WordPress e-commerce / Shopping Cart Solutions

I’m preparing to write a post reviewing e-commerce solutions that integrate with WordPress.

So far, I have reviewed:

* Magento
* WP e-commerce
* Shopp Plugin
* Market Theme
* WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin — have not tried yet
* WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin — have not tried yet

My Favorite WordPress Online Resources

I’ll be adding to this list, so be sure to bookmark this page and return to see more resourceful websites as I find the time to add them.

BaoBao Festival Website

I’ve been volunteering with the BaoBao Festival, a West African dance and drumming festival that takes place in Boulder each March, for the past 7 years. I created a flat html website for the festival in 2005 and finally converted it to WordPress last week. Working with the festival earned me an invite for a three-week trip to Ghana last Christmas, where I learned to play four variations of the abstract strategy game, Oware.

Event and Event Management, Registration Plugins for WordPress

For event management, I just discovered this fabulous looking plugin:
Events Manager by nutsmuggler, netweblogic

Events Manager is a full-featured event management solution for Wordpress. It supports recurring events, venues data, RSVP and maps. Has a sidebar widget and shortcode for an events list, calendars and description, as well as template tags.

10 Must Have WordPress Plugins

I’ve been following Market Like a Chick’s blog for a few months now, and I enjoy her very thoughtful articles on blogging, WordPress, and marketing.

I am an accidental blogger and don’t have time for thorough and thoughtful articles, but I do like to note useful tips, tricks, plugins, and themes I come across.

Today, I received this feed from Market Like a Chick on “10 Must Have WordPress Plugins.”

Sort Post Plugin for WordPress

I just discovered this great sort post plugin for WordPress that allows you to customize how posts are sorted for each category through a clean admin control panel in the Posts area.

Customizing Post Sort Order Using the Category Posts Widget

I use the Category Posts widget on a lot of sites to show a list of post titles beneath a category name in the sidebar. It automatically displays posts in descending order from the most recent post to the oldest posts. To change this order, you need to edit the cat-posts.php file in the category-posts plugin directory in the plugins directory.

Removing Default Meta Links in WordPress Widget

I promised my friends I’d start documenting all my little Wordpress hacks as I went along, so we’d both remember how to do things. Of course, I’ve done this before but had to Google yet again to get the answer, which was outdated for WordPress 2.8.

A lot of people don’t want the RSS Comments Feed and WordPress.org link in their Meta widget. Here’s the default display:

How to Report an Error (Mistake, Bug) to Google Maps via Tele Atlas or Navteq

I’ve recently been using a wonderful WordPress plugin called “Map Press” that allows you to easily insert a Google Map into your WordPress posts. However, I’ve noticed some mistakes in the maps and nowhere in Google to report them.

It turns out that map mistakes actually need to be reported to the map’s copyright owner. Google just serves up these maps created by Tele Atlas or Navteq.

Clean Professional WordPress Themes

Following are some of the WordPress theme sites that I’ve found to have clean, professional layouts and creative flourishes. If you are looking for someone to create a WordPress website for you, finding a theme that already fits with your current branding or image can help save money on design time.