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3 May 2014 by erwan | Leave a Comment
I liked the look and design of a french travel agency website, http://www.doublesens.fr/ : a quick investigation into the inner engine that powers the simple layout , clean drop down menu and wift responsivness led me to LOCOMOTIVE CMS a promising new CMS built on rails and specialized on custom post types. Its website features a nice […]
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10 January 2014 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Selection of woocommerce digital product modules Sell virtual content : video access, online course, elearning Create content with wordpress : use custom type content for elearning Create chapters : sell multiple pages / content within on product Easy interface Protect access : only purchasers of content can view Fully integrated within woocommerce There are many ways to restrict content […]
5 September 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
this is just the kind of manipulation you'd like automated. there is a very good document on doing SVN with SVNX (equivalent of TortoiseSVN on windows) on mac on this site "zigpress", but if you choose the command line tools option, you might encounter some tricky errors that took me a few hours to solve : […]
12 August 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
There was a time when I was working on multiple solutions, thinking positively that a lot of time spent on each of them would give me a great insight of all possibilities that a mix of solutions could offer. And year after year, solutions evolve and some get better and easier to maintain and develop, […]
5 August 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
we do WordPress developement for developers but also for our final customer, the web site owner. And even with a platform easy to use like WordPress, it can be good to provide basic instructions and written notes for content management. Usually I write specific tutorials for my customers but I have to admit that the […]
13 January 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
In this article we will explore a set of code hooks into the worpdress customization framework. The aim of this technique si to hide pdf documents from search engines and non connected users, and to present them with a custom login page if not connected, that would redirect directly to the file download after identification […]
19 October 2011 by erwan | Leave a Comment
The wordpress and prestashop integration is a big subject : prestashop is good for selling products and wordpress is good for dealing with content. One very efficient feature of wordpress is the menu builder that allows you to build unlimited hierachical menus. We submit here a technique that hooks into the wordpress update menu event […]
16 September 2011 by erwan | Leave a Comment
2023 2011
13 March 2011 by erwan | Leave a Comment
This plugin is my first attempt at using normal wordpress post type to display events. That was before I decided to spend a few minutes on Advanced Custom Field (ACF) querying for event management in wordpress
10 May 2010 by erwan | Leave a Comment
wpml is a wonderful plugin that has so many it takes a while to get used to its power. A new beta version of the multilingual plugin has been published for early adopters who have already switched to 3.0 What I've tested is interesting and allows quick setting of multilingual website Flag displaying is almost […]
4 May 2010 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Yes it is possible to host multiple sites for multiple customers with WordPress. The Multi User feature we expected in wordpress 3.0 will satisfy most bloggers only but we need something more specific. The technique I describe here is similar to the one described here in the sense that it directs the database configuration constants to specific […]
12 April 2010 by erwan | Leave a Comment
as of version 3 of WordPress, posts and pages have three options for visibility : What we're looking for today is a solution that hides the post from the list but allows certain users to see it via permalink. Of course you can give the permalink and tell the user to identify via the wp-login […]
16 June 2009 by erwan | Leave a Comment
A few months ago I published a quick comparison of 3 opensource cmses that come with a form builder. At the time the form builder feature was quite new and innovative, it now comes as a standard feature in a lot of web publishing solutions. I have reviewed a few hosted form makers, such as […]
29 October 2008 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Have your ever found that communicating with distant partners or collaborators involve a lot of window changes : email, phone conversation, chat... Protonotes is a hosted service that aims to centralize all conversations to a web page, can be either a web design prototype or the beginning of your own extranet. Protonotes works very simply […]
10 October 2008 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Opensource ecommerce is going fast forward. After the mighty Magento, I have had the pleasure to test drive - and install in production environment - Prestashop, a simpler alternative, that serves ecommerce with a nice ajax animated shopping cart and various interesting features. the release of its first official stable version, 1.0, was announced recently […]
12 September 2008 by erwan | Leave a Comment
The WP Link Directory is the first and the only one link directory plugin on the Internet for WordPress admin to store and maintain a set of links in classified categories. Useful for building content and getting other webmasters involved in your site's content development. Full Features: * Creation of link categories, sub-categories with descriptionsYou […]
2 September 2008 by erwan | Leave a Comment
This article makes a quick comparison of 3 popular PHP Content management Systems : Concrete5, Silverstripe and WordPress. While Concrete5 and Silverstripe are two real content management frameworks, WordPress is hugely popular as a blogging platform and each new version brings new feature that make it perfectly usable as a CMS, provided you install specific plugins such as PageMash. […]