How are things?
I’m well, my cold is gone and last night I finally went back to tennis after 2 weeks. Needless to say… I played very well. Sometimes switching off helps (same applies to work, eh!)
Anyway, let’s get back to business. Our Wednesday appointment with “WooCommerce Weekly” is up! Here comes a series of WooCommerce tutorials, tips and workarounds put together by yours truly so that you can learn and test something new.
WordPress 5.0.0 To Be Released Tomorrow (Maybe)
It’s now almost official. WordPress has decided to release WordPress 5.0.0 tomorrow (Thursday, December 6th). And WordPress 5.0 means the new Gutenberg editor.
Now, whether you think this is a good or bad move, WordPress is going ahead anyway. So, all your sites will update automatically to 5.0.0, with most plugins/themes not ready for this huge change and yes, possibly your WooCommerce-powered stores will break.
So, unless you’re going to be available tomorrow to work on all your sites, I recommend 2 things – so you can hold on a little and maybe update WordPress only once it reaches version 5.0.1 or even 5.0.2 or whenever you’re ready:
- Disable automatic WordPress updates – add define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true ); to your wp-config.php file (more: https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates)
- Install “Classic Editor” plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/), which “By default it will hide all traces of the new Block editor and the Gutenberg editor including the Dashboard widget asking the users to try it”
In this way, you’ll be ok and can test Gutenberg on your staging/clone sites BEFORE applying this to your live environment.
WooCommerce: Display “NEW” Badge on Recent Products
We already have a nice “SALE” badge by default with WooCommerce (as well as the “OUT OF STOCK”) one. These show on the shop page once certain conditions are met.
Now, what if we wanted to show a “NEW” badge for products added in the last 30 days? This would certainly grab the customer attention, and also communicate the fact your shop is constantly updating with new products and content (well, good for Google too, right?).
So, how do they do it? Here’s the full tutorial: https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-new-badge-recent-products/
