November 5, 2011
by Lee
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WP e-Commerce‘s nifty personalisation feature allows your customers to add “personalisation” information to their order – whether that’s a t-shirt slogan, a message for jewellery engraving, or maybe just text for a gift card. The default behaviour though is that … Continue reading
August 20, 2011
by Lee
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The WordPress e-commerce solution from getshopped.org already features a powerful “variations” system that allows you to have different versions of products. This allows you to set colours, sizes or other attributes that make sense for your store. It also allows … Continue reading
March 28, 2011
by Lee
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Some people have had problems setting up the Campaign Monitor Signup Widgets, getting the widget up, but then receiving the “Sorry, we weren’t able to sign you up.” message. In most cases this is down to one of two issues: … Continue reading
March 1, 2011
by Lee
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The snippet below is a modification to Yoast’s excellent WordPress SEO plugin to include custom post type archives to the XML sitemaps it produces. Hope you find it useful. $post_type_archive_link = get_post_type_archive_link($post_type); if ($post_type_archive_link) { $url = array(); $url[‘loc’] = … Continue reading
February 24, 2011
by Lee
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WordPress 3.1 is now out and one of the most talked about features is the “admin bar”. WordPress.com users have had something similar for a while, and it seems to be one of those “love it or hate it” features. … Continue reading
January 11, 2011
by Lee
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I’m a big fan of Campaign Monitor for managing email lists and campaigns. I recently set up a list for a friend, and I agreed to put a small subscription form in his sidebar at the side of his WordPress … Continue reading
January 3, 2011
by Lee
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Disclaimer: The title of this post could easily have been one of a hundred different choices – “How to push developers away from your API”, “Why Microsoft are still living in the 1990s”, “Customer Support 101” or even “Bring Back … Continue reading
December 27, 2010
by Lee
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I’ve recently been doing some work with some plugins from the guys and girls over at WPMU DEV. The most recent one has been using their plugin that adds Classified Ads to WordPress. I caught the plugin just as it … Continue reading
October 18, 2010
by Lee
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I recently built a site for a friend (The excellent photographer Stewart Smith). The site uses a rather heavily customised version of WP e-Commerce for the e-Commerce aspects, but I’m also releasing the core WordPress photo blogging theme as a … Continue reading
September 14, 2010
by Lee
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I’m not normally a fan of sensationalist headlines, but in this case I know a bunch of people have put a bunch of effort into trying to make something work “The Right Way”[TM] only to discover that the right way … Continue reading