WordPress and e-commerce

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E-commerce websites provide visitors with the facility to purchase products directly from a website. A shopping cart allows the seller to list their products (usually in a hierarchy of categories), providing full details of the products (including multiple images, descriptions, sizes, colours, shipping charges, taxes, etc.). The user adds products to their cart (or basket, as we say in the UK) which can be managed easily, allowing addition and removal of items. Finally, the user proceeds to a checkout where they may have to register an account, but certainly have to provide delivery information before making their payment. Continue reading →

Guide for using the WordPress Formatting Toolbar now available

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Good news – our guide for using the WordPress Formatting Toolbar is now available to download and print as a PDF.

This 2 page document runs through all the toolbar buttons available when editing posts and pages. Colour coding is used to identify which buttons are recommended and which to avoid.

View/download our Guide to using the WordPress Formatting Toolbar.

Josh.biz goes 100% WordPress powered

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It’s been a while since we last posted. Sorry for the delay. We had temporarily paused making any new posts until the Josh.biz website had been fully converted into a WordPress powered website on new servers. Up until now only the blog section of our website had been WordPress powered.

WordPress is now our favoured content management system. Many of our clients are already using WordPress to update their web pages (and blogs/news pages) themselves. It’s a powerful system and most importantly, it’s easy to use. We now even have our own dedicated support website for WordPress users: wpmadesimple.org. The remaining core tutorials should be online by Christmas.

As a safeguard, the Josh.biz website is now hosted on a server entirely separate to our clients. This means that in the event of a service issue or incident, clients will still be able to access our website, check our announcements page and email us (assuming they have access to a working email account).

With our website converted, it’s much easier for us to update the page content and to post new stories on the blog. We can even update the entire website from an iPhone app!

Using NextGEN Gallery

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At last, our first WordPress guide hits the press. Due to popular demand, we’ve gone for one of the ‘more advanced’ subjects to cover first – using the WordPress NextGEN Gallery plug-in.

Displaying galleries of photographs is a common requirement for many websites. Business websites often have a need to show off portfolios or show sample products.

Josh.biz chose to use the NextGEN Gallery plug-in by alexrabe.de. This is a great plug-in (with some impressive advanced options) and offers the user and easy to use interface for updating images. Keeping galleries up to date should be performed frequently and keeps a website feeling fresh.

The NextGEN Gallery is a great option but there aren’t many really easy to use guides available. So, here’s our own.

If you know of any other handy guides, tutorials or resources for NextGEN Gallery, please let us know so we can pass the information on.

Managing Galleries using the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Plug-in

Managing Galleries using the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Plug-in (pdf)

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