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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Changing the default WordPress email sender
It’s not uncommon to want to change the email sender that WordPress sets automatically, especially in e-commerce situations. It’s actually really easy to do by adding a couple of filters in your theme’s functions.php file: /** change the default WordPress email sender */ add_filter(‘wp_mail_from’, ‘my_mail_from’); add_filter(‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘my_mail_from_name’); function my_mail_from($email) { return ‘customerservice@example.com’; } function my_mail_from_name($name)…
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Filtering excerpts in WordPress
By default WordPress displays […] at the end of an excerpt, which doesn’t look good. Instead, I use this functions on blogs that I build, which changes it to something that looks better. Just add the following to your active theme’s functions.php: