Temporarily close your WP e-Commerce store
The question Everyone needs a break and not all of you are giant companies. Some of you are small one or two person operations making gorgeous things with love. I received this question about the online store of one such artisan manufacturer, ‘Coco Suisse” whose chocolates are awesome by the way…. “I’m actually taking off ...
WP e-Commerce and GoldCart replace $0.00 prices with message.
The question I’ve been searching for some code so that if the price is £0.00, then a piece of text along the lines of ‘Price on application’ is pulled through. I have found this post on your site and attempted to make it work. I think the different plugin versions mean that I can’t get ...
WP_Query how to display posts from a specific Category
I received a question about how to display posts from a specific category. You may want to do this in a newspaper style layout or just to show a featured category on your homepage. You need to use WP_Query There are 2 numbers in the line of code highlighted below which are the arguments we ...
Storefront Elegance theme. Change the size of the homepage slider
I have had a couple of people ask how to change the size of the slider on the homepage of Storefronts Elegance theme. So prepare to venture into some PHP code. This is really easy stuff, just changing a couple of numbers, show no fear and jump in even if you have never done it ...
Storefront themes, Boutique theme, add a right sidebar to your blog
The question Here’s my issue: I want my blog page to actually LOOK like a blog, instead of like another store page. But because it’s just a page with posts, it doesn’t really look like a blog, and it doesn’t really function like a blog. Answer This is not too hard but does involve editing ...
Storefront Gridport theme, limit search to products and add pagination
Adding attractive pagination This does require that search only have one loop and return one set of posts. Here the custom post type Product. It will not return any regular pages or Blog posts. It may be able to be adapted to do that. I do not have the time to work that out. If ...
Bug in WP e-Commerce UPS Ground does not display
Very short post today. An annoying issue in WPEC that is very easily fixed. If you are using UPS as your shipping method and Ground shipping does not display. Possibly applies to other methods too, I am not sure. So if you have a shipping method set but it just refuses to show this could ...
WP e-Commerce no images in “People who bought this also bought”
This is a WP e-Commerce bug When “Display Cross Sales” is activated on Settings/Store/Marketing tab the “People who bought this item also bought” section displays on the single product page. The display does not include the product thumbnail as the location for the thumbnail generated by the plugin is incorrect. As of version 3.8.8.5 this ...
WordPress Usernames and Passwords
Hackers love the user name ‘admin’. half the hacking problem solved for free. Hacking happens unfortunately often. Doing support I am asked to login to at least 4 or 5 peoples sites every day. At least 50% use admin as their username! Stop people! Make a simple change to protect yourself. There is much more to ...
Fix for WP e-Commerce bug, pagination links in tag and search result pages don’t work.
The question from a Storefront user Recently, the Product Cloud Tag Widget was activated. When one of the tags is click on, the first page loads correctly. However, when the ‘next’, ‘last’ or a page number is clicked in the pagination, the displayed items changed from tagged to all products (product-page). Answer This is a ...
