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  • How To Disable A Shipping Method In Woocommerce

    How To Disable A Shipping Method In Woocommerce

    WooCommerce comes with a few shipping methods and with plugins, you can add more. So, you can have literally unlimited shipping options.  Having multiple shipping methods seems to be a good thing since it gives the customers more options. However, if you know that your customers will use only a certain shipping methods, having more than that can cause confusion.  In this post, we are going to find out how to disable a shipping method in Woocommerce so your customers will have only the methods that suit them.

    How To Disable A Shipping Method In Woocommerce

    First, go to Woocommerce->Settings and click on Shipping.

    woocommerce shipping screen

    In the first screen, you can see the list of shipping zones. If you don’t know what shipping zones are, they are the area you can define to apply different shipping policies. This is a very nice option of WooCommerce. For example, you want to apply free shipping in Asia and a flat rate $10 in Europe, you can add two zones Asia and Europe and apply the appropriate shipping methods to those zones.

    Now, one zone can have multiple shipping method. For example, my customers in Asia will see this when they checkout:

    How To Disable A Shipping Method In Woocommerce 1

    Pretty confusing, right? Now, I would like to remove the Free shipping option, here is what I’ll do:

    1. Click on the shipping zone I want to modify its shipping methods, in my case, I will click on Asia.

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    As you can see, all the options are listed in the next screen. To disable any shipping method, simply click on the toggle button to turn it off. Here, I’m going to turn off free shipping. Don’t forget to click on Save changes.

    If I go and check the checkout page now, the Free shipping method is no longer available:

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    That’s it! Now you know how to enable and disable a shipping method for a particular zone in Woocommerce. Thanks for reading and if you have any comments, please leave it below.

  • How To Fix “Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of … bytes exhausted” In WordPress

    How To Fix “Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of … bytes exhausted” In WordPress

    Setting up your WordPress blog is easy. With an affordable hosting, you can have you site up in just a few minutes. When you first start out, your site may have little traffic and it runs smoothly. However, when your site get popular and you get more traffic, you may encounter this message when you open your site:

    How To Fix "Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of ... bytes exhausted" In WordPress 4

    You cannot view your beautiful site anymore and so as your visitors. What is the cause and what can you do to fix it?

    What is the cause of Allowed memory size of … bytes exhausted?

    As the error message suggests, your WordPress site has used up all the allowed memory. For example, your server settings allocated 32MB for your site to run. However, due to high amount of traffic to your site, it used up all the 32MB. Thus, there is no more memory left for your site to continue running. That’s the reason why you see that message.

    How to fix this problem?

    As you can see, the cause is lack of memory so the fix should be to increase the amount of allowed memory for WordPress to run. It sounds very simple, however, it is not always the case.

    Why so?

    The reason is this problem usually occurs on cheap hosting, where the hosting providers usually allocate a small amount of RAM for their users. You must ask your hosting provider to increase the allowed memory for your WordPress site. If they don’t agree to do so, you are out of luck.

    However, in case they agree to increase your memory limit, you can do the following steps to give your site more memory to run.

    1. Going to your site by using cPanel/FTP/SSH
    2. Open wp-config.php
    3. Put this line:

    define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’ );

    right above the part says: /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

    You can replace the number 64 to a higher one if allowed. For a blog that gets a lot of traffic, you may need to set the limit to 512M or even more.

    Then, save the wp-config.php file and you are done. Your WordPress site now have more memory to operate. Make sure to monitor your site closely to see if you still have this error. If you still get this error, you can increase the limit once again. In case the memory limit that your hosting provider gives you is low, you should consider upgrading your hosting plan to a VPS.

     

  • How To Add New Currency To WooCommerce

    How To Add New Currency To WooCommerce

    Woocommerce comes with quite many currencies. In fact, if you are selling items internationally, you got a plenty of options to choose from such as USD, GBP, EUR or even BTC (bitcoin). However, there are a lot of currencies isn’t in that list. For example, what if you want to accept ETH (Ethereum) as your currency? Don’t worry, we can make that work.

    Check if your currency is supported by Woocommerce

    Woocomemerce is updated frequently. Thus, chances are your currency get added in the latest release. The first thing you need to do is to:

    1. Update Woocommerce to the latest version
    2. Go to Woocommerce->Settings->General->Scroll to the bottom to see the currency options. You can see the list of supported currencies there

    If your desired currency is in the list, that’s great! You don’t need to do anything else. If it isn’t, read on.

    Introducing the necessary hooks

    If you are unfamiliar with the term hooks, you can take a look at the official document here. However, it is not necessary to understand it thoroughly to add new currencies to Woocommerce.

    There are two filter hooks you need to use to add new currency to Woocommerce

    1. woocommerce_currencies
    2. woocommerce_currency_symbol

    As the names suggest, the first one will be used to register new currency and the second one will be used to register the currency’s symbol.

    The actual code

    I’m going to register the Ethereum currency to Woocommerce. However, you can define and add any type of currency you want. You can even invent a currency that isn’t available right now.

    add_filter( 'woocommerce_currencies', 'bc_add_new_currency' );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_currency_symbol', 'bc_add_new_currency_symbol', 10, 2 );

function bc_add_new_currency( $currencies ) {
     $currencies['ETH'] = __( 'Ethereum', 'your-theme-text-domain' );
     return $currencies;
}


function bc_add_new_currency_symbol( $symbol, $currency ) {
     
     if( $currency == 'ETH' ) {
          $symbol = '♦';
     }
     return $symbol;
}

    There are a few places in the code above you need to pay attention to:

    1. The symbol of ETH is ♦. You can replace this with your currency’s symbol .
    2. Name of your currency. In the code, it is “Ethereum”. You can change this to the name of your currency. For example: Bitcoin Cash
    3. The index key ‘ETH’. This can be anything but unique across all currencies.

    Now, after you modify the code to match your currency of choice, put it at the end of the functions.php file in your active theme folder:

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    The result

    Now, if you go to Woocommerce->Settings->General and scroll down to Currency Options, you can search for the new currency:

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    That’s it! That’s how you can add new currencies to Woocommerce. You can add as many new currencies as you want, there is no limit.

  • How To Change Categories’ URLs In WordPress

    Changing URL is something you shouldn’t do frequently because of SEO. However, there are times you need to change the URL to reflect the content of your pages/posts.

    In WordPress, you can choose to include the category in the URL. For example, my permalink structure is:

    category in permalink
    category in permalink

    Then my post URL will container the category. For example, I have an article in the World News category. The URL of that post will be

    How To Change Categories' URLs In WordPress 7

    Now, for example, I would like the change the world-news into breaking-news. How would I do that?

    Let me show you how.

    How to change the category in your post URL

    First, you need to go to Posts->Categories. You will see your category listed there:

    List of categories
    List of categories

    As you can see, the category we want to change is World News. If you notice at the right of World News row, there is field called slug. This is what displays in the URL of every posts of that category.

    Now, if we want to change world-news to breaking-news, simply change the slug to breaking-news.

    Step 1: Click on Quick Edit link under World News

    Quick Edit category
    Quick Edit category

    Step 2: Change the slug to breaking-news.

    Remember, you don’t need to change the name to Breaking News to update the URL. Changing the slug only is sufficient.

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    Step 3: Hit the Update Category button

    Now, if I view the URL of the post mentioned at the beginning of the article, I can see the new category slug:

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    So, that’s how you change the category name in the URL. However, it is not recommended to change the URL of any pages/posts frequently because it will take time for search engines to update your new URL. After changing the URL, you also should do a redirect from the old url to the new URL to make sure when the visitors go to the old URL, they will get redirected to the new URL, not a 404 page.

  • [With Pictures] How To Install WordPress Themes, Plugins In CPanel Step By Step

    [With Pictures] How To Install WordPress Themes, Plugins In CPanel Step By Step

    Installing WordPress themes, plugins seems to be a simple task, even for beginner. However, due to the fact that there are many hosting providers out there and each of them have a different configuration, installing a new theme or plugin on your WordPress may not be straightforward.

    Most of the time, you can install a theme or plugin by uploading the .zip file inside your site dashboard.

    To install a plugin you may follow the following steps:

    1. Go to Plugins->Add New
    2. Click on Upload Plugin
    3. Select your plugin .zip file and click on Install now
    4. Wait for the installation process to complete and click on Activate Plugin

    The same steps can be applied to installing a theme, though, there are some differences:

    1. Go to Appearance->Themes
    2. Click on Add new
    3. Click on Upload Theme
    4. Select your theme .zip file and click on Install now
    5. Wait for the installation process to complete and click on Activate Theme

    However, there is a very common problem WordPress users have when using this method is the hosting provider may put a limit on file upload size, which, less than the size of the plugin’s or theme’s zip file.

    For example, your host has a 2MB limit on file upload and your theme zip file is 3MB.

    In this case, uploading the theme inside your dashboard will result in a failure.

    Fortunately, if your host have CPanel, you can install the plugin/theme easily.

    How to install WordPress plugins/themes using CPanel

    What are the benefits of installing plugins, themes using CPanel?

    The biggest benefit is you don’t have to worry about upload file limit. Secondly, you can upload a zip file and then extract in on your site later. This feature can save you a lot of time in comparison to using FTP. When uploading the plugins/themes via FTP, you cannot upload a zip file then upload in the FTP client. If you install the plugin/theme using FTP, you need to extract it first before uploading. If your theme/plugin has a lot of files (even though they may be small), you will have to wait for a very long time.

    Now let’s get started with installing plugins/themes using CPanel

    Step 1: Login to your CPanel

    The first thing is to to login to your CPanel. In the image below, I’m in HostGator CPanel. Your CPanel dashboard may look a bit different if your CPanel version is different than mine. However, you will have no problem finding File Manager. You can press Ctrl + F ( or Command + F if you are on a Mac) and type in “File Manager” to locate it.

    Login to your CPanel and locate File Manager
    Login to your CPanel and locate File Manager

    Step 2: Go to File Manager and locate your site’s folder

    Your site’s folder usually have the same name as your domain name. In the picture below, I’m going to the folder of my site called excelautocomplete.com

    Go to file manager and locate your site's folder
    Go to file manager and locate your site’s folder

    Step 3: Go to wp-content/plugins or wp-content/themes

    Now, if you double click on your site’s folder, you will see something similar to this. There are many files and folders but you only need to pay attention to one folder called wp-content

    Locate wp-content folder
    Locate wp-content folder

    Double click on that folder you will see a list of folders. Here, you will see two folders with the following names:

    1. themes
    2. plugins

    The names of those folders are self-explanatory. If you want to install a plugin, click on plugins folder. If you want to install a theme, click on themes folder. I’m going to install a theme so I’m going to click on the themes folder. You will see that there are one or more folders inside. The number of folders inside themes/plugins folder depends on the number of themes/plugin you have.

    plugins and themes folder inside wp-content
    plugins and themes folder inside wp-content

    Step 4: Upload your zip file

    Now, I’m inside the themes folder. I can start uploading the theme zip file. Please make sure your theme is in a zip file. If you have extracted it to a folder, please compress it back to a zip file.

    Now, click on the upload button in your CPanel

    Start uploading theme zip file
    Start uploading theme zip file

    You will see a new tab opened:

    Select your zip file to start uploading
    Select your zip file to start uploading

    Now, select your theme .zip file and wait until the upload complete:

    select theme file to upload
    select theme file to upload

    In this example, I’m select the theme sydney.

    Upload theme complete
    Upload theme complete

    The upload is complete. Now, we go back to the theme folder and hit reload button to see the zip file:

    Reload themes folder
    Reload themes folder

    After that, you should see the zip file appears

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    Step 6: Extract your zip file

    We can now right click on the zip file to see the context menu and select the option to extract the file.

    Extract the theme zip file
    Extract the theme zip file

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    Wait until the decompression completes,  now, if you click on the reload link, you will see your new theme folder appears:

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    You can (and should) delete the zip file. To do that, simply click on that file (single click) and select the delete action at the top.

    Step 7: Go to your site’s dashboard to activate the plugin/theme

    Now, your theme is installed. The last thing to do is to go to your dashboard and activate it. Go to Appearance->Themes. You will see the new theme appears:

    New theme
    New theme

    You can hover on that theme and see the option to activate it:

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    Now, you have your new theme installed and activated. You can do the same with a plugin. However, instead of going to Appearance->Themes, you need to click on Plugins and find the new plugin in your list of plugins and click on Activate.

    So, that’s how you install plugins/themes using CPanel. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.

    Thanks for reading!