Luc De Brouwer

Affiliate Press for WordPress

Luc De Brouwer — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:04:13 +0000

The easiest way to set up an affiliate website Affiliate Press is a simple WordPress plugin that allows you to set up an affiliate website based on product feeds as easy as 1-2-3. It allows you to set up an … Continue reading →

My WordCampNL 2012 slide decks

Luc De Brouwer — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:20:42 +0000

Starting with WordPress plugin development can be pretty daunting, so for my WordCamp NL 2012 talk I decided to give the people who are looking to start doing this some guidelines. Below you’ll find the slide decks to my WordCamp … Continue reading →

CakePHP Auth redirect problem

Luc De Brouwer — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:49:25 +0000

Today I lost a good two hours trying to find a solution to a ‘weird’ problem. I was having the issue – after implementing the Auth component in CakePHP 2.1 – that after logging in, the app didn’t redirect properly. … Continue reading →

Speaking at WordCamp NL 2012

Luc De Brouwer — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:07:13 +0000

I’m proud to tell you guys that I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Netherlands this year. My talk will be on plugin development for WordPress and will ( hopefully ) be as cool as Chewbacca riding a giant squirrel killing Nazis … Continue reading →

Removing Gmail’s “better ads”

Luc De Brouwer — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:18:26 +0000

In this post you'll find a userstyle to get rid of Gmail's "better ads" in their new default theme. Continue reading →

Coining the term FOSC

Luc De Brouwer — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:57:25 +0000

Introducing the Flash Of Styled Content, describing the appearance of a website before getting a WSOD when a malfunctioning script is fired. Continue reading →

Looking for Mollie gateway users

Luc De Brouwer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:45:40 +0000

I'm looking for someone who has a Mollie account so I can develop a payment gateway for WP e-Commerce. Continue reading →

WordPress needs plugin dependencies

Luc De Brouwer — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:54:18 +0000

Something every WordPress developer has wished for, sometime during the development of one of their plugins, is plugin dependencies. Dependencies in the sense of other plugins that provide extra or base functionality for the to be installed plugin. This is … Continue reading →

My WordPress Meetup Eindhoven 2011 slide decks

Luc De Brouwer — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:32:18 +0000

The slide decks to my WordPress Meetup Eindhoven ( #wpm040 ) talk titled "WordPress Evangelism" in both Dutch and English. Continue reading →

WordPress Evangelism : Hosting a meetup

Luc De Brouwer — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:02:00 +0000

On 6/22/2011 we're hosting a WordPress meetup in Eindhoven, NL. Speakers include Joost de Valk, Tom Hermans, Coen Jacobs and me. Continue reading →

WordPress Plugin : WP Plugin Security Check

Luc De Brouwer — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:11:33 +0000

WP Plugin Security Check checks plugins for bad practices limiting the risk of a compromised WordPress installation to a 'hate to say I told you so'. Continue reading →

WordPress Evangelism : Translating WordPress

Luc De Brouwer — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:15:46 +0000

To me combining something I love (WordPress) with something else I love (the Limburgish language) seems like a match made in heaven. Continue reading →

WordPress plugin: VaultPress Status

Luc De Brouwer — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:10:11 +0000

VaultPress Status brings your VaultPress backup status to your WordPress Admin Bar. Now you can enjoy that safe and secure feeling straight from the frontend of your website. Continue reading →

Enabling Magento payment methods for backend orders

Luc De Brouwer — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:39:33 +0000

In this post I show how you can use Purchase Order to fulfill orders made through the Magento backend. This is easy to apply to other payment extensions. Continue reading →

Magento : What to do if the continue button on the credit card form doesn’t work

Luc De Brouwer — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:09:03 +0000

In a recent project I came across a weird problem where the continue button on the credit card form of the one page checkout didn’t work anymore. As it turns out this is easily solved. Just add the following line … Continue reading →

WordPress Evangelism : Why I love WordPress

Luc De Brouwer — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:32:01 +0000

I finally decided to do this posts after the events from the last two weeks. But first allow me to tell you about my history with WordPress. The backstory I’ve been using WordPress for personal blogs for several years now. … Continue reading →

WordCamp Miami 2011

Luc De Brouwer — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:10:29 +0000

As some of you might know I was lucky enough to be in Florida when WordCamp Miami 2011 took place and since this was my first not-European WordCamp I decided to do a small write-up on the event. Kick-off The … Continue reading →

How to add a Facebook like button to your products in Magento

Luc De Brouwer — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:57:33 +0000

I thought it was time to do a post on how to implement the Facebook like button in your Magento product pages, the right way. Continue reading →

Getting all product information in Magento

Luc De Brouwer — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:12:58 +0000

Fetching all the product data, custom attributes or ratings information, in Magento can be really easy, you just have to know how. Continue reading →

Resetting the session storage options in Magento

Luc De Brouwer — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:10:59 +0000

If you ever want to switch between saving session data for Magento in the database or in the filesystem just follow these easy steps. Continue reading →