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Displaying sub-categories at the top of a product list page in WP e-Commerce is one of those things which seems totally common sense, but for which WP e-Commerce apparently has no real solution. I ended up creating a routine at the top of the theme’s WP e-Commerce template file to accomplish this. WP e-Commerce and Mysitemyway Themes: In Hell I Will Have to Integrate Them I’ve been kicking these issues around for a couple of months....

It took me forty minutes to figure out why the Modular WordPress theme from Mysitemyway wouldn’t correctly display the product categories being presented by WP e-Commerce unless said category were empty. I’m certainly not the only person online to have had this issue, but I may be the only person to have come up with a solution which works. Certainly I’m the only person to come up with a solution which worked in my case! The...

9/7/2012: I’ve started receiving messages from people experiencing problems moving their WordPress installations. There seem to be some new issue specific to WordPress versions 3.4.1 and up. I’ve conducted a quick experiment with one of my sites and am definitely experiencing issues with the widgets. (0834) The widget issue is specific to the widget overrides in my RocketTheme theme. Otherwise, things are running smoothly. If...

I wanted to take some time out to give kudos to the folks at RocketTheme for their amazing work on the Gantry Framework. This WordPress plugin is so incredibly useful for what I do, and I can’t even begin to estimate how much time it saves me on every single WordPress theme I create. It’s late, and I’ve just finished working for five hours straight, but I accomplished more in that time that I could have in fifteen hours without...