Fred Hall's SWING THING

One thing I still had to solve was the question around applying WP theme updates – which are released periodically; in that with every new update, all my custom CSS has to be backed up and then restored each time, adding to the amount of work involved greatly – a royal pain in the arse that, if you ask most WP site developers.

But no more!
Not now that I found out about “Child Themes”.

Learn more about using Child Themes here: http://op111.net/53.

This technique lets me to keep all my custom CSS separate from the updated theme files – in a parent/child relationship where the child theme provides the modified CSS to the parent; and when the parent theme gets a periodic update from the developer, no problem – the CSS mods are preserved by the child theme.

Read the article in the above link for the details.
It works, and has solved much of that issue for this site.

Of course, any modified WP templates still have to be backed up and refreshed after updating..

- I wonder if there’s a similar solution out there to deal with that?

The shopping cart developer (Erik) has been busy at work for me, and has greatly improved the system in his most recent update. I have been waiting for this – so THANK YOU Erik!

I really do appreciate all your hard work on this cart.

At this point, we now have nearly everything in place – the only exception, and the part I’m now waiting for, is the search methods part.
Basically, we need the site search to give more meaningful results.

For example..

If someone were to search for “Miller” (as in Glen Miller – the most ubiquitous  band leader of the swing era), you will get lot’s and lots of results.

And we need the results to sort so that if the your search term is found in the item (show’s) TITLE, that it sorts to the top of the search list; and, that it also counts the total number of hits found in the TITLE and DESCRIPTION, so that the more hits it has the higher it floats in the results list as well.

Once this is done, we should be ready to go live with this new site.