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Private Only 1.8

Private Only 1.8 is a WordPress plugin to redirects all non-logged in users to login form.

It has all features in Private Only 1.6,

1. Redirect all non-logged in users to login form
2. Custom Login. You can change background page, login form, disable wordpress logo, button Log In text color.

I had received few feedbacks about Private Only 1.6 before two new features added to the  Private Only 1.8 plugin.

Private Only 1.6 was hiding the WordPress logo when you didn’t select the WordPress logo option. The built-in block feed in Private Only 1.6 was  automatically blocking feed when you activated the plugin.

These two new features are

Private Only 1.6

I had updated the Private Only plugin early January when the plugin uploaded to WordPress plugin repository .

What is Private Only plugin?
Private Only redirects all users whom aren’t logged in to the login form where they are shown a user-friendly message It also block Feeds”

The plugin compatible up to WordPress 2.9.1 with new features have added to version 1.6.  Blocked RSS Feed (which was leaked on early version, i fixed that) and Custom Login, you can change background page, login form, disable wordpress logo, button Log In text color.

Download on wordpress.org plugin directory

Crafty Cart 2.0 Beta 1 : The Process

Instinct asked me to update a famous WordPress theme, Crafty Cart.  They needed Crafty Cart to be compatible with the latest version of  WordPress and WP E-Commerce, added  new DropShop look and fixed other bugs on the theme.

It was a fun project and I learned so much about WP E-Commerce, in case you don’t know, WP E-Commerce made by Instinct. I’ve been using WP E-Commerce for clients. . I recommend you to use WP E-Commerce plugin for e-commerce with WordPress.

When I started the project, Crafty Cart was already looking great. It looked like a quick and easy project.

I installed the theme on Fresh WordPress 2.8.2 installation with WP E-commerce 2.7.2. I had found a few bugs on WP E-Commerce that day  before reported it back to Dan Milward. I was taking note of features need to be updated while ran through all features in Crafy Cart.

I ran theme on three browsers, Safari 3, Firefox 3 and IE7. I wanted to make sure the theme was working on 3 premium browsers. I found a bug on  headers, it was showing odd alphabets on Safari. Other bugs mostly minors.

New Drop Shop look was a challenge. I tried to change Drop Shop position from default (horizontal on footer) to vertical position on right side. Why did I do that? It was because the default position blocked footer.  At the end of project, we liked the default position . I also changed backgrounds for light and dark Drop Shop, created two new stylesheet for them. These new styles are now with Craft Cart final produc.

I made a neat effect where there was a link under Shopping Cart to show and hide drop shop allow people to see footer. This feature isn’t available for final product (feel free to contact me for Crafty Cart mods).

Drop shop is a shopping cart with neat effect on WP E-Commerce. It makes possible for your shoppers to drag and drop  goods/products onto it. When I was delivering the Crafty Cart, it had 3 choices of Drop Shop positions, default, vertical (under sidebar), on fly. Only one make it to final product, that’s default

My another task was to update Product Slider to be compatible with Crafty Craft. Drop Shop and Product Slider are add-on modules for WP E-Commerce. You can buy it at Instinct Gold Cart Shop

We did update Crafty Cart comments to be compatible with WordPress 2.8 or above. Old Crafty Cart used Prior WordPress 2.8 comments functions

See screenshots below. Don’t forget to download Crafty Cart 2.0 Beta 1.