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Zend components in WordPress (or any other CMS)

27th FEB 2009 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Wordpress, Zend

If you are involved in active web application development, then chances are you have heard about both WordPress and Zend Framework. Learning Zend Framework can be tedious and time consuming task (but it sure pays of, this goes for all other PHP frameworks out there). Anyhow, lot of our projects use WordPress. Not because we love it so much, but because our clients love it. Since we do ecommerce development, our prime tool when it comes to online stores is… MAGENTO. Magento, on the other hand comes with Zend Framework implemented. So, if you are working on a site that uses both Magento and WordPress then it seems logical to try and use Zend Framework components (classes) inside your WordPress templates (in case you are working on something more than just styling the WordPress). Read more

connect2MAGE | WordPress plugin for easy Magento database connection

26th FEB 2009 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Administration, Extensions, Integration, Magento, Wordpress

Hi everyone. I wrote this little plugin while working on one of our projects. If you know your way around WordPress then you know what $wpdb variable stands for. Imagine the following scenario. You have WordPress installation on one database, Magento on another. You know your way around SQL. You can always make new object based on WPDB class inside your template files giving it database access parameters, or you can use this plugin and use $MAGEDB the same way you use $wpdb. Read more

WordPress and Magento integration – One way to go

25th FEB 2009 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Integration, Programming, Wordpress

Lot of us in Magento related development have an issue of connecting their Magento with other CMS solutions out there. Lot of our clients like and want WordPress alongside Magento. WordPress is a great platform when it comes to publishing and managing articles. Not to mention the SEO stuff. One of the biggest issue with integrating two systems in PHP is the lack of the namespaces. This leads to function name redeclaration issues and so on. Integrating something into something is such a loosely term, depending on level of integrations… If you ask me Read more

WordPress FirePHP plugin

24th FEB 2009 | Posted by Ivan Weiler in Wordpress

While tracing some code in WordPress i got tired of var_dumps, so i quickly coded FirePHP plugin. All it does is include FirePHP and forces WordPress to load it before other plugins, so that you can use it in plugin development.

TeraFlex PLUS, another Magento + WordPress duo

19th FEB 2009 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Integration, Magento, News, Wordpress

After we launched TeraFlex Suspensions website few months ago, we created a new similar website for Teraflex PLUS. Although the name is similar, this is not the same company. The primary goal of this site is to help Jeep owners to upgrade their pets with parts and accessories for any type of adventure. The secondary goal is to create a Jeep enthusiast community in Utah, USA and surroundings. The site is powered by WordPress and Magento combination.

WordPress 2.7 Is Out—and Better Than Ever

12th DEC 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Wordpress

Oh, yeah! Coltrane (WordPress 2.7) is finally out. The last time an upgrade was released, you had to update WordPress manually, which is fine if you only have to upgrade your own blog. But imagine having 15 clients—each of them wanting to have latest WordPress version ASAP.

With the newest version, WordPress includes a built-in upgrade notification so that when you’re ready, you can download, install, and upgrade your blogs with a single click.

Another milestone you will notice is an all-new admin interface.

Programatically add metadata to user accounts in WordPress

2nd DEC 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Wordpress

Besides my full time regular job, these days I’m working on a community site for a friend of mine. Good knows if it will ever come to life However, here’s a little something some of you might find useful. I needed to develop and export quite a large amount of users from a database of some other system into WordPress system. Among other things I needed to attach quite a few custom metadata fields to each and every user. WordPress already comes with function for creating/updating user metadata.

Divided site search in Magento and WordPress integration

24th NOV 2008 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Programming, Search, Wordpress

Our client often want WordPress and Magento integration. This “integration” should be taken with more loosely terms in mind. Not gonna go in details of what I think by that.

Anyhow… One of the things we often do at client request is special Search functionality. Special in terms, choose to search from Articles (WordPress) or Products (Magento). As you can see on the image below.

In order to avoid repaeating some code from WordPress header file to Magetno header file I wrote a small class. Read more

5 tips on using blogs to create relevant backlinks

10th NOV 2008 | Posted by Toni Anicic in Online Marketing, Wordpress

Building backlinks is the most important part of SEO work. The only thing more important is how relevant the becklinks you build are. You could actually rank at number one spot on Google for a keyword you don’t have anywhere in your content solely based on your backlinks. This have been proven in practice many times and I have personally done this on several keywords. Read more

Revolution 2 is launched

30th OCT 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Wordpress

Something wonderful happened today. Brian Gardner, the creator of the notorious premium Revolution themes for WordPress, just released a new set of open-source WordPress Themes under the name of Revolution Two. All of the themes on the new site will be made available under the open source/GPL license.