Stephen Sherrard

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  • in reply to: This plugin is for WordPress 3.9 or later! #3426
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Once you install and activate the plugin, when you go to the visual editor for a page or post, you will see “PTA” with a drop down arrow next to it in the top row of text formatting icons. Just click on that and a list will drop down with the 4 types of shortcodes that can be generated with that plugin (for a couple of my plugins). When you select one, a dialog box will pop-up for you to enter any arguments. Most of the time you will just leave them blank if you want the default display. When you click OK, the appropriate shortcode will automatically be pasted into your editor window at the current cursor location.

    in reply to: Show full last name of volunteer #3366
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Sorry there was a typo… add_filters should be add_filter (not plural).

    The below code has been tested and works:

    
    add_filter( 'pta_sus_display_signup_name', 'pta_modify_signup_display_name', 10, 2 );
    
    function pta_modify_signup_display_name( $display_name, $signup ) {
    	return esc_html($signup->firstname).' '.esc_html($signup->lastname);
    }
    
    in reply to: User/Admin Tasks Progress Monitor #3333
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    No, there is no way to do that with the existing Sign-up Sheets plugin.

    That would require quite a bit of extra programming and new admin/user interfaces, plus new database tables & fields to store that information, new report generation, etc…

    In short, not something that would be quick or easy to implement.

    Feel free to add that to the feature requests section, but that would most likely have to be either a custom programming job for hire, or developed as a separate paid extension (which would not be worth the time if only one or 2 people are interested).

    For now, you would just have to do that via email and phone communications, and track things with a spreadsheet or any other system you want to use. Not something we needed for our school’s volunteer events, and so it’s not something that I programmed into the plugin.

    in reply to: Woocommerce Wholesale Plugin Questions #3234
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Hi Tom,

    Sign-up for my mailing list, or follow me on twitter –> see the right sidebar.

    I don’t send out large amounts of marketing spam or anything like that… just use those to notify my customers of major updates and new releases.

    in reply to: Woocommerce Wholesale Plugin Questions #3232
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    I’m getting close to releasing Version 2 of the Wholesale Ordering plugin, which, among other things, has several hooks in place for extensions. That should be out by next week.

    My next project will be to take the multi-role and user pricing system I developed for the big auto-parts store, and either package that as its own plugin, or use that as the basis for some sort of user/role based discount add-on for the wholesale ordering plugin.

    I’m open to suggestions and feature requests. If I create it as an add-on for the wholesale ordering plugin, I might be able to get it out a bit faster, since a lot of the framework already exists in the wholesale ordering plugin, and I have already created the code for user/role based pricing for the auto-parts store.

    If I create it as an add-on, then you could specify, per role, the base price for each role (either regular or wholesale), and a multiplier that is applied to the base price. If the user’s pricing is set at default settings, then they get whatever is set up for their role. If you specify a base price and multiplier for a specific user, then those override the role settings. For the auto-parts store, we set up 5 roles to fit their needs. If I turn it into an extension, I would probably set it up so you can specify the settings for any existing role, and maybe add something to create custom roles.

    in reply to: Question on how your plug in works #3221
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Hi Lynn,

    Sorry for the delay in responding… the forum is not sending me emails for some reason when a new post is made.

    As far as your question, the short answer is “no”. There is nothing that allows members to edit their own info. That plugin started out as a very simple member directory listing, designed for our PTA manager to quickly add/update all members and positions. The “members” in my plugin are actually a custom post type and are NOT tied to any WordPress user accounts. You could give any user the right capabilities to edit those, but then they would be able to edit ALL members.

    You may be able to find some other plugin at WordPress.org that lets you edit/assign the “author” of each post, and then set each member’s author to the corresponding user, and try to set permissions so that they can edit their own member post. But, I can’t guarantee that would work.

    A while back I started working on an extension to tie together user accounts with the member directory and to allow users to submit and edit their own directory listings (along with a setting to let the admin approve listings before they appear in the directory). But, since these PTA plugins are not very popular, and I rarely sell any extensions for them, that got put on the shelf when I got busy with several large paying development jobs. I may dig that up and finish it some day, but it’s not high on my priority list.

    in reply to: WooCommerce Wholesale Ordering #3128
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Hi Michael,

    Somehow your message got marked as spam, so just now seeing it.

    My plugin does not currently have any features to do that, and mine doesn’t interact with inventory levels at all. This is not a feature I have thought of, and thus have not planned.

    If this is something you are needing, please contact me privately so we can discuss what it might cost to do something like that for you. If the appropriate Woocommerce hooks are already in place for showing or hiding that information, I could probably throw something together in under an hour to show or hide that info based on user type or capability. However, my plugin doesn’t currently have a “trusted” wholesale user type, so you would probably need to copy my wholesale customer role to another role and give it a “trusted” capability that can be checked programmatically.

    in reply to: Request for some features #3120
    Stephen Sherrard
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    Stephen Sherrard
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    If you want to view this content, you need to buy any product.

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    in reply to: Woocommerce Wholesale Plugin Questions #2933
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    As far as how long it would take to do something custom, that would be something that we could discuss privately, as I would need to get a lot more details on how you would want it to work, and figure out which other features of the plugin you would want duplicated for another role so that the settings could be independent, and which features could use the same settings for both of the new roles. Taxes enabled/disable, tax rates, tax display settings, shipping enabled/disabled, payment enabled/disabled, coupons enabled/disabled, wholesale messages, etc… right now those are all set to apply to the wholesale customer role. If there is another role added with its own price, then we have to decide if they get separate settings for all those other things as well.

    If it’s only one additional price field for the additional role, and everything else stays the same, then I could probably get that code put together and tested in one solid day of work, since a lot of it will be copy and paste, but there will be additional logic required all over the place where prices are shown and totals calculated to determine which price should be used.

    As far as the other pricing plugin that I’m currently in the middle of developing, it’s a small part of a very large and complex system we are putting together for the client, and much of what would be “options” is hard coded for the client, but I have already thought about breaking that out into its own plugin and making it more flexible with options/settings, to sell to the general public. Can’t say when that would be yet. Still working on that big project and hope it have it mostly wrapped up by the end of next week.

    in reply to: Woocommerce Wholesale Plugin Questions #2931
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Hi Mike,

    It would not be “difficult”, but would not be quick & easy either. There’s quite a lot more involved than simply adding another field. It would certainly take much more time to implement and thoroughly test than the $50 I would lose if this is what’s holding you back from making the sale.

    Of course, I can always be hired to do custom programming, and could create a custom version for you. I’m doing something for a large Canadian auto parts company where we have 5 different types of roles, each with their own pricing options, although in that plugin all prices are calculated based on either “list” or “cost” price, and a multiplier for each role type (and also individual users)… so, it’s quite a bit different in how it works than my wholesale plugin.

    I get way too many feature requests, and have already made the plugin more complex than it was intended to be by doing the completely independent tax settings that a German client needed (and paid for my time to code those features).

    There is simply no way that I can please everyone and put every feature request into the plugin, without it getting too complex and bogging the system down.

    Right now I’m in the middle of working on version 2 of the plugin, which will greatly simplify some of the code, and hopefully improve compatibility with other plugins. Lots of changes in the newer versions of Woocommerce, plus some feedback from the guys at Woothemes, have helped me find some simpler/better ways of doing some of the tax stuff. That’s the main purpose of this next release — to refactor and simplify the code, as well as a few minor new features along with compatibility with WPML and some other plugins.

    At this time I’m not considering adding any more features until version 2 is released and stable. However, please add any and all feature requests to that section of the forum here, as I do review those and may add features that I think will benefit many users in the future.

    In the meantime, though, you may want to look at the Dynamic Pricing extension. Although that plugin is not compatible with mine (although I’m in talks with the developer to try to figure something out), it has much more flexible pricing schemes, including role/user based pricing and discounts, that may be closer to what you need. I don’t think it has the ability to hide products from certain users, but perhaps there is a way you can prevent certain users from buying certain products (can’t say for certain, though).

    Sorry I can’t be more helpful right now.

    in reply to: Woocommerce Wholesale Plugin Questions #2929
    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Hi Mike,

    If I understand correctly, then, yes, you can do that with my plugin.

    Wholesale Customers need to be logged into an account with the Wholesale Customer role in order to see wholesale prices. There is an option in my plugin that will allow you to hide products from wholesale customers if those products do not have a wholesale price set. Of course, nothing prevents them from viewing those products the same way any retail/guest customer would see if they log out of their wholesale account, but they won’t see wholesale prices either if they are not logged in.

    The wholesale plugin adds a separate wholesale price field to each product, so that is separate from the price that retail customers will see for the same product. If there are certain products that you ONLY want wholesale customers to see, then there is a “Wholesale Only” checkbox for each product that will allow you to hide those products from retail customers or customers who are not logged in.

    So, using a combination of what I mentioned above, you can set up separate products for wholesale and retail customers that will be hidden from each other, and have their own prices.

    If by “different Retailer and Distributor prices” you mean 2 different wholesale type prices for “wholesale only” type products, then, no, my plugin can’t do that directly as it has only one wholesale price field. However, if one of them gets some type of discount, you could always create a discount/coupon code for that customer that they could use at checkout.

    Stephen Sherrard
    Keymaster

    Hi Heather,

    This is not really a “pre-sales” question, since the PTA Volunteer Sign-Up Sheets plugin is free. Assuming that’s the plugin you are talking about. =)

    To answer your question: No (sorry), it’s not possible the way the plugin is coded right now. That would require adding another field to the database table and another field to the add/edit sheet form, and all the necessary programming to create and save those values, and then the programming to do the necessary checking to make all of that work (not sending emails when that field is set, etc.), plus some kind of extra functions to download the data and/or send out a custom email to those people at the end.

    If that’s something you absolutely need, then you could hire me, or any other programmer (the code is open source), to add the needed functionality for you.

    Otherwise, you could put your idea in the Feature Requests section of this forum for consideration for future updates.

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