Dropbox Interface Problem

Here’s the problem: I put a folder into my local Dropbox. There is no green check mark – nothing. I looked in Dropbox in the browser online and it is there – so why no local green check mark on the local folder?

Here’s the solution (at least on a Mac) for the problem that the local folders are not syncing.

  • Click on the Dropbox icon from your Desktop and quit the application.
  • Open your Activity Monitor from your Applications folder.
  • Force quit out of the instances of the Dropbox application that are running by searching for “Dropbox” in the search bar, then clicking on the “x” force quit icon on the top left.
  • Re-start Dropbox from the Applications folder.
  • Click on the Apple icon in the top left of your screen.
  • Force quit and then restart Finder.

Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce

By default, you will see a Description tab in the individual product pages, If you enable product reviews in WooCommerce then you will see a second tab for Reviews. If you set up a variable product you will also see a tab for Additional information.

If you want to set up more custom tabs, there is a plugin Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce in the WordPress repository, with a pro version that gives more options. Addify make a Custom Products tab manager sold as an extension on WooCommerce.com that offers various layouts.

Email Text Customizer for WooCommerce

UPDATE

This plugin has been closed as of May 27, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

This plugin was As anyone who has worked with WooCommerce knows, the text in the system emails don’t suit every circumstance of every seller. The email text customiser for WooCommerce plugin enables you to rewrite text. There are other ways, but they are more technically challenging, involving language strings and changing template files.

The WordPress repository page for the plugin says that the plugin hasn’t been updated for the past several versions of WooCommerce. The author is Maeve Lander who works at Automattic with the WordPress.com VIP team, helping clients run WordPress at enterprise scale, as you can read on her site.

Note the spelling of customizer, which I have retained because it is the actual name in the WordPress repository. In my native British English is would be spelled customiser, with an s rather than a z.

Login Plugin

The Custom Login plugin is in the WordPress repository and it is made by Ben Gillbanks, who is a core contributor. The plugin enables you to customise the login screen on a WordPress install. I like the way you can set it up with a very minimal appearance.

Restrict Shipping Destinations For Some Products Only

To restrict shipping destinations in WooCommerce specify countries you ship to. Do not set a shipping option for countries you don’t ship to.

But beware how WooCommerce behaves at checkout when you mix products that have different shipping restrictions.

Let’s suppose you sell some products to a lot of countries and some products only with your home country.

You add them to your catalogue and you set up shipping costs for for your home country. And because you are not going to ship outside your home country, you do not set up shipping costs for that item for any other countries.

You add that item to the basket and you say you are a customer in another country. The checkout will flag that it does not have a shipping option for that country. That’s expected behaviour and it’s what we would want.

But now you also add a product that you do ship to many countries to the basket. WooCommerce will override the rule about shipping destinations and charge shipping based on the products that you do ship. That is definitely not what you want.

The solution, is to use the WooCommerce Advanced Shipping Packages extension. It’s not expensive at $49 per year plus tax.

WP Rollback

I heard about this plugin when looking at the reply to someone in the WooCommerce Blocks forum who observed that the text disappears to a tiny size when the number of columns increases beyond three. The recommendation was to try rolling back to the previous version of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin using WP Rollback. There’s a wiki for it as well.

That sounded interesting and I looked it up and saw that the plugin is made by the company that makes the GiveWP donations plugin.

The description says that it obviates the need for manually downloading and FTPing the files or learning Subversion. And it says you can rollback to any previous (or newer) version of a theme or plugin. Maybe rollforward should be a word?