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.
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
Where have I been? Chained to my desk customizing Lightspeed Webstore templates. Lightspeed is Point of Sale software exclusively for Mac. And Webstore is Lightspeed’s shoppingcart. Webstore is not “standalone” you have to have Lightspeed — it makes sense for people who have real stores–and it is an additional cost to the POS.
The Webstore 2