Wordpress

The war on RSS, an Interesting Article

by Warren. 0 Comments

I just came across a very interesting article by @vambenepe on Vambenepe.com about the future of RSS. For those of you who don’t know, RSS (originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in More »

Wp-Ecommerce receipt emails not being sent

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I’ve been desperately trying to solve the problem of the receipt email not being sent – and finally I have made it work for me. From within the store settings, go to checkout. One of your form fields should be: (Blank Name) – Email Address – billingemail – Mandatory (ticked) and will display a little More »

WordPress WP-Ecommerce product description html not working

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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 »

WordPress remote publishing XML-RPC problem

by Warren.

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 »

Contact 7 plugin shortcode for WordPress

by Warren.

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 »

WordPress – Contact 7 plugin shortcode

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Contact 7 is an awesome contact form generator for WordPress, 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 theme’s More »

WordPress remote publishing XML-RPC problem

by Warren. 1 Comment

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 »