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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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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…
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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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WP-Property is great
This week I’ve been working on a new website for Lava Rock Realty to promote their property management services by showing their vacation rentals on their site. My first instinct was to use custom post types to create something custom that would do exactly what we needed. I figured it wouldn’t take very long and…
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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: