They keep making changes in WordPress. All the google searching solutions no longer applies. So I finally figured it out. I wanted to rename “Pages” heading in the sidebar to something else. Had to go into admin, appearance, widgets, Pages, then click the Edit link to the right of Pages:, in the title field, enter new name for it (ex. Menu), click Done….AND THEN CLICK SAVE CHANGES BUTTON!!!   I forgot to click that before, and continued another hour of searching how to do this….got frustrated, so I tried again and realized I didn’t click “save changes” button before….

Blogengine.net only has a few extensions for embedding media. The only one I found to work best is http://www.betaparticle.com/post/2008/02/FLV-Media-Player-for-for-BlogEngineNET.aspx

This “MediaPlayer” allows you to embed mp3, flv, xml playlists. So it supports video and audio, but the best thing of all, it supports multiple embeddings on one page. Even though it’s not advertised to do that, it works. All other mp3 embedding codes I found for blogengine.net only allow 1 instance of the embedded player on one page.

Now how do you customize the look and color easily?

Go to http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and upload a small squarish pic representing your site. Upload it to your root folder of your site. Open up catalog/index.php file and add these line right before </head>:

<link rel="icon" href="http://yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5.0 comes with a recent post widget but it did not work with my custom theme or even the standard theme. For my custom theme I had to use this code:

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
                <blog:RecentPosts ID="RecentPosts" runat="server" />

This code was needed to show the recent post titles on the right panel. My custom theme is DarkBlog, so it had to go in SidePanel.acsx.

When customers create a new account in oscommerce, the Newsletter box is not automatically checked for them. Make it be checked by default.

Open create_account.php

Find line:

<td class="main"> </td>
 <!--p echo tep_draw_checkbox_field('newsletter', '1') . ' ' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_NEWSLETTER_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_NEWSLETTER_TEXT . '</span>': '');-->

Replace with:
 

<td class="main"> </td>
<!--p echo tep_draw_checkbox_field('newsletter', '1', checked) . ' ' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_NEWSLETTER_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_NEWSLETTER_TEXT . '</span>': '');--> 

In oscommerce, in product listings where the page is still index.php, to get rid of the stubborn top right default image, you have to open index.php and

Find line:

 <td align="right"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $image, HEADING_TITLE, HEADING_IMAGE_WIDTH, HEADING_IMAGE_HEIGHT); ?></td>

and remove that entire line.

Getting rid of all other default oscommerce images were easier, you just had to go the page file name and find the image file name and remove that entire line.

Here’s a quick and easy one. In the breadcrumb trail, the default installation of oscommerce says “Top”. Change it to “Home” sounds better.

Open includes/languages/english.php

Find line:
define('HEADER_TITLE_TOP', 'Top');
Change to:
define('HEADER_TITLE_TOP', 'Home');

You see this in the top of your pages usually under your logo:

Top >> Catalog >> Your Page >> Your Page

If you installed Oscommerce without putting the files in Catalog folder, then you really don’t need “Catalog” in the breadcrumb.

Open includes/application_top.php

Find lines:

// include the breadcrumb class and start the breadcrumb trail
  require(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'breadcrumb.php');
  $breadcrumb = new breadcrumb;

  $breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER);
  $breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));

$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));

When you’re viewing product listings in Oscommerce, the heading title Product Name+ appears. To remove the “+” open includes/functions/general.php.

Find lines:

// Return table heading with sorting capabilities
function tep_create_sort_heading($sortby, $colnum, $heading) {
global $PHP_SELF;
 

$sort_prefix = '';
$sort_suffix = '';

if ($sortby) {
$sort_prefix = '<a class="productListing-heading" title="' . tep_output_string(TEXT_SORT_PRODUCTS . ($sortby == $colnum . 'd' || substr($sortby, 0, 1) != $colnum ? TEXT_ASCENDINGLY : TEXT_DESCENDINGLY) . TEXT_BY . $heading) . '" href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('page', 'info', 'sort')) . 'page=1&amp;sort=' . $colnum . ($sortby == $colnum . 'a' ? 'd' : 'a')) . '">' ;
$sort_suffix = (substr($sortby, 0, 1) == $colnum ? (substr($sortby, 1, 1) == 'a' ? '+' : '-') : '') . '</a>';
}

return $sort_prefix . $heading . $sort_suffix;
}

Replace with:

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Oscommerce 2.2 RC2 - The default width for those side boxes is 125. To change to a smaller or larger size, open includes/application_top.php

Find lines:

// customization for the design layout
  define('BOX_WIDTH', 125); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125)

Change the first 125 to another width size.