With the release of version 7 of PremiumPress themes and its introduction of new function hooks and filters, it now became possible to develop plugins that extend the theme and add various functionality. We have listened to the user requests and after extensive development are now able to offer the first group of plugins for PremiumPress v7.

E-commerce Tracking Plugin – Extends ShopperPress and other PremiumPress themes to allow Google Analytics e-commerce conversion tracking. With the use of this plugin you can now analyse your ROI, best selling products, which keywords ended up in sale and much more. This is essential tool for any serious online store manager.

Image to RSS plugin – Image to RSS is a WordPress plugin which will add images to RSS feeds for PremiumPress v7 themes. Do you have PremiumPress theme such as ShopperPress, DirectoryPress, CouponPress or RealtorPress? Have you ever wanted to include images in your RSS feeds? As standard, WordPress does not include images in RSS feeds and the plugins that add this functionality don’t work with PremiumPress themes. Therefore PremiumWebServices have developed ‘Image to RSS’ plugin.

Add Top Menu to PremiumPress – This simple plugin will add a new WordPress menu to any version 7 PremiumPress theme.

There are other plugins in development and expected to be released soon.

After a lot of anticipation the new ShopperPress v7 child theme has finally been released. The Business Grey is packed full of new features and is the first one in the Business Series of ShopperPress child themes. It is not long since we released the Ying Yang ShopperPress v7 child theme, but the Business Grey has gone way beyond of what Ying Yang offers.

So what is it all about? What does the new theme has to offer?

Have a look at the demo site: View Demo

For starters the theme offers 6 new home page widget areas. That means that it is possible to place WordPress widgets instead of any of the banner boxes. It can be used to place custom slider, featured products, advertising like Adsense, list of categories, Twitter or RSS feeds or whatever other widget desired. This gives the website owner much more control over what is displayed and where.

The child theme also supports all the standard sliders offered in ShopperPress. Use the small slider instead the large banner box 1 or any of the large sliders instead of the top two banners.

All the home page banners can be replaced easily by simply uploading or selecting different graphics via the ShopperPress admin area.

There is also a new section in the admin area which offers options for social icons displayed on the top navigation bar, display of the sale strip – which is another great feature to inform customers about new offers or important announcements.

View full list of features and to buy theme click here: Business Grey

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This tutorial was kindly written by Stephen in PremiumPress Forum in one discussion. I thought that it would be a great idea to include it here for better access.

In your blog’s wp-admin area, go to “SEO >> Dashboard”. This brings you to “Yoast WordPress SEO: General”.

Check the “Enabled” radio button beside “Plugin Status”.

Configure the following “Dashboard” options:

Under “General Settings” check:
“Use meta keywords tag”
“Disable date in snippet preview for posts”

For those using Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer or Bing Webmaster tools, enter the appropriate ‘verify meta values’ under “Webmaster Tools”.

Under “XML Sitemap” check “Check this box to enable XML sitemap functionality.” This will cause other settings to appear.
Under “General Settings” check “Add images to XML Sitemap.”
Under “After sitemap generation:” check:
“Ping Google.”
“Ping Bing.”
“Ping Yahoo!.”
“Ping Ask.com.”
Scroll down and click “Save Yoast WordPress SEO Settings”. (We will (re)build XML Sitemap later)

Go to “SEO >> Titles” and configure the following options:

In section “Singular pages”, under options “Post” and “Page”, enter the following:
“Title template”: %%title%%
“Meta description template”: %%excerpt%%
“Meta keywords template”: %%tag%%

In section “Taxonomies”, under option “Category”, enter the following:
“Title template”: %%category%% | %%sitename%%
“Meta description template”: %%category_description%%
“Meta keywords template”: %%tag%%

In section “Taxonomies”, under option “Post_tag”, enter the following:
“Title template”: %%tag%% | %%sitename%%
“Meta description template”: %%tag_description%%
“Meta keywords template”: %%tag%%

In section “Special Pages”, under option “Author Archives”, enter the following:
“Title template”: %%name%% | %%sitename%%
“Meta description template”: %%excerpt%%
“Meta keywords template”: %%tag%%

In section “Special Pages”, under option “Date Archives”, enter the following:
“Title template”: %%title%% | %%sitename%%
“Meta description template”: %%excerpt%%

In section “Special Pages”, for options “Search pages” and “404 pages”, in the “Title template:” field enter “%%searchphrase%% | %%sitename%%”.
Scroll down and save settings.

Go to “SEO >> Indexation” and configure the following options:

In section “Indexation Roles”, check the following options:
“This site’s search result pages”
“The login and register pages”
“All admin pages”
“Author archives”
“Date-based archives”

In section “Internal nofollow settings”, check the following options:
“Nofollow login and registration links”
“Nofollow comments links”
“Replace the Meta Widget with a nofollowed one”

In section “Archive Settings”, check the following options:
“Disable the author archives”
“Disable the date-based archives”

In section “Robots Meta Settings”, check the following options:
“Add noodp meta robots tag sitewide”
“Add noydir meta robots tag sitewide”

In section “Clean up section”, check the following options:
“Hide RSD Links”
“Hide WLW Manifest Links”
“Hide WordPress Generator”
“Hide Index Relation Links”
“Hide Previous & Next Post Links”
“Hide Shortlink for posts”
Scroll down and save settings.

Go to “SEO >> RSS” and configure the following options:

In section “Permalink Setting”, check the following options:
“Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL.”
“Redirect attachment URL’s to parent post URL.”

In section “Canonical Settings” set “Force Transport” to “Leave default”.
Scroll down and save settings.
Go to “SEO >> RSS” and configure the following options:

In section “RSS Feeds”, check the following options:
“noindex the comment RSS feeds”
“Ping the Search Engines with feed on new post”

In section “Content of your RSS Feed”, Place the following in “Content to put after each post:” textarea:

A post from: Your Keyword Here
Scroll down and save settings.

Go to “SEO >> Import & Export”. If you have previously used any of the plugins on the page and wish to import your settings, check the appropriate box(es), including the “Delete the old data after import? (recommended)” box, then click “Import”.

Once you have your blog set up, you can come here and export your settings to a file on your computer, then upload those settings on your next blog.

Go to “SEO >> Edit files”. Once you have your robots.txt file set up, you can access it and the .htaccess files from here to make any updates or adjustments. It is recommended to back up your blogs files before making any changes.

Go to “Pages”. Find your index page and click “Edit”. Scroll down to configure “WordPress SEO by Yoast” settings:

On the ‘General’ tab, configure the following:

In “Focus Keyword:” enter the main keyword of your site.

In “SEO Title:” enter the title of your page.

In “Meta Description:” enter the meta description of your blog. This is what will show in your listings. You are allowed 155 characters, but 139 is recommended.

In “Meta Keywords:” enter your primary keyword first, followed by 3 -4 more related keywords, all comma separated.

Once you have the information filled in, you can look at the ‘Snippet Preview” to see what your listing will look like in Google. Any changes made to your titles or keywords will show here as well.

Click on the “Page Analysis” tab. The following information will help you with your analysis:

Entries tagged with a check mark are good to go.

Entries tagged “Okay” are good, but need some work.

Entries tagged with an exclamation mark need immediate attention.

Follow the recommendations beside each entry to better optimize your page.

Update/publish your page (if necessary).

Go to “Posts”. Using the same principles described above to optimize your index page, optimize 2 primary posts and any other post you deem important.
Update/publish your post(s) as necessary.

After your main page and primary posts are optimized, return to the “SEO” dashboard.

Check the services to be pinged (Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask.com) then scroll down and (re)build your XML sitemap.

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In Google Merchant Center
1) Go to ‘Data feeds’
2) Click on ‘New data feed’
3) In ‘Data feed filename’ type data_feed.xml (or whatever.xml)
4) Click on ‘Save changes’
5) Next click on ‘Create schedule’ (under ‘upload’)
6) Setup the frequency of the feed etc.
7) Under ‘Feed URL’ enter the url of your Google Base Feed Creator page – usually http://www.yoursite.com/google-base-feed/
8) Click on ‘Schedule and fetch now’

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The child themes in PremiumPress are a bit different from traditional WordPress child themes. In PremiumPress they are more like ‘skins’ rather than ‘child themes’ as they affect mainly the look and not the functionality of the parent theme.

Before you start please perform backup of you WordPress and PremiumPress including database!

In the tutorial we will use DirectoryPress as an example, for any other PremiumPress theme, please replace ‘directorypress’ with the name of your theme.

1) Access your server via FTP (if you don’t have FTP access, there are some WordPress FTP plugins available).

2) Navigate to /wp-content/themes/directorypress/themes/

3) Create a new directory called /directorypress-Child-Theme/ (you could call it ‘directorypress-Orange-Blossom’ or anything else, but it is important that the name starts with ‘directorypress-’ )

4) Copy content of any existing child theme that you want to modify to the newly created directory

5) Modify your styles and files as required

6) If you require to modify different file that is not included in the original child theme, you can copy some of the files from /template_directorypress/ , the files that you can use usually start with’_’ (like _single.php or _sidebar.php)

7) To activate the newly created child theme, go to your WordPress admin page > DirectoryPress > General Setup > System > Child Theme / Website Template > select your child theme from the drop down list – e.g. Child Theme or Orange Blossom (depending on what name have you given to it).

Please use the Forum to discuss any issues or to ask questions.

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