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The guys over at getshopped.org are working on a pretty major revision to their WP e-Commerce plugin. Part of this is migrating “products” into custom post types, including using post thumbnails for the product images. One of the problems that has cropped up in testing was where user’s themes didn’t support post thumbnails. The first [...]

WordCamp UK is an informal annual gathering of WordPress publishers, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom. This year’s event is being held in Manchester (Which is nice and central if you ask me!) and looks like it’ll be a great chance to chat about what’s new and groovy with WordPress, and find out [...]

This blog now running WordPress 3.0. If you haven’t already, you should probably check it out. Share This:

Someone left a comment on my article about Virtuemart Category Discounts the other day – that I though was worthy of a post of its own. What James pointed out was that instead of amending core files, you can create “class overrides” to amend functionality you want to. You can read James’ original comment, or [...]

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 a a quick tip to show how to control the sort order, just add the [...]

I wrote in a recent post about how to add post images into your sitemap based on WordPress post images. However I look after a couple of sites, and they’re not all WordPress. So I set off on a quest to add images to sitemaps on my Joomla! sites. The good news is that my [...]

I’ve run a Joomla site, and a Campaign Monitor subscriber list for around 18 months. For most of that time I’ve manually exported subscribers from Joomla and imported them to Campaign Monitor. Finally I got fed up, and put together a simple Joomla to Campaign Monitor plugin. The plugin auto-subscribes new users (Whether they register [...]

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 against each post, and I wanted to get those images into his sitemap. His site [...]

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 almost, but not quite possible with one of my existing plugins. Now it’s just a little bit easier. What You’ll Need WP E-Commerce (3.7.6 or [...]

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, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WP e-Commerce to run your online store. We [...]