The File Upload Limit is set by your hosting company not by eShop. So how would you upload a 100Mb file for sale through eShop when your limit is 2Mb?

For this scenario I’ll use example.zip as the test file that is 100Mb.

1. Create another blank file, but with the same name example.zip
2. Upload this blank file via the downloads section of eShop
3. Using your FTP program navigate to YOUR_ROOT_PATH/wp-content/eshop_downloads/
4. Overwrite the blank file with the larger example.zip
5. and that’s it!

After Wordpress 2.7 has been released I will be looking at alternative means for this, but for now the procedure above is the only method by which large files can be used within eShop.

Downloading of large files shouldn’t be a problem, and has been tested by files in excess of 100Mb.

Version 2.8.2 corrects this, along with an update to the Google Base feed which wasn’t working as expected.

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The Problems

1. wp_list_categories will always output a link to the categories themselves. On a page that was supposed to just list news feeds, I felt that could create confusion.
2. It’s difficult to style the RSS links to use icons via CSS — which is useful if you want to create rollover effects.
3. wp_list_categories used with the feed and/or feed_image parameters outputs the two links with only whites pace separating them. That can cause problems for some user agents.
4. Even if you make use of both feed and feed_image to provide a text alternative if images are disabled or not accessible, you can only specify a single string for the feed attribute which means that all of the RSS links have identical text. Not good for accessibility or Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

The Code

I needed a way to simply grab all of the data relating to top level categories and then use it to fashion the links in the manner that I wanted. This is what I came up with:

<ul class="rss-feeds">
<?php
$myitem ='';
$mycats=  get_categories();
foreach($mycats as $mycat) {
	$myitem = '<li><a title="Subscribe to the '.$mycat->name.' news feed" href="'.get_bloginfo('url').'/category/'.$mycat->category_nicename.'/feed/">'.$mycat->name.'</a></li>';
	echo $myitem;
}
?>
</ul>

I then dropped the code into a specific page template (and, no, it shouldn’t be inside The Loop), created a new page called “News Feeds” using this template which resulted in the following:

Styling The List

Now to add some icons via CSS.

I created two 16px x 16px rss icons in different colours to represent the ‘on’ and ‘off’ states and dropped them into the images directory of the theme. I then added the following CSS:

.rss-feeds {
	margin:20px 0 0;
	padding:0;
}
.rss-feeds li {
	list-style:none;
	list-style-image:none;
}
.rss-feeds li a {
	padding-left:25px;
	background:url(images/tiny-rss.png) no-repeat top left;
}
.rss-feeds li a:hover,.rss-feeds li a:active,.rss-feeds li a:focus {
	background:url(images/tiny-rss-on.png) no-repeat top left;
}

The End Result

A nicely formatted list of RSS feed links with CSS rollover effects that work with images off or on.

I have taken the opportunity to re-release the po file to make the plugin translatable again.

I promise there will be no more new releases today for eShop. Honest!

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The plugin will is available via the Wordpress plugin repository.

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I thought that it was about time that I release it, especially after he mentioned it in A WCAG 2.0 Implementation Site. So it is now available for download via the Wordpress plugin repository.

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Quick install instructions

Upload and activate plugin.
Add the following to your theme where you would like the links to be displayed:

<?php efontsize('85');?>>

the default body font size for your theme needs to be added as above, I used 85 as an example only.

Then visit your site once and refresh to fully activate this. A default of 100.1 is applied if this figure is not adjusted.

Eventually the style added to the header will only be body {font-size: xx%} the other bits are in there for development only.

Download

Download eFont Size plugin from Wordpress.

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