Category Paging Functions in WP e-Commerce 3.7.6

Wednesday, 10th March 2010

WP e-Commerce 3.7.6 now includes better support for paging on category pages.

The latest release contains a suite of functions (my little contribution) to help you customise how pagination is displayed in your WPSC templates.

You can find an in-depth look at these functions and how to use them in the WP e-Commerce Documentation.

Below are some quick examples of what you can do…

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WordPress Permalinks on a Namesco Zeus Server

Monday, 1st March 2010

I had a bit of a problem recently trying to convert a WordPress .htaccess file to a rewrite.script file for a Zeus server. My knowledge of the syntax for rewrite.script was non-existant so I tried the .htaccess converter provided in the Namesco admin.

This managed to get me part of the way there but the permalinks included “index.php” before the custom permalink setting.

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Customise the Terms and Conditions Checkbox and Link in WP e-Commerce

Tuesday, 9th February 2010

By default the terms and conditions link on the checkout page in WP e-Commerce activates an overlay popup containing the terms and conditions text you have specified in the admin.

But what if you want the link to redirect to a page instead of triggering this popup? You just need to make a small change to your checkout template. Here’s what you need to do…

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List Pages at Depth 1.1

Monday, 25th January 2010

Just released an update to the List Pages at Depth plugin for WordPress.

This update fixed a pretty major bug which prevented the list showing the correct branch of subpages when the start depth was greater than 1 (secondary level pages).

Now this is fixed you’ll be able to display a list of only tertiary level pages – Useful if you have a site with a horizontal navigation with drop down menus for secondary level navigation, and want to show and subpages of the secondary level as a list in your sidebar.

What’s more the plugin now includes a widget so you can easily add a list of subpages into your sidebar.

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Help Improve Adobe CS4 Products

Tuesday, 19th January 2010

Recently I upgraded my Adobe Suite to CS4 and upon launching one of the application this dialog box appears…

I have been using Adobe products for many years. From my early days in design I was usingĀ Photoshop and Illustrator, and also using Macromedia’s web design products like Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks which were then acquired by Adobe in 2005.

In recent years I have found the the quality of the Adobe products, particularly their web development applications, Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks, has been slowly getting worse.

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