A current project involves the migration of a large Postnuke 0.75+ based site to a new Taxonomy-based Wordpress 2.7+ install. As there was no conversion script compatable with the taxonomy structure I’ve created an install wizard to go through the required stages.
After almost 2 years of exclusively programming in OOP php5 I ‘ve spent the last few months programming on a couple of projects in php4 & procedural based programming.
To say the least I feel like I’ve been regressing back several years. While WordPress & similar applications encourage API’s and plugins to be class based still the underlying application these run on are in general php4 class based architecture with only token gestures to framework & patterns.
Navigational categories can be set up to mave multiple child categories. Indeed, this is the best way to get a heirarchy of Brand > Product Group. Sometimes though these child groups also include those that don’t always fit with the rest, like Gender or colours. This mod splits the refine search category results into 2 groups according to defined sub-categories.
Adds a custom page banner to the top of the page content.
Admin defined banner per page. One banner per page if set.
If right hand columns visible, e.g home page, then these are pushed down by a css controlled value.
Div & CSS controlled. Allows for a seamless header layout without using the editor.
I’m currently in the process of setting up a number of affiliate marketing sites using the excellent Affilistore Pro v2 product, which enables multiple product data feeds, from multiple merchants & stores to be displayed on a single product/price comparison site.
There’s some work to be done on the product to make it fully mature. And I’ve got & done some mods to it and the theme myself to fit my purposes. I’ll be drip-feeding these as I go.
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