Category Archives: Coding

Coding and code related posts. Thoughts on Wordpress, Magento and coding in general.

A theory on approaching difficult tasks

Whichever industry you work in, whether you work for your­self or a com­pany and whatever your job descrip­tion, there are days where things just aren’t going your way. No mat­ter how long you sit at your desk, tap­ping your pen­cil, the solu­tion to the prob­lem at hand just isn’t appar­ent. As a developer, the prob­lem and solution […]

Custom URL rewrites in WordPress — A Getting Started Guide

Hey every­one. I’ve been tweet­ing quite a bit recently about cus­tom URL rewrites in WordPress. After a few hours of trial and error, I’ve man­aged to get my spe­cific cus­tom URL rewrites work­ing. After read­ing through sev­eral tutori­als online (the major­ity of which used the same examples to explain only a por­tion the inform­a­tion I was look­ing for), here’s […]

Theming for Magento — Part 03 — Theming Basics

Right. We’re in part 03 of our “Theming for Magento” tutorial col­lec­tion. Time to get down to some them­ing. A quick word on con­ven­tions Magento, like many other con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems, likes to fol­low con­ven­tions. Adopting these con­ven­tions when design­ing your theme, as well as dur­ing the them­ing pro­cess, can greatly min­im­ize the amount of […]

Theming for Magento — Part 02 — Theme Architecture

OK folks, we’re not going to rush things. Lets take this them­ing for Magento one step at a time. In today’s tutorial, I’ll be dis­cuss­ing the archi­tec­ture of Magento themes, the reason for this archi­tec­ture and a brief intro­duc­tion into a gen­eral idea of what goes where and why. The install­a­tion… lets get it out of the way The Magento […]

Theming for Magento — Part 01

Magento, the pop­u­lar e-​​​​commerce web­site plat­form, has, over the past few years, become a prom­in­ant player in the con­tent man­age­ment mar­ket. Utilising its robust array of fea­tures as well as its stock and sales man­age­ment fas­cil­it­ies, Magento is a great choice for a sys­tem to man­age your online store. When set­ting up your Magento store, the sys­tem comes […]

Obox launches the Obox Theme Store

Well, guys, launch day is here. The Obox Theme Store is online! After weeks of watch­ing Dave, Marc and Nat at Obox work­ing late nights and early morn­ings, week­ends, pub­lic hol­i­days and all other kinds of days ima­gin­able, the launch has happened, the first sale has come and gone and I must say, it’s look­ing AWESOME! […]

A few guidelines for WordPress plugin development

The WordPress plu­gin API is vast and power­ful. It allows developers to essen­tially hook code into almost any area of the WordPress sys­tem without modi­fy­ing the core files at all. It also allows for the cre­ation of stan­dalone plu­gins that work within the WordPress sys­tem but do not hook into the core mod­ules. Over the […]

Coding with the other side of your brain

This might seem like a weird topic for a blog post. Let me elab­or­ate. If you’ve ever coded for a sys­tem that is build in a con­ven­tion you’re not used to (for example, cod­ing using a MVC frame­work, if you’re not used to it), this concept will begin to make sense. It refers to the almost com­plete paradigm shift required […]