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Hi there, Thanks for the info. I haven't personally had an issue with 1and1 but I am aware they don't have the best reputation. I think EZPZ Hosting sounds pretty good for what my requirements are. Cpanel sounds like it will take care of what I need. By the sounds of it all hosting includes cPanel. I got in touch with them and they said I'd need a reseller account. Sounds like the cost is pretty reasonable so will check them out! Will use your signature...

Hi everyone, I have a requirement to do some social media stuff such as Facebook competition apps which would include data entry forms for different clients. Each client will want the ability to log in to the hosting and manage their own database. It wont be inappropriate to give a client root access and see the other databases for obvious reasons. I'm thinking of taking out a new hosting plan with a company as my current host (1and1) doesn't seem to offer this service. So the plan is basically go buy a generic sounding domain where I can host all my Facebook work on and buy an SSL certificate so it meets Facebook's requirements then I will need to be able to create and manage multiple MySQL databases and give each client access to their own database either via their own control panel login or a link to log into the database directly with PhpMyAdmin. The main thing is that they don't see the other databases. Can anyone recommend anything? I'm thinking somewhere in the region of a shared hosting plan so that sort of price range rather than full on dedicated or anything... Rich

Oh right ok then. Thanks for keeping my post count 25. I had someone in mind for the job so have sent them a PM about it. Cheers

Hi there, I need 25 posts in order to send a PM to a member which is quite annoying. Also I cant post on the job forum yet.

There is a gallery plugin which is similar in layout / functionality but uses thumbnail images instead of numbers so I'm going to have a go at tweaking the js - in theory it should be pretty easy but I will have to see how the code was written. Hopefully it wont require any major rewriting otherwise I will probably struggle!

Hi there, I have been looking to make a really simple wordpress gallery and I am sure there must be one out there which is similar to what I am trying to make. It would be easier to show an image of the type of interface I am after: As you can see it is essentially a simple gallery that uses numbers to display the list of images. It would load the first image by default and then clicking on the subsequent number would load the following images. There are a few nice versions of this functionality out there such as http://benjaminsterling.com/jquery-jqgalscroll-photo-gallery/ but I was wondering if anyone has seen anything more integrated into WordPress' native gallery functionality such as in a theme or plugin?

Thanks for the input guys. I think I will definably continue playing around with OpenCart as it seems like looks like it contains some good features and would hopefully suit most clients needs so long as they aren't too unusual. Its good to know what to look for and what to be aware of when it comes to plugins. It sounds messy having to modify core files so as long as that isn't the standard. In an ideal world it would be great for plugins to live in their own directory. It sounds like great care would need to be taken when installing plugins if there are multiple files to be placed in multiple locations. I need to spend some time working out the template system and to see how I would go about building my own skins etc.

Hi there, I have been doing a bit of research with E-commerce solutions and noticed a site using OpenCart. It looked like a nice site so I looked into OpenCart and downloaded it and had a bit of a play with it. It seems to be pretty good and took no time at all to get up and running. I searched this forum and found no posts relating to it which is slightly worrying but thought I would be the first to ask if anyone has heard of it and what they think of the platform? I also tried installing Magento and that appears to be much more advanced and probably a bit out of my league to be working with, although I am only testing the water right now, so just trying to learn so if/when a project comes up I will be armed and ready! Cheers Rich

Hi there, Just an update with this job. I haven't started development yet as the design has only just been finished but now I am approaching the development stage and now going to assess my options. A quick update about the job: The website is for a company that hand make Wedding Invitations and similar products including: Save the Date, Favours, Thank You cards, Table Stationery and Engagement Invitations. Each types of product has about 8 – 15 ‘ranges’. Each range will span different product types as people could order multiple products in the same range so everything matches the theme of their wedding. In total that would be roughly 50-60 products available to buy. The only eCommerce part of the website is to order individual samples of products. A customer can browse around the website and select a number of different products they want to order samples for, but once they want to make a full order then they contact the company via email or phone rather than ordering through the website – so with that regard its not really a full ecommerce solution, but it at least needs the main essensials such as shopping cart functionality, and one other thing which I will explain shortly... I'm not sure if I need full eCommerce functionality for this, because ultimately all I think I need (and what the client is happy to have) is a WordPress website which users can order samples using PayPal only. The reason wordpress was preferred is ultimately this is a content based website with the ability to choose a series of products to order samples for. There are no special things to consider such as item stock (items will always be in stock) or product sizes or other special requirements. The only specific and perhaps tricky functionality I have been asked to implement is the ability for customers to choose to display prices in the following 4 currencies: GBP, USD, EUROs and Australian Dollars. The idea was that people are more likely to buy if the prices are displayed in their currency, so the ability to perform this function by adding a variable with the currency choice to the URL so that the website owner could advertise to locations which use the specific currency. I.e website.com/products?currency=usd Also if there were the 4 currency choices on the website such as in the header, the user could click to change the prices to their currency. The client would like to specify each product with the different currencies manually rather than using some kind of service to calculate the difference, so they could choose nicer looking values such as £50, €60 $90 for the same product, even though they are aware they will be absorbing the difference. Up until now I have been planning on building the website in WordPress and using the GetShopped plugin as it seemed to offer all these features out of the box (more or less) but now I am having my doubts as I haven’t seen an example of a GetShopped powered website which has multiple currency selection functionality even though it says it supports it. It offers the abiliy to add a product and specify a number of different currency amounts which is fine, its just I haven’t seen any front end working example on a website where it lets you switch prices to your currency of choice. Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions? I would really like to use wordpress if possible as I am more confident with it, but I would consider other options also. Can anyone show any examples of a wordpress plug-in powered website or an alternative ecommerce platform being used on an website which lets a user change the prices to match the currency of choice? Many thanks Rich

Ok fixed - I just needed to tidy my functions file up and remove some whitspace

Hi there, I think there is a bit of a glitch with my Wordpress installation. I have built a new theme on the latest version of Wordpress (Version 3.3.1 as of this post). When adding a new category, (both in a regular post or custom post) the new category doesnt appear, I have to actually refresh the page in order for it to show up. If I am writing a new post that means I need to save / publish a post before I can refresh the page. This is a bit annoying as normally I am used to Wordpress adding the new category and updating the page asynchronously so I can then choose the new category straight away. Has anyone had this happen to them before? I have kept my theme really light at the moment so not sure what could be causing it. Most of my custom code is for some custom post types I have been making, but the issue is present for standard posts too. Cheers Rich

Ah that makes sense. I'll try that next time and see how I get on. Thanks

Hey, that would be very kind of you. I'll PM you my email address. Thanks, Rich edit - don't currently have enough posts to send a message to users. Doh

Hi Everyone. I have been doing a bit of research into advertising plug-ins for WordPress. I would like to know if anyone has had any experience with using any and could make a recontamination? I have a client who wants to be able to add his own banners (I guess affiliate) and control which pages they show up. This seems fair enough and it looks like there are plenty of plug-ins that do this. He also would like to be able to connect to an advertising network. I'm not exactly sure how this would work. The site is quite small and is basically going to be a fashion blog. Would there be a solution to automatically load banners onto the site for revenue generation purposes? Can anyone recommend anything or point me in the right direction? Cheers Rich

Hi guys and girls. I have been trying to figure out the best way of working when it comes to WordPress and deploying sites live. Basically what is the quickest, easiest and most reliable way of moving an entire WordPress site from local to live, or from one domain to the other? I always develop sites locally on my machine using XAMPP, then I upload the site into a test server when showing the client. To do this I create a new database on the sever. Then I migrate everything across to the clients server when finally deploying the site live. When it comes to the data, as far as I can tell I have the following 2 options which both are not exactly ideal: 1) First of all, exporting the database in phpMyAdmin isn't the best solution since all of the links (to images etc) are exported and will all need rewriting. Is there a way around this which is quick to correct? It seems exporting the database in this way is great for backup and restore use, but I'm not convinced it is a solution when it comes from moving all the data from another location. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I have tried the WordPress Admin Tools > Export method. This seems to be pretty cleaver as it is supposed to rewrite links, but it left all of the old links in the posts which is pretty annoying, although this should be something which I could correct with Finding/Replacing url strings in the source code. Anything thing which was annoying is the Featured image's were all messed up so I ended up having to re-upload them manually. This is far from ideal when it comes to more content heavy sites. Anyone managed to get this feature working ok? Does anyone reading this do anything different than the above and can suggest a better workflow? Is there a plugin which handles this or am I missing something quite obvious? (can never rule that out!!) Cheers Rich

Thanks, I have found your posts really useful. I think I will give getshopped a go but there is a bit of functionality I need to add such as the ability to input a variable into a url to change the currency i.e shop.com/currency=usd I will probably try and do the more tricky things like this first before I settle into the plugin too much so will keep my options open to other plugins. I will let you know how I get on, or I dare say post some questions in a help thread when I get stuck on something..!

Thanks for the advice. I see what you mean re clients wanting to expand. Automated conversion is not actually something that is required now as the client has specified that they would rather choose their own price in each currency (about 4 currencies in total) so there is no automation at all. The client didnt like the idea of the odd numbers that might be thrown out of an automated currency system. By the sounds of it the getshopped plugin might be ok so long as the shop is not to expand...

Hi thanks for the insight. I am now slightly worried, although the development hasn't begun yet so I am still able to use an alternative plugin, or platform if necessary. To give a bit more info about what the requirements are about the site. Its a wedding invitations website and there are about 20-30 different types of invitations, but it is only the samples which are going to be available to purchase online - the actual full orders are to be done via a form and then invoiced outside the shop, so although the shop might sound really complicated when I said it has different currencies, it is only really quite small in terms of items available to buy and ways to pay (only paypal). Would you still stand by your opinion that getshopped is not the right way to go for this? Is it mainly because of the multi currency that you make this decision? I did install the plugin and add a few mock up items and the way the multiple currencies seemed to work looked quite good - this wasn't in a production environment and I didnt really do any testing though... I would prefer to use WordPress as I am quite comfortable with it and the rest of the website would really lend its self to the platform - its more like a WordPress site with a few things to buy rather than a full on eCommerce website. If you have had some negative experience with that getshopped plugin, would you recommend any of the other plugins you posted for the purpose I described? I really appreciate your advice and glad I posted at this early stage in the project!

Thanks for your post. The client wants the ability to name their price per currency, per item i.e £60, $100 and 70 Euro (which is more time consuming and difficult to manage) rather than a script or service working out a random (but correct!) calculation of the price as it would look a bit odd to their customers. I do actually see the point now - I hadnt seen it from that point of view initially though. I think as mentioned above lots of multinational business' use this approach and absorb the difference. When I first wrote this tread I anticipated an automatic system would be best, but it seems it might not be, at least the client doesnt want this. I see what you mean about getting the right platform first - I think its more or less there with this as we are talking about a simple paypal payment system here rather than something with more features that I would possibly not need, such as Magento?

Hi Gareth, Thanks for your reply. I see your point about shops having to list their prices in multiple currencies - they obviously risk taking a hit. I didn't think of that as it happens a lot. I know apple produces always translate to the same amount but in GBP instead of Dollars - such a rip off, although I'm sure that is part of their strategy. I am actually going to do 'option 2' on client request. It will potentially make it possible for users to choose a currency (other than their own) and pay that way if it works out cheaper for them as PayPal will still accept the payment. It shouldn't be totally obvious to non savvy customers. The other option would be to ask the customer for their delivery address first so it would have some logic in there to lock them into their currency. I think for now this might be over engineering a solution to a problem that might not be there while also adding an additional step into the customer journey, causing more harm than good. Will see what happens!

Hi there, What is the best way of handling multiple currencies in an online shop? I am building a simple shop with WordPress and the getshopped plugin with the aim to just support PayPal so all payment is handled on their servers. The client would like multiple currencies to be supported, but I am sure PayPal will accept most currencies anyway, its just what is the normal way to do this? I have a feeling the client wants people to be able to choose their preferred currency and then all items on the website will be displayed in that currency. This I guess will cause issues with the rate being up to date etc. Here are a few options I can think of: 1) Have prices displayed in the default currency of GBP. If someone from outside the UK is shopping, the amount will be converted into the overseas amount i.e. USD at checkout stage - this is what I understand as default PayPal functionality. 2)The getshopped plugin does allow individual currency amounts to be added per item, but depending on the number of currencies that want to be supported this could make adding and editing products quite tedious. The inevitability is that as exchange rates change, all of the prices on the website will become incorrect and will need updating. This could prove an issue. 3) There is potential of automatically working out alternative currencies, but again this might prove tricky to get the most accurate and up to date exchange rate. Can anyone link me up with any example websites which handle multiple currencies in a way described above, or give me any advice? Cheers Rich

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