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

Making Simple Coming Soon and Under Construction work with Child Themes

February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Web Princess | Maintenance Page-2

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.

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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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