It’s a couple of days early but given that Christmas is on a Sunday this year, it seems to make sense to say this today rather than sometime during the weekend.
Especially since most of us will be spending time elsewhere than on this blog, right? 😎
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Years ago, I started using this little service called Spacebox (and I briefly mentioned it about three years ago) to accept one-off payments from clients, family, and friends for different things.
Not long after that, Spacebox changed its name to Plasso, expanded its offering regarding what could be done with it, and I continued to use it for one-off payments.
Fast-forward to yesterday and the company comes out of the gate swinging with some different products for WordPress payments. These include a couple of themes, a plugin, and so on.
If you missed it, we released a bunch of free #WordPress themes (and a plugin) for @paywithplasso yesterday. https://t.co/Z0tpiADbe8 pic.twitter.com/MUl8Rc9knp
— Jason Schuller (@jasonpatricksc) December 21, 2016
And I’m pretty stoked to see what all it has to offer especially with dealing with accepting self-hosted payments (well, as far as accepting things within the context of WordPress).
This is that time of year where people do all kinds of posts – from retrospectives to upcoming plans, from taking a break to writing more than they have all year.
Honestly, I’m a fan of reading it all.
And though I don’t normally do a retrospective post (though I’m thinking of going back and following-up on the developer fitness post from last year), I do have plans for what I’m aiming to do come the new year regarding general stuff online so I thought now would be the usual time to do that.
For starters, I’m going to move on from WordPress. Peace out. It’s been great, but it’s time to move on to new things! ✌️
That’s not true at all. There are some new things I’m looking to introduce, though.
In the previous post, I walked through the process of adding a custom WooCommerce menu to the My Accounts page. It’s straightforward enough, but if you’re creating a custom menu item, then you’re likely going to need a custom WooCommerce page.
That is, you’re going to want to have a page that corresponds to the menu item so that people who are logged into your store can view something related to the custom menu item that’s been added.
Granted this isn’t always the case, but if you’re adding a custom menu, the odds are you’re going to be adding a custom WooCommerce page. The thing is, WooCommerce expects these pages – which are actually templates – to reside in a specific location.
And if you’re distributing a plugin for others to use, making sure the template is in the right place should be done programmatically.
I’ve written a few posts about some of the work I’ve done with WooCommerce over the last couple of months, but one of the things I’ve yet to cover is how to add a custom WooCommerce menu.
Using Google or Stack Exchange or some other bloggers will yield some solid results, but my situation is two-fold:
- Introduce a new video menu item,
- Create and display a custom template for the menu.
The latter is a little more complicated, so I’ll cover it in a follow-up post, but the former is something to be covered in a post all its own.
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