It’s been a while since my last post. I simply have to much on my mind and under my fingers, typing all that code. Last weekend I started development of a wordpress plugin I call ActiveDealers. Here are two screenshots for all of you interested in what’s it about.
Dynamic addition of attributes during application lifetime
Entities (dealers) with dynamicly added attributes
Main idea of building the plugin using EAV database model came from Magento platform. My job focus is entirely on Magento and Wordpress development so some ideas and application design philosophie of Magento seemed so tasty so I decided to implement them in WP plugin. Still need to implement the Google Maps and photo upload to specific dealer (entity), then some testing and possible code refactoring until I release it. Not sure on the license yet. Will keep you posted.
If some of you are looking for a quality custom WordPress plugin development, feel free to contact us at Surgeworks or Inchoo.
Wish you all the best for holidays… Cheers…
WordPress
eav, plugin, WordPress
Company I work for does Magento. And we are good at it 
At least we think so. Our client often want Wordpress and Magento integration. This “integration” should be taken with more loosely terms in mind. Not gonna go in details of what I think by that.
Anyhow… One of the things we often do at client request is special Search functionality. Special in terms, choose to search from Articles (Wordpress) or Products (Magento). As you can see on the image below.
In order to avoid repaeating some code from Wordpress header file to Magetno header file I wrote a small class. Read more…
Magento
Magento, search, WordPress
Retrieving base url path of a Magento instllation is a trivial task. Trivial if you know where to look. If you open /app/Mage.php file and look at line 204, you will se a function getBaseUrl. Function recieves two parametars, but those are not conditional. Do do a test run, open youre app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/view.phtml file and place the following inside
<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl(); ?>
This will echo out the base url path. Could be useful if you’re like me doing WordPress to Magento and vice versa connections and so on.
Magento
Magento, WordPress
Just a short memo for my readers. Site redesign in progress. New design should be up and running until monday. I’ve also prepared few new articles about customizing and trouble shooting Magento. They too should be up until Monday.
I have started working as a web developer at Inchoo, ecommerce development company from Croatia in partnership with Surgeworks. Looking forward to all the future projects. My work is related to PHP programming working with Wordpress, Magento and few other stuff.
Hopefully this would be great experience for me. Hope to blog every day. My focus will be on WordPress, Magento and jQuery. Mostly howto’s and some general thoughts. Just need to do some personal time management to get things organized. That’s it for now.
General
Magento, WordPress
After an upgrade of one of the WordPress sites to a most recent version (2.6.1 as of time of this writing) clients Event calendar plugin stopped working properly. At firs look it showed no obvious errors, but when you tried to click a link inside the calendar the link pointed to sites home page instead of the actual event it’s intended for.
If you’re wondering what plugin I’m talking about, it’s the one you can find at http://wpcal.firetree.net, or http://sourceforge.net/projects/wpcal. The biggest problem is, that the author of this plugin seems to stop developing it since the last update time SourceForge shows us is Oct 22 2007. Read more…
PHP, WordPress
WordPress
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