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In Tune for Life

In Tune for Life

A VCE Music Resource site (Australian), this site is built in WordPress and also uses the Lussumo Vanilla forum.

Plugins used include WP-dTree, my Quick Shop plugin, the Who Sees Ads plugin, the Event Calendar, and the WP-GBCF contact form among others. An ad space was created for the ad plugin in the top of pages and at the bottom of posts.

Also, a special AJAX catalogue was created using the Scriptaculous and Prototype Javascript libraries included in WordPress.

QuickShop was updated to version 1.1 for this project. It now supports Australian Paypal and displays product price, as well as images for removal and checkout. The tags have been changed too to allow for these new types.

Lastly, an already-made theme was used (Scorpio) and then significantly modified to fit the site.

Posted By: admin on 25/10/2007
Category: Portfolio, WP Plugins
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QuickShop

2.5-ready QuickShop is here!

You can view it running on a live site.

I’ve just created a plugin for WordPress called QuickShop and released it under the GPL. You can find it at WordPress Extend. This plugin installs a Sidebar Widget which shows the items in the cart and allows you to remove them, as well as allowing you to place tags in your posts which generate a form button to add products to the cart.

I have integrated it with the WP-GBCF contact form and more information about that can be found in the README. It inserts the cart contents into the message field with amounts for users to edit. You can also integrate it with other solutions if you like…

If you need the Paypal changed to your currency of choice let me know. I will eventually be providing an admin interface to change the currency, but as of right now you can only change the currency in the code itself.

Need help or want it enhanced? Just contact me! Some people want CFormsII support. I’m afraid that I can’t offer this for free as CForms is a bit more complicated than simple text substitution.

Also, despite running a business, I devote a significant amount of time into this plugin for you, my clients, and myself, and give it to you people for free. If you feel generous you may donate through Paypal, you could link back, or you could ask me to work on your site.

Comments are off! Visit the Forum to get support, request features, and more.

Posted By: admin on 12/10/2007
Category: Quick Shop, WP Plugins
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Flying Pickle – Business Directory, Site, Theme, and Plugins

Flying PickleThe client for Zetaprints.com approached me for a news site based upon WordPress. Using WordPress 2.3 I developed a solution for a community-based news site where users submit news and events.

Many plugins were used: Akismet, Cimy User Extra Fields, CountPosts, Event Calendar, Get Author Profile, iMax Width, Restrict Author Access to Edit Comments, Role Manager, Search Everything, Subscribe2, VoteforPost. Sometimes I had to modify them to provide the client with exactly what he required, and I also modified the WordPress Admin interface to hide some items with CSS for Authors as it was a little too confusing otherwise.

Multiple loops were used to display posts on the front page and a business directory was created and integrated into the theme to allow people to display their businesses and contact details attached to their profile. Also, a custom query was created to show three highly commented posts over the past few days.

Flying Pickle

Posted By: admin on 10/10/2007
Category: Portfolio
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Anime Raw WordPress Theme

Anime RawThe Anime Raw theme was based on another theme (Glossy by nDesign) and proved an excellent base upon which to add a different layout and header. I also had to lift other elements from the site’s previous theme and place them in the new one, including the WordPress Image Gallery and review and article lists. The sidebar as usual is Widget-ready.

You can buy this theme (modified to suit yourself) for a reasonable sum. Please contact me to find out more.

Client’s Review:

“Highly Recommended. Does a great job and made sure it was just what i was looking for. Great communication and fast completion also. The wordpress design is just perfect.” – Timothy Lezama

Posted By: admin on 25/05/2007
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Zeta Prints WordPress Theme

Zeta PrintsZeta Prints was the first WordPress theme in which I used multiple RSS feeds. The client required completely random feeds each page load but wanted very little download/waiting time to be aparrent to the user (basically a pre-cache). What I did was modify the hacked WordPress version of Magpie RSS to include another constant that allowed a PHP script at the end of the page load to flush the already-generated HTML to the client, clear the Magpie RSS cache, and then load the new feed(s).

It works really quite well and the only major wait apparent after you initially view the page is quite short regardless. Cron jobs and Javascript-based AJAX updates were out of the question for this project due to the client’s special needs.

This site also includes a set of posts which show certain link categories depending on post view, and several other bits and pieces of WordPress template magic.

Client’s Review:

“Zack is just awesome. 1. he knows what he’s doing. 2.if he doesn’t know, he goes and finds out. We had some minor technology problems and he put extra hours to resolve them. All done on time and with the highest quality. Highly recommend.” – Max

Posted By: admin on 25/05/2007
Category: Portfolio
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