MarketPress from WPMU is a wonderful shopping cart with lots of display options and payment gateways. It's excellent for selling shippable and downloadable goods. I rate it above WooCommerce and other expensive shopping carts. But MarketPress lacks one huge (often essential) component: it has no gridview. Without gridview you can't display goods side-by-side as clickable thumbails. Adding gridview to MarketPress is easy with a bit of CSS know-how. Put the following CSS in your child theme's style.css file and you'll have MarketPress from WPMU with gridview product display. Edit the CSS … [Read more...]
Get Ready for WordPress 3.4 – It’s Beyond Awesome!
June 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You will love it. It's faster. It's easier to use. It has all the power it had before and a lot more. I've been testing it and I like it. WordPress 3.4 is billed for release next week and it looks great. We already have oEmbed. You know what that is, right? The thing that lets us embed YouTube, Flickr and SlideShare directly into a post just by copying the page URL into the page where we want it to display. No complicated 3000 line embed codes required. Well now it works for Twitter too! … [Read more...]
HowTo: Add New Menus to Genesis Themes
May 15, 2012 by 10 Comments
Adding additional navigation menus to Genesis themes is easy. This method creates custom navigation menus that you can customize as you would any other WordPress custom menu by visiting Appearance > Menus. We use a two-step method: Create a custom nav file Register the custom nav file in your child theme's functions.php file By repeating the method you can create as many custom menu navbars to Genesis child themes as you want. Step One: Create a Custom Nav File This creates a menu called customnavone with the unique ID of customnavone and unique class of customnavone in the … [Read more...]
HowTo: Change the Language of WordPress
February 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
So, you have built a WordPress site or WordPress multisite and now want the WordPress dashboard and site frontend to use Spanish or German or Italian or another language. It is easy. Whether you are looking to: Change the language used in the WordPress dashboard Change the WordPress backend language Change the WordPress front end language Change the language used by WP plugins, or Use a different language for your theme Follow the instructions shown here. How to Change the WordPress Language Visit http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/ Find the directory with the … [Read more...]
How to Change the Name of index.php in WordPress
January 6, 2012 by 18 Comments
They say it can't be done. Read support requests in the WordPress forum and you'll see lots of people saying it's not possible to change the name of index.php to blog.php or site.php or anything else.php. But it can be done. I know it. I've done it. Here's how... Change the Name of index.php Changing the name of index.php is very straightforward. In these examples we will rename index.php to blog.php Open .htaccess file of the root site for editing Change every instance of index.php to blog.php Change every instance of index.php to blog\.php to blog\.php Add the directive … [Read more...]
Heads Up About the Latest Atahualpa Theme
July 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
For those of us who like to use highly customizable free WordPress themes like Suffusion and Thematic, there is some good news today: Atahualpa 3.5.2 is available for download. Unfortunately (did you guess that was coming?), Atahualpa 3.5.2 has a serious bug that causes server CPU and memory usage to skyrocket. I've tried Atahualpa 3.5.2 on multiple servers and in all cases the CPU usage spirals above 37% and the memory usage goes beyond 5%. Such a shame because its straight-edged look is a great alternative to Suffusion's curvy look. I advise anyone wishing to upgrade to Atahualpa 3.5.2 … [Read more...]
