crn-web

WP-Ecommerce Plugin Documentation

arbie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:28:19 +0000

I’ve blogged about the WP-Ecommerce plugin from instinct.co.nz before, and how seriously impressed I was with the plugin itself and how seriously UNIMPRESSED I was with the documentation! Usually, the internet is full of those that deplore things, and say how bad they are, but rarely do those people actually do anything about it. I approached Shayne [...]

WP eCommerce - Shayne makes it work

arbie — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:29:22 +0000

So, I have a customer. Customer wants a new website. They’ve outgrown their existing one. Website should be an ecommerce site and be really accessible to the search engines (I added the last bit!). To be honest there is nothing in those short statements that would bother most website designers (which I am not by the way!). [...]

Akismet - Wordpress Plugin Review

arbie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:27:20 +0000

Blog SPAM. I hate it - you hate it - everybody hates it. Since blogs first came into existence the nefarious net dwellers targeted the comments section of blogs as a way of trying to ply their wares. I have personally visited blogs that have been virtually ruined by comments that have huge [...]

Adsense Injection - Wordpress Plugin Review

arbie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:10:01 +0000

Getting Adsense into your posts isn’t difficult - it is just a bit time consuming. In addition to taking time for each instance of the ads you want to show, there is a concern that readers have become ‘Ad Blind’, and so showing the same format of ads may be less effective (in click [...]

Increase Sociability - Wordpress Plugin Review

arbie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:10:23 +0000

Managing how a website reacts (and so is tailored) to the various visitor sources that we have is a useful way of interacting with the people who make the effort to come and visit you. If you arrived at this page using IE you will have noticed that I offer to let you download [...]

Permalink Redirect - Wordpress Plugin Review

arbie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:39:19 +0000

I had a big problem within about 3 days of starting this blog. I changed to fancy permalinks rather than the default ones. For those of you who are not familiar with the terms here let me clarify this. Essentially, the permalink is literally the permanent link (ah - PERMA-LINK) to your blog post. [...]

Anarchy Media Player - Wordpress Plugin Review

arbie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:20:51 +0000

In theory version 2.5 of Wordpress now allows multi-media files to be uploaded to your posts natively and without the use of a plugin. In practice you probably want more control over these presentations than you are given - and that is where An-Archos’ plugin comes in to play. mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, [...]

WP FancyZoom - WordPress Plugin Review

arbie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:40:38 +0000

This has to be one of the easiest ways to make your blog a little bit easier to use and prettier on the eyes! All this plugin does is make any image link become a pop up on the screen. Sounds pretty unimpressive right? Wrong - so very wrong. This plugin does what seems like a very [...]

MaxBlogPress Favicon - WordPress Plugin Review

arbie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:21:54 +0000

Favicons. Those funny little pictures that show next to the URL and the Bookmark (or favourite for you IE users!). They are a piece of cake to create (just do a google search for online favicon generator - there are loads of options), and on most webites they are dead easy to add. [...]

SEO Friendly Images - WordPress Plugin Review

arbie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:03:12 +0000

Vladimir Prevolac’s Wordpress plugin is an absolute life saver for the lazy amongst us. Essentially, every image we use should have both an alt and title tag associated with it. These tags Vladimir describes as follows: ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a [...]