Angela Bowman | WordPress Web Design, Development and Training

WordPress e-commerce / Shopping Cart Solutions

Some WordPress e-commerce and shopping cart solutions I have reviewed include: Magento WP e-commerce Shopp Plugin Market Theme WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin Yak for WordPress ArtPal – Paypal shopping cart for artists PHPurchase eshop – utilizes posts and pages to create products ShopperPress – theme and shopping cart...

23 May 2010 | 21 Comments

WordPress Resources

I’ve updated my favorite WordPress resources at my Ask WordPress Girl site for my WordPress students at Boulder Digital Arts. Please see the updated post at: http://askwpgirl.com/links/

21 May 2010 | 0 Comments

Finding Pablo Neruda’s Machu Picchu

When I first came back from Peru, I would wake in the middle of the night and not know where I was. I would stare and stare into the darkness of the bedroom and swear that the walls were made of adobe and the doorway to the bathroom was really a stone hallway leading...

28 October 2009 | 8 Comments

Pisac Ruins

The Pisac ruins were built sometime during the Inca Empire (between the 1440s and when the Spanish conquered Pisac in the 1530s). The tombs of the mummies dotting the hillside were raided long ago, but the waterways are still flowing after more than 500 years. The stones, carefully carved and place so as to...

09 October 2009 | 0 Comments

The Weaver’s Way – Trek Through the Andes

I woke at 5 am with severe stomach cramps and diarrhea and proceeded to spend the next two hours on the bathroom floor, chewing Pepto Bismal, suddenly dreading the upcoming 5-hour bus ride that would signal the beginning of our three-day trek through the weaving villages in the central Andes. I had been acclimating...

09 October 2009 | 0 Comments

Lima to Cusco to Pisac

We arrived late in the evening in Lima and were escorted to a hostel in Miraflores, about 45 minutes from the airport. The Hostal El Patio was charming and musty. The rooms were arranged around a courtyard filled with lush, flowering plants and brightly painted walls. Our flight to Cusco left Lima at 10...

07 October 2009 | 0 Comments

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.

15 August 2009 | 22 Comments

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...

07 August 2009 | 9 Comments

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...

07 August 2009 | 9 Comments

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....

28 July 2009 | 0 Comments

Clean Professional WordPress Theme

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.

06 May 2009 | 1 Comment

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:

30 April 2009 | 0 Comments

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...

18 April 2009 | 6 Comments

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/

27 February 2009 | 12 Comments

Amsterdam

So many bikes!!! Inspiring. In the frigid temps, everyone was commuting on bicycles. There wasn't a railing that didn't have a bike attached to it. The bonus of missing my flight out of Accra was getting a day in Amsterdam to visit the Van Gogh Museum and have a cappacinno in a quaint cafe...

09 January 2009 | 1 Comment

Kumasi and Around

The road to Kumasi is beautiful green and lush, breaking into small towns and villages along the way. Clara and I woke at 5 am and Ninasei took us to the bus station, an area where dozens of buses wait and depart for Kumasi every 30 minutes. Clara found a comfortable bus with A/C,...

25 December 2008 | 0 Comments

The Driving Adventure to Krobo and Back

The beads made in Krobo are the popular Ghanaian beads you see in shops in the U.S. The market was completely fabulous and fascinating. Row upon row upon row of tables of beads. It was like being a kid in a candy store. They are exquisitely beautiful, and I purchased I don't know how my...

22 December 2008 | 0 Comments

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