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How To Sell Products Directly From Your WordPress Blog

Recently, a friend asked me, “Could I run a shop within WordPress?”

I’m sure that she’s not the only person who wondered about this. After looking around, I found one of the best tools to integrate an online shop with your WordPress blog: WP e-Commerce.

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HTNet Now Runs WordPress 2.5

First thing’s first; it works! The next most important thing; it was a very painless process. The steps are pretty easy especially if you’ve upgraded WP before. Essentially the steps are as follows:

  1. Disable all installed plugins
  2. Grab the latest WordPress build; extract the contents; replace the older files on your server (or you can do this painlessly via SSH)
  3. Run the upgrade script (usually at http://yourwebsite/wp-admin/upgrade.php) and wait for a couple of seconds or minutes; depending on the size of your current database
  4. Login to the wp-admin page and reactivate your plugins one by one; make sure you open another tab to preview your blog while doing this, just to see if there are any complications
  5. If everything goes well, it’s time to celebrate!

Please note that there’s a new configuration called SECRET_KEY in WP 2.5’s wp-config.php file. Just set it to some random string as shown below:

define('SECRET_KEY', 'lkjdfhU(H*H8h9uHF8U767f65df56t&^t^&th(jhYT6FYHBUIy*b*u3R'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

The secret key should include upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. After that you need to re-login to the admin panel.

Why I Got Rid Of The ShareThis WordPress Plugin

The ShareThis plugin is probably among the most popular ones for WordPress. It can be seen literally everywhere! I got on the ShareThis bandwagon since version 1.4 was released. Although I love the idea behind ShareThis, there is one particular thing that I dislike about it.

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Live Demo Of Section Specific Text Widgets

I’ve been asked to provide a demo of how my Section Specific Text Widget work. I’m more than happy to oblige :)

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Section Specific Text Widget Released

What if there’s a WordPress widget that can display text on a specific section of your blog? Let’s say you have some bookmarking JavaScript that you only want displayed in posts but not on other WordPress pages.

This was the problem I wanted to solve. I searched for a widget that already does this, but found none. I didn’t think that this would be too hard to code myself and decided to give it a go. A few hours later; Section Specific Text Widget was born.

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