Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Godaddy.com shared hosting uses a secure proxy server for cURL sessions. This is fine but it requires that you change a little bit of the code in a PHP file if you would like to get that to work with the wp-shopping cart plugin and authorize.net as your payment gateway.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I attended the WordCamp 2008 San Francisco this weekend and I have to say, it was a great event. I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to conferences so it was all fresh to me. One thing that I enjoyed about the mini-sessions was that they were often focused on what I would call meta-thinking or pattern recognition. The speakers talked about how to seek out ways of creating more useful content and websites rather than just how to tweak the software. This was great because it creates a process whereby you are designing sites and content that are contextualy relevant not just full of bells and whistles. Anyway, I had a blast and would recommend it to anyone who is into WordPress or thinking about creating a WordPress site.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I have been working with WordPress for about a year now. At first just learning the structure of a WordPress site and then branching out to modifying themes and using WordPress as a CMS. It was rewarding work but often very frustrating. I recently came across and really nice tutorial by Chris Coyier of css-tricks.com which outlines how to create a WordPress theme from scratch.
The tutorials cover creating a theme from start to finish in an easy to follow way and they helped me to clear out some bad habits that I have acquired over the last year. The best part of the tutorial, I think, is that Chris shows how to design your theme from a blank theme. This really helps to start things off on the right foot and create a solid foundation for your theme minus a lot of the frustration. From the tutorial I created the new theme for this site. Thanks!
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