Tag archive for: WordPress

How to reflect cart count at the cart icon as and when products are added or removed from the cart in WooCommerce

Although there is a hassle free option of using WooCommerce.com as your e-commerce store, you may prefer to host your own.

If you are familiar with WordPress and wish to host your e-commerce website, WooCommerce is also available as a WordPress plugin that augments WordPress with e-commerce website features.

Although more work needs to be done for self-hosted WordPress sites, we have the option of creating our own themes without having to pay additional charges on top of the web hosting fees.

When it comes to creating our own WooCommerce themes, one feature that we may want to implement would be to show the number of products that had been added to our WooCommerce cart near the shopping cart icon as and when products are added or removed from the cart.

This post documents how we can reflect cart count at the cart icon as and when products are added or removed from the WooCommerce shopping cart.

How to get Jetpack to resync your self-hosted WordPress contents with WordPress.com

For some reason, the content on my self-hosted WordPress website did not tally with the site stats on WordPress.com. The number of drafts and published posts were wrong and the insights page does not reflect my published posts for the past two months.

Tinkering with the WordPress.com interface, I was able to find a way to get Jetpack to resync my self-hosted WordPress contents with WordPress.com. This post documents how I managed to do so.

Setting up WordPress on Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Stretch Lite, Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7 as the LEMP stack

Raspbian Stretch was released on 17th August 2017 and this will mean that we will be able to get a variant of Debian 9 on our Raspberry Pi. With Raspbian Stretch, we will be able to run WordPress or any PHP framework with PHP 7.0 which Zend had indicated a performance boost of up to two folds as compared to PHP 5.6.

Just like the benefits that blogging brings to a programmer, the performance boost that PHP 7 brings about is a good reason for me to port my blog over to PHP 7.

Before porting my blog over to PHP 7, it will make sense for me to perform a little proof of concept on my Raspberry Pi 3 first. With Raspbian Stretch Lite, I can see for myself that my blog runs well with PHP 7.0 before spawning a new Digital Ocean instance for Techcoil.

This post documents how I setup an instance of WordPress on Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Stretch Lite, nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7 as the LEMP stack.

How to manually update WordPress installation on a LEMP stack on Ubuntu

WordPress constantly evolves to give website owners more features and security improvements to make their website great. After getting over with months of procrastination on updating my WordPress installation, I had finally get my act together to proceed with updating my WordPress installation.

Setting up a free CA signed SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt for my LEMP server on my Raspberry Pi 3 with an Ubuntu Server 15.10.3 image to secure my WordPress site

After setting up a LEMP web server on Raspberry Pi 3 with an Ubuntu Server 15.10.3 image to host my new WordPress website, a good colleague of mine recommended me to try implementing a free certified SSL certificate. The intelligent and generous folks from Let’s Encrypt had created a free and open Certificate Authority and an automated workflow for websites to generate certified SSL certificates for serving trusted and encrypted communication.

Since, there is no cost involved in implementing the SSL certificate, I went on to try and implement one on the Nginx server on my Raspberry Pi 3.

This post documents my process on setting up a Let’s Encrypt certified SSL certificate for my Nginx server on my Raspberry Pi 3.

Setting up a LEMP web server on Raspberry Pi 3 with an Ubuntu Server 15.10.3 image to host a WordPress website

I was trying to start a new WordPress site. Before hosting it on a Digital Ocean droplet, I decided to incubate the WordPress site on a Raspberry Pi 3 to clock some content. This post documents the steps that I took to set up a LEMP web server on Raspberry Pi 3 with an Ubuntu server 15.10.3 image to host a new WordPress site.

How I solved the database connection error from my WordPress installation which is hosted on the default PHP FPM server in Mac OS X EL Capitan

I was trying to setup a WordPress instance with the built-in PHP-FPM server on my Mac OS X el Capitan. After applying the relevant Nginx configurations for WordPress installations, I had been able to run the php codes from my WordPress instance.

However, when I tried to run the WordPress install script, my WordPress setup complained that it was unable to connect to the database server.

How I create a page in my WordPress blog that lists all my posts and groups them by month and year

I realised that there was something missing in my WordPress blog; a page that lists all the posts that I had written so far. This post documents what I had explored to give my blog a page that lists all my posts, starting from the most recent post down to the oldest post, and groups them by month and year.

Displaying post author information in your WordPress theme

Every blog post has an author behind it. As web masters, we have the authority to decide whether to display some information about the author.

Although I am the sole author of my blog, I feel that including some information about myself right after my posts can give my readers some form of assurance that they are reading something from a human.