Lock a WordPress user account to prevent login
A copy-and-paste tutorial that adds a “lock user account” function. Prevent individual users from logging in to your site.
Add a Low-Stock Filter to the WooCommerce Admin Area
In this tutorial, we’ll make a custom “low stock” filter for the WooCommerce products admin table. We’ll also override the “In stock” text (in the Stock column) to say “Low stock” where appropriate.
Rate-Limit Incoming WordPress API Calls
Create a custom plugin to control how hard your WordPress API gets hit by external clients. Useful if an external client is making too many API calls to your site, and you want to force them to slow down a bit. Retake control of your site’s bandwidth and CPU usage.
Add a custom admin column to the WooCommerce orders table
Learn how to add a custom column to the WooCommerce orders table. This tutorial will add a flag for the order shipping country, and it’s easy to extend with your own custom data.
Add a products column to the WooCommerce admin orders page
Create a new column on the WooCommerce admin orders page so you can see the products in each order. We’ll hook a WordPress filter to modify the list of columns available to the admin orders table. Then we’ll hook an action so we can render the contents of the column on a per-order basis.
WordPress Admin Menu Items with Custom URLs
Add custom menu items to the main WordPress admin menu, with whatever URLs you want. Super-handy for linking to external support URLs and custom reports.
Filter For Images Missing Alt Text
This copy-and-paste tutorial shows you how to extend the WordPress Media Library so you can find images that are missing ALT text. It’s a back-end/admin tutorial, but we’ll need somewhere to put the PHP code, so make sure you’re using a custom child theme.
Record When Users Log In to WordPress
Learn how to record the date & time when users log in to your WordPress website. Display these login dates in the admin area so you can find inactive accounts. We’ll do this with a small amount of copy-and-paste PHP code, without installing any new plugins.
Export Any CSV Data from WordPress & WooCommerce
This tutorial shows you how to build custom CSV exports so you can extract any data you want from posts, pages and WooCommerce orders.
Conditional Frontend Themes for Users/Roles
Apply a different WP theme for specific users. Useful if you’re developing or testing a new theme that’s not quite ready for production yet.
Enforce Strong Passwords Without a Plugin
Improve your WordPress site’s security by requiring all users to have strong passwords. Learn how, without needing to install a plugin.
Optional Accounts Email Address in WooCommerce
Learn how to add a secondary accounts email address for your customers’ orders & invoices in WooCommerce, without using a plugin.
Migrate a WordPress Website to a New Server
Migrate a WordPress website to a new web server. Make a backup, copy to the new server, restore the backup and update all the links.