• How do you get more traffic to your web site?

    How do you get more traffic to your web site?

    First things first, I should preface this by saying that I've been working as a Theme Wrangler for Automattic, Inc. on WordPress.com since June 12, 2017. To say "It's a pretty sweet gig" is putting it lightly. You should seriously consider working with us. One part of my job is to post articles on our…

  • Sorting the country select in Shopp

    This came up recently while working on a site that had a bunch of target markets selected in Shopp. The country dropdown list on the Checkout page was in a somewhat random order, and I realized that it was displaying them in the order they were selected or saved. When I checked 3 new countries,…

  • Adding a date picker to Shopp

    Every once in a while I get asked to add a date picker to the checkout page of a Shopp e-commerce site, usually to allow the customer to choose a delivery date for the order. There are a ton of date picker scripts out there, including a jQuery UI Datepicker (which I find ugly and…

  • Filtering Free Shipping Discounts in Shopp

    When most people think of Hawaii, they picture palm trees, sandy beaches, mai tais, and sunsets, or sitting under a palm tree, drinking mai tais on the beach while watching the sunset. I have to admit that living in Hawaii is pretty great, but one of the things that most people don’t think about is…

  • Shopp Minimum Order Amounts 1.3 Released

    I just released a new version of my Minimum Order Amounts plugin for Shopp today. This new version finally supports version 1.3 of Shopp, and allows merchants to set a minimum quantity for each product in the catalog. The product minimums are separate from the storewide minimums, and both are checked before the customer checks out. You…

  • Disabling Multiple Clicks to the Submit Order button in Shopp

    Most of us who use web browsers understand that the web UI only requires a single click on links, form buttons, and input fields. However, there are people who are used to double-clicking everything in the same way you double-click icons in an OS GUI. Sometimes this causes problems, specifically with shopping carts, where double-clicking…