I’m certainly no coder however use my limited PHP skills to access the Mailchimp API when I need to. GET Mailchimp campaigns via the API I recently needed to GET campaign information for the previous month via the Mailchimp API. Mailchimp campaign information isn’t returned sorted by date. Because I needed campaigns sent for the […]
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Does WordPress work with PHP 7?
A major part of WordPress code is written in PHP. PHP version 7 was released in December 2015. This is such a significant release that PHP version 6 was skipped entirely. For non-technical folks (as well as those that are very technical) the major talking-point is that PHP 7 has been tested to run twice […]
WordPress Site5 PHP Error
I’ve noticed recently that a few clients that use Site5 to host their WordPress websites in Australia are having a problems with plugins (and themes in some cases). The most popular plugin that I’ve seen an issue with is WordPress SEO by Yoast (a.k.a. Yoast SEO). You may see the following error message or you may […]
Duplicate Jetpack sharing icons
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress has many very useful features. One of those is social sharing where a visitor to your page or post may share to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest and so on. Selecting whether to show the social media sharing icons on media, pages or posts is simple. By default the sharing buttons […]
Solve ‘Fatal Error’ WordPress message
A client using Uber Global hosting here in Australia needed some help. Upon copying a website to Uber hosting using BackupBuddy they got a white screen. After renaming the plugins (to deactivate the plugins as the WordPress dashboard was inaccessible) and then trying to activate the plugins again, the ‘Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes […]
WooCommerce – exclude categories from showing
A customer uses WooCommerce to power their online shop. They required a certain category to be available through the WordPress dashboard but the category wasn’t to display on the shop pages or any widgets. Here is the PHP required to achieve the outcomes. Just add the following to your functions.php. Don’t show WooCommerce category on […]
Select 1 Mailchimp list with Magento MageMonkey
I’ve been doing quite a few large integrations with Ecommerce software and systems and Mailchimp. It really is quite awesome how customer segments can be targeted and marketed to using Mailchimp Ecommerce 360 and Autoresponders. As an example it’s possible to automatically send a marketing email to buyers of a specific product a certain amount […]