When I set up Worm Sign T-Shirts I knew I wanted to use WordPress as the CMS. Personal projects are a great way of developing and practicing your skills, and it’s not really fair on clients to use them and their websites as guinea pigs, for you to learn new tricks. After having a look [...]

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The default search on Wordpress wasn’t going to be suitable for the product search I wanted to implement on Worm Sign T-Shirts. On the default theme, standard search will give you a results page that contains the pages and posts that were found as a clickable title and excerpt – a text only sample of the the pages content. This wasn’t going to good enough for a T-Shirt store. Using 2 plugins I was able to define the pages and posts I wanted to be included in the search, as well as pages and posts that I didn’t want to be included, and to include an image from the product page as the main focus of the search results.

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I’ve been working with WordPress more and more recently and have just launched one site built in this versatile content management system (wormsigntshirts.co.uk) with another on the way very soon. When installing WordPress I download and install a set of plugins that help extend WordPresses capabilities and give me features that aren’t ‘out of the [...]

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