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 […]

Storefront Themes “Elegance” the rules of the Carousel

Posted by on Dec 13, 2011 in Blog, Elegance, Storefront Themes, Themes, WP e-Commerce | One Comment

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 […]

Storefront themes “Gridport” theme, change the size of the blog thumbnail

Change the size of thumbnail that appears on the Grdidport Blog page. The change here is for the thumbnails you see when you click blog on your menu or click a blog category and see a list of posts. These are created when you set a image to be “featured image” in your post. to […]

Storefront “Elegance” theme, add a custom link to the header logo.

The hardcode way. The logo you upload via the Storefront Options panel/Style tab is by default a link to the root of your site. What if you want it to link to somewhere else? Well that is pretty simple but does involve a little PHP. Show no fear and jump in even if you have […]

WP e-Commerce, adding a product image

You need to know ALL of the steps This is not hard but you must follow all of the steps. Some people jump right in, uploading images and miss crucial parts of the process. Then they wonder why they have extra thumbnails or small images etc. So here it is, the basic steps with screenshots. […]

Storefront “Elegance” Theme, how to remove the slider from the homepage.

Posted by on Dec 1, 2011 in Blog, Elegance, Storefront Themes, Themes, Wordpress | No Comments

I have had a couple of people ask how to remove the slider from the homepage of Storefronts Elegance theme. So prepare to venture into some PHP code. This is really easy stuff, just removing a few lines, show no fear and jump in even if you have never done it before. New to PHP […]

Storefront Themes, “Elegance” theme, move cart and search to top of the page

Ok about time I wrote some step by step instructions for this I guess. You will end up with this http://thecraftcircle.com.au/ You will need to maintain the PHP file when there are theme updates so keep a copy of it and what changes you made. If you have never done this see the Tools note […]

Storefront themes Boutique, Edge and Elegance, Original, move the price in grid view

Storefront Themes Boutique Theme overlays the price on your product thumbnail in grid view. Maybe you don’t want it there at all. Maybe you would like it in another location. Some combination of the following collection of CSS will allow most alternatives. NOTE: The Edge theme does the same thing, all of this code applies […]