Having been working on auto-blogging with WordPress for a few months now and I wondered aloud as to whether there was anything that could match some of the auto-blogging plugins available in Joomla. I was quite chuffed to discover a tool called Feed Gator. Apparently its been around since Joomla 1.0 days; I didn’t know that, [...]
Magento Extension | WDCA Enhanced Product Grid Extension
An excellent extension that allows you to view product thumbnails and customise the columns to what you need and what is relevant. Its a shame that its not compatible with the Enterprise Edition. Extension key : magento-community/TBT_Enhancedgrid Download: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/WDCA/extension/748/enhanced-product-grid
Magento Connect 404 Error – in Magento CE 1.4.x
If we were to count the number of annoying errors one encounters in Magento; we’d need an entire century. 1 of them comes after you upgrade Magento CE to 1.4.x. This happens when you try to access the Magento Connector. You get a 404 Error page no matter how you try to access the Connector. [...]
Changing the currency symbol
I donno why things have to be so difficult to do in magento . Displaying a currency is simple enough, you go into the admin section and modify the currency as you want. However if you want to change the symbol, then its another typical magento nightmare. Having chosen my site to use Zim Dollar [...]
Joomla – fetching ‘GET’ Variable the proper way
So apparently there’s a lot of security risks in using our traditional $_GET['item'] within our custom developed modules / extensions. I for one am guilty of using a lot of GETs simply because they’re easy and pretty straight forward. So in order to dispense the ‘risk’ and combat some known exploits we’re advised to use [...]
Magento – Proper use of the ‘GET’ Variable
Once you start doing some Magento coding, you may be faced with loads of errors if you try to use the $_GET['variable'] within functions or some views. So instead try using $this->getRequest()->getParam(‘variable’);
WPMU
WPMU [Wordpress Multi-User]: With WordPress we took blogging to the next level by creating powerful self-hosted software that anyone could install and have a blog within minutes. Now with MU we’re making it as easy to create a thousand blogs as it was to create a single blog with WordPress 3 years ago. By building [...]
WordPress
In their words: WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. In my words: WordPress is a free kick ass CMS for the layman…
Joomla
My first real love. In that time it was called Mambo. I must say that I wasn’t too happy with the split that eventually gave birth to Joomla. Mambo means ‘King’ in my native language (shona) and Joomla! means nothing… According to the founders of Joomla! : Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), [...]
Comments on your Desktop with WP-Comments-Notifier
I love tools that make life easier and in some way efficient. This little desktop tool is perfect for high traffic; high comments blogs. Give it a try on your blogs and life will be that much more easier without having to login to the backend to approve/ delete user comments. wp-comments-notifier is an open [...]