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.

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 Of course, I’ve done this before but had to Google yet again to get the answer, which was outdated for WordPress 2.8.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:

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.

WordPress Hacks and Tips

As I find useful and practical WordPress hacks and tips, I’ll post them here. Bookmark this site, and I’ll keep adding more. Please comment if you have any to contribute.This list will be for items that fall outside the plugin box, mostly related to theme modification and styling:

WordPress Websites Using NextGen Gallery

I don’t think I could survive without Alex Rabe’s robust NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows for sophisticated management of photos and many options for displaying them on your WordPress blog or website.

Following are some sites on which I’ve used the plugin and taken advantage of the many display options, including:

Create Different RSS Feeds for Each WordPress Category

To create a different feed for each category of your blog, you can use WP built in codex to specify different feeds for different categories. For instructions, see http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds and scroll down to the text just before the heading Adding Feeds.

Following are couple plugins that automate this process:

Best WordPress Plugins

Following is a list of my most frequently used plugins. I almost always install the All in One SEO Pack, the TinyMCE Advanced Editor, Google Analytics, Exclude Pages, Category Posts, Search and Replace, and the Backup Database plugins. Let me know your favorites!

I’m only listing plugins that I think are used most frequently, and that I install time and again on various sites. I’ll post other, more specialized plugins in separate posts.

WordPress Calendar Plugins and Event Registration Plugins

I’m searching today for a good WordPress calendar plugin and came across this great post:

http://wordpressgarage.com/plugins/wordpress-calendar-plugins/