After adding the plug ins I originally planned on getting such as WooCommerce, I also found that when you add products you can add tags, these are great ways of people being able to locate your patterns if they are looking for a particular thing such as a dog. However, the search bar that came with myplug ins did not search via tag, this meant that a lot of my products would be missed when a customer uses it. To sort this problem I found a secondary plug in that could be used in conjunction to the search bar I already had, this extra plug in was created by a guy called Matthew Lawson and he has simply named it, Search By Product tag. This extra plug in has really opened up my shop to its maximum ability of search, this way I can tag products with a range of things that I think customers may search, the beauty of these tags is that you can have as many as you like and can edit them whenever suits you, without effecting the rest of the site or products.
I wanted to make the theme my own but found that the feature image was too big and took up too much valuable space, so I decided to edit the code in the head of the document, at first I changed the size of the feature image to a max-height of 300px, but even this did not look right, so I changed the header to have a background of my own image which I uploaded into the theme folder on my server.
Using this code I managed to get my header to appear like this, which I feel is much more interesting but also hopefully different to all the other people using this theme. I also changed the theme to be boxed, giving me space to have a small border where I can see the background that I have made look like cross stitch material. I am hoping that this along with some other changes will make the theme seem like my own and will not look too similar to other shops using it.
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