Kasper Souren

Category: websites

  • How to improve WordPress menu functionality?

    Since I can’t really find any useful WordPress menu plugins. Also not when searching further, I’m making a list of what I want from a WordPress menu. Drupal menus are not amazing, but generally they don’t suck, even less thanks to my friend’s Menu Editor module and the Menu attributes module. The first allows me to not go mad when adding or editing menu items and the second give me a lot of flexibility, e.g. adding rel="nofollow" and target="_blank" where I want.

    So here’s the list with WordPress menu wishes:

    • convenient adding of attributes such as rel="nofollow" and target="_blank"
    • convenient menu editor
    • no “premium” version, WordPress is GPL and this should be respected

    I may add a couple more over time and I may just start writing it myself.

  • 19 ways to get traction: a short list

    1. Viral marketing
    2. Public Relations
    3. Unconventional PR
    4. Search Engine Marketing
    5. Social and display advertising
    6. Offline advertising
    7. SEO
    8. Content Marketing
    9. Email marketing
    10. Engineering as marketing
    11. Targeting blogs
    12. Business development
    13. Sales
    14. Affiliate programs
    15. Existing platforms
    16. Trade shows
    17. Offline events
    18. Speaking engagements
    19. Community building

    This is the short list. It’s a good way for me to quickly get back to this when I need it. I just have to type kasper.re/19 in a browser tab to get to it.

    If you are building a startup that you want to scale up you probably want to buy the Traction book.

  • ERPpeek tutorial – #odoo #openerp

    ERPpeek tutorial – #odoo #openerp

    The most useful #odoo #openerp #docs thus far https://github.com/tinyerp/erppeek/blob/master/docs/tutorial.rst #interactive #python September 2014 update

    Learning OpenERP

    I first looked into OpenERP a couple of years ago. I love programming in Python and I feel I’m much better with Python than with PHP. Still I somehow didn’t get the hang of it. Especially on the hosting site, running a Python website is just a bit tougher than PHP. OpenERP itself felt like it had a lot of power but it didn’t look sexy. So somehow opposite from poor and sexy Berlin, it felt rich and unsexy.

    Tutorials at Odoo.com

    You can find “official” Odoo tutorials at odoo.com (this link is for v8). They’re also developed collaboratively at GitHub.

    Odoo e-commerce

    Things changed considerably. OpenERP was renamed to Odoo, which doesn’t sound that sexy either really, though it feels like there is progress, from TinyERP to OpenERP to Odoo. Recently after some more digging in and attendeding an Odoo conference it looks like Odoo is quite cool. Suddenly it’s possible to do e-commerce with the thing and it’s actually very very nice and bootstrappy (Bootswatchy even) with a slick interface. You can give it a quick try yourself at https://odoo.com. Don’t worry about the nagging to register, you can host Odoo on your own servers and it’s easy to remove after that.

    Odoo forum

    The Odoo forum can be useful at times for getting answers to pressing questions. I’ve been asking some myself at times. It doesn’t feel as slick as SO, where at times I had more luck with more technical questions.