Rebranding WordPress 3.2
Woah. The new WordPress 3.2 admin interface is much better! Theres a lot of much welcome improvements.
I've upgraded a few blogs as test cases. Rebranding is mainly portable from 3.1 and below with one notable change.
Programmatically adding items to the cart in Shopp
One of the Shopp Support Reps - Adam has posted a good article on his site about how to add items to the Shopp cart from outside Shopp.
SSL/HTTPS for Shopp pages or checkout process only
Shopp currently doesn't redirect you to any SSL/HTTPS pages during any part of the checkout process. Technically, if you are using a 3rd party payment provider, it doesn't need to, but I'd like customers name/address data to be encrypted and secure.
So we need to force SSL on specific pages.
Remove Shopp Javascript from non-Shopp pages
Following on from a post on the Shopp forum regarding this, a few people are having issues with the Shopp scripts conflicting with some other plugins.
The best way to solve this is to only enable Shopp Javascript on the Shopp pages.
Also good practice to keep page load times down to a minimum.
WordPress NYC – Shopp Q&A w/ Jonathan Davis
Here's the second part of the lead Shopp developer, Jonathan Davis' presentation at WordPress NYC. Quite an interesting Q&A session on Shopp features.
Shopp 1.1.9 is out!
Shopp 1.1.9 is out! Although mainly a maintenance release it fixes the issues with the incorrect handling of free shipping methods and now includes WPML support! Bonus!
Shopp Product Importer Download
Here are the latest versions of the Shopp Product Importer.
I did not write these, I'm simply hosting them because the original site is down.
Debugging WordPress
Debugging WordPress is actually quite simple. Stop yourself going grey and or bald.
In your wp-config.php, replace
With
This will turn on debugging and debug events will be wrote to wp-content/wp-debug.log. Bonzer!
Optionally, you can add, to turn off on screen error reporting if your php.ini isn't already doing so.
WordPress function remove_menu_page
WordPress is now being used more and more for a full site CMS and the "Links" or "Blog Roll" is pretty much redundant now. People seem to be going to great lengths to remove this from the WP admin page. I've seen people use Role Manager plugins, wierdo so called "CMS" plugins and plugins specific to removing the "Links" link.
Chicks dig blokes with groovy login screens
Or how to customise your WordPress login page.
There are three main features you may want to customise on your WordPress login page, whether it's a finishing touch on a client site, a complete rebrand of WP or just cos you're bored.
- CSS colors, font size etc
- Logo
- Logo link
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