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Taxonomy Theme, how I love thee

February 20, 2007 By Bruce Kroeze 3 Comments

love hands Taxonomy Theme, how I love theeI’m building a new Drupal 5 site for a client, and I was dreading the hack-work I was going to have to do to make it look like what the designer had come up with. There are at least five distinct page templates in the crazy thing!

I love working with a designer, since then I don’t have to make all the choices, but sometimes it can lead to tons of work. It certainly has in this case. Most Drupal sites have just one template for a reason, but this one needed several, and they also needed to be maintainable and assignable after I was gone from the picture.

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Filed Under: Drupal, PHP

First CubeCart Client

November 16, 2006 By Bruce Kroeze 1 Comment

fireworks First CubeCart ClientMy first CubeCart client is up and running with her store.Cynthia Joba sells high-quality prints and custom commissions to individuals and corporations. She didn’t want a boring, “stock” store, so we did something very creative.

The site is not my design, but all the front-end code is mine, and all the custom interfaces with CubeCart as well. I really haven’t seen many other examples of people using CubeCart this way, but it worked extraordinarily well.

So well, in fact, that I am thinking of packaging some of my modifications for sale to the active CubeCart community. The base engine is great, clean as a whistle, but it is missing quite a few features that it is relatively easy to bolt-on and sell for $10 or $20.

In any case, I have two more clients I’m going to push toward CubeCart. It puts OSCommerce or ZenCart to shame in clarity, security and ease of deployment.

[tags]client,sss,solidsitesolutions,cynthiajoba,webdesign[/tags]

Filed Under: PHP, Reviews

Fixed a WordPress Feedburner Replacement Bug

June 10, 2006 By Bruce Kroeze 2 Comments

ant Fixed a Wordpress Feedburner Replacement BugThis morning I logged into Feedburner to check my stats. AAAARGH! 0 subscribers on all my blogs. Seems my upgrade to WordPress 2.0.3 broke the feedburner redirect plugin.

How to fix it

I experimented for a while, and came up with this surefire fix:

  • Login as admin, go to plugins

  • Disable the Feedburner replacement, then re-enable
  • Go to options, then Feedburner.
  • Disable the redirection
  • Click the Feedburner tab again, and re-enable
  • Click "activate"
  • Now edit your .htaccess file on the server.
  • Change this line:
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FeedBurner.*$

    to this:
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Feed.*$

[tags]wordpress, wordpress2.0.4, feedburner, bugs[/tags]

Filed Under: PHP, Plugins, Wordpress

AWeber Joomla Module

May 21, 2006 By Bruce Kroeze 32 Comments

adapter AWeber Joomla ModuleI’m using Joomla with VirtueCart for a new business venture. One thing that Joomla couldn’t do out of the box for me was to easily integrate with AWeber.

(The site is not fully set up yet, so don’t expect much if you go looking at it.)

If you don’t know about AWeber, you haven’t done much online marketing. They’re the best autoresponder/list-management service out there. Much much better than any self-hosted script. They manage all the legal compliance stuff, all the double-opt-in & unsubscribe requirements, and they go to the huge lengths needed to get "whitelisted" by all the big providers. Basically, if you use a self-hosted list, you are looking at a delivery rate of 60-70% tops, with AWeber, you’ll get 95-99%.

So you see why I want to use AWeber rather than the (very nice) built-in script Joomla provides. Yet, it isn’t just a matter of hacking it into the templates. I suppose I could’ve done that, but it would have been annoying and I wouldn’t have been able to manage things via the admin console inside Joomla.

The plugin

Instead of hacking it in, I wrote a plugin component/module set for Joomla. Feel free to use the GPL package joomla-awresponder 1. Note that you must unpack the zip, as there are two packages inside, also do read the very short INSTALL.txt file, since you must take one manual step to make it work.

Enjoy! The Joomla package system is very nice, and only took an evening to figure out. I’m sure I’ll be writing more as my store requires it.

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