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Have you noticed a prompt on your WordPress dashboard about the version of PHP you are running?  In this post I want to talk about why WordPress is getting picky about php versions. Here’s a screen shot of the nag I’m talking about.   Not seeing this nag, then move along, these are not the droids you are looking for. What Is PHP? TLDR: It’s the underlying scripting language that WordPress is built upon I’ve grabbed this description from the official php scripting language page PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is […]

In this video I talk about how to customise your WooCommerce checkout fields.  These are the pieces of information collected on your WooCommerce checkout page. If like me you sell virtual products, all of the physical delivery details are not required and may add to cart abandonment.  I suggest you trim the fields that are not required on your checkout. Video Notes Past the following code in the theme functions file, go to appearance -> editor and open functions.php. You can remove some of the field exclusions if you want to keep them in add_filter( ‘woocommerce_checkout_fields’ , ‘nm_simplify_checkout_virtual’ ); function nm_simplify_checkout_virtual( […]

I’ve been using a marketing technique for many years, where I give away the “what” and charge for the “how to”. Using marketing content I’ll teach people the “what” and I’ll sell services or training to give the “how to”. Marketing content can be your blog posts, your YouTube videos or your free downloadable e-book. Then charge for the how to;  the technical implementation, details on how to do the “thing”. The “What” Shows You Are An Expert When you can articulate how something works with the “what” free content you are showing yourself as a subject matter expert. You […]