Jackson Whelan » WordPress http://jacksonwhelan.com Web Designer & WordPress Developer in Vermont, USA Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:51:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 PayPal Shortcodes Plugin http://jacksonwhelan.com/2010/07/paypal-shortcodes-plugin/ http://jacksonwhelan.com/2010/07/paypal-shortcodes-plugin/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:51:08 +0000 Jackson http://jacksonwhelan.com/?p=588 Simple plugin for inserting ‘Add to Cart’ buttons with shortcodes. Includes visual editor button for easy inserting of shortcodes.

Download, change email address configuration variable, upload, and activate plugin. Look for the new button in the visual editor to easily insert shortcodes wherever you like.

Download jw-paypal-shortcodes v0.2

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Matt says:

I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.

As Hiro Nakamura said when he first bent time and space to land in Times Square: “Yatta!”

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-wins-cms-award/

]]> http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/11/wordpress-wins-cms-award/feed/ 0 Solution to WordPress Blank Screen of Death After Activating Template http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/10/solution-to-wordpress-blank-screen-of-death-after-activating-template/ http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/10/solution-to-wordpress-blank-screen-of-death-after-activating-template/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:13:57 +0000 Jackson http://jacksonwhelan.com/?p=407 a Carriage Return & Line Feed in programmers speak. That’s it. You hit [...]]]> I stumbled accross this great post by Colin McNulty – Solution to WordPress Blank Screen of Death after activating my theme started causing all sorts of weirdness.

1 single solitary New Line at the bottom off the file, right after that ?> a Carriage Return & Line Feed in programmers speak. That’s it. You hit the Enter key in one wrong place and the whole pack of cards comes tumbling down!

In Colin’s case it was an extra carriage return in his wp-config.php file after the closing “?>”. In my case the problem was not 1 but 2 extra carriage returns at the end of my theme’s functions.php file.

]]> http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/10/solution-to-wordpress-blank-screen-of-death-after-activating-template/feed/ 0 The Right Way to Use jQuery in WordPress http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/09/the-right-way-to-use-jquery-in-wordpress/ http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/09/the-right-way-to-use-jquery-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:19:30 +0000 Jackson http://jacksonwhelan.com/?p=384 Chris Coyier shows you how to properly load jQuery for use in your WordPress pages, and explains how you can put jQuery into “no conflict” mode and use a different shortcut  instead of the default “$”.

If you’ve been getting nowhere trying to implement jQuery in WordPress, getting ‘$ is not defined’ and ‘$ is not a function’ errors, check this article out.

http://digwp.com/2009/06/including-jquery-in-wordpress-the-right-way/

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Really cool looking Plugin alternative to WPMU

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line 41, re-order array and comment out unwanted options to suit. 1st item in array will be default selected at checkout. Example:
function getMethod($dest) {
if ($dest == 'US') {
$method= array(
'GND' => 'Ground',
// '1DM' => 'Next Day Air Early AM',
// '1DML' => 'Next Day Air Early AM Letter',
'1DA' => 'Next Day Air',
// '1DAL' => 'Next Day Air Letter',
// '1DAPI' => 'Next Day Air Intra (Puerto Rico)',
// '1DP' => 'Next Day Air Saver',
// '1DPL' => 'Next Day Air Saver Letter',
// '2DM' => '2nd Day Air AM',
// '2DML' => '2nd Day Air AM Letter',
'2DA' => '2nd Day Air',
// '2DAL' => '2nd Day Air Letter',
// '3DS' => '3 Day Select',
// 'GNDCOM' => 'Ground Commercial',
// 'GNDRES' => 'Ground Residential',
// 'STD' => 'Canada Standard',
// 'XPR' => 'Worldwide Express',
// 'WXS' => 'Worldwide Express Saver',
// 'XPRL' => 'Worldwide Express Letter',
// 'XDM' => 'Worldwide Express Plus',
// 'XDML' => 'Worldwide Express Plus Letter',
// 'XPD' => 'Worldwide Expedited',
);

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if($wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}currency_list WHERE continent NOT IN ('')") < 242)
to
if($wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}currency_list WHERE continent NOT IN ('')") < 230)
I went from 330 queries to 86!

http://www.instinct.co.nz/forums/topic.php?id=2856#post-13720

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http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2008-April/019532.html

]]> http://jacksonwhelan.com/2009/02/share-this-breaks-prototypejs-in-wordpresswp-shopping-cart/feed/ 0 Exclude Pages from List in WordPress http://jacksonwhelan.com/2007/07/exclude-pages-from-list-in-wordpress/ http://jacksonwhelan.com/2007/07/exclude-pages-from-list-in-wordpress/#comments Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:54:05 +0000 Jackson http://pix.elpusher.com/2007/07/07/exclude-pages-from-list-in-wordpress/ I recently added a new page in WordPress to contain Google search results within the site. I did not want this page to appear in my top menu however which is automatically generated by the template. This page in the WordPress Codex shows how to work with the template tag “wp_list_pages” to exclude certain pages from being listed by id.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Exclude_Pages_from_List

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