Ben's quick fixes for little problems…
Problem: I wanted to add some Meta Boxes to the homepage only, and have them only visible in WP-Admin when editing that page.
Solution: Provided that a page has been selected in wp-admin > General Settings > Reading Settings > A Static Page [Front Page], then this code can be used to pull that value out as a Page ID: Continue reading “Get ID of the WordPress ‘Front Page’ in Theme’s functions.php”
Problem: I accidentally clicked the ‘Profiling’ textbox in the Browse view of phpMyAdmin (see image below) and it immediately redirected the page and spat the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imageftbbox() in /Users/[whatever]/Sites/phpmyadmin/libraries/chart/pChart/pChart.class on line 1118Continue reading “phpMyAdmin Fatal Error with imageftbbox() after clicking ‘Profiling’ checkbox”
Problem: I’m customising a WP install for a client, adding some Custom Post Types and wotnot, and they aren’t going to have any need for the Links thing.
Fix: Adding this to your theme’s (or child-theme’s) functions.php removes the page and the menu link: Continue reading “Remove Links menu item in WordPress”
Problem: Pulling the total number of products from a subcat in Shopp doesn’t seem to work out the box. For example, this code WON’T return the total even though the correct tag shopp(‘subcategory’,’total’) is used: Continue reading “Getting subcategory totals [shopp(‘subcategory’,’total’)] to work in Shopp Plugin 1.1.*”
Problem: In Shopp (1.1.9) the default variations drop-down list shows prices. This isn’t always desired. This is the default usage: Continue reading “Remove prices from Variation drop-downs in Shopp WordPress plugin”
Problem: I’m using the Shopp 1.1.9 ecommerce plugin for WordPress, and my client wanted to display specific background images while showing certain products. Shopp is very complete, but one thing that is missing in the current version ‘out of the box’ is the ability to pull the ‘last viewed’ category name when viewing a product. Obviously a product can belong to more than one cat, so it can’t know which one to display… Continue reading “Capture last viewed category in product view in Shopp Plugin for WordPress”
Problem: While doing some Shopp Plugin support work earlier, one customer was getting this error…
Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 111 of 118 bytes in /home/maxwell4/public_html/main/wp-content/plugins/shopp/core/model/Settings.php on line 228
Continue reading “What is Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset then?”
Problem: When connecting to a Rackspace Cloud site via FTP, hidden files are.. uh.. hidden. Usually Filezilla shows everything.
Fix: There is a setting in Filezilla called ‘Force showing hidden files’ that does exactly that. To activate that, go to the ‘Server’ menu item and select it. Like this: Continue reading “.htaccess hidden on Rackspace Cloud Sites (in FTP, with Filezilla)”
Problem: I needed to set default timezone for a site to get Zen Cart installed. The usual way would be to call date_default_timezone_set from a globally included script, or to use the date.timezone option in a php.ini file. The problem is that I don’t have access to the php.ini file and there is no script that will be called across the board. Continue reading “Set date.timezone in PHP without using php.ini”
Problem: Today I needed to add some code to a Shopp (ver 1.1.9) product.php template so that related products (that have same ‘Tag’) would show up at the bottom. The ‘Related Products‘ template tag was not behaving as I expected it to.. i.e. it was stopping the product page rendering anything at all. Continue reading “Add ‘Related Products’ to the Product Template in the Shopp WordPress Plugin”