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
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
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
9 Comments
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
May 13, 2009
by Lee
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The average internet connection is much more capable of delivering sizeable web content today than it was even 12 months ago – the UK average broadband connection at time of writing is 4.6Mb/s. The problem It’s important to remember that: … Continue reading