Add Category thumbnails to Storefront Gridport Theme Product Category pages
Here we are back on the subject of Storefront Themes Gridport theme. This is modification request number five! The question “I have “Show Product Category Thumbnails:” set to YES on Settings/Store/Presentation tab of WP e-Commerce settings but they do not appear on my Product Category pages. How do I make them appear?” Well this theme […]
Add a sidebar to the Storefront Gridport Theme Search results page.
Well there seem to be lots of requests for little modifications and additions for the Storefront Themes Gridport theme. This is number four and I have one more to write.. The question “Can I have a sidebar on the search results page as it looks a bit empty full width?” The answer is yes. You […]
Show full post entries on Storefront “Gridport” theme Blog page
Another short post on a very specific topic. If you are a user of the Gridport theme by Storefront Themes read on. The question “Can I show the full blog entries on the blog page instead of the excerpt and thumbnail in a grid?” The answer is yes. You will need to do one simple […]
Storefront Elegance Theme, Checkout Page, billing and shipping not aligned
Why are my Shipping and Billing checkout areas not aligned? A short simple post today about a very specific problem. This is for users of the Storefront Themes Elegance Theme version 1.4.5 and later. See the images This is not a bug. The checkout page is designed to be a full width page. If you […]
Show the £ sign and other currency symbols in Storefront Themes that use cufon
This is quite specifically for Storefront Themes several of which use cufon fonts. In particular this post steps you through making the changes in the Instant theme, but it could be a useful guide to achieving the same thing with other Storefront themes. It may be of use to anyone with a theme using cufon. […]
You can be your own worst enemy, run your WordPress e-commerce site safely
Take a few steps to protect your site from yourself. This is not all about evil hackers, this is about evil you! Backup Set up a good automatic backup system. Don’t just rely on your host to do it. Even if they do you are at the mercy of their response time. Be self sufficient. […]
Smart Manager, an essential plugin for anyone with a large WP e-Commerce store
Smart Manager by Store Apps If you are using WP e-Commerce and you have a lot of products you really must spend $100 on Smart Manager. It is awesome. Basically instead of the one by one backend product editing that you have in WP e-Commerce you can see all of your products in spreadsheet form […]
Add category titles to your pages in Storefront’s Gridport Theme
Another short post on a very specific topic. If you are a user of the Gridport theme by Storefront Themes read on. The question The Gridport theme is designed to be very sleek and minimal. One of the design choices was not to show titles on the product category pages. I received this question on […]
Storefront Themes “Elegance” the rules of the Carousel
Turn it on The Carousel will not work unless you have a page called Home and that page is assigned to be Front page in Settings/reading. Then you must go to Storefront Options panel/Homepage Carousel tab and select something on the “Carousel Options” dropdown. You can select “Don’t Use the Carousel” after which of course […]
WP e-Commerce bug, product category pages sometimes show a product name as page title
Time to fix a bug. It seems that in recent updates a bug appeared that means some Product Category pages will show a seemingly random Product name as the Title. Some say it is the latest product added in that category, who has the time to investigate. We just want it fixed. This fix is […]
