How to close Fancybox from an Iframe:

This is a quick little snippet I am sharing because it helped me out alot and was VERY difficult to find actual documentation on it.  I had been trying to sort the products on a client’s website for some time now and the built in product sorter on WP-Ecommerce was not working at all . The goal was to sort the products in alphabetical order starting from “A” and going down.  For some reason the site had them in reverse alphabetical order and I do not know why. So, here is how to sort your products by using shortcode with WP-Ecommerce:

That’s it! Should work. You may be able to use other “order” functions but I have not tried that out. Hope this helps!

The website features some awesome photos taken by Yasmin Khajavi of YKVision Photography in Portland.  Here are the rest of the plugins being used on the site:

And here are some screenshots from the website:

Here is the original photo this morning:

And here it is after applying a little magic with the iphone’s Camera+ app (just 99 cents).

The website was a collaborative effort and the design was put together by Jessica Geary with Flora Fauna Designs.  The design was then given to us and coded up from scratch using a blank WordPress theme.  The whole site is powered by WordPress and is using a number of plugins listed below:

Plugins used on KHI Commercial site:

• Custom Fields Template – used for custom fields
• FancyBox for WordPress – used for the nice Lightbox effect found on the site
• Fast Secure Contact Form – Easy to use contact form
• Google XML Sitemaps – Easy sitemaps that are search engine friendly
• Login LockDown – For Security purposes, allows us to lock down the login after X number of failed login attempts
• Login Logo – Customize the login page for the client back end access
• My Page Order – A must have for WordPress sites – allows us to order the menu items
• NextGen Gallery – powers our photo gallery
• No Self Pings – so we don’t constantly get notifications about comments, new posts, pingbacks, etc
• Print Friendly and PDF – a nice plugin that generates a printer friendly version of the site
• Subscribe to Comments – lets users subscribe to post comments by email
• Viper’s Video Quicktags – Makes it easier to embed videos from Youtube, Vimeo, etc. into posts
• Widget Logic – Allows us to control which pages widgets appear on

Here are some screenshots from the site:

Here are some screen shots from the website:

The photo gallery uses an API from Google’s Picasa Web Albums to source the images which allows the client to upload new images whenever they want.  It is really a slick plugin if you do not need something very robust and just need the ability to manage a photo album.  Visit http://code.google.com/p/pwi/ to get the code to integrate Picasa Web Albums into your website.

For the lightbox plugin we used the Fancybox plugin which use jquery and allows for iframes, images, videos from Youtube and more.

Check out the whole A-Team Home Inspections website and let us know what you think!

The most recent hack I have run into was rather pointless as all they did was hijack the website and display a different index.php page and change the username in my WordPress database.  Here is a screen shot of what appeared on the website when I went to it:

As you can see all it does is display the text:

OpPs !! Channal One is Here !!
Saudi Arabid HaCkeR
Hacked By EjRam 7rb ~ ReD HaT TeaM
… and then a bunch of other crap here.

To remove the hack simply login to your them and delete the index.php file and replace it with a clean one.  Or, if you have a backup of your whole theme folder just delete it all and replace it.  You will also want to check your login name and on my site they changed it to r00t as the username and who knows what the password was.

After you clean it up change your passwords and tighten up security.  There are a number of WordPress plugins that can help with security including Login Lockdown.

Basically, the moral of the story is to keep a backup of your WordPress files and database all the time. You just never know when your site might be hacked.  Oh, and if you think your site won’t be hacked because you are small time, think again.  The site of mine that was hacked nets less than 20 visitors a week.

My company name is Moore Web Exposure. The company scamming people is called WebExposure. The problem gets worse given the fact that I run my business in Portland, OR and these con artists run theirs in Clackamas, OR.

What they are doing:

From what I have been told,WebXposure tells its victims that they will put their business Google Local listings for a fee of a couple of hundred bucks.  The first problem with this is anyone can get a Google Local account for FREE.  But this alone is not a big deal.  What is a big deal is once the victim gives this company their credit card information, WebXposure keeps billing them without authorization until the victim catches on and cancels the card.

So, how could these victims avoided this altogether?  Simple.  Start asking questions.  Had they done a simple Google search for this business, they would have found the following:

Chances are good that the people who got scammed here will never get their money back.  Best thing they can do is call their credit card company and report it.

The moral of the story is DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!! Ask for testimonials, look for their footprint on the internet, see what others have to say about them.  If it is a legitimate business, they should have a large footprint on the internet.  If you cannot find them on the internet, turn and run as fast as you can!