First of all, apologies for the lack of a ‘WordPress Plugin of the Week’ for the last few weeks. A very busy xmas season at my folks in England followed by the start of a new semester left me short of time! But our regular series is now back!
I’ve been developing templates for BANS (Build a Niche Store) recently and have set up a web site to offer free and commercial templates. I needed a way to sell downloads easily and
WP e-Commerce from Instinct provided an easy way to do this. It was very easy to set up and is working flawlessly so far. You can see it in action at
Best BANS Templates. It has the options of a shopping cart in the sidebar or on the page, sets up product pages, an accounts page etc
From Instincts web site
The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an industrial strength elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind. Perfect for:» Digital Downloads!
» Bands & Record Labels
» Clothing Companies
» Crafters & Artists
» Books, DVDs & MP3 files
» Members Only / Subscription sites
» Stores with over 10,000 + products
A nice solution to your e-commerce needs!
Theme Test Drive allows you to choose a different theme just for the administrator. Regular readers will still see the default theme. This allows you to safely make changes to your theme before you make them public. Great if you’re developing a new theme or just tweaking your css. Just make a copy of your theme, upload to your WordPress install and tweak away until you’re completely happy!
It happens completely transparently and they will not even know that you run totally different theme for yourself. Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while test driving.
Have you ever wanted to put code into a post without it being interpreted as code? A while ago I was trying to write a page to include code for buttons for my blog. After much struggling with the WYSIWYG editor I eventually managed to write it. If only I had seen this post from Elliot Swan ‘Allow me to introduce you to my new little app Postable’ then it would have been much easier!
Postable is an app to transform your code into Post-friendly code. For example below is a button I made for my blog. I entered the code for the button using the ‘code’ tab in the editor. I then pasted the code into Postable and copied the output below the code for the button. The result below allows me to display the button and also the code for the button below it without it being interpreted as code.
Here’s the Code
<a href=”http://antiguawebsolutions.com/myblog” title=”Antigua Web Solutions Blog”><img src=”http://antiguawebsolutions.com/myblog/button_0.gif” alt=”Antigua Web Solutions Blog” style=”border: 0;” /></a>
An easy solution. Bookmark the app for future use!
Two related plugins this week to protect your blog from spam! I was having a big problem with Akismet labelling almost half of my legitimate comments as spam. I’ve found these two plugins take care of this problem nicely 
Continue reading ‘WordPress Plugin of the Week - Spam & Trackback Protection’
In-series is a nice plugin to link posts together. You can see it in action on my ‘Firefox Addons Weekly Roundup‘ Series.
In Series provides a way for you to manage stringing together posts in a series. You can add and remove individual posts from series, and reorder posts within a series, all from the post writing screen. The plugin also allows you to customize how series information (like tables of contents and next/previous links) are rendered across your site.
It creates a table for the posts in the series and places it by default at the beginning of the post. To place the table at the end of the post follow these instructions from the authors FAQ’s.
The quick solution is to go to the Options tab and the Series sub-tab in the WordPress admin interface, clear the “Post layout” field, and then paste “%content <div class=’series_links’>%prev %next</div><div class=’series_toc’>%toc</div>” (without the outside quotes) into the “Post layout” field. Click “Update Options »” to save your settings, and you’re done.
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