Ever since I developed my plugin LDB WP e-Commerce iDeal plugin, which brings support for iDeal transactions to WP e-Commerce, I’ve been getting requests to develop a plugin for WP e-Commerce that supports the Dutch payment gateway Mollie. To do this I need your help
Something every WordPress developer has wished for, sometime during the development of one of their plugins, is plugin dependencies. Dependencies in the sense of other plugins that provide extra or base functionality for the to be installed plugin. This is something every Linux but also Drupal developer has some experience with. Continue reading
An up-to-date WordPress installation is as safe as it can be, plugins however can often pose a security risk because they’re not maintained by hundreds of contributors. A plugin is as secure as the security knowledge of the developer allows it to be. In some cases this creates loopholes for exploits. WP Plugin Security Check checks plugins for bad practices and possible security holes limiting the risk of a compromised WordPress installation to a ‘hate to say I told you so’. Continue reading
If you haven’t heard about VaultPress yet, go check it out! Basically it’s safety and backup-y goodness for your WordPress installation by the good people of Automattic. I’ve started using VaultPress not too long ago ( it’s still in beta at the time of me writing this post ) and I really enjoy watching it’s progressbars indicating that I’m solid in the case my hosting provider goes down or disappears. But I wanted to see this progress in the frontend of my website…
For almost two years now I’ve been using Magento for the development of webshops. But sometimes clients that aren’t that tech-savvy demand a more ‘accessible’ solution. Because I’m also a WordPress developer I decided to take a look if the WordPress community offered a decent e-Commerce solution. Although I’m a bit skeptical about some coding techniques that are used I really like WP e-Commerce for it’s simplicity and ease-of-use. It just lacks one thing, a decent payment gateway for iDeal. Continue reading