WordCamp Sydney | July 21-22 2012

May 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
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It wasn’t really a heat of the moment thing… All the way through WordCamp Gold Coast all I could think about was… we need a WordCamp in Sydney, it’s been way too long. And blow me down if there weren’t other people at #wcgold thinking the same thing.

So we talked about it over a couple of beers (as you do) and the idea kept getting more compelling so we came home from the conference and we read the instructions and muggins here filled out the form and applied.

So, now I can wear the WordCamp organiser badge… you know, if there were such a thing.

Filed Under: Geeking Out, Web Development, WordPress

Easier Custom Post Types

March 21, 2012 By 3 Comments

I’ve been through the gamut of tutorials on creating custom post types for WordPress, and some of them are excellent, really excellent. But a while ago I came across some code, and for the life of me I can’t remember where I got it (lesson learned to add the source to every code snippet I find), that makes building custom post types a lot easier… Instead of having to create each custom post type separately you just add a variable for each new post type and let the code do the rest. (and, just quietly the adding the icon bit is all my handiwork)

Filed Under: Web Development

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

February 17, 2012 By 4 Comments
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

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 2 Comments

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
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