WP Super Cache Joins the Jetpack Family

WP Super Cache, one of the oldest and most widely used static caching plugins for WordPress, is changing hands. After 15 years, the plugin’s author, Donncha Ó Caoimh, is handing over maintenance and development to Jetpack’s performance team.

Jetpack’s performance team manages the Jetpack Boost plugin, used by more than 100,000 sites, and the CDN. In today’s announcement, Jetpack assured current users that they will still be able to “enjoy its core features without a new plugin or a connection to Jetpack.”

More of the same

We’re happy to say that WP Super Cache will continue to be a great way to speed up your site for free. You can enjoy its core features without a new plugin or a connection to Jetpack.

What will be changing

While we research new features to help make WordPress sites cache faster, we will begin updating the WP Super Cache UI to bring it in line with modern standards, so it is easier to use. In addition, we’ll be working behind the scenes to ensure it’s compatible with our other performance features like Jetpack Boost.

Speed up your site

For those that aren’t familiar, WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates HTML files served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. This simple step should speed up your WordPress site significantly.

Reference:

https://jetpack.com/blog/wp-super-cache-joins-the-jetpack-family

https://wptavern.com/jetpack-performance-team-takes-over-wp-super-cache-development

If you are seeing an allowed memory size exhausted error in WordPress? This is one of the most common WordPress errors, and you can easily fix it by increasing the php memory limit in WordPress. In this article, we will show you how to fix WordPress memory exhausted error by increasing PHP memory.

What is WordPress Memory Exhausted Error?

WordPress is written in PHP server-side programming language. Every website needs a WordPress hosting server for it to function properly.

Web servers are just like any other computer. They need memory to efficiently run multiple applications at the same time. Server administrators allocate specific memory size to different applications including PHP.

When your WordPress code requires more memory than the default allocated memory, you get to see this error.

The error can occur in a number of different circumstances. However, it’s most likely to arise when you take specific types of actions on your site, such as:

• Installing and activating a new theme or plugin.
• Uploading images and other media to your site.

If you’ve run into this error on your own WordPress site, don’t worry. The reasons behind it are simple – let’s talk a little more about why it occurs.

Increasing the WordPress Memory Limit

To address memory limit issues, there are two paths:

• Adjust yourself
• Contact your hosting company

Do It Yourself

To adjust on your own, here are some methods to try. Be aware that this section requires advanced knowledge; it is not basic.

Edit your wp-config.php file

Add this to the top, before the line that says, “Happy Blogging”:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

Edit your PHP.ini file

If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 64M try 256M:

memory_limit = 256M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

Edit your .htaccess file

If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:

php_value memory_limit 256M

Contact Your Host

Should you not feel comfortable in trying the above methods, or the above did not work for you, you need to talk to your hosting about having them increase your memory limit.

Reference:

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/fix-wordpress-memory-exhausted-error-increase-php-memory/

https://woocommerce.com/document/increasing-the-wordpress-memory-limit/

https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-memory-limit/

How to Override WooCommerce Template Files

WooCommerce is a popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress that provides a wide range of features and functionality to create online stores. One of the advantages of using WooCommerce is the ability to customize the appearance and layout of your store’s front-end by modifying the template files. In this article, we will explore the process of overriding WooCommerce template files in a professional and upgrade-safe manner.

WooCommerce templates serve as the backbone of the front-end presentation of your online store. By editing these files, you can modify the markup and structure of various pages, such as product listings, cart pages, and checkout pages. However, it’s important to follow best practices to ensure that your customizations are not lost during plugin updates.

To override WooCommerce templates, it is recommended to use a child theme, which is a separate theme that inherits the functionality and styling of its parent theme. This allows you to make modifications without directly editing the parent theme files, which can be overwritten during theme updates.

Here is a step-by-step guide to overriding WooCommerce template files:

1. Create a child theme: If you haven’t already, create a child theme for your WordPress site. This involves creating a new theme directory and a style.css file with the necessary information to identify it as a child theme.
2. Locate the WooCommerce template file: Identify the template file you want to modify. You can find the default WooCommerce template files in the following directory: /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/.
3. Copy the template file: Using a file manager or FTP, navigate to the WooCommerce templates directory and locate the file you want to override. Copy this file to the corresponding directory within your child theme. If the directory doesn’t exist, create it. For example, if you want to modify the archive-product.php file, copy it to /themes/your-child-theme/woocommerce/archive-product.php.
4. Make desired changes: Open the copied template file in a text editor and make the necessary modifications to the markup, structure, or content. For instance, you can add custom notices, rearrange elements, or apply styling changes.
5. Save and upload: Save the modified template file and upload it back to the child theme directory, overwriting the existing file.

By following these steps, you have successfully overridden a WooCommerce templates, ensuring that your customizations will persist even after plugin updates.

It’s worth noting that WooCommerce templates are organized in a hierarchical structure, allowing you to override specific files for different pages or elements. By replicating the directory structure in your child theme’s WooCommerce directory, you can override templates for specific purposes.

Override example: Let’s consider an example where we want to add a notice to the price template on the single product page. Locate the price.php template file in the WooCommerce plugin directory: woocommerce/templates/single-product/price.php. Copy this file to your child theme’s directory: your-child-theme/woocommerce/single-product/price.php. Open the copied file and make the desired changes. In this case, we will add a notice about the price, such as excluding tax and shipping:

<?php

/**
 * Single Product Price
 */

global $post, $product;

?>
<p itemprop="price" class="price"><?php echo $product->get_price_html(); ?></p>
<p>Notice: price shown excludes tax and shipping.</p>

By utilizing this approach, you can override various aspects of the WooCommerce front-end UI, including HTML email templates, in a manner that minimizes the risk of losing your customizations during plugin updates.

In conclusion, overriding WooCommerce templates allows you to have full control over the appearance and structure of your online store. By following the recommended method of using a child theme, you can make modifications in a professional and upgrade-safe manner. Remember to carefully organize your custom templates within the child theme’s WooCommerce directory to target specific elements or pages. With these techniques, you can create a unique and tailored shopping experience for your customers using WooCommerce.

Resources:

https://woocommerce.com/document/template-structure/
https://www.godaddy.com/garage/how-to-override-woocommerce-template-files/
https://www.templatemonster.com/help/woocommerce-how-to-override-woocommerce-temlates-files.html

Welcome to WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”

Say hello to “Arturo” and WordPress 6.0, inspired by Grammy-winning jazz musician, Arturo O’Farrill. Known for his influence on contemporary Latin jazz, Arturo has pressed more than 15 albums spanning a body of work across five decades.

What’s Inside

Enhanced Writing Experience

Writing improvements abound, whether you’re writing a brand new post or adding elements to an existing page. Explore more ways to streamline your content creation process, including:

• Select text across multiple blocks for easier copying and pasting.
• Type two open brackets `[[` to quickly access a list of recent posts and pages.
• Keep existing styles when you transform some blocks from one kind to another—from a Paragraph block to a Code block, for instance.
• Create customized buttons and any new buttons you make will retain the style customizations automatically.
• Make tag clouds and social icons even more appealing with updated settings and controls, and a new outline style for the tag cloud.

Style Switching

Block themes now include the option to contain multiple style variations. This expands the new Style system even further and enables shortcuts to switch the look and feel of your site all within a single theme. In block themes that support this feature, you can change both the available settings, like the font-weight, and the style options, like the default color palette. Change the look and feel of your site with just a few clicks.

More Template Choices

WordPress 6.0 includes five new template options for block themes: author, date, categories, tag, and taxonomy. These additional templates provide greater flexibility for content creators. Tailor each with the tools you already know or with the following new options in this release:

• Featured images can be used in the cover block.
• New featured image sizing controls make it easier to get the results you want.
• While editing a template, at the root, or between blocks, the quick inserter shows you patterns and template parts to help you work faster and discover new layout options.
• The query block supports filtering on multiple authors, support for custom taxonomies, and support for customizing what is shown when there are no results.

Integrated Patterns

Patterns will now appear when you need them in even more places, like in the quick inserter or when creating a new header or footer. If you’re a block theme author, you can even register patterns from the Pattern Directory using `theme.json`, enabling you to prioritize specific patterns that are most helpful to your theme’s users.

Additional Design Tools

Design tools grow more powerful and intuitive with each release. Some highlights for 6.0 include:

• A new color panel design saves space, but still shows your options at a glance.
• New border controls offer a simpler way to set your border exactly as you like it.
• Transparency levels for your colors allow for even more creative color options.
• Control gaps, margins, typography, and more on a collection of blocks, all at once, in the Group block.
• Switch between stack, row, and group variations to position groups of blocks with more layout flexibility.
• Use the gap support functionality in the Gallery block to create different looks – from adding spacing between all images, to removing spacing altogether.

Better List View

New keyboard shortcuts enable you to select multiple blocks from the list view, modify them in bulk, and drag and drop them within the list. List View can be opened and closed easily; it comes collapsed by default and it automatically expands to the current selection whenever you select a block.

Block Locking Controls

Now you can lock your blocks. Choose to disable the option to move a block, remove a block, or both. This simplifies project handover, allowing your clients to unleash their creativity without worrying about accidentally breaking their site in the process.

Improved Performance

This release includes several updates focused on improving the performance of WordPress. These enhancements cover a range of performance areas including improving the page and post-load speed, reducing the execution time of various query types, caching, navigation menus, and much more. The performance team working group is an important focus area of the core development team. For more information on this group’s work, please follow their work on Making WordPress with the #performance hashtag.

Enhancing Accessibility

Accessibility is an integral part of the WordPress mission of fostering an inclusive community and supporting users of all types around the world. With this in mind, WordPress 6.0 includes more than 50 updates specifically focused on enhancing the accessibility of the platform. You can read about these updates and learn more about the accessibility initiatives that are ongoing.

Learn More About WordPress 6.0

https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/arturo/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-new-in-wordpress-6-0-features-and-screenshots/
https://www.bluehost.com/blog/wordpress-news-roundup-may-2022/
https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-0/
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/wordpress-6-0/