In brief, we are looking at the following changes/tweaks:

Admin Bar that resides at the top of your screen: In WordPress 3.3, the Admin Bar gets tweaked and enhanced.

Drag and Drop Media: A new and improved media uploader; as simple as dragging files to the “drop zone” in the native way that your OS allows: On Mac, from the Finder or by dragging the title bar icon in the app you’re using (Photoshop? Preview? Skitch?) into drop zone. On Windows, by pulling your file from Explorer into the Drop Zone.

Welcome screen and Pointers: If you already are using WordPress, you won’t see the welcome screen unless you setup a new WordPress install. The Welcome panel gives an overview of WordPress to new users.

More importantly, there is a new jQuery plugin that adds “Pointers” to WordPress whenever a new core, user facing feature is added. In WordPress 3.3, you’ll see one immediately pertaining to the new Admin Bar. However, Plugin and Theme developers who want to highlight new features can also do so.

Distraction Free Writing (introduced in 3.2) now integrates the content width and other CSS stylings of post content into the editor. This is all based on the active theme CSS and it attempts to aid the blogger in formatting properly for the theme the content will be displayed in.

Flyout Admin SubMenus: Very simple little thing, but when a user mouses over a menu, the submenu items under it appear in a “flyout” to the right and disappear when the mouse is no longer over the top level menu. Of course, for touch devices and clicky people, the collapse/expand functionality still exists.

Tumblr Importer: An importer that has been in demand for some time, due to the popularity of Tumblr but the more popular nature of WordPress, is a Tumblr importer. Now that is available – also as a one-click plugin – to assist Tumblrs in moving to WordPress.

If you really like WordPress, thank the team with a donation to the WordPress Foundation. All of the work that has gone into this release has come on the backs of volunteers or dedicated, full time paid employees of other companies who have been “donated” to the project.

60-second how-to:

1. Go into your WordPress dashboard
2. Open the widgets section
3. Look for the categories widget
4. Click and drag the widget to your chosen sidebar
5. Customize as necessary when the widget expands
6. Save any changes

60-Second How-to:

1. Go into your WordPress dashboard
2. Open your Widgets section
3. Look for the Search widget
4. Click and drag this widget to your chosen sidebar
5. Customize as necessary when the widget expands
6. Save any changes

60-Second How-to:

1. Open YouTube
2. Click Share
3. Click Embed
4. Adjust custom settings
5. Grab the jibberish Embed code
6. Go to your WordPress page or post
7. Open the HTML editor
8. Drop in the code where you want the video to appear
9. Publish or Update
10. Go look at the page to see if it’s how you want it

60-second how-to

1. Go into your WordPress dashboard
2. Open the page or post in question where you want to insert a link, or start a new page/post
3. Type the text you want to be linkable
4. Highlight said text
5. Click on the little chain link icon on the top row of your Visual Editor
6. When the popup box appears, choose the fine print option link to existing content
7. Choose from the list that populates which page or post that you want to link the highlighted text to
8. Remember, only pages/posts that are published will show up in this list. You can’t link to drafts.

Call Gower to discuss putting this theme together for you with or without personal customizations at 919-228-8450.

Key Features

• 5 Alternative Colour Schemes
• One Click – Auto Install
• 3 Different Shopping Cart Modes: Shopping Cart, Digital Goods, Catalogue Mode
• Product Management – Add / Edit / Delete products as easy as you create a WordPress blog post
• Order Management – you can manage the order – approve, process or cancel / reject an order.
• Shipping Options – you can choose Free, Flat rate; Weight or Price based shipping option for your store, you can even set free shipping for particular items
• Multiple Payment Gateways – PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options
• Manage Tax – specify overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and, you may choose to leave individual products tax free
• Grid View / List View – option to see the products in list view or grid view
• User Registration – Users may register on your site or, they will be taken to registration page on the checkout procedure. They will have their own user area where they can keep track of their order, manage profile and download purchased digital products.
• Bulk Upload (CSV) – You can export your data in .csv files and import it in your WordPress installation from other shopping cart solutions
• Coupon Codes – generate coupon codes for sales promotions
• Product Images – Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are auto re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Also the product zoom functionality is built it
• Assign Parameters – Specifying Tax, weight, colour(s), size(s) are easy. Also you may specify different prices for different size/colours etc
• Specify product size(s), colour(s), and other miscellaneous features
• Affiliate Module – you may choose to activate affiliate program where your customers/others can signup as an affiliate partner and start promoting your products. They will be able to track their affiliate data in real time, and as an admin, you will be able to export/check affiliate reports easily
• Integrated blog

Price Single: $65, Multi Use: $99
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