedia playlists using only the WordPress core. You can use it for both videos and audio files, although in this example we're going to use mp3 files to create a musical playlist.

Add Custom JavaScript into your WordPress Site

Add Custom JavaScript into your WordPress Site

In some situations, you may need to add custom Javascript to your site. Normally, this would involve modifying your theme files.

However, there is a less intrusive alternative. "Header and Footer Scripts" is a plugin to add custom JavaScript to WordPress without modifying your theme.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how this useful plugin works.

What Are WordPress Template Tags?

WordPress Template Tags

In this video, we're going to take a look at WordPress template tags.

If you're a PHP developer, you'll recognize that template tags are simply functions. They are used to either do something or return something inside your WordPress template files.

WordPress template tags are often clearly and simply named. For example, here's the tag used to display the author of the current post or page:

How to Use the Testimonial Rotator Plugin for WordPress

Testimonial Rotator Plugin for WordPress

By sharing positive comments from customers, testimonials are a nice way to promote your online business.

Testimonial Rotator is a plugin to manage and display testimonials in WordPress.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create and display testimonials in your site.

Fix 404 Errors After Changing WordPress Permalinks

Fix 404 Errors After Changing WordPress Permalinks

How to fix 404 errors from changing permalinks to post name

One of our Pro members was wondering if he'd lose search engine ranking after he switched his permalinks settings.

This tutorial will show you how to redirect the old permalinks to the new ones, so that you don't get 404 errors. You'll maintain your search engine rankings, as well as keep users happy.

What WordPress Template File Am I Using?

What WordPress Template Am I Using?

Sometimes you discover a plugin and wonder how you ever survived without it.

For me, that's true for the "What Template Am I Using?" plugin. This is like Firebug, but specifically for your WordPress site. It's incredibly useful for theme developers. The plugin shows you the current template file you're using, plus any additional files being called such as header.php or footer.php. Oh, and it shows lots of additional information as well.

Giving Back To WordPress. What's In It For Me?

Giving Back To WordPress. What's In It For Me?

Giving back to WordPress is something that’s widely encouraged.

Matt Mullenweg famously suggested that companies making money from WordPress should give 5% of each employee’s time back.

How to Add Vk.com Sharing Buttons to WordPress

Add VK Sharing Service to Jetpack in WordPress

One of our users asked for a way to include Vk.com sharing buttons in their WordPress site.

VK is a large European social network with more than a 100 million active users.

This is certainly possible to do by using the Jetpack plugin.

In this post, I'm going to show you how to add a VK sharing button to WordPress.

How to Reset a WordPress Password Without Admin Access

How to Reset a WordPress Password Without Admin Access

Sometimes you forget your WordPress admin password. Don't worry - it happens to all of us.

This tutorial will show you two easy ways to reset your WordPress password so that you can get back to work.

Test Beta Versions of the WordPress Core and Plugins

Test Beta Versions of the WordPress Core and Plugins

WordPress is an open source and community supported project. Thousands of volunteers help keep it running smoothly. You too can volunteer and help.

You can contribute to WordPress' development without any coding knowledge. You can help by testing beta versions of the WordPress core and also WordPress plugins.

Improve the WordPress Admin Menu with the Hierarchy Plugin

WordPress hierarchy

In this post, I'll share with you how the Hierarchy plugin can improve the organization of your WordPress dashboard.

With it, you can merge the WordPress Custom Post Types admin menus into a single list to reflect the same structure as your public content.

Add External Featured Images to WordPress Posts

WordPress allows us to upload a featured image to posts.

By default, these featured images must be hosted on your site's server. However, what happens if you want to use an image located outside your site? Luckily, there is a plugin for that purpose.

In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to choose a remotely-hosted featured image with the Nelio External Featured Image plugin.

Show a WordPress Menu Item Only When Logged In

How to Show a Menu Item Only When Logged In

One of our OSTraining members was wondering how to set up a WordPress menu item so that only subscribers could view it.

He wasn't sure if it could be done with the WordPress core or if it required a plugin.

This tutorial shows you how to control the visibility of menu items based on logged-in status or access group. Let's get started...

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