Again good news about Zen-Cart

July 19, 2010

A few days ago I decided that I would setup direct credit card processing on one of my sites. I signed up with eway todo my C/C processing. I must say that the process with eway despite all their hype of how easy it is to get this going. The sales people are fast at [...]

Read the full article →

Add View Cart and Login to Zen-Cart to your menu

July 8, 2010

As part of your integaration with Zen-Cart its a good idea to have some menu items in your top menu bar so visitors can view their cart contents and be taken to the ZC logon page. In Thesis the easiest way of doing this is to add a link category called “Shop”, add the links [...]

Read the full article →

wszIM First Release has hit the streets

June 16, 2010

This plugin provides those tools from by Zen-Cart integration pluging that are very useful even when you’re not using Zen-Cart for your website. This plugin does require that you have Thesis as your WordPress Theme. To find out more check out the wszIM Page here. Join the forum discussion on this post

Read the full article →

DIY WordPress Manual is now FREE

June 16, 2010

I have changed how you can access to the manual now. The download of the manual itself is now free and you only need to sign-up as a member if you want support and or request of changes or additions to te manual. See the diyWP page for more information.

Read the full article →

zenWP The Integration of Zen-Cart into WordPress has been released

June 13, 2010

How to integrate Zen-Cart into WordPress This has been coming for a little while now, however version one has finally hit the road. The functionality at this point of time still is at a starting point however the main thing I needed for my own site was to be able to display all products of [...]

Read the full article →

Sales by Product and Average sales per Month

May 26, 2010

Zen-Cart Sales Report If you need a quick report that shows you the sales for a year by model and the monthly average then this is for you. This SQL query needs to be executed against your database. To use this SQL database query you will need to go http://your-domain/cpanel > phpmyadmin and select your [...]

Read the full article →

Quantities Sold by Attribute in Zen-Cart

May 26, 2010

Most of the products I have are listed with attributes, eg a kitchen handle will be available in several length and each length is sold at a different price. Often I need to know the sales quantity by attribute of a certain product to find out the sales movements on the different sizes of a [...]

Read the full article →

MZP code as I use it in BudgetHandles.com.au

May 21, 2010

Here’s the code as I use it, this time the names of the icons are under the images and a red box is placed around the icons to visually tie them together, the complete code as I use on my site: <a id=”function” href=”images/custom/zeus-pas_LRG.jpg”><img src=”images/custom/zeus-pas_MED.jpg” alt=”” /></a></code> Hover to magnify or click above image to [...]

Read the full article →

DIY WordPress Manual released

May 20, 2010

It’s finally done, the first version of the manual to setup your commercial WordPress website yourself. It is a detailed step-by-step guide on your to setup your own website and help you monetise your website. The manual is virtually free, all you need to do is to sign up as a member, which is only [...]

Read the full article →

Sneaky Meta Data Tip

May 19, 2010

Putting the meta data description and keywords in your sales pages always is a drag, isn’t it? Well here is a little tip that always helps me do it anyway. What happens all the time is that you need to give or provide an elevator speech, doesn’t it? Along the lines of why should I [...]

Read the full article →