So I’ve made a couple of modules (Upgrades) for wp-e-commerce now, and I’m starting to get the hang of things. Theres a few key things to make a module actually tick with wp-e-commerce but don’t worry it takes it’s inspiration from WordPress so if your familiar at all with developing in WordPress then you should pick it up quick and easy.

I’ve made a basic frame for building my wp-e-commerce modules quick and effortless. It’s really simple, it does the first two things every module needs… well sort of apart from actually DOING anything.

Has an Upgrades File Header
Adds a new page to the Products sidebar in wp-admin

Step 1 : Location and File Structure

All upgrades either live in this folder or in a folder in this folder
wp-content/uploads/wpsc/upgrades

All upgrades have a main file with its comment header (just like themes and plugins with … Read More »

These are my links for October 29th through October 30th:

Command Line – OS X Daily –
StudioPress › Support –
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These are my links for October 20th through October 24th:

Boing Boing –
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These are my links for September 25th through October 19th:

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I’ve been attending the wordcamp nz conference at the Mt Vic Bowling Club. The speakers have all been fantastic, ranging from the end-user experience of wordpress as a blog/community meeting place, NZ Government Geeks talking about pushing the goverment into the 21-st century with blogging technology,  to the ever popular Matt Mullenweg from Automatic i.e co-founder of wordpress itself! His talk was more of a Q n A, questions ranged from the expectations and concerns of the merger of wordpress and wordpress MU. Everyone’s concerns were put to ease when Matt said all the MU options will have to be activated to see them so the average wordpress user will not be confused by the extra options available for MU.

The day ended with a little informal get together at Temperance for every Kiwi geeks ambrosia, Beer, Fish and Chips … Read More »

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