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 […]
Storefront Designer theme, make the products page image link to the single product page
The question A very specific post for the Storefront Themes Designer theme, the question was can the user be sent to the single product page when they click the product image on te products page or a category page. The default behavior is to open the image in a lightbox. The lightbox should only work […]
WP e-Commerce make $0.00 items say “Free” instead
The question Is there an option to hide the price when it is $0.00 or change it to say Free?. Answer The code below is basically a minor variation from this post which would be a good guide to doing this in the Storefront Themes Elegance theme. This example is for the Storefront themes Original […]
Storefront Edge theme, add Search box to the top of the page
The Storefront themes Edge theme lacks a integrated search box which means you have to add search via a widget. This makes Edge users a little envious of the other themes. So lets soothe those egos. The PHP You will need to add a couple of lines to header.php which you will find in the […]
WP e-Commerce: add a product category grid to your themes homepage.
The question Is there any way on the front page; under the sliding rotator to display the products (I only have 6) in a grid 3×2? This was in relation to using the Storefront themes Boutique theme, but this example will work on most themes although the exact location you insert the PHP will vary. […]
