How to fix some Wordpress e-commerce plugin annoyances
Here are some small fixes I found during Wordpress site development using the WP e-commerce plugin. Although the plugin is a quick (and free!) way to quickly put up a small e-commerce section on a website, it still requires a handful of improvement to make setup more simple to use.
Removing decimals to prices
This should be an option in the control panel, but unfortunately isn't. Not every currency has decimals (eg. Japanese yen), so the extra ".00" needs to be dropped. This can be done by first setting the plugin not to display decimals in the control panel.…
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One of my ExpressionEngine 2 installations wouldn't accept multibyte characters (Japanese, to be exact) in the Discussion Forum module. Those characters would be displayed as question marks in thread posts. I thought that the default EE2 install created tables in Unicode (UTF-8) automatically, and that I shouldn't have any problems with multibyte characters. After a closer look at my database, I realised that the exp_forum tables were in latin_1! I had two options to fix the problem:
- Turn on the "Convert to high ASCII" option in ExpressionEngine's control panel (under Admin / Channel Administration / Global preferences). Multibyte characters…
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