In this article I’m going to show you how to add product lists to your WordPress menu that change automatically as you add,remove or update your products.

The original method came from Viper007Bond but that only shows how to add a latest post link to the top level menu, this article expands on that to make a drop down list of products. Continue reading →

Over the past month I’ve had 3 Cloud Zoom users email me about changing the number of thumbnail columns on the single product page.

The answer I gave all three and also posted to the WooCommerce forum was to add the following to their theme functions.php file

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add_filter ( 'woocommerce_product_thumbnails_columns', 'zz_thumb_cols' );
 function zz_thumb_cols() {
     return 5; //Change the 5 to reflect how many columns you need
 }

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*** UPDATE ***
There is a new version of the plugin available from your WooThemes dashboard, new version number is 1.7.2

Professor Cloud’s Cloud Zoom script is a hugely popular jQuery plugin used on various popular eCommerce web sites. Now you can enjoy that functionality in WooCommerce.

Specifically, with Cloud Zoom activated, users are given the ability to zoom in on your main product image by simply hovering their mouse over it.

The latest update means Cloud Zoom now works with attribute images, additional images and can be combined with the Product Slider plugin.

The Latest version of the plugin (1.7) will be available on the WooThemes website shortly (http://www.woothemes.com/extension/cloud-zoom/). This latest version updates the TimThumb script, allows the included CSS to be over-ridden and only loads the JavaScript and CSS on the single-product page. You can see a demo of the Cloud Zoom plugin in action here http://cloud.chrome-orange.co.uk/?product=product-with-attributes Continue reading →

If you’ve only got a few products then it’s easy to find the ones on sale but the site I’m working on right now has 654 products which will be going up to around 10,000 in a couple of weeks. The client wants a ‘Clearance Sale’ page (that’ll be another post then ) so there will be quite a lot of products on sale – this drop down filter will make their (and therefore my) life easier!

Just paste the code below in to your theme functions file and you are good to go.
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A client wanted to add manufacturer supplied PDF brochures to the single product page so here is my method.

What you will need is
1 – create a folder within your theme directory called ‘icons’
2 – create an icon for each of the three document types, word, excel and PDF* and put them into the icons directory
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A question from the WooCommerce forum got me thinking about this, how can I add an additional checkbox to the WooCommerce checkout and make it required, like the ‘Terms and Conditions’. Obviously it needs to have the same admin options as the T&C’s so the shop manager can choose the page that it links to and the error checking needs to work in the same way as the terms and conditions. Continue reading →