WordPress+Simplepie+Lightspeed, awesome. In my last post I showed you how to make a featured content gallery with the_post_thumbnail. And in this post I talked about how to use Simplepie to show a WordPress feed on your Webstore.
I’m not going to lie, it requires extra work to use WordPress to enhance your Webstore.
About a month ago we relaunched Chillyo.com with a new design – while I was working on it Nsha Club approached me about a new design for their site. I have to admit it I love designing Ecommerce websites. And I really love it when I am allowed to use my 2 favorite tools: WordPress and WordPress E-Commerce. Because I know how to use both tools pretty well by now, I am able to say to a client “I can do that, I can make that happen”.
Getting SimplePie and WordPress together and whomping a few snippets of code into your Webstore tpl files is darn near close to an actual “integration” of WordPress and Webstore as I have been able to get. OH HOW I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE! Sorry for yelling.
My tests so far have gone really well,
For this one design of Webstore I’m using a horizontal dropdown menu instead of a vertical one. When a category tab in the menu is selected, if that category has child categories, a submenu is displayed, floated to the left of the main column that has the product list. I really needed to be