URL: Tony Hansen pottery (what I make and why I make it)
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A mug store as an encyclopedia on how to make each piece
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WooCommerce running on the Wordpress platform is a common way to create an online store, it is more technical than some other options but it is also more flexibile. I wanted to be able to do something in my online store that no one else needed or wanted to do. Let me explain.
Each mug description, as shown in the foreground page image, was complex, having many links into digitalfire.com that explained details of how it was made (e.g. glaze and body recipes, techniques, firing schedules, etc). The description on all 200 of them was formatted exactly the same. Each had a link to the permanent registration page, at digitalfire.com. Each had four Amazon-style product photos. Yet I did not enter any of these into the WooCommerce product dashboard. There are two secrets to how to do this.
1. Notice the background image, that was a custo-coded database where I entered many details about each. A photographer, who has a separate login, took the photos and uploaded them. The search and bulk-edit tools in the database enabled me to create consistency and accuracy.
2. Wordpress and WooCommerce both have an API. That means I could write code on the server hosting my database that talked to them through a back door. That code thus read the data from my system and created products on the WooCommerce site. It could also update products. It was remarkable to see it work!
I asked people not to buy any; it was just a gallery.
Copper blue-green cone 6 porcelain mugs
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These are among about 200+ mugs that I have cataloged, coded and described every detail about how they are made. This is the kind of description each piece has. The linked words go to the Digitalfire Reference Library, thousands of pages of technical and practical help for ceramic artists and technicians.
Clay: Polar Ice Cone 6 translucent porcelain
Glaze outside: G3806 base (copper-blue variation)
Glaze inside: G2926B transparent glossy
Firing: Cone 6 C6DHSC slow cool
Size: 9-10cm high, 8-9cm dia, 280-350g, 260-320ml capacity
Foot: Tooled and fluted
Technique: Thrown, incised, pour-glazed inside, waxed, dip-glazed outside
A mug of mine from 1981
Code numbered test body and glaze
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Please don’t believe twisted interpretations of the events of the past two weeks. You have seen me share freely for well over 4 decades (note the code number on the mug: 81-R-5; Digitalfire data archival was already underway on my TRS-80 computers). Please rely on my record rather than misinformed social posts. I don’t rebut or flame people on social. But it does hurt when they say things that are totally against my character.
As soon as I learned a GoFundMe had been started I posted the succession plan. But it was behind a disclosure triangle and people were not clicking that to see it (see next post). I have been working on #1 for a year already, hopefully 6 more months will do it. It shocks me how big and complex Digitalfire has become!
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