Today has been a mixed bag to be honest. I’ve done some updates and a software upgrade to PT Gear. I’ve been testing the Shopify system and researching into payment gateways, specifically the suppliers that offer credit and debit card transactions. I’ve been scouting for potential portfolio customers for Exquisite21, a new site I’m launching More »
This issue is a frustrating one, and one that doesn’t have much publicity online. The problem is, wp-ecommerce strips out various html attributes from the product description. Even though you save the product details, and the html stays in the description, it doesn’t display the html on the front end of the website. I was More »
A QR code, or Quick Responce code is a readable metric barcode. It is readable by specific QR barcode readers and some camera telephones (camera phones). The QR barcode is patterned within a square arrangement, with black modules on a white background. From within the barcode you can encode: Text Website URL Phone Number SMS More »
A good blog is an excellent way to grow your business. But as more businesses blog, it becomes harder to be heard above the noise. So you have to do it right. Blogs need to have better-than-average levels of content quality, publication frequency, personal interaction and search engine appeal to be successful. I spoke with More »
If you are trying to connect to your WordPress blog remotely using an iPhone, Android or other system via XML-RPC and it’s not happening, then this is for you. The standard xmlrpc.php script is quite commonly installed with many free blogs, including WordPress. Unfortunately, it is quite easy to exploit and often abused by amateur More »
Modern versions of Mozilla Firefox have developed an irritating change in their usage of the Ctrl & F5 facility. Rather than a full refresh of the page and cache, this option now opens the same page in a new tab. Usefull? I don’t think so…… There is an add-on to combat this which can be More »
Contact 7 is a great contact form generator for WordPress and hugely popular. However, as standard it doesn’t offer a shortcode solution so you can hard code it into your sidebar.php or header.php etc, so it displays on every page. But the solution is here: <?php echo do_shortcode(“”); ?> Paste the above code into your More »