Worpress And Faa Integration

If you use Lightroom then this company offer plugins for building your own web site including WP theme
http://theturninggate.net/

I have a test site built around these plugins here http://paulgulliver.co.uk/
Note this site is for my experimentation only and may contain broken links

I am using the twenty-ten theme on a WP site hosted by bluehost.com.

Dave Gordon
http://dgportfolio.net

Dave, your link isn´t working.

I use Creativo. It's very robust and I've been very happy with it.

http://rockythemes.com/creativo/

Harry,

http://davidbridburg.com/

You need WP .org, not WP .com be careful. You need WP .org to use GA demographics.

My site is a very different way of doing business. It is simpler. I have tweaked it several times.
I like where it is now. It is totally functional. No menus. I took a theme that sort of worked and made
it into what I wanted. On small devices the slider is so so. On larger monitors this is a very good site.

The focus is on the art. Not my bio, not my passions, not my about, not my explanations.....

Addition: remember this site links directly into my AW, so there is an about, a bio etc. I have minimized
those though as well.

Dave

Try it now Colin.

http://dgportfolio.net

Dave

Loretta, could you provide a link to your site so we can take a look?

David Gordon, your link doesn't work for me.

I use Wix - http://www.edwardfielding.com

My site is built to sell and not have any confusion about it.

Hi Harry,

While FAA provides some widgets and such, I opted to go with a subdomain for my Artist Website and keep my Top Level Domain as my self-hosted site.

This has proven to be a good choice.

http://fluffyshotme.com

My Artist Website is at http://gallery.fluffyshotme.com

@Suzanne Powers - as far as I can tell, my site is working fine. What is your IP address?

Dave Gordon
http://dgportfolio.net

Dave, I get a "403 forbidden" error on your page

Dave, here's what I'm getting on all browsers when I try and access your site:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

There are a few reasons for this, all pretty simple fixes. Google 403 Forbidden error and start working through the possibilities.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

@Dave - Your site loads for me just fine.

@Dave Morefield - thanks

I am checking my security plug-ins and htaccess files now. There were some blocks of IP addresses I had blocked awhile back because of suspected hacking behavior but the addresses may have changed since then. When I first got onto a WP site, I had tons of hacking attempts.


@Paul and Dan: Try it now…

Thanks!

Dave Gordon
http://dgportfolio.net

Now it works!


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

http://www.patentswallart.com - WP & WooCommerce Site running on a dedicated server.

There are many premium/free themes out there to plug the FAA shopping cart widget into.

I use Wordpress.org. My themes change yearly, because I like to change things around. Every theme I did use, I liked. Currently using Tempera, really like this theme. I think I may stick with it for awhile. :) Currently in a remodeling stage with my site though.

http://crystalwightman.com/

I made the artist website into a sub domain http://prints.crystalwightman.com/ (something I've been wanting to do for a long time) and just link that off my main site.

@Dave, yeah working for me now :)

I've done some research, and WooCommerce for WP appears to be a great plugin - especially since it has a plugin for Skrill/Moneybookers, which I use as my credit card processor already.

What I envision is to have a button under each photo, one for "limited edition prints" taking to WooCommerce (WC? :P ) cart, one for "open edition prints" using FAA cart. Of course the customer wouldn't be able to mix open and limited edition prints, but I guess that would require way more coding skills than I have, or quite an investment in a web designer.

As for themes, Vellum looks like a great responsive theme, and has native WooCommerce support:
http://themeforest.net/item/vellum-responsive-wordpress-theme/6914246

WooCommerce have themselves several themes which should guarantee good integration, and Maximize seems to be nice.
http://www.woothemes.com/products/maximize/

@David B. Yes, I read about the requirement for .ORG for WP when doing a search before posting yesterday, but it's good to remind about that. I prefer self-hosting, anyway. I like your minimalist design, as that's a similar direction I'm leaning to: a photo, and two links below it taking to the carts.

@Dave Your site is still gives 403 for me. Since you are blocking IP addresses, perhaps you have blocked entire ranges of them - that might block an entire country if you're not careful! I'm no expert on this, but I'd imagine IP blocking will not work anyway given how easy it is to use a VPN.

@Loretta Creativo looks pretty comprehensive, thank you! I'll add it to my list to research further.

@Aged Pixel wow that is a slick e-commerce site! Is the shopping cart using FAA's cart? The shopping stays on your site with your themes, so there's no jarring change of scenery when switching to buying mode. Would you have links to those premium themes which have native FAA support? I tried googling yesterday and just now, and can't find anything. I get that I can use an iframe, but that results in having to jump to pixels.com for shopping which is not ideal.