Translating Storefront Themes

Posted by on Apr 14, 2012 in Blog, Echo, Gridport, Translation, Wordpress, WP e-Commerce | One Comment

How to translate a Storefront theme Hi this is the very beginning of an article on translating Storefront Themes e-Commerce themes. I will be adding more detail and screenshots to help soon. I will also start a collection of translated files for download. Volunteer Help out the Storefront community. If you have the skills in […]

WP e-Commerce add the Variation price to the Variation selector

Posted by on Apr 8, 2012 in Blog, E-Commerce, Echo, Storefront Themes, WP e-Commerce | 5 Comments

The question “Is there was a way to display the price of each variation next to it in the drop down menu, that would be great?” I actually thought this would be quite difficult and involve hacking on the core plugin files. I hunted around in the plugin files without any luck. Then I took […]

Storefront Xyloto theme, remove the Products in the “XYZ” category text.

Posted by on Feb 29, 2012 in Blog, Elegance, Storefront Themes, WP e-Commerce, Xyloto | No Comments

Very short post here for the folks using the awesome new Xyloto theme from Storefront Themes. Yes I work for them I know, but it really is pretty awesome. The questions. “At the top of the category pages it says Products in the “XYZ” Category. I just want the Category name, where do I change […]

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 […]

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

Posted by on Dec 28, 2011 in Blog, Instant, Storefront Themes, Themes, WP e-Commerce | No Comments

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

Posted by on Dec 27, 2011 in Blog, E-Commerce, WP e-Commerce | No Comments

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 […]