plugins

Get rid of WP-Robot 01/1/1970

For years I have run a collection of WordPress Websites that attain and publish content automatically using the WP-Robot Plugin. I mostly use the Plugin for publishing amazon.com affiliate related content however have also experimented with posting content from Clickbank, Youtube, Ebay, Flickr and Twitter. The Plugin has worked really well until recently however, a [...]

How to show Australian Tax in Shopp

Here is a quick tip for those using the Shopp ecommerce Plugin for WordPress powered Sites in Australia… By default, after you’ve setup the various Shopp tax settings, you’ll notice that you need to enter the price excluding GST when adding a new product within Shopp. This is inconvenient as often you may want to [...]

Government gives WordPress Plugin

How awesome to see that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the US government’s first WordPress Plugin. The Faceted Search Plugin ‘allows filtering of any search results of archive (tag, category, year, month, etc.) by any built in (category, tag) or custom taxonomies. Places clickable list of taxonomies and terms in sidebar widget with [...]

WordPress Theme Design and CSS Basics

Tomorrow I’ll be tutoring at Metro Screen for the students enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media (CUF60107). I’ll be focusing on the design section of the assessment brief for the Media Rich Blog assessment: Strong, eye-catching and appropriate post and page titles. Self branding, such as a header image created using image [...]

Is WordPress good for Online Stores?

It’s often a natural human tendency to distrust those things that are inexpensive or ‘cheap’. Take motor cars for example, we tend to believe that many of the less pricey brands are somehow inferior in quality or safety however Lexus has proved this to be inaccurate. Restaurants are another example where often the most expensive [...]