Proportional thumbnails in Storefront Elegance theme
The Problem In the Storefront Themes, Elegance theme the thumbnails below the single product page image are always square. This is good in some ways because if you have uploaded images of varying shapes to your product gallery the layout will still be neat. If you have followed my mantra of uploading all of your […]
WP e-Commerce, how to process $0.00 sales and 100% coupons which PayPal will not accept
The Problem I had a question recently about why a coupon was not being processed at the PayPal end. It turns out that PayPal will not process a $0.00 sale. If you have an item for $10.00 and a discount coupon for $10.00 the coupon is processed on the WP e-Commerce checkout page showing a […]
Storefront Elegance theme, add out of stock notice to grid view
Update: This post was updated August 31 2012 to fix an error in the code. Error was echo e_(‘Out of stock’ Correction echo _e(‘Out of stock’ Question: Is there a way to keep the product in category view but with text ‘sold’ instead of the price? With WP e-Commerce you have two options for out […]
Paginated search results
The problem Search results only return as many as set in WordPress Settings/Reading “Blog pages show at most X posts” Solutions You could raise that number but in a e-Commerce situation that could be impractical if you also run a blog. The solution is to add pagination to the search results. Check out this link […]
Add a widget area to you WordPress theme.
You need to modify the theme PHP for this. You will need to maintain these changes in any theme update, so keep a record. These instructions are for adding a widget area to the header of the Storefront themes Gridport Theme. The principals are the same for any theme and location though. This is pretty […]
Storefront Edge theme, change homepage Latest Products thumbnail size.
Why are the thumbnails in the Homepage Latest Products grid badly cropped? Storefront themes Edge theme has two possible home page layouts. The Homepage #2 Template has a grid area below the slider titled “Latest Products”. This displays a grid of thumbnails showing, you guessed it, the most recently added products. Max 2 rows of […]
Translating Storefront Themes
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 […]
Add an Accordion menu for mobile devices to the Storefront Echo theme
My menus go off the screen, how can I have a multi-level menu on a small screen? Storefronts Echo theme is designed to be responsive as the current hip jargon goes. That is to say the layout changes to adapt to different devices and screen sizes. Designing for small screens, meaning mobile devices means juggling […]
WP e-Commerce add the Variation price to the Variation selector
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 […]
Creating a cufon font
What the heck is Cufón? Cufón consists of two individual parts – a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in JavaScript that renders them on your Web site. Cufón allows web developers to use non standard web fonts on their sites without worrying if the end user […]
