1. Edit theme template files
2. Upload a text file containing your quotes via FTP

So, the other day, I decided to update it.

Witty2 uses a shortcode, so you can add a random quotes to your Posts or Pages on a completely ad-hoc basis. The file containing the quotes is now stored in the plugin folder, so it can be editing via Plugins → Editor.

As with the original plugin, it still assumes 1 quote per line but it does allow a sub-set of HTML tags to be used — specifically br, em, strong and cite. The random quote output is generated inside blockquote tags, so you should be able to style it via your theme’s CSS, if necessary.

To add the shortcode to a template file, use <?php echo do_shortcode('[witty2]');?>.

Enjoy!

Many visually-impaired screen reader users run their software in non-verbose mode — which ignores all title attributes. This is precisely because most web pages are overloaded with useless title tags. In screen reader software, a web page full of title attributes equates to way too much unwanted noise. This is especially so when you don’t bother to give your images nice human-readable titles.

Would you want to read a page littered with meaningless text such as “dcs3005-674.png”? Neither do screen reader users.

In this respect, WordPress has gotten it wrong. Title attributes should not be added to inserted images by default. There’s simply no real need for them amongst sighted users and (with luck) many screen reader users won’t even get to hear them.

If you have important info that you need to relay to screen reader users, then use the Alternate Text field to add a meaningful alt attribute to your images. That’s what it is there for. If you need to relay additional image information to your sighted readers (including non-mouse users), use the Caption field.

Installation

Upload the plugin to your blog, activate it and sit back. The plugin will do the rest.

Notes

The plugin is suitable for WordPress 3.2 & above. Tested in WordPress 3.3.

If you have already inserted images into posts, the plugin will not touch them. You’ll have to remove the title attribute manually by editing the image markup in each post within the HTML Editor. The plugin will only remove the title attribute from images that you insert after it has been activated and then only at the point of insertion. This means that it will have absolutely zero impact on the performance of the front end of your site — unlike some similar plugins that parse every single post just prior to display.

Download

eJS Twitter adds a Twitter feed widget to your site. It’s as lightweight as possible with minimal configuration needed to get it up & running.

It’s also compatible with WordPress 3.2 and translation-ready. Support available via the Quirm.net forums.

Enjoy!

Answering and checking off the following question before you start configuring eShop should make the eShop set-up process a little easier for you.

Is Your Merchant Gateway eShop Compatible?

There are a number of merchant gateways that you can use with eShop:

• Authorize.net
• eProcessingNetwork
• iDeal Lite
• PayPal
• Payson
• Ogone
• webtopay

But you may need to make changes to your gateway account to ensure that it is compatible with eShop.
Check your merchant gateway

Do You Have Your Merchant Gateway Details?

You will need all of the necessary details for your chosen merchant gateway – e.g. if you’re using PayPal, you will need the email address that you use on your PayPal account.
Setting up eShop merchant gateways

Where Will You Be Shipping To?

Will you be selling in your own country only (i.e. by State/County/Province)? Or internationally (i.e. by Country)?
Defining your shipping locations

Have You Zoned Your Delivery Locations?

The cost of shipping an item varies according to its destination. eShop allows you to group different delivery locations into “zones” & apply different charges accordingly. You can have up to 9 zones.
Have you divided your shipping locations in 1 or more groups – called “zones”
What are shipping zones?

Have You Broken Your Products Down Into Shipping Classes?

The cost of shipping an item can also vary according to its weight, size, cost or fragility. eShop allows you to define up to 5 shipping classes to accommodate these differences with the 6th reserved for free shipping.
What are shipping classes?

What Are Your Shipping Costs?

You should have worked out all of your shipping charges and have determined how to apply them.
Will you charge for the first item based on delivery zone & shipping class with a reduced cost for additional items (Method 1)?
Will you charge for the each item based on delivery zone & shipping class with no reduction for additional items (Method 2)?
Will you charge a flat rate based on delivery zone only (Method 3)?
Will you charge based on delivery zone & product weight (Method 4)?
Calculating shipping

Will You Be Applying Tax?

If you will be applying tax to products – such as VAT or sales tax – you will need details of what tax to apply and when. You also need to decide if tax will also be applied to shipping charges.
Setting up sales tax

Will Your Products Offer Choices?

eShop includes option sets that allow you to add customer-selectable choices to your products. What options can customers choose from when purchasing one of your products? Different sizes? Different colours? Are some colours more expensive? You can set an additional price & weight for each option within a set.
Using option sets

Do You Have All The Details And Images For A Single Product?

You will need all of the text plus at least 1 image for a sample product. You also need to be able to set it’s price, shipping class, options set(s) and tax rates based on your answers to the questions above. This exercise will help you get a handle on how to set up eShop to suit your needs.

One of the area where this legislation might impact upon WordPress sites is at the point of registration when a cookie is set on the new user’s machine. In order to address the problem, I’ve put together a quick plugin – eCookie Warning – which adds a warning to the WordPress Registration form.

Unfortunately, I’m just about to start my summer vacation, so if you do have any comments on the plugin, please save them until I get back in about 10 days time. In the meantime – enjoy!

Registration

Download eShop Extras

If you are maintaining a translation, why not mention it on the forums, and specifically in this thread: Available Translations for eShop.

• WARNING Back up your database before upgrading
• NEW Sales Tax can now be added. (settable per product option after ‘tax bands’ has been entered).
• NEW Extra Stats.
• NEW Downloads can now have ‘collections’.
• NEW Sale Prices for main options, shortcodes adapted to take price = yes, sale or both.
• FIXED/Added Secondary address box for Paypal, finally allowing non main account email addresses to be used!
• fixed small bug with listing on the downloads page.
• fixed slashes issue with option sets
• fixed eshop_welcome shortcode now picks up loged in users display name if set.
• fixed slashes appearing in emails.(hopefully)
• fixed eshop_details shortcode now functions correctly.
• fixed checkout losing chosen State/County/Province, props VK.
• fixed many small bugs.
• added generic eshop-widget class to eShop widgets
• added filter for the eshop_files_directory
• added check on checkout page, if memebersonly is set as an attribute, then you can use this format to display a message: [eshop_show_checkout membersonly='yes']please show me[/eshop_show_checkout]
• added number of decimals is now translatable.
• added extra CSS hooks to checkout confirmation page.
• added action eshop_sold_product which is sent the post id of the product that was sold.
• added Shipping by weight now allows you to choose between states/counties/province and countries per mode.
• added missing strings for translations
• added classes for styling in various places
• changed Discount Codes are no longer case sensitive
• changed removed _ from filenames and replaced with -, easier for developers.
• Note after upgrading you may need to refresh the page due to the change above.

Note This version has been tested with Paypal, Cash, Bank, Webtopay and Authorize.net merchant gateways, and all seemed to work OK in test mode. The other gateways have not had a full test, but should work without issue.

For testing please download from: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/eshop.zip

Please keep all feedback/bug reports in this thread on the forum.

• WARNING Back up your database before upgrading
• NEW Sales Tax can now be added. (settable per product option after ‘tax bands’ has been entered).
• NEW Extra Stats.
• FIXED/Added Secondary address box for Paypal, finally allowing non main account email addresses to be used!
• fixed small bug with listing on the downloads page.
• fixed slashes issue with option sets
• fixed eshop_welcome shortcode now picks up loged in users display name if set.
• fixed slashes appearing in emails.(hopefully)
• added generic eshop-widget class to eShop widgets
• added filter for the eshop_files_directory
• added check on checkout page, if memebersonly is set as an attribute, then you can use this format to display a message: [eshop_show_checkout membersonly='yes']please show me[/eshop_show_checkout]
• added number of decimals is now translatable.
• added extra CSS hooks to checkout confirmation page.
• added action eshop_sold_product which is sent the post id of the product that was sold.
• added Shipping by weight now allows you to choose between states/counties/province and countries per mode.
• added missing strings for translations
• changed removed _ from filenames and replaced with -, easier for developers.
• changed Discount Codes are no longer case sensitive
• Note after upgrading you may need to refresh the page due to the change above.

and yes, you read it right – Tax is coming to eShop.

I’m not going to say what is in it, in case things go very very wrong, but I have made a start. I had already completed one phase before Christmas, and have 5 more to go. The one I’m currently working on is the biggie, and one that I think a lot of you will like. The others, although minor in comparison, will include some smaller often asked for features, if I can manage to code them that is.

My target date is the end of January. Nearer the time I will put a call out for testers. I will not be able to release this version until I have had feedback from testers, but don’t ask yet, I’ll put a call out nearer the time.

Wishing you all good selling this year ;)