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Woocommerce Custom: Related Products & Variation Prices

Here at Eyesore, we work for our customers. And if the customer wants a specific look on their site that theme templates cannot deliver, then by golly, we’ll load up a Blank theme and make it for them! So when development was approved for a large eCommerce site, and the design came through to the developers,  it became…

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3 Tips to Help Marketers Take Control of Their Brand with Brand Journalism

Last week we had the pleasure of attending the Atlanta Chapter of the American Marketing Association’s monthly signature luncheon that featured three subject matter experts discussing Brand Journalism. The panel featured representatives from three Atlanta-based companies: Chic-fil-A, Coca-Cola, and UPS. We walked away with a lot of valuable information, and wanted to share a few tips…

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Custom Code: Display Child Product Category Thumbnail

We are all constantly growing as developers in our respective areas, and as a frontender, I’m always excited to learn new code, particularly PHP and JQuery. I quickly learned it a mistake to not keep track of the custom functions and templates that have helped me complete the more complicated designs, mockups, and client expectations. As an employee…

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3 Mistakes Your Website is Making

Your website is important – there’s no denying that. It’s your virtual storefront, your first impression, the way you attract new clients/customers. Your website is where people learn about who you are, what you do and how GREAT you are at what you do. And it’s where they decide if they want to give you…

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Troubleshooting: Advanced Custom Fields and Shortcodes

I ran into a small problem where my ACF text fields and textareas with shortcodes in them, on a new WordPress page template, were not working. I took different steps to try and troubleshoot this issue, making sure that the shortcodes were correct in the backend and that the theme was not stripping them in any way. I know…

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Nested Select MySql Statements

Hello, today I want to talk about MySQL. This discussion requires some understanding of MySQL. Let’s discuss the optimization of NESTED SELECT statements. Consider this MySQL statement: SELECT name, (SELECT count(carts.product_id) FROM carts WHERE carts.product_id = products.id AND cart.date=’2015-01-01’) as count FROM products; I have a table for orders and carts and I want to find how many…

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3D Printers and How They Work

3D printers have become very popular in the last few years. I found out about them through a Kickstarter campaign about two years ago, and immediately wanted one. I’ve always been one to “tinker” with stuff; I used to take things apart just to figure out how they work. If I didn’t love web development,…

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Troubleshooting: PHPMyAdmin Import 500 Error and Rackspace

Here’s a fun little issue that didn’t take a newer developer more than 2.5 hours to figure out! Let’s say you plan to migrate a site from another host to Rackspace Cloud Sites, so you grab the files from the ftp server and move them over to the new host. You then retrieve either an unzipped, zipped, or…

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Tips and Tricks: What We Pick Up Along The Way Part 1

Developers on all sides of the coding table run into walls on a rather regular basis, particularly entry-level developers. We tend to frequently need help but because the workloads never cease, we have to very quickly learn how to handle our problems alone. Of course, that’s not to say that 100% of issues should be…

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