• Case Study: Diagnosing a WordPress Encoding Issue Beyond the Surface

    Summary A customer reported broken invoice output where special characters appeared corrupted. While it initially looked like a formatting issue, the root cause turned out to be a character encoding mismatch at the environment level. The Problem The customer noticed that invoice output was not rendering correctly. Examples included: At first glance, this pointed toward…

  • How to Add and Manage Custom Fields on the FluentCart Checkout Page

    If you run an eCommerce store, you might often need to collect extra information from your customers during checkout. Most eCommerce plugins — including FluentCart — already let you capture essential details such as billing and shipping addresses, company name, or VAT ID. However, depending on your business requirements, you might need to add custom…

  • Add Character Limit to Fluent Forms Text Area Using JS

    Fluent Forms is a versatile and user-friendly form builder for WordPress, offering a wide range of features to create dynamic and interactive forms. One common requirement for forms is to limit the number of characters a user can input in a text area field. While Fluent Forms doesn’t provide a built-in option for this, you can…