• Jan.
  • 29.
  • 2010

Use WordPress Rss Feeds to Show a Featured Content Gallery In Lightspeed Webstore Landing Page

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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. But it’s worth it. Because, lets face …
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11,256 views Posted in Lightspeed Webstore, Technical Blog | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments
  • Jan.
  • 14.
  • 2010

3 New Ecommerce Designs

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”.
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2,851 views Posted in Lightspeed Webstore, WordPress, WP Ecommerce | Tagged | Comments Off
  • Jan.
  • 12.
  • 2010

Using the New Post Image Function in WP 2.9 to Build a Featured Content Gallery

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Now that WordPress lets you upload an image and crop it and set it as the post thumbnail you can do a lot of cool things with it. All you have to do is add support for the function into your functions.php file and then use the set thumbnail option in the Post editor to have post thumbnails. I set …
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