However here is a way to add your own shipping carriers to shop.

To make this work you will need to do 2 things, …firstly add and modify the following code to your themes functions.php file. Then do not forget to go into the Shopp > Settings > Shipping and activate your new shipping method.

I have added 2 examples below, ..as both Royal Mail and Parcel Force in the UK do not support tracking numbers in the url in the tracking page, ..so in the first example function I just include the link to the tracking page in the url (which the user is directed to on clicking on the tracking number in the email), but if your carrier does support this, then in the second example I have included how to acheive this.

// register filter callback
add_filter('shopp_shipping_carriers', 'shopp_shipping_carriers_filter');

// create filter function
function shopp_shipping_carriers_filter( $carriers ) {
    $carriers['royalmail'] = new ShippingCarrier(
        'Royal Mail', // carrier name
        'http://www.royalmail.com/', // carrier website
        '*', // carrier's operating countries (* for all)

        // tracking number replacement string
        'http://www.royalmail.com/track-trace' 
        );

    $carriers['parcelforce'] = new ShippingCarrier(
        'Parcel Force', // carrier name
        'http://www.parcelforce.com/', // carrier website
        'GB', // two digit alpha ISO country code

        // tracking number replacement string
        'http://www.parcelforce.com/track-trace?trackId=%s',

        '/^(Z|[A-Z]{2}[A-Z0-9]{9}[A-Z]{2})/' // tracking number regex pattern
        );

    return $carriers;
}

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However for developers using Panic’s Coda the one elusive need that seems to have fallen off the feature list time and time again is the ability to export and backup your all important ‘Sites’ list (and preferences file), which is essentially all of your FTP connections; yours, your clients, your clients clients friends brother, etc.

We have been promised that this will soon be on the feature list, ..but if like me you can’t wait, here is what you need to do to make this happen NOW.

FIRSTLY THE PREFERENCES

I start by quitting Coda (very important) and creating a new pseudo Library folder in my Dropbox to hold preference files I wish to transfer from my Home Library. I called mine ‘Coda 2′.

Inside my new Dropbox Library I create a new Preferences folder and then I then copy my existing Coda Preferences file from ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda2.plist to ~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda2.plist.

[This symbol '~' refers to your user home folder, in which you may notice as of Lion does not show the 'Library' folder anymore. To get this to show you can do one of 2 things, ...I went into Terminal and typed "chflags nohidden ~/Library" which will take care of that for you. Else you can go to Finder and use the 'Go' option in the top menu bar, ...if you press ALT when clicking on 'Go' the Library will be available to open].

Creating a symbolic link between my new Dropbox enabled Coda preference file and its original location ensures that the changes I make to those preferences, including the state of open documents and windows gets synced to the cloud.

To do this open up Terminal and type the following command:

ln -s~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda2.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda2.plist

NOW THE SITES

Inside my new Dropbox Library I next create a new ‘Application Support’ folder.

I then copy my existing Coda Application Support directory from ~/Library/Application Support/Coda2 to ~/Dropbox/Library/Application Support/Coda.

Creating a symbolic link between my new Dropbox enabled Coda Application Support folder and its original location ensures that additions I make to my plug-ins, modes, and books get synced to the cloud, …so again in Terminal I type.

ln -s~/Dropbox/Library/Application\ Support/Coda2 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Coda2

And that’s it, …now each time you change configuration of add/edit/delete sites in Coda, it is synced to Dropbox.

If you have any difficulties with this just let me know in the comments below.

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To search by a single category is very simple, you just add this to your search form:

<input id="cat" type="hidden" name="cat" value="12" />

However to really extend this it would be nice for your users to be able to select a number of categories to filter/search.

You can use the system I will show you to filter anything from custom posts type, dates, authors, ..anything you can specify in wp_query.

The code:

<form role="search" method="post" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">

    <label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">Search for:</label>
    <input type="text" name="s" id="s" <?php if(is_search()) { ?>value="<?php the_search_query(); } ?>"  />     
	<h5>Select categories to search</h5>
	<div class="scroll_checkboxes">
				<?php 
		
		//print_r($_POST['filter_cat']);

		$categories=  get_categories('include=89,114,117,122,129,130'); 
  		foreach ($categories as $category) {
  			$checkboxes = '<label><input type="checkbox" name="filter_cat[]" value="'.$category->cat_ID.'"';
  			if (in_array($category->cat_ID, $_REQUEST['filter_cat'])) { $checkboxes .= 'checked="checked"';}
  			$checkboxes .= ' />';
			$checkboxes .= $category->cat_name;
			$checkboxes .= '</label>';
			echo $checkboxes;
  		}
		//if you want subsections just copy the chunk again
		echo "<h5>Sub Title</h5>";
  		$categories=  get_categories('child_of=7'); 
  		foreach ($categories as $category) {
  			$checkboxes = '<label><input type="checkbox" name="filter_cat[]" value="'.$category->cat_ID.'"';
  			if (in_array($category->cat_ID, $_REQUEST['filter_cat'])) { $checkboxes .= 'checked="checked"';}
  			$checkboxes .= ' />';
			$checkboxes .= $category->cat_name;
			$checkboxes .= '</label>';
			echo $checkboxes;
  		}  		
		?>
	</div>
    <input  class="btn" type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />

</form>

Explanation

this code can be placed in search.php, searchform.php or on a unique page, …I placed it in the main content of search.php and left my default searchform.php alone as the client wanted to maintain a simple sidebar search also.

Line 1: This is your default WordPress search form, but I have changed the method to ‘post’ from ‘get’ as I do not want a messy url with the variables I create, but you can leave this as get if you wish.
Also, it should read ‘bloginfo(‘home’)’ but my syntax highlighter is playing up.

Line 2-5: As normal, with an extra title I inserted to precede the search filter box.

Line 6: After a number of different tests with radio buttons, multiple select menus, normal select menus, the multiple check box in a scrolling pane seemed to be the best and most useable solution, but you can change this as you wish using the same concept. This is why it is surround in this div, and has the following CSS in the style.css file:

.scroll_checkboxes {
height: 260px;
padding: 5px;
overflow: auto;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}

Line 9: This is a debug check so you can see the category ID’s being passed should you need to.

Line 11-19: This is where the magic happens. Using the get_categories() function I query the WP cats with whatever parameters I wish,in this case a list of specific cats, but as you can see on Line 22, I later repeat this for child categories.

I then loop through these results creating a label encapsulated checkbox input with the name filter_cat[] which ensures checked box values are all placed in the same filter_cat array.

There is also a check in there using REQUEST (so will work if your form is get or post) to see if this box has been selected in the previous query, to ensure that it stays checked.

Line 21-30: As you see from the image at the bottom, I split my list with sub-headers, which gave me maximum control at my clients wish, so I have repeated the section with different parameters for get_categories, but nothing else has changed.

Line 32-35: Close the div and close the search form as normal.

Next, add this into your search.php file, just above the loop as this will extract your array of category ID’s and add tem to the search query:

global $wp_query;
foreach($_POST['filter_cat'] as $fcat){$fcat_list .= $fcat . ",";}

query_posts(
	array_merge(
		array( 'cat' => $fcat_list ),
		$wp_query->query
	)
);

Line 2: I cycle though the $_POST['filter_cat'] array and add the ID’s to a comma separated list.

Line 4-9: I add the list of cats to the $args of the query. This is the point at which you could in theory add further modification if you had created checkboxes to filter by another paramaters.

Finally

That’s it, …Wordpress search the way it should be witha few usability extras. To see what it looks like check the image out below. Alas I cannot show you how it works in person as it is on a closed client site.

Good Luck

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