Category Archives: WordPress

Cart66 Action Hook – cart66_after_order_saved

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We’ve recently been working on a horoscopes website for one of our clients that has some content that is for members only. The Cart66 WordPress eCommerce has been great for handling the PayPal subscriptions but I had to add some custom functionality so that new members on certain levels would be automatically signed up to a mailing list which is handled by Constant Contact.

Cart66 actually has Constant Contact integration which adds an “opt-in” style mailing list signup that is added to the checkout which would normally work fine for most eCommerce sites however I we needed to make the signup compulsory for the user and to do it seamlessly without the user knowing that this has occurred so they receive the daily emails that they have purchased.

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Mathew Hood Joins The Sennza Team

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Hey everyone,

My name is Mat and I am proud to be the newest addition to the Sennza team.

I will start with a little bit about me. I am 22 years old and have a passion for Web Development. When I’m not behind the monitor, you will find me riding my bike or at the beach.

Like Bronson and Lachlan, I too have fallen in love with WordPress. After starting on other CMS (Joomla, Drupal), I found WordPress and have never looked back since!

If you want to keep in touch with what I am doing, feel free to follow me on twitter @MathewHood.

I look forward to interacting with you all and hope you get some benefit from what I have to offer.

-Mat

WordPress Is Taking Over The Internet

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I love going to the monthly Brisbane Web Design Meetups that are held at The Edge and I occasionally put my hand up to speak so that I can share information about projects I’ve been working on and to hopefully inspire and educate the attendees.

The theme for Novembers Meetup was ‘What I Learn in 2011′ so I volunteered to do a 5 minute lightning talk titled ‘WordPress Is Taking Over The Internet’. I hope you enjoy it!

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TimThumb shoots, VaultPress saves!

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Any of you who follow WordPress news sites or any WordPress geeks on Twitter will be well aware of the vulnerabilities that were found in the PHP image resizing script, TimThumb. TimThumb is being used in many free and premium WordPress themes so this vulnerability caused a bit of a stir around the place. I actually used the script on the current sennza WordPress theme because this theme was whipped up over 18 months ago very quickly and back then I hadn’t used WordPress inbuilt add_image_size which I’m using almost every day on clients sites these days.

Our blog uses VaultPress for backups and security and VaultPress were onto the vulnerability post haste. I’m often singing VaultPress’s praises on Twitter but I wanted to post on the record about just how amazing the VaultPress plugin and team are when it comes to backups and security! Read on to find out about yet another amazing VaultPress experience of mine!

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Utilizing your WordPress Blog and Social Media for Backlinks

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There is a great discussion lead every time a company with no blog asks why they can’t get links. Another question, usually before that, is why do we need a blog at all, our product pages show everything there is to know about us and our services? And lastly, why on earth do we need to spend hours on social media chatting with people; we don’t call people on the phone just to chat with them and make them feel better do we? Well, no matter how many times these questions are asked, they are good questions that deserve a good answer.

Utilising your WordPress Blog and Social Media for Backlinks

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Why WordPress updates are a GOOD thing!

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Every now and then we need to have a bit of a rant right? I know that it’s been proven to be healthy to release any negative energy in any format.

You could write a song, scream at the top of your lungs or blog about it…so I’m choosing the later! So it’s rant time in regards to WordPress updates and why they are a good thing! Because other CMS seem to think frequent updates are a bad thing…plus this rant will make me a healthier person cause I’ll release the negative energy and hopefully get my point across! :)

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Sennza – 1 Year In

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It’s hard to believe that Sennza as a business is only 12 months old. Whats even more exciting for me are the things that we have been able to accomplish in that small amount of time.

12 months ago I was writing about the reasons why we started Sennza, and all of those things still hold true.

I am a big advocate of celebrating the wins along the way, both the small and the big wins, so below is a list of what we have accomplished at Sennza in the last 12 months:

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WordPress Predictions January 2011

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We’re pretty close to the impending release of WordPress 3.1 and I do feel sorry for the stress that Matt, Jane and the whole WordPress team have been through for this release cycle! If you’ve been reading the emails on the WordPress Hackers mailing list and looking through the comments on Trac you would’ve know that there have been loads of people who have been hassling the team for new features and bug fixes but not enough people have been helping to contribute. (FYI: Check out this great post on contributing to WordPress on wpcandy.com). Lucky, Andrew Nacin has been a bit of a freak for this release and he’s worked incredibly hard on this release!

Anyways, putting that aside, I’m gonna put my nuts on the line with a few predictions for WordPress related things in January!

WordPress Predictions For January 2011

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