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Today we’ve published Billy Pro v1.4.1. This follow-up release allows you to add due dates to To do checklists and…
Update: The following GitHub thread may be helpful for anyone experiencing this issue with Local https://github.com/them-es/starter-bootstrap/issues/31
Hi @kmeronuk, this is a known issue (at least on some environments) and has been reported by other users as…
Hi thanks for the hint, after update to 8.61 its working again. I was think its a problem with your…
Hi stefanbd, thanks for getting in touch. You’re right – there seems to be a bug in WooCommerce v8.6.0 (see…
Are you managing an online community around a 🏢 business, ⚽ hobby or 🎀 cause where users can discuss topics with others – like we did here on this site you’re browsing right now? Are you in technical evaluation phase or unhappy with your current implementation? And is WordPress your go-to tool?
them.es Support is a Block Theme powered by WordPress 6.5+ making use of the new Interactivity API, so all the standard features from WordPress, like enhanced query pagination, posts, comments, user profiles, categories, tags are available out of the box
Convenient Community and effective User management features
Users can Mark topics as (un)resolved
Users can Like posts/comments
Users can Report posts/comments for admin review
Users can Search with an autocomplete feature
@user mentions
Unresolved topics widget
Markdown syntax
Users can upload an Avatar
Users can request a data export from the profile
Frontend editing experience powered by the new Interactivity API
The design with two built-in styles (Light/Dark) can be fully customized in the Site Editor
Alternatively it can be extended with a Child Theme, like we did here by integrating a unique design and adding several internal add-ons like a file uploader or widgets connecting to external services or APIs
All customers purchasing a license will get continuous Support with future updates
Finally a highly requested feature – the ability to send invoices and quotes as email attachments via a webform – has been implemented in the Pro version. Default values like email subject and email body can be defined globally. But it’s also possible to add a personal touch to the email and change the values individually per post.
As a consequence this makes sharelinks more or less obsolete and we decided to deprecate this feature without hard feelings. Password protected sharelinks lacked some important abilities (like downloading PDFs) and according to our knowledge and feedback from the community they were not used very often. In the end the email webforms are more convenient and even more secure because no passwords need to be sent to customers in cleartext anymore.
Existing links will continue to work for the time being but it will not be possible to create new sharelinks anymore.
Incorporating e-invoices is another important milestone in this release. Although PDF invoices are just fine if both contracting parties agreed on accepting them, the future belongs to transmitting documents in an electronic data interchange format. Heads up: E-invoices may even be required by law in your country sooner or later in a B2B or B2G context…
That’s why Billy invoices can now also be generated in the UBL XML format which is an open standard for electronic business documents. This feature is optional, needs to be explicitly enabled in the Customizer and has been marked as “beta”. Your help in testing the implementation is more than welcome.
Please be informed that an upgrade to at least WordPress v6.5 is mandatory if you want to use all new features as we developed with state-of-the-art technology like the Interactivity API to give you the look and feel you deserve. Falling back to an old approach was a no go. So if you’re still on an old WordPress version you can update the plugin but won’t be able to benefit from some of the cool new stuff.
Meanwhile WordPress is already in the 6.6 prerelease phase and since we thoroughly tested Billy with the current beta version, no compatibility issues are expected when WordPress 6.6 gets released in less than a month.
Billy – our Billing suite for WordPress – has received some useful updates in the latest release and even comes with new premium features in the Pro version.
Quote numbers can now be auto-incremented, similar to invoices. This is optional and the old default “Ymd” number format is still available. An useful addition to invoice and quote number prefixes are the placeholder variables {YEAR}, {MONTH} and {DAY} which means that you are now able to define number formats like INV-2024-05-13-12345678910 or similar.
A highly requested feature was having a fully customizable PDF footer layout. That’s why a reusable block pattern, similar to the PDF header, has been added in the block editor.
In addition, the PDF table output has been improved and inner borders are now enabled by default. Note that in the Pro version the PDF styles (of the table design and even more) can still be modified using custom CSS.
Speaking about the Billy Pro add-on. This release has received a major upgrade with two completely new enhancements and is available for all existing customers, having a lifetime license, with no additional costs. And best of all, the price for new users has not been raised.
After you update the plugin you’ll get cool project management features like checklists in Kanban-style boards and a simple time tracking tool.
By ensuring a smooth workflow and using a modular approach with full WordPress block editor compatibility, the editing experience should be an easy ride.
With the addition of two new Billy admin pages, the time had come to restructure and combine all pages in a single dashboard menu in order to keep the WordPress admin sidebar tidy.
An important advice as this can’t be said often enough: Your WordPress data will never leave your server and guarding against data corruption, breach or loss should be a matter of course. That’s even more important after Billy’s evolvement to a full project management suite.
When was the last time you reviewed and improved this process?
Many thanks 👋 to the engaged community for the valuable feedback that initiated the work on some of these features und bug fixes. There are still some requests and ideas in the pipeline, so stay tuned for more!
Hi there,
I’m trying to migrate from the 3.4.1 version of the Bootstrap Starter theme, but haven’t been able to figure out how to get it working, at least in the way I expect it to.
In the previous version, we could set the localHost value to what our local install is, but I’m not seeing how to do that with 3.5.1.
When I ‘run npm watch’ I get:
[webpack-dev-server] Project is running at:
[webpack-dev-server] Loopback: http://localhost:8080/
But no URL for where to load the site and have liveReload work.
I do see anything in the documentation/readme for how to make this work.
I’m set up on Windows 11, node 14.21.3, using the latest version of Local with my install being nginx, PHP 8.2.10, MariaDB 10.4.10 and a local site domain of https://kmstarter351.local
Have looked through the webpack devserver documentation but haven’t had any luck getting something to work here.
Is there a trick? Is this possible?
I can see that webpack is working, as when I manually refresh my local domain in the browser it does pick up the updates.
Thanks in advance.
this is a known issue (at least on some environments) and has been reported by other users as well. But it should be possible to achieve what you want with a bit of trial-and-error.
You could start by adding the following settings to the webpack devServer config:
Hope this helps or at least points you to the right direction.
If you do find a solution it would be appreciated if you could post it here for others who are struggling with a similar issue. And maybe our webpack config can be updated safely then to make it work for more environments?
After Update from woocommerce.8.5.2 to woocommerce.8.6 the_content is not load for people who are not logged in.
Seems like comes from a wp core function $content = apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $content ); in the the_content function.
When i rollback its works. I also have try it with a fresh generatet version of Starter Theme, same.
With other themes its working i had try till twentynineteen.
Theres no error i have investet some time but found not a reson why its now not working
Hi stefanbd,
thanks for getting in touch. You’re right – there seems to be a bug in WooCommerce v8.6.0 (see https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/44679) which already has been been fixed in v8.6.1, released yesterday.
Could you confirm that upgrading WooCommerce to the latest version makes the_content() accessible to unauthenticated users again?
Hi thanks for the hint, after update to 8.61 its working again.
I was think its a problem with your theme because i have try themes from store and they hadnt the problem.
Using the starter wp bootstrap theme, I’ve incorporated a banner to remain above the navbar. However, there is an issue where it overlaps with the navbar when the Fixed Top header option is selected. I’m seeking assistance to resolve this matter. Your help is greatly appreciated.
The code you shared seems to be broken and uses invalid HTML. In general, if an element overlaps the header you may be able to solve the issue by increasing or decreasing the z-index value or by changing the top value so that the header will be placed below the top-bar. Another possibility would be to try adding position: sticky to your header and to the top banner.
Since this issue is not related to the theme code, I’m going to mark it as resolved. If you still have questions you should consult a frontend developer.
My problem is that top bar that I put above the navbar overlaps the navbar by 50% and it happens only when fixed to top header is selected.
I need to have a div above header that will not overlap the header when “fixed to Top” is selected in header customize section. If the header is selected as static it does not show any issue. Only when the “fixed to top” is sleceted it overlaps the header half way down.
The new year starts great! A major milestone has been reached – our Bootstrap Starter Theme for WordPress was downloaded for the 25,000th time 🤩. Actually the number of websites out in the wild, using this theme as the foundation, may be even higher because we can’t measure 1:1 duplications and direct downloads from GitHub.
It’s very pleasant to see how one of our first OpenSource products evolved over time, with important quality improvements from contributors, valuable feedback from users and last but not least by looking at the numerous likes from stargazers. All the kudos we received prove that democracy, exchange and teamwork are still relevant today in a world (wide web) that’s transforming continuously.
THANK YOU to all friends, collaborators and developers (of underlying dependencies*) who made this possible!
* WordPress, Bootstrap, SASS, LESS, Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, NPM, etc.
WordPress is the leading web publishing platform standing for stability, reliability and sustainability, and celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
them.es Bootstrap Starter Theme for WordPress combines the best of both worlds. Stay tuned for more because all in all it feels like the journey has only just begun…
Our WordPress invoicing plugin Billy and its companion Billy Pro have been refactored and finally make use of the Block API v2, resulting in a lighter DOM tree and an overall improved editor load time. Full backwards compatibility has been considered but if you’re using Billy Pro, it’s strongly advised to keep both plugins in sync and update each to the latest version.
In addition, the Pro add-on received new features for contacts. The contact selector in the post template has been rebuilt with an improved combobox selector and should help you finding the right contact quicker and easier. Furthermore it’s possible to upload a photo or logo to contacts for better identification.
In the edit post screen, invoices and quotes with status “overdue” and “pending” now show an eye-catching icon, indicating that the due date has been passed.
All in all we’re confident that this new release makes Billy (Pro) one of the best invoicing products currently available on the market – in particular for freelancers and small companies that are looking for a simple and uncomplicated solution with zero dependencies.
Did you know that the integration of this plugin in an existing WordPress website is a no-brainer and that you have total privacy control over your invoicing as no data every leaves the server or is shared with third-parties?
This tutorial helps you set up a basic localhost DEV environment on MacOS using Homebrew, to run WordPress (or any other PHP powered web-app) locally.
Installing Local, MAMP or other local server environments for testing and development may be an overhead if you just need a plain-vanilla web server that can be kept up-to-date easily.
⚠️ Before proceeding, please make sure that you’re using the latest MacOS version. Windows users should install a preconfigured DEV environment like XAMPP, MAMP for Windows or WampServer – if you feel comfortable you can try to setup Homebrew via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Linux users need to follow the official Homebrew on Linux guide and will have to change some file paths accordingly.
MacOS
Prerequisites
Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code has become the de-facto standard in web development but any pre-installed editor will be sufficient.
Terminal MacOS app to perform shell commands. Any code snippet below starting with $ needs to be executed via a Terminal Emulator.
Homebrew Package manager for MacOS/Linux that helps you install the latest software packages for your localhost environment and automatically launches required processes when you start your system. Outdated packages can be updated with a single command.
WordPress Content Management System powered by PHP.
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
MariaDB Community Server sets the standard for open source relational databases, with Oracle Database compatibility (e.g., sequences and PL/SQL), temporal tables, transparent sharding, instant schema changes, point-in-time rollback and modern SQL (i.e., common table expressions, window functions, JSON functions and more).
⚠️ “Localhost” is just a suggestion and you can choose whatever folder name you prefer.
Configure the database
Change the root password and create a new empty database for WordPress.
$ sudo mysql
$ ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '{NEW_PASSWORD}';
⚠️ The password is required to access the database and you’ll need it later – store the access credentials (Username “root” + chosen password) in your password manager or write it down somewhere.
$ CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
⚠️ You are free to choose a different database name.
Configure the web server
‼️ Find the default Apache configuration file in /opt/homebrew/etc/httpd/httpd.conf (on Mac computers with Apple silicon) or in /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf (on Mac computers with Intel processors), create a backup (e.g. httpd_backup.conf) and open httpd.conf in a text editor.
Uncomment or adapt the following lines and save the changes afterwards:
Download and extract the latest WordPress Core ZIP in an arbitrary Localhost directory (e.g. /{YOUR_USERNAME}/Localhost/wordpress), access http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and follow the setup guide by entering the database credentials defined earlier.
Some recommended tools that may make your WordPress developer life easier are Multisite Network (Maintain multiple sites on a single WordPress installation), Composer (PHP package manager), WP-CLI (Command-line interface for WordPress), phpMyAdmin or Adminer (Database management tools) and PHP Code Sniffer (PHP code quality and coding standards) in combination with the WordPress Coding Standard rules.
It’s strongly advised to always update to the latest software versions available.
$ brew update && brew cleanup
$ brew upgrade
Yes, you can use this local server to run other applications besides WordPress!
Feel free to install and setup any web tool that’s powered by PHP (and MySQL/MariaDB) on your new localhost environment. In addition to WordPress, covered in this post, some other popular applications you can use, include:
Drupal (Content Management System)
TYPO3 (Content Management System)
Joomla (Content Management System)
Nextcloud (Private Cloud server)
Magento (E-Commerce)
Matomo (Web analytics)
MediaWiki (Wiki software)
… just to name a few
That’s all for now
The instructions may be updated from time to time to reflect any OS specific changes. If you have questions, recommendations or just would like to say ❤️ Thank you, post a comment below.
Hello,
I’ve just deployed a page to the production server where npm is not present, and I prefer not to have it there. I’m wondering how to address the issue when making changes locally and uploading those changes (main.scss) doesn’t reflect any modifications on the production server. Is there a specific workaround or something I need to do to resolve this?
If you have a basic understanding of frontend development, which is mandatory when working with a WP Starter theme, you should know that only the locally created build/dist files are relevant on production. main.scss is never touched or enqueued via the website: https://them.es/starter-bootstrap/getting-started/
Today we’ve published Billy Pro v1.4.1. This follow-up release allows you to add due dates to To do checklists and…