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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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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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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You’ll need to update the WP DB to work at localhost:

1. UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://your-domain.com', 'http://localhost') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
2. UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://your-domain.com’,'http://localhost’)
3. UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://budgethandles.com.au’, ‘http://www.localhost’)

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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 similar with content similar to this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /*wp-login.php*
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /author
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: /shop/*
Disallow: /shop/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.gz$
Disallow: /*.wmv$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

# allow google image bot to search all images
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Allow: /*

# allow adsense bot on entire site
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*

The two lines in bold that tell all search engines not to index our shop files. Copy this file as robots.txt into the root folder of your website.

Once you’ve copied this file you can check it by entering http://yoursite.com.au/robots.txt into your browser’s address bar.

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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 sitting at the airport at the moment and my flight to Singapore is delayed so decided to fix this.

Afetr some looking around I learned that FireFox can be started in safe mode. To do this on the mac open Finder > Applications > press and hold the OPTION key and double click friefox.app.

This started Firefox and I got a warning that Adobe is out of date and requires an upgrade, after doing this all is good again.

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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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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:

1. Create a 2nd WordPress site
2. Install and configure zenWP plugin in the normal manner, edit zenWP and make these changes:
   define(‘ZC_URL’, SITE_URL . ‘/’.ZC_FOLDER); //URL for ZC shop
   define(‘ZC_URL’, http://your-shop-domain.com/’.ZC_FOLDER); //URL for ZC shop
3. Get category ID(s), create new category or use existing in ZC
4. In phpMyAdmin export these tables:
   zen_categories, zen_featured, zen_products, zen_products_attributes, zen_products_description, zen_products_options, zen_products_options_types, zen_products_options_values, zen_products_options_values_to_products_options, zen_products_to_categories, zen_specials, zen_tax_class and zen_tax_rates
   and import them into the DB of your new site

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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 to find websafe colors:

http://html-color-codes.com/

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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 cart.

The configuration in question is

admin > config > stock

Show New Products on empty Shopping Cart Page
Show Featured Products on empty Shopping Cart Page
Show Special Products on empty Shopping Cart Page
Show Upcoming Products on empty Shopping Page
Show Notice of Combining Shopping Cart on Login

If you set all these to ’0′ then the above happens, at least for me. So I’ve set all to zero bar Show new products.

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