Creating a Wholesaler Role in WP e-Commerce – Part Two

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Wholesaler Application

So now we get to play with some of the other cool functionality I used to extend the Wholesaler experience for both Sarah and the user.

4. Customising the Registration page to allow for custom fields.

I mentioned Gravity Forms in the previous post as an integral part of this process.  Sarah was already using this plugin because it’s awesome and makes lovely, functional forms really easily. So I was stoked to find that the added functionality we needed was available as an add on and yes, I mentioned also that this add on is only available to users with a Developer license.  (Seriously, it’s so totally worth it, as you’ll see below…)

Filed Under: Genesis Theme Framework, Tutorials, Web Development, WordPress, WP e-Commerce

Creating a Wholesaler Role in WP e-Commerce – Part One

February 14, 2012 By 3 Comments
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So, I have a client doing some tidy business in handmade children’s clothes. I worked with her designer late last year to turn out her e-commerce website build on WP e-Commerce and it’s been humming along paying for itself reasonably well.

So Sarah, having got the day to day management of the online store running smoothly wants to add her wholesalers into the mix and offer them special pages for their eyes only and discounts on product throughout the whole store.

So where do you go to make that happen?

Before we begin the issues to address are -

Creating a Wholesaler User Role and managing how to give it particular privileges
Being able to offer wholesaler discounts on the cost of store items
Having a payment gateway for wholesalers that allows for deferred payment/COD
Customising the Registration for to allow for custom fields like store name and address
Customising the normal site login page with the Fabrik logo to create a more professional impression!
Creating a way of having content served specifically to wholesalers that isn’t available to ordinary shoppers

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Making Simple Coming Soon and Under Construction work with Child Themes

February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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It’s quite possible that there are other maintenance and ‘coming-soon’ plugins out there that are more up to date, slicker and better than this one, but for whatever reason I’ve used Simple Coming Soon and Under Construction for a number of years. Unfortunately, in more recent times I have found it not performing to my liking in that while it would display a splash screen when it was in ‘maintenance’ mode it was never my custom one.

As it happens this non-performance coincides with the advent of my diving into developing using child themes…

Filed Under: Genesis Theme Framework, Tutorials, WordPress

Web Hosting Customer Service FTL

February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I had a text chat yesterday with a local webhost. I was inquiring as to a client’s disk usage on their shared service because we were switching over from an existing Joomla site to a new WordPress one (heck yeah), and so I was touching base to make sure that the new WordPress install didn’t tip them over their limits (based on the existing site I knew it would be close).

I came away from the conversation irritated based on the following…(After the preliminary greetings and outline of my request…)
Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress

Australian Address Fields for Gravity Forms

February 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I’m making the mother of all web forms to create an online booking system for a client. Needless to say I’m using Gravity Forms* to build it, if for no other reason that it removes ALL the headache from creating forms… you just have to do the painstaking work of adding each field.

Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress

My Signature Video

January 15, 2012 By 2 Comments

It’s a miracle… the Web Princess has her very own signature Big Bang Theory clip…

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Festive Seasonal Thoughts

November 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
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I’ve spent the last 3 weeks tripping around New Zealand… so thankful for the benefits of being a freelancer and having a laptop and 3g phone… To date I’ve worked in a Christchurch bedroom, a TranzAlpine train, a 1975 VW Kombi Westfalia camper van, the Overlander train from Auckland to Wellington and the offices of Instinct Entertainment, home of the WP Ecommerce plugin, among other places.

Yep, I know, hard life…

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Genesis Theme Framework for Beginners

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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First half of this post is a recap of my WordCamp Presentation…. but follows up with resources…

First, if you want to make sense of the resources, you need to get Genesis… help a girl out and pick it up via this link StudioPress Themes for WordPress – or the one over there in the right hand column of the page… there’s a good chap!  then, when you’ve got it installed, come back here…

…s’ok… I can wait…

…

Thanks :)

Now, here’s where you go to learn all about it…

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Maximising WordCamp Gold Coast – Three keys

November 1, 2011 By 13 Comments
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I realise by writing a title like the above I could be mistaken for a WordCamp veteran… This would not be the case as actually, I’ve only been to one, WordCamp Melbourne which happened earlier this year. I did however come away from that event completely inspired and challenged by the possibilities of both the software and the WordPress community so in the intervening time I think it’s safe to say I’ve done a reasonable amount of work to maximise my understanding of WordPress and to strengthen my personal connections to other WordPress users. So much so that I’ll be at this next WordCamp on the Gold Coast as a speaker. (I know, don’t these people know me? Oh goodness…)

Now… did you see that? That attitude is exactly why, while I got a lot out of WordCamp Melbourne, I didn’t get more.

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Creativity Explained

October 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
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I had the privilege of attending a book launch last night for a book whose website I put together, and I feel compelled to share a little here because I think the book is a powerful tool for people like many of us whose livelihoods are dependent on our creativity.

The book is called ‘Living with a Creative Mind‘ and it’s a handbook for creatives on how to manage our internal worlds and to provide understanding for those who live/work/hang out with us who may not see the world in quite the same way as we artistic types do. In all it’s a book about being able to live a long healthy creative life with strong healthy relationships. And frankly, it’s absolutely fascinating.

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