Month: May 2018

One of my projects required me to create a new role based on the Shop Manager role provided by WooCommerce.  Essentially, I need to develop a custom plugin to disable many of the administrative functions provided by WordPress and use a Roles & Capabilities plugin to lock the Shop Manager to only WooCommerce.

Roles & Capabilities Plugin

I used the following plugin to help me manage the roles & capabilities of my WordPress permissions: Advanced Access Manager

Adding New Orders

Location: WooCommerce -> Orders -> Add Order

The following capability is required in order to manage shop orders

• manage_woocommerce
  • This may give too much “admin” access so make sure to use Advanced Access Manager to further eliminate access you need.
• edit_shop_orders
  
• view_woocommerce_reports
  
• edit_posts
  • This will give the user the ability to edit posts too (make sure to remove this from side & admin bar menu.

I have two similar WordPress instances.  One of the WordPress instances had a lot of work done to a single page that needed to be replicated to the other WordPress instance.

Export Media from WordPress Instance

The following are the steps in order to migrate the contents of that page to the other WordPress instance you have.  From the site you did heavy work from:

• Copy the recent folder with the files you uploaded: /wp-content/2018/05
• Go to: /wp-admin
• Navigate to: Tools -> Export
• Click: Media
• Click: Download Export File

Import to Other WordPress Instance

On the WordPress instance you want to copy the contents to:

• Upload this folder (/wp-content/2018/05) to the other WordPress instance at the same location.
  • Ensure you have the appropriate permissions to upload to the /wp-content folder. You can give SSH access by doing the following: chown -R ubuntu:www-data /wp-content
• Navigate to: /wp-admin
• Navigate to: Tools -> Import
• Click: Run Importer
• Click “Choose File” and select the XML that was exported earlier.

Fulfillment companies looking to utilize WooCommerce Subscription sometimes need additional meta data about the # of orders from a subscription.

Or perhaps the subscription ID of the order?  I’ve included this information in a WooCommerce plugin.  This is especially useful for fulfillment companies.