Need buttons for your Cart?

by Wolf on January 2, 2012

I was looking around to see where I could get some better buttons for my Zen-Cart and I found this site:

http://zencart.buttonsworkshop.com/

It looks like it hasn’t been maintained for some years now however it’s a great service where you can select a design for your button and then it’ll create all the buttons you need in Zen-Cart. Even better you can change individual buttons and you can save your setting so you can come back later to make additional changes.

The button generator doesn’t seem to allow you to change the template for any existing buttons, so what I did was to create to sets, one a more subtle one and a second set in orange. I then replaced the main action buttons with the orange ones in the grey set and hey presto I have buttons in grey for all minor actions and in orange for all the major actions such as add-to-cart.

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Move Blog to a Different Location

by Wolf on December 21, 2011

I today need to move my blog into a sub-folder on my same server, so I need to move it from the root folder into the sub-folder blog. I performed these steps:

  1. Created the folder blog and moved all files from my root folder into blog using the cpanel > filemanager
  2. Got cpanel > phpMyAdmin and open your database and click on the SQL tab
  3. Enter this statement:
    UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://your-domain.com’, ‘http://your-domain/blog’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’;
    be sure to change blog to the folder you’using
    and click [go] -> you should now be able to login to your wp-admin and your blog should display, however you might have links pointing to the wrong folder in your posts and pages. To fix:
  4. UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, “‘http://your-domain.com”,”‘http://your-domain.com/blog”)
    and
    UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(guid, “‘http://your-domain.com”,”‘http://your-domain.com/blog”)

If you get an error when running any of the above SQL statements then simply replace the ” with ‘ or vice versa.

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Remove Comments from all Pages in Thesis

June 26, 2011

I thought I’d just post this because I had forgotten how todo this and a qucik Google showed all manner of solutions asking you to install open hooks or modifying custom functions when all that is required is: wp-admin > Thesis > Design Options > Comments > Disable comments on all pages

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Copy complete site from web server to local server

June 4, 2011

You’ll need to update the WP DB to work at localhost: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://your-domain.com’, ‘http://localhost’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’; UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://your-domain.com’,’http://localhost’) UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://budgethandles.com.au’, ‘http://www.localhost’)

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Robots.txt together with Zen-Cart

April 21, 2011

Once your site is up and running you might want to tweak what search engines index. The core issue here really is that we don’t want search engines to index anything in our /shop folder since is for checkout and admin purposes only. To do this you’ll need to create a file in notepad or [...]

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FireFox 3.6.7 does not start after upgarde on Mac

November 18, 2010

Thought I’ll post this because it took me a little while to sort this out. A couple of days ago I upgraded to FireFox 3.6.7 and on restart FireFox didn’t restart. I downloaded a complete new version, installed it – same problem. I didn’t have time to attend to it then and there however I’m [...]

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Member Access Plugin

August 30, 2010

If you’re looking for a plugin to make all or part of your site accessible to members only than this one if for you: http://www.chrisabernethy.com/wordpress-plugins/member-access/

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Sneaky Tip: Many Blogs and one Zen-Cart

August 29, 2010

If you want to have more then one WordPress website but still have all purchases processed using your one Zen-Cart shop then you can do this with zenWP. These are the steps: Create a 2nd WordPress site Install and configure zenWP plugin in the normal manner, edit zenWP and make these changes: define(‘ZC_URL’, SITE_URL . [...]

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Lookin for a seal?

August 17, 2010

I was looking for a site to make a few seals as product pictures for our Dungog District Chamber of Commerce (DDCC) website and found this little gem: http://www.says-it.com/seal/ The only thing I didn’t like much was (or I was to silly to work it) was their colour picker. He’s the site I used instead [...]

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Zen-Cart Shopping Cart Bug

August 4, 2010

I’ve had a few problems with the shopping cart because I’m trying to remove as much clutter as possible and after a lot of testing it seems that you have to keep of of the options for product display switched on other wise one can no longer add more then one product to the shopping [...]

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