Thursday, June 23, 2022

Woocommerce How to Hide Categories and Products

Go to Woocommerce -> Settings -> Products.

Go to the subsection “Hide from categories”.

There is twice the list of the product categories currently on your store. First list allows you to hide the categories on the store. Second list allows you to hide products from those categories on the store.


Wednesday, June 22, 2022

List of the Best WooCommerce WordPress Plugins

Here is the list of WooCommerce plugins that will help you enhancement online store!

  1. Breeze
  2. CartFlows
  3. YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
  4. Doofinder For WooCommerce
  5. WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips
  6. Bekeeting For WooCommerce
  7. WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration
  8. WooCommerce Google Feed Manager
  9. Product Import Export for WooCommerce
  10. LiveChat – WooCommerce Chat Plugin
  11. Product Slider Pro for WooCommerce
  12. Checkout Manager for WooCommerce
  13. Direct Checkout for WooCommerce
  14. WooCommerce Menu Cart Pro
  15. YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search
  16. Yoast SEO
  17. Appmaker
  18. Genesis Connect for WooCommerce
  19. WooCommerce PDF Invoices
  20. Booster for WooCommerce
  21. YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier
  22. Offline Credit Card Payment Method

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Backup the WooCommerce Database to Secure Your Data

WooCommerce is a popular ecommerce plugin that makes it simple for anyone to create a store powered by WordPress. WooCommerce database is important. Information like shoppers placed orders, registered accounts, reviews, and etc. Also for Plugins, Themes, Uploads are important to re-build your online store, just in case.

UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over three million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!

Backup into the cloud directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), UpdraftVault, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift, and email. The paid version also allows you to back up to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV.


Monday, June 20, 2022

WooCommerce Getting Started Set Up Products / Product CSV Importer and Exporter Wordpress Plugins

WooCommerce has a built-in product CSV Importer and Exporter.

Import, export, or update hundreds or thousands of products in your WooCommerce store with a single CSV. This tool supports most product types, including variations.

Adding New Products

First-time and existing store owners using WooCommerce can use the CSV to add new products with one upload.

1/ Go to: WooCommerce > Products.

2/ Select Import at the top. The Upload CSV File screen displays.

3/ Select Choose File and the CSV you wish you use.

CSV delimiter (Advanced option): Generally CSV elements are separated by a comma. If you are using a different delimiter in your file, you can set it here.

4/ Continue.

The Column Mapping screen displays, and WooCommerce automatically attempts to match or “map” the Column Name from your CSV to Fields.

5/ Use dropdown menus on the right side to adjust fields or indicate ‘Do not import.’

*Any unrecognized columns will not be imported by default.

6/ Select Run the Importer.

7/ Wait until the Importer is finished. Do not refresh or touch the browser while in progress.

Friday, June 17, 2022

Embodied Carbon of Building Materials

The buildings where we live, work have a profound effect on our health. Embodied carbon of building materials includes the emissions due to energy consumption for resource extraction and material manufacture as well as the carbon emissions from transportation for building materials. 

Emission = Quantity of building material (e.g. m3) x carbon emission factor (kg CO2-e/m3)

Emission =  Weight of building material (e.g. kg) x the distance of transportation for material (km) x the carbon emission factor for transport means (kg CO2-e/tonne∙km)

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Easy Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site in 2022 by WP Super Cache

There are many way to speed up your Wordpress Website like delete unused plugins, install high-quality plugins only, use a lightweight theme and Optimize images, etc

But the easiest way to Speed Up your wordPress site in by Wordpress Plugin - WP Super Cache. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. 99% of your visitors will be served static html files. One cached file can be served thousands of times. Other visitors will be served custom cached files tailored to their visit. If they are logged in, or have left comments those details will be displayed and cached for them.
 

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Guidelines to Account for and Report on Greenhouse Gas Emission

In order to calculate CO2 emissions using fuel type, fuel consumption and emission factor

data, the following equations can be applied:

Emission (CO2) = ∑ Amount of Fuel Consumed x Emission Factor of CO2

where

Emission, in terms of tonnes of CO2 -equivalent, is summed over all types of fuel used;

Amount of fuel consumed is in terms of volume (e.g. litre) or mass (e.g. kg) for particular

fuel; and

Emission Factor of CO2 = Net Calorific Value of the Fuel x Carbon Factor of Fuel x Fraction

of Carbon Oxidised x (44 / 12)

To calculate CH4 and N2O emissions, the equation below can be applied:

Emission (CH4 / N2O) = ∑ Amount of Fuel Consumed x Emission Factor of (CH4 / N2O)

x Relative GWP

where

Emission, in terms of tonnes of CO2-equivalent, is summed over all types of fuel used;

Amount of fuel consumed is in terms of volume (e.g. litre) or mass (e.g. kg) for particular

fuel;

Emission Factor of (CH4 / N2O) = Net Calorific Value of the Fuel x Specific (CH4 / N2O)

Conversion Factor; and

Relative GWP = Relative Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CH4 / N2O  

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

How to Customize WooCommerce Order Confirmation Email

 Customize WooCommerce Order Confirmation Email With Built-in Options

Basic options of WooCommerce order confirmation emails

WooCommerce email default customization is good enough for new online seller. Store logo image is allowed to upload and store color can be customized.

To edit the default template color and such, go to WooCommerce > Settings > Email section.


What items you can customize?

From Name: your store name

From Address: store email address

Header image: your store logo

Footer text: website address, social networks, etc.

Base color: the color that fills your heading’s background, linked text, etc

Background color: the full-width area that lies outside of the email template

Body background color: the background color for the email

Body text color: the color for email text

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Science-Based Targets SBT

 What are ‘science-based targets’?

Science-based targets provide a clearly-defined pathway for companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, helping prevent the worst impacts of climate change and future-proof business growth.

Targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

The private sector must play a fundamental role in reducing GHG emissions. Embedding science-based targets in sustainability management is crucial.

Setting a science-based target is a five-step process:

Commit: submit a letter establishing your intent to set a science-based target

Develop: work on an emissions reduction target in line with the SBTi’s criteria

Submit: present your target to the SBTi for official validation

Communicate: announce your target and inform your stakeholders

Disclose: report company-wide emissions and track target progress annually




Apple supply chain in China hit by lockdowns as key partner suspends production in Shanghai, Kunshan

 Apple's supply chain is facing extended disruptions caused by China's strict Covid-19 control measures, after the US giant's second-largest Chinese assembly plant suspended production at key factories in Shanghai and nearby Kunshan.

Pegatron Corporation, a major electronics manufacturing service provider for Apple, has stopped making computers, communication devices and consumer electronics for branded vendors in Kunshan, a manufacturing base in the coastal Chinese province of Jiangsu, since the city entered a lockdown a week ago.


Shanghai lockdown snarls world's busiest port and China supply chains

 Shanghai's grinding coronavirus lockdown is slowly clogging China's supply chains, as delays hit the world's busiest container port where staff are tangled in a morass of Covid controls.

Beijing has refused to tack away from its strict zero-Covid strategy that has protected its public health system through the pandemic but at a mounting economic cost.

China's financial hub Shanghai -- home to multinational firms and its busiest port -- has been sealed off almost entirely for a week following an outbreak fuelled by the Omicron virus variant.

That has forced many companies to halt production and slow new projects, factories told AFP, while those still operating are struggling with a shortage of truck drivers on top of onerous permit and Covid testing requirements.

At Shanghai's port, the lack of drivers and other workers means getting goods in and out is increasingly hard.

The docks are working normally with a "single-digit" number of vessels waiting to berth, Shanghai International Port Group said this week.


New Balance says its sneakers will leave zero carbon footprint by 2050

 The World Bank says the fashion industry is responsible for about 10% of global emissions, leading some brands to take stock of their outsized carbon footprints.

New Balance Athletics operates three factories in Maine and has pledged to be net zero by 2050. The company's factories churn out thousands of sneakers every day.

An MIT lifecycle assessment estimates that producing just one pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. That's because it's an energy intensive process that uses cotton, leather and oil-dependent polyester. It also generates a lot of waste.


Thursday, April 7, 2022

Integrate Stripe for Payment Gateway in your woocommerce online shop on New Round of Consumption Voucher Scheme ("CVS") 消費券

The 2022-23 Budget announced the implementation of a new round of CVS under which consumption vouchers with a total value of $10,000 will be disbursed to each eligible person. In Phase I, $5,000 consumption voucher will first be disbursed on 7 April to eligible people using the registration information of the 2021 CVS. Eligible people will receive the remaining value disbursed by instalments in Phase II.

With Stripe, you  can Accept payments in minutes, without a line of code.

1. Register you Stripe account https://dashboard.stripe.com/register

2. Register you wallet:

AlipayHK 支付寶香港 (Phone: 2245 3201)

Octopus 八達通 (Phone: 2969 5500)

Tap&Go  拍住賞 (Phone: 2888 0000)

WeChat Pay HK (Phone: 3929 1666)

And more information in next post