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Save Big With Tokokoo

Len Kutchma — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:42:13 +0000

Looking for a killer deal on WordPress e-commerce themes? Tokokoo, makers of fine premium WordPress e-commerce themes has you covered. They are currently offering two amazing deals with blowout prices.

5 WPEC Themes for $75

Normally these themes go for $75ea but for a limited time you can get all 5 of them for the grand total of $75 - that's a savings of 80%. The themes included in this deal are:

Parquet - ideal for a furniture store
Paloogada - perfect for apparel/fashion
Dangdoot - suited for a music store
Bangkoo - another theme geared toward a furniture store
Tokobuku - great for a book store

Of course the suggested uses are just that - suggestions. These themes can be used for any type of online store. Below is a screenshot of the Parquet WPEC Theme.

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5 WooCommerce Themes for $75

Just like the WPEC themes, these normally retail for $75ea but again you can grab 5 of them in the bundle for just $75 total. Once again a savings of 80%! The themes included in this deal are:

TokoBajoo - for apparel/fashion
Roxx - apparel/fashion
DapurKue - for your culinary store
TeeShirt - again apparel/fashion
Arpegio - a good fit for your music store

As with the first bundle you can use these themes for any type of online store. Below is a screenshot of the TokoBajoo WooCommerce Theme.

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If you've been considering opening an online store using WordPress now is the perfect time to get started with these great deals. Get all of the details here.

You can follow Tokokoo on Twitter @tokokoo.

Protect Your Site With Code Garage

Len Kutchma — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:39:56 +0000

We all know that one of the most important aspects of website security is backups. Many people will install a plethora of security related plugins yet somehow overlook the task of creating a backup.

Perhaps they aren't sure how, think it is too complicated or simply feel it is not necessary. Whatever the reason, having a reliable backup of your website is vital and it's really not difficult either.

If you would rather not go through the mundane process of doing it yourself you may want to consider outsourcing it to someone like Code Garage.

Code Garage is a service that provides daily backup and security monitoring of your WordPress sites. Starting at $10/mo for 2 sites, you'll get a daily backup of your entire site with a 30 day backup history plus security and uptime monitoring. They offer several plans:

$10/mo for 2 sites
$25/mo for 5 sites
$50/mo for 10 sites
$100/mo for 25 sites
$150/mo for 50 sites

All plans come with:

7 Day Free Trial
Daily Backups
30 Day Backup History
Hack Scanning
Uptime Monitoring

There are no long term contracts as they employ a pay-as-you-go model meaning each month you pay for the coming month and can cancel at any time. If you do cancel you still have access for the remainder of the billing month.

WordPress Themes Giveaway

Len Kutchma — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:06:51 +0000

WPWebHost in conjunction with Flarethemes kicked off a new contest in which a premium WordPress theme will be awarded to 15 lucky winners. If you want to get in on the action you'll have to hurry as the contest ends on 20th April 2012.

Details on how to enter can be found here.

WordPress Community Loses One of its Own

Len Kutchma — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:24:05 +0000

While going through my feed reader last week I came across some very sad news. Michael Preuß, one of the partners involved in the popular WordPress community site WPEngineer has passed away.

Sadness has descended on WPEngineer last week. Michael Preuß, one of our WPEngineer Team, died suddenly after a short illness and after a memorable life.

Michael along with Alexander Frison and Frank Bültge launched WPEngineer back in August of 2008. He was also the man behind the Xtreme One WordPress Framework.

Alex and Frank have decided to carry on Michael's work along with his friend Heiko Rabe.

He leaves behind his wife Carola and his two sons Robert and Alexander as well as many friends and fans.

On behalf of WPCanada I'd like to offer my sincere condolences.

Michael Preuss

Digging into WordPress v3.3 is Here

Len Kutchma — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:42:29 +0000

Jeff Starr announced on his blog that the printed version of Digging into WordPress v3.3 is now available. The book spans more than 400 pages divided into 12 chapters.

Our Child Themes Are Now Internationalized

Len Kutchma — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:28:33 +0000

WPCanada is pleased to announce that our child themes for the Genesis Framework have been internationalized. So, what does that mean? The process of internationalization, not to be confused with localization, is where a software creator makes changes to said software allowing it to be adapted or translated. In other words it's not permanently tied to a specific language such as English. On the other hand, localization is the process of adding certain resources to the software thereby allowing it to support certain languages. Localization is normally carried out by translators, which I am not.

This is something I've been wanting to do for some time since reading a great post by David Decker called The 7 Cardinal Sins of Localizing WordPress Plugins and Themes. The only thing that held me back was I had no idea how to proceed since I have never attempted it before. So I did a little research and engaged in a little trial and error and voila!

The process was actually easier than I anticipated. However, since this was my first kick at the cat so to speak hopefully I didn't break anything. If I did, I'm sure one of you will let me know.

You can find links to the individual child themes, including demos and downloads, by heading over to the Our Themes page.

Updates to All of Our Child Themes

Len Kutchma — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:33:16 +0000

We have pushed out updates to all of our child themes. The updates are a combination of bug fixes, feature enhancements and general tidying up of miscellaneous code in keeping up with Genesis standards. The changes are as follows:

BLOGNEWS CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.
Fixed a bug that affected the display of comments when using the dark colour scheme.
Misc tidying up in home_loop.php and functions.php

GOGREEN CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.
Added support for Post Formats.
Fixed a typo in the stylesheet.
Misc tidying up in home_loop.php and functions.php

HUMPHREY CHILD THEME

Added support for Post Formats.
Misc tidying up in home_loop.php and functions.php

MANIFEST CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.
Added support for Post Formats.
Misc tidying up in home_loop.php and functions.php

NEWSBEAT CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.
Added support for Post Formats.

SIMPLE CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.

WINFIELD CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.
Added support for Post Formats.

WINFIELD DARK CHILD THEME

Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.
Added support for Post Formats.

You can find links to the individual child themes, including demos and downloads, by heading over to the Our Themes page.

Humphrey Theme Updated v1.1

Len Kutchma — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:26 +0000

The Humphrey child theme for the Genesis Framework has been updated to version 1.1. This is a maintenance release.

Version 1.0 contained a special file to include the Genesis Box on single post pages. The problem is the function was never called in the theme's functions.php file. This has now been corrected. The applicable styling for the Genesis Box has also been added to the theme's style.css file.

Please note the Genesis Box is disabled by default. Instructions on how to enable it are included in the README.

A History of Default WordPress Themes

Len Kutchma — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:06:46 +0000

Ever wonder what the first default WordPress theme looked like? WPLift takes a look at the various default themes used by WordPress through the years.

Updates to Winfield and Winfield Dark

Len Kutchma — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:19:57 +0000

Both the Winfield and Winfield Dark Genesis child themes have been updated. Both themes feature a custom widgetized home page that defaults to a standard blog format if no widgets are active. The problem was I included a function in the functions.php file of both themes that forced a full width layout on the home page. This was fine as long as the custom home page had active widgets. If no widgets were being used both themes reverted to a standard blog format, as they should, but the full width layout was still being forced.

I corrected this by removing the function from the functions.php file of both themes. I then re-wrote the home.php files of both themes and included the function as a conditional. In other words, the full width layout is in effect if widgets are active on the custom home page. If no widgets are active both themes revert to a standard blog format AND the default layout (whatever that may be) is in effect.