Comments on: Converting WordPress Templates to work with BANS http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm Learn How to Build and Market Niche Websites Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Hansen http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-18666 Mark Hansen Sat, 01 May 2010 12:46:13 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-18666 Could be a lot of reasons... if you want to send the url to the contact form, I can help better.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18666','Mark Hansen'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18666','Mark Hansen','Could be a lot of reasons... if you want to send the url to the contact form, I can help better.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Could be a lot of reasons… if you want to send the url to the contact form, I can help better.
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]]> By: mfalk75 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-18662 mfalk75 Sat, 01 May 2010 03:28:18 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-18662 wow, that was really helpful..thanks! I converted a template successfully and all seems good. One problem, why does the sidebar footer, etc load so slow. On the rest of my blog its real fast like its being stored and remembered to load fast. On the BANS side it takes like 10 seconds every time a page is loaded. Any thoughts?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('18662','mfalk75'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('18662','mfalk75','wow, that was really helpful..thanks! I converted a template successfully and all seems good. One problem, why does the sidebar footer, etc load so slow. On the rest of my blog its real fast like its being stored and remembered to load fast. On the BANS side it takes like 10 seconds every time a page is loaded. Any thoughts?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> wow, that was really helpful..thanks! I converted a template successfully and all seems good. One problem, why does the sidebar footer, etc load so slow. On the rest of my blog its real fast like its being stored and remembered to load fast. On the BANS side it takes like 10 seconds every time a page is loaded. Any thoughts?
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]]> By: Tony http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-15670 Tony Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:33:23 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-15670 Hi Mar, I am in the process of integrating a WordPress front end with the BANS store and I have a couple of questions. 1. Your 'How To' series seems to run out at No. 9. Did you complete the rest or is there another area you need to go to? 2. In one of your tutorials you refer to the WP_Premium free template. This is an extremely cool looking template, but the link on you page no longer works (well it actually works but the template can no longer be downloaded). Do you have a copy of the template which you can e-mail out or can you recommend a free template with very similar look and functionality? Thanks for a great series of tutorials. You certainly set things out well for us .PHP challenged people. Tony Long<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('15670','Tony'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('15670','Tony','Hi Mar,\r\n\r\nI am in the process of integrating a WordPress front end with the BANS store and I have a couple of questions.\r\n\r\n1. Your \'How To\' series seems to run out at No. 9. Did you complete the rest or is there another area you need to go to?\r\n2. In one of your tutorials you refer to the WP_Premium free template. This is an extremely cool looking template, but the link on you page no longer works (well it actually works but the template can no longer be downloaded). Do you have a copy of the template which you can e-mail out or can you recommend a free template with very similar look and functionality?\r\n\r\nThanks for a great series of tutorials. You certainly set things out well for us .PHP challenged people.\r\n\r\nTony Long'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hi Mar,

I am in the process of integrating a WordPress front end with the BANS store and I have a couple of questions.

1. Your ‘How To’ series seems to run out at No. 9. Did you complete the rest or is there another area you need to go to?
2. In one of your tutorials you refer to the WP_Premium free template. This is an extremely cool looking template, but the link on you page no longer works (well it actually works but the template can no longer be downloaded). Do you have a copy of the template which you can e-mail out or can you recommend a free template with very similar look and functionality?

Thanks for a great series of tutorials. You certainly set things out well for us .PHP challenged people.

Tony Long

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13940 Mark Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:48:38 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13940 @ Bill - IF BANS is your /shop/ directory, you need to create a new category named /widgets/, then make /widgets/ the parent category of the fuzzybluewidgets store page. IF you DONT want the /widgets/ category to appear in your main menu, just make the page inactive. It will still work fine, just wont show in the menu. If all of this is NOT part of BANS, you need to have a category somewhere in the mix to represent the forward slash /, otherwise the mod-rewrite does not know what is going on. If you want to shoot me the url and admin via email, I would glad to test out a few things. Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13940','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13940','Mark','@ Bill -\r\n\r\nIF BANS is your \/shop\/ directory, you need to create a new category named \/widgets\/, then make \/widgets\/ the parent category of the fuzzybluewidgets store page.\r\n\r\nIF you DONT want the \/widgets\/ category to appear in your main menu, just make the page inactive. It will still work fine, just wont show in the menu.\r\n\r\nIf all of this is NOT part of BANS, you need to have a category somewhere in the mix to represent the forward slash \/, otherwise the mod-rewrite does not know what is going on.\r\n\r\nIf you want to shoot me the url and admin via email, I would glad to test out a few things.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Bill -

IF BANS is your /shop/ directory, you need to create a new category named /widgets/, then make /widgets/ the parent category of the fuzzybluewidgets store page.

IF you DONT want the /widgets/ category to appear in your main menu, just make the page inactive. It will still work fine, just wont show in the menu.

If all of this is NOT part of BANS, you need to have a category somewhere in the mix to represent the forward slash /, otherwise the mod-rewrite does not know what is going on.

If you want to shoot me the url and admin via email, I would glad to test out a few things.

Mark

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]]> By: Bill http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13927 Bill Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:12:34 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13927 Mark...let's say your permalink is: http://www.mysite.com/shop/fuzzybluewidgets and you WANT the permalink to be: http://www.mysite.com/shop/widgets/fuzzybluewidgets how do you do it? I have tried to edit the permalink but it appends it to: http://www.mysite.com/shop/widgetsfuzzybluewidgets Loses the slash...which doesn't allow me to do what I wanted to do. Any thoughts?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13927','Bill'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13927','Bill','Mark...let\'s say your permalink is:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mysite.com\/shop\/fuzzybluewidgets\r\n\r\nand you WANT the permalink to be:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mysite.com\/shop\/widgets\/fuzzybluewidgets\r\n\r\nhow do you do it?\r\n\r\nI have tried to edit the permalink but it appends it to:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mysite.com\/shop\/widgetsfuzzybluewidgets\r\n\r\nLoses the slash...which doesn\'t allow me to do what I wanted to do.\r\n\r\nAny thoughts?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Mark…let’s say your permalink is:

http://www.mysite.com/shop/fuzzybluewidgets

and you WANT the permalink to be:

http://www.mysite.com/shop/widgets/fuzzybluewidgets

how do you do it?

I have tried to edit the permalink but it appends it to:

http://www.mysite.com/shop/widgetsfuzzybluewidgets

Loses the slash…which doesn’t allow me to do what I wanted to do.

Any thoughts?

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13926 Mark Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:03:35 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13926 @ Mike - The admin looks a little different due to versions and just different color schemes probably. When creating your store link, you can just "Add a Page" in wordpress. FIRST, you have to change your permalink settings to a static, friendly url. (Watch todays posts at: http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/installation-and-base-wordpress-configuration.htm) After you have static url's, you can add a shop or store page, then simply edit the permalink right in the page editor admin. I will cover this tomorrow as well. Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13926','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13926','Mark','@ Mike -\r\n\r\nThe admin looks a little different due to versions and just different color schemes probably.\r\n\r\nWhen creating your store link, you can just \"Add a Page\" in wordpress. FIRST, you have to change your permalink settings to a static, friendly url. (Watch todays posts at: http:\/\/www.thenichestorebuilder.com\/installation-and-base-wordpress-configuration.htm)\r\n\r\nAfter you have static url\'s, you can add a shop or store page, then simply edit the permalink right in the page editor admin.\r\n\r\nI will cover this tomorrow as well.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Mike -

The admin looks a little different due to versions and just different color schemes probably.

When creating your store link, you can just “Add a Page” in wordpress. FIRST, you have to change your permalink settings to a static, friendly url. (Watch todays posts at: http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/installation-and-base-wordpress-configuration.htm)

After you have static url’s, you can add a shop or store page, then simply edit the permalink right in the page editor admin.

I will cover this tomorrow as well.

Mark

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]]> By: Mike http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13925 Mike Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:49:17 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13925 I am still not quite sure as to why the wordpress admin screen for create/manage pages on this video is different then mine. However, If someone is having a similar problem. I searched the internet today and found a solution...thoughbeit different from the one used in this series. I had to sort through a large number of links that were not very useful, but then I finally came upon this link: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/ It is a wordpress plugin that allows you add an external link, and is very similar to the one used. Also, there are other ways to add external links, but this was the easiest<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13925','Mike'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13925','Mike','I am still not quite sure as to why the wordpress admin screen for create\/manage pages on this video is different then mine. However, If someone is having a similar problem. I searched the internet today and found a solution...thoughbeit different from the one used in this series. \r\n\r\nI had to sort through a large number of links that were not very useful, but then I finally came upon this link: http:\/\/txfx.net\/code\/wordpress\/page-links-to\/\r\n\r\nIt is a wordpress plugin that allows you add an external link, and is very similar to the one used. Also, there are other ways to add external links, but this was the easiest'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I am still not quite sure as to why the wordpress admin screen for create/manage pages on this video is different then mine. However, If someone is having a similar problem. I searched the internet today and found a solution…thoughbeit different from the one used in this series.

I had to sort through a large number of links that were not very useful, but then I finally came upon this link: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/

It is a wordpress plugin that allows you add an external link, and is very similar to the one used. Also, there are other ways to add external links, but this was the easiest

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]]> By: Mike http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13905 Mike Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:53:48 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13905 I am not sure when the series will be completed, or where to ask this question, but hopefully someone can help me. I got up to the point where I go to the WP admin and create a new page and label it shop. However, I didn't see anything in the video about how to create the permalink that directs people to the shop. And I did not have an option for choosing the theme. I am definately on page, not post or links. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13905','Mike'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13905','Mike','I am not sure when the series will be completed, or where to ask this question, but hopefully someone can help me. \r\n\r\nI got up to the point where I go to the WP admin and create a new page and label it shop. However, I didn\'t see anything in the video about how to create the permalink that directs people to the shop. And I did not have an option for choosing the theme. I am definately on page, not post or links. \r\n\r\nCan someone tell me what I am doing wrong.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I am not sure when the series will be completed, or where to ask this question, but hopefully someone can help me.

I got up to the point where I go to the WP admin and create a new page and label it shop. However, I didn’t see anything in the video about how to create the permalink that directs people to the shop. And I did not have an option for choosing the theme. I am definately on page, not post or links.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13828 Mark Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:42:40 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13828 Greetings Mark, This is a great series and I have enjoyed reading it. The 22 minute video tutorial you created is also very helpful. I find myself wondering if you will be writing topics 9-12. I'm very anxious for the CSS topic since I converted a template but it has CSS issues and I do not know how to fix them. Doh! ;-) Thanks again for a great series and giving your time to help others succeed. Wishing you all success, Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13828','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13828','Mark','Greetings Mark,\r\n\r\nThis is a great series and I have enjoyed reading it. The 22 minute video tutorial you created is also very helpful.\r\n\r\nI find myself wondering if you will be writing topics 9-12. I\'m very anxious for the CSS topic since I converted a template but it has CSS issues and I do not know how to fix them. Doh! ;-)\r\n\r\nThanks again for a great series and giving your time to help others succeed.\r\n\r\nWishing you all success,\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Greetings Mark,

This is a great series and I have enjoyed reading it. The 22 minute video tutorial you created is also very helpful.

I find myself wondering if you will be writing topics 9-12. I’m very anxious for the CSS topic since I converted a template but it has CSS issues and I do not know how to fix them. Doh! ;-)

Thanks again for a great series and giving your time to help others succeed.

Wishing you all success,

Mark

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]]> By: John Pash http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13210 John Pash Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:34:49 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/converting-wordpress-templates-to-work-with-bans.htm#comment-13210 Thanks so much for this! I can't afford $300 for some of the BANS/WP templates out there. And they're not even that nice looking. With this, I can choose my own template and go from there.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13210','John Pash'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13210','John Pash','Thanks so much for this! I can\'t afford $300 for some of the BANS\/WP templates out there. And they\'re not even that nice looking. With this, I can choose my own template and go from there.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks so much for this! I can’t afford $300 for some of the BANS/WP templates out there. And they’re not even that nice looking. With this, I can choose my own template and go from there.
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