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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Using WordPress for eCommerce
March 21st, 2010 in Design, ToolsPond House Website
March 10th, 2010 in DesignThis project came to me after an existing client recommended me to the owners of Pond House. They already had a website, but it was looking tired and outdated, it definitely needed a redesign.
Improving WordPress Search
March 9th, 2010 in DesignThe 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.
Pet Project – 1 Year Later
February 26th, 2010 in DesignTowards the end of March 2009 I launched a little pet project, a T-Shirt store designed to give me a little extra income each month. Over the next month I’m going to post a handful of blog articles describing what I’ve learnt while running Worm Sign T-Shirts, including working with Wordpress, and using social networking to help promote the store.
WordPress: My 9 Essential Plugins
May 6th, 2009 in DesignI’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 [...]
New T-Shirt Store Launched
April 12th, 2009 in DesignA few months ago a wrote about having a passive income and choosing to design and hopefully sell some T-Shirts online. Well, the website is finished, and in the collection we have 12 T-Shirts with more hopefully added over the coming weeks and months; www.wormsigntshirts.co.uk. The website was built in WordPress, I used the eShop [...]
ThemesPress
January 11th, 2009 in DesignFor a recently project I had to produce a blog to go along side the main e-commerce website, so the main layout and design was done and online – I just had to embed it into my chosen blog software – which was WordPress. I could of edited the default WordPress theme or another one [...]
wordpress update
July 28th, 2008 in Design, Observationsmy previous blog was managed with wordpress 2.0.5 and originally setup in december 2006, a long time ago – especially in the blogging world. there were 1 or 2 bugs appearing in my blog, such as duplicate contents on single pages, and after looking through the wordpress support forums an update was recommended. i backed [...]
a tidy and a promise
July 27th, 2008 in Observationsi’ve been ignoring my blog, but i’m going to try and post more often – i’ve also had a little tidy up as i realised there’s a load of broken links and missing images on some older posts. i’ve also trimmed down on the categories – there were 11, which is far too many – [...]
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