michaelbain

michaelbain has developed and deployed a plugin for WordPress.

This plugin makes a function available to WordPress to that can be used in your WordPress themes.

Who would use this plugin?
Theme designers that would like to include post images (where they aren’t normally displayed by WordPress) in their themes for example:
1. A thumbnail list of the last 10 posts.
2. An index page with the image of each last post per category.
3. An archive page per category with the image of the posts in that category.

Read the below / the full article for information on what the plugin does and how to use it in your theme.

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michaelbain has developed a payment module for the popular WordPress e-commerce plugin, WP e-Commerce.

The payment module allows website owners that have a WordPress installation running the WP e-Commerce plugin for their online store to take secure online credit card payments in real time, processed by Virtual Card Services (VCS)

For sales enquiries, please contact michaelbain

See below / full article for features and screen shots.

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michaelbain has completed yet another e-commerce project. This time for the Neigh-Bours website.

The Neigh-Bours shop features a categorised browsable electronic shop to registered members, with a shopping cart and checkout with EFT payments.

Visit the Neigh-Bours shop to get your Neigh-Bours branded items.

michaelbain, in conjunction with pixelmagic has completed a development project for www.vet2petnet.co.za

The project involved an e107 content management system install and configuration as well as a significant custom portion for the online shop.

Vet2PetNet is a full portal with forums, private messaging, blogs and much more.

The online shop incorporates  categorised browsing, a shopping cart and checkout that accepts secure credit card transactions.

michaelbain has successfully completed a small project for www.threeringcircus.co.za

The existing MySQL database and e107 installation (a PHP based content management system) was moved to a new hosting provider. The e107 installation was also upgraded to the latest version and the resultant issues caused by the upgrade fixed before the domain was moved over to point to the site at its new location.

In the words of 3RC: “If you’re ready to think out the box for the youth market, start by talking to us!”

Visit www.threeringcircus.co.za to learn more about what they do.

michaelbain successfully completed a back-end orientated and technically focused project  for www.improvateit.com

The DRNS system, delivered to improvateIT, is a set of scheduled PHP scripts that manage domain name renewal’s for the billing department.

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After the success of www.bidahorse247.co.za, michaelbain was commissioned to develop and deploy an auction site solution for www.tackbox.co.za.

michaelbain delivered:

• the request to put an item on auction form which caters for file upload, validation and emailing of the request details, with attachment to the site administrator (or the brood mare as she is called on tackbox).
• the full-featured auction site for the venture. (michaelbain installed the auction solution, customised the auction solution, assisted with editing the content on the site and assisted with the theming of the auction solution. michaelbain coded custom functionality for the auction solution in PHP and using a MySQL database.)
• all the static pages for the site and the linking of it into an integrated solution.
• setting up and configuring the hosting environment and moving the site to it’s live location.

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