Featured Content Gallery and WP E-Commerce

[ericmann]

A lot of people use Studiopress' themes for company websites. As a result, they try to add storefront and shopping cart features. One of the more popular shopping cart solutions is the WP E-Commerce plug-in. Unfortunately, it disables the Featured Content Gallery that drives much of the front page of the Corporate theme.

Until now, the best fix has been a workaround - rewrite the theme to use a different gallery plug-in.

I wasn't happy with that because, frankly, I've spent a lot of time working with the current plug-in and customizing things just the way I want them. So I propose a new fix. It's two steps:

Step one:
Add the following code immediately after the <?php wp_head(); ?> tag in the theme's header.php file.

<?php if(is_front_page()) do_action('jdm_head'); ?>

Step two:
Find the following code at the end of the Featured Content Gallery file (content-gallery.php)

add_action('wp_head', 'gallery_styles');

Change it to:

add_action('jdm_head', 'gallery_styles');

It's a quick, two-step fix to a problem that's been stumping most of us for months. You can see it in action on my website, powered by the Corporate theme: http://www.jumping-duck.com

Is there any way this fix could somehow be incorporated into the actual theme in the future? Maybe include the conditional statement in header.php and add the following to functions.php:

remove_action('wp_head', 'gallery_styles');
add_action('jdm_head', 'gallery_styles');

It might make life a lot easier for everyone. In any case, good luck and have fun!