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How to Add a Thank You page after PayPal Payment


Steps for Setting up Paypal thank you page:

Step 1: Log into your PayPal account.

Step 2: Go to My Account -> Profile

Step 3: Click on the selling tools link.

Step 4: Check the selling online section

Step 5: Look for “Website Preferences” and click the “Update” link on the far right hand corner of this row. See the following screenshot for reference

Step 6: You should now be on the “Website Preferences” menu. (Direct link https://www.paypal.com/businessmanage/preferences/website/)

a) Turn on the “Auto Return” for Website Payments
b) Enter a URL in the Return URL field (your thank you page URL)
c) Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Save button

Note that PayPal does not do auto return if the customer doesn’t pay using their PayPal account.

Expected Behavior After You Enable Auto Return

Customer pays via paypal account -> Gets automatically redirected to your thank you page.S

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How to sort Essential Grid pages/posts with page IDs

“Source” tab in Ess. Grid settings has “Type and Category” section. In “Type and Category” there is an option to input additional parameters. Here we can control the view the grid for example post per page, total posts count, serial posts by ID etc.

posts_per_page=4&showposts=6&post__in=array(1,2,3,4.5,6)

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Track WooCommerce external/affiliate product link clicks in Google Analytics

  1. Install Google Analytics Plugin
  2. Add following code snippet in functions.php 
    /**
     * Track external/affiliate link clicks snippet
     */

    function candc_track_affiliate_clicks_script() {
    ?>
    <script>
    ;
    ( function( $ ) {
      "use strict";

      // current page host
      var baseURI = window.location.host;

      // click event on body
      $("p.cart").on("click", function(e) {

    	// abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available
    	if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return;

    	// abandon if no active link or link within domain
    	var link = $(e.target).closest("a");
    	if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return;

    	// cancel event and record outbound link
    	e.preventDefault();
    	var href = link[0].href;
    	ga('send', {
    	  'hitType': 'event',
    	  'eventCategory': 'External Affiliate Link',
    	  'eventAction': 'clicked',
    	  'eventLabel': href,
    	  'hitCallback': loadPage
    	});

    	// redirect after one second if recording takes too long
    	setTimeout(loadPage, 1000);

    	// redirect to outbound page
    	function loadPage() {
    	  document.location = href;
    	}
      });	

      // Close anon function.
    }( jQuery ) );
    </script>
        <?php
    }
    add_action( 'wp_footer', 'candc_track_affiliate_clicks_script' );
  3. Add external affiliate product and check real time events!
  4. Done.

 

 

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How to create widget shortcode

Put this in functions.php

function widget($atts) {

global $wp_widget_factory;

extract(shortcode_atts(array(
    'widget_name' => FALSE
), $atts));

$widget_name = wp_specialchars($widget_name);

if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$widget_name], 'WP_Widget')):
    $wp_class = 'WP_Widget_'.ucwords(strtolower($class));

    if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$wp_class], 'WP_Widget')):
        return '<p>'.sprintf(__("%s: Widget class not found. Make sure this widget exists and the class name is correct"),'<strong>'.$class.'</strong>').'</p>';
    else:
        $class = $wp_class;
    endif;
endif;

ob_start();
the_widget($widget_name, $instance, array('widget_id'=>'arbitrary-instance-'.$id,
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget' => '',
    'before_title' => '',
    'after_title' => ''
));
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output; 
}
add_shortcode('widget','widget');

Use shortcode as

[widget widget_name="Your_Custom_Widget"]