Category Archives: Favourite Wordpress plugins

WordPress E-commerce site launched using Eshop plugin

Just launched my first WordPress e-commerce website using a plugin appropriately named eShop. The site is for a London cafe and Roastery called Climpson & Son’s and features a brand new design for the brand along with a fully functioning shop and blog.

The eShop plugin is pretty straight forward to install and use, and works well for this type of (relatively) straight forward shop. It integrates easily with Paypal and is simple to customise to fit with the existing theme design through the css. Read More »

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Favourite plugins 6: Social Bookmarks Reloaded

I’ve only just loaded this plugin, as until recently I was using ‘Add This‘ for my social bookmarking needs. Add This added a small discrete social bookmarking button to the bottom of each post, but I’m increasingly learning that if you want someone to do something on a web page, you need to shout about it.

The discrete button just wasn’t getting clicked, so now I’ve gone in the opposite direction with blooming massive social bookmarking buttons, made using the Social Bookmarks Reloaded plugin. The plugin’s great: once loaded you simply check the boxes for the Bookmarking icons you want to show, and select whether you want them just on posts (yes), or on your index page excerpts too (no). Read More »

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Favourite plugins 5: Hide Pages

One of the frustrations I initially had with WordPress when I began publishing with it was that often I wanted to create pages without adding them to the main page navigation. Out of the box, with most themes this is impossible to do. However, I then found the fabulous hide pages plugin from Instinct, which upon install gives you a ‘page visibility’ option in the ‘add new page’ interface. Read More »

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Favourite plugins 4: Wenderhost Subpages widget

I only found this plugin a few weeks ago, but it achieves something I’ve always thought WordPress was sorely missing. 

In other, non-Wordpress based websites, it’s common to see a main navigation along the top of the web page, and a ‘sub’ navigation down one side of the page. Out of the box, WordPress does not do this for pages and sub pages. Read More »

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