It’s rather annoying having to tweak the compression of images to get under OpenCarts 300kb limit on images and files. When using PNG files for slides, I’d rather increase the limit than decrease the quality of product images to get them into OpenCart, especially as you cannot simply upload direct into the images folder (due … Continued
Here’s a handy snippet I’ve used a few times now. I find it handy for quick redirects should you want to send all other users to another page such as a maintenance page, coming soon page or other holding page. It allows all users NOT using the IP listed to be sent elsewhere, allowing those … Continued
A client this morning emailed me to ask how to change the locale of her website from the default en_US language to the UK version while running the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. While some people think that by installing WordPress as the UK version does this, it doesn’t. This only really alters the language file … Continued
A new client project I’m working on requires I duplicate their website, install it on my development server and work on it before transferring it back onto their server once complete. To do this, I need access to the OpenCart admin panel, but I want to keep the existing admin users where they are and … Continued
I’m currently completing a rather large project for a client. While I regularly make backups before installing any major extensions or conducting core work, yesterday I needed to make my first restore on this particular database. While Magento has a great tool for backups and restores, I always prefer to do it manually from either … Continued
Sometimes you may want to add a contact form 7 form into a template directly. While normal use is via a shortcode eg, you can’t use this directly inside a PHP page template. Instead, you need to wrap this inside the WordPress do_shortcode function, in order to enable it to parse correctly. Wrapping your form … Continued
So you may be like me and not need or want extra links in the Magento account area which don’t actually do anything. Personally, if they serve no purpose there is no point having them there. While it’s annyoning you can’t switch them off from the admin area, there are also no unique classes so … Continued
If your store offers multiple shipping methods to your customers, it’s important to align all shippers to use the same unit for weight. This is becuase weight in Magento is not actually a particular unit. Weight to Magento is just a number, so theoretically, could be grams, kilograms, pounds, tonnes, you name it. Realistically, you … Continued
Here’s a little snippet I regularly use to add the ID of the post/page into the body class and post class. It’s really helpful to aid targeting specific things in CSS, add functionality with javascript and to quickly pinpoint the ID of a page without checking through the back-end. Add this to your themes functions.php … Continued
While there are so many factors to consider when finding a great balance between design and conversion, here are 5 instant tips to consider and tweak to increase web conversion straight away. 1. Website Colours Colours play a massive role in websites. Not only do they carry a psychological sway and role in influence, but … Continued