the PayPal Express Checkout payment gateway for your wahm zone mini site is tightly integrated into the workflow, providing a seamless shopping experience for your customers. enabling this level of integration requires use of the PayPal API, for which you will need to generate access keys, and configure them into your web site setup. don’t worry, this sounds much scarier than it really is… generating api credentials to generate your PayPal api credentials, follow Read more [...]
it’s an easy trap to fall into as a work-at-home parent; you’re facing a challenge in your business and everywhere you look it seems that potential solutions will require you to spend large wads of cash, or at the very least a lot of that precious resource we call “time”. You start to feel frustrated, isolated and alone, convinced that your “unique” set of circumstances make it impossible to achieve our goals. just remember this - there is nothing new Read more [...]
the wahm zone has something of a mixed heritage, and is the net result of an intoxicating sprawl of ideas and concepts. this cerebral cocktail has included an online mall, a community/support forum and a hosted web site management service. each of these components have battled to be the dominant one – in reality none of them are; they simply complement each other perfectly. it’s a social network, but it's not? if pressed to define the wahm zone in simple terms, I would Read more [...]
OK, so I know some of you will have set up groups rather than pages, and will very soon find out that the Facebook Like Box widget works with pages only... Do not despair, all is not lost! You just need to set up a widget with some kind of image, and set it so that when clicked, your mini site visitors are transported magically to your Facebook group portal thing... 1. Add a Facebook icon image to your media library (http://yourminisite.thewahmzone.com/wp-admin/media-new.php) 2. Grab Read more [...]
When you sign up for a wahm zone "mini site", you get a pretty well-established site out of the box - to see what I mean, check out the template site From this starting point, it's a simple case of working through the following steps to customise things for your specific business. The system is powered by WordPress software, so you will probably find the environment is very familiar. If you haven't created your mini site yet, click here to do so, and then carry on with this quick startup guide. Log Read more [...]