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!
Unique home page mod CubeCart 4
Here's a quick modification to allow you to have a unique home page. A page that is different to all the other pages generated by the standard index.tpl file.
It could allow for a unique homepage to show an image slider, or a blog or anything!
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.
New Site: Majestik Art
Majestik Art approached me wanting a central hub for their numerous profiles on different social networking sites across the web.
I provided a content management e-commerce system in CubeCart 5 so products can be sold and payments taken online, included a rotating image carousel displaying different pieces of work and also plenty of information about Majestik Art, Animal Art, Pet Portraits and Artwork by Vicky Mycock.
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
How to remove the favorite actions menu in WordPress admin
Open your functions.php and hook in filter onto favorite_actions and return an empty array.
- function remove_favorite_actions() {
- }
- add_filter( 'favorite_actions', 'remove_favorite_actions' );
Change “Howdy” text in WordPress admin
The "Howdy admin" text can some times come across a little unprofessional in some WordPress installs. Especially when you are taking the time to rebrand/customise it as a CMS solution. Edit your theme's functions.php and hook in.
- add_filter('admin_user_info_links','howdy_msg');
- function howdy_msg($links) {
- return $links;
- }
