June 9, 2010
by Lee
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While WP e-Commerce lets you choose how to order your products (E.g. Price, Name, Date Uploaded) through the admin area, it doesn’t let you control whether you’re sorting ascending or descending – e.g. cheapest first, or most expensive first. Here’s … Continue reading
April 17, 2010
by Lee
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Google recently blogged about Adding Images to your Sitemaps. When I read this my thoughts jumped straight to a friend’s site that is image-orientated, and could really benefit from this. His site uses WordPress’ post thumbnails to store an image … Continue reading
April 9, 2010
by Lee
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Looking for advanced shipping?Check out WP e-Commerce Premium Shipping » I’ve been asked a few times about how to split up countries into regions and charge shipping differently to the different areas in WP E-Commerce. This was something that was … Continue reading
March 6, 2010
by Lee
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WordPress 2.9 e-Commerce, has been published – the definitive guide to setting up an e-commerce site on your WordPress blog using the WP e-Commerce plugin, of which I’m a bit of a fan. This book provides an easy to understand, … Continue reading
January 29, 2010
by Lee
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One of the improvements in WordPress 2.9 is native support for thumbnail images on posts. The API is pretty good – although it assumes that you want to return the whole IMG tag. In my case I wanted to return … Continue reading
October 17, 2009
by Lee
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I recently re-worked a site for a client. He was moving over from Joomla to WordPress, so I started from scratch with his theme design. They liked the new theme I came up with – however I’d put the menu … Continue reading
September 7, 2009
by Lee
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I’ve recently been doing some work for a family member on a WordPress blog they run, and the need came up to build a mini-app. Now historically, I’m a Joomla kind of guy, and it’s fairly clear that for a … Continue reading
August 7, 2009
by Lee
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I wrote a previous post about how you could hack the excellent Twitter Tools plugin from Alex King to add Google Analytics tracking variables to the URLs posted to twitter when you posted a new blog post. I submitted the … Continue reading
August 7, 2009
by Lee
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Taxonomy Support I wrote recently about building a brand directory using a fantastic feature of WordPress called “Taxonomies”. Now that that feature is live I’ve realised that a number of my favourite WordPress plugins simply don’t support taxonomies. Among the … Continue reading
July 31, 2009
by Lee
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Background WordPress lets you categorise your posts according to “tag”, and “category”. Which is fine. However, for some time now WordPress has supported a concept called “Custom Taxonomies”. Which is a long winded way of saying “We’ll let you choose … Continue reading