How to Migrate WordPress Anywhere (Change Directories, Change Servers, or Change URLs)

November 15, 2011

When you are working with WordPress, sooner or later the time will come when you need to move your install to a new location, be that a different directory or an entirely different server (and possibly change the URL as well.   This tutorial is meant to complement the official WordPress migration guide and cover [...]

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How To Keep Image Caption Shortcodes from Appearing in WordPress

September 28, 2011

Sometimes when content is fetched within WordPress formatting is not maintained correctly. For instance, caption shortcodes might not be parsed as they should and the shortcodes will appear in the body of posts, pages, etc. Part 1 of this tutorial covers how to create a custom call for fetching post content while maintaining formatting (i.e. [...]

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Hide Price in Product and Category Templates: Shopp Plugin for WordPress

September 28, 2011

The need to hide a product’s price is common for many online retailers; we’ve helped a number of clients with this on multiple platforms. For instance, many clients like to have “Call for Price” displayed in place of an actual amount when a products price is $0.00 (zero). This can be useful when selling wholesale [...]

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Magento: Restrict Shipping to Lower 48 US States with Matrix Rates Plugin

September 26, 2011

Being able to restrict shipping to the lower 48 U.S. states can be very useful for online retailers, especially if they offer free shipping or run promotions;  shipping to Alaska (AK) and Hawaii (HI) may often be too expensive to offer free of charge. The tutorial below details how to restrict shipping to the lower [...]

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Integrating WordPress with Norada Solve 360 Customer Management Software

August 31, 2011

Steps: 1) Download the example fileset: Solve360Example. 2) Upload Solve360ContactSave.php and Solve360Service.php to your domain.  There is no need to upload the Solve360ContactForm.html file as you will create a custom one in WordPress in step 3.  For the purposes of this tutorial we will assume that the files have been uploaded to yourdomain.com/solve360/. 3) On [...]

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How to Make Parent Non-Clickable in Drop Down Navigation Menu for WordPress

August 15, 2011

The following steps will allow you to configure your parent navigation (nav) menu links so that clicking them does not take a user anywhere.  This is useful when the page the parent links to has no content, but the pages the children link to have important content. Upload the Page Links To plugin for WordPress.  [...]

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Customizing Titles in Magento One-Page Checkout

July 21, 2011

To customize titles / label values i.e. “Shipping Information” or “Zip Code” in Magento Onepage Checkout, open app/locale/en_US/Mage_Checkout.csv.  This file lists the various labels used for onepage checkout in column A and their values in column B. To change a value, simply locate the value that you want to change in column A and edit [...]

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Converting QFX files to QBO files for Import to QuickBooks via Web Connect

July 19, 2011

Annoyingly, QuickBooks doesn’t support the import of QFX files (the reason for this is that Intuit charges banks for the ability to export financial data in the .qbo web connect format supported by QB.   If your bank doesn’t pay this fee, you can’t download your financial data directly into QuickBooks). Fortunately, you can use a [...]

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