Hi Guys. Last week we launched a new Fedex Shipping Module, its available for download from the new GetShopped.org website.
We just uploaded a new Beta version of WP e-Commerce with heaps of new features and fixes for you to enjoy & test. Let us know how you get on over at the GetShopped.org blog!!
Hey guys. Just wanted to let you know that more and more blog action is happening over that the new GetShopped.org blog. Its where we’re discuss all things WP e-Commerce.
Recents blog posts include;
If any of these topics interest you (which they should) then head on over to the new WP e-Commerce home and get commenting.
The WP e-Commerce Plugin has a new home!
Last week we launched a new site over at GetShopped.org, the GetShopped website is the new home for the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin. The old site (right here right now) is to be considered as a landing site for Instinct projects. Instinct develop WordPress software and contribute to the WP e-Commerce Plugin, Open Source project.
So just like Automattic (the founders of WordPress) we also run a number of projects and we recently decided that trying to manage multiple projects through the one website was just no longer effective. So we give you GetShopped.
Moving the WP e-Commerce Plugin to GetShopped means the following;
So without further ado, please go check out WP e-Commerce on GetShopped today!!!
Hello everybody. Welcome to 2010!
I’m pleased to announce that we have uploaded a new version of the WP e-Commerce Plugin – it is a small taste of things to come in 3.8 which is already in development.
In a few days time we’ll be launching our new support site, just in time for Shayne to announce it at WordCamp Boston. It blows everything else online far far away – we’re sure you’re going to love it, especially the bbPress forum work we’ve done.
Also a note on the .mo and translation efforts that have gone into WP e-Commerce. If you are an existing contributor or you would like to provide a new language file please leave a comment here and I will contact you personally about the new langage tools we have in place.
The 3.8 release is going to blow your mind. We will have removed just about all the database tables, we’re using proper WordPress options for every setting and to top that off we will have introduced a powerful new Shipping Zones feature, a new and much more advanced UPS module and even a new advanced currency converter made for all those serious internationalized businesses out there. Stay tuned…
Merry Christmas folks. And for those of you that don’t believe in Christmas I hope business as usual is working out well for you! So who wants to know what lies in store for next year?
Well the trunk (Development Version) of the WP e-Commerce Plugin is probably one of the merriest releases yet. It comes with a range of powerful new features and enhancements, thus making the WP e-Commerce Plugin still the most powerful and “canonical” platform for e-Commerce that you’ve ever seen.
Whats going on in the trunk right now:
We anticipate launching the next version of WP e-Commerce in the first couple of months in 2010. A lot of hard work and planning has gone into this release and the team of contributors is stronger then ever before. Not only will the next release be the best yet but we’re launching a new support site along side it – I’ve seen it. And its going to be amazing. Its already full of videos and new documentation!! (love you Sara!!!)
This year has had many more ups then it has downs. To be honest its been a blast – it was amazing to be asked to sell tickets on the wordcamp.org website for WordCamp New York, we did it and we did it well. I found an investor in Japan. We got lots of good press. New staff came on board. The business is doing well. Competition has come. And gone. And we’re still standing tall.
So bring on 2010!!! And on that note I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Further reading: Canonical
Of course we all already know that WP e-Commerce is a hugely extensible piece of software – we know this because more e-Commerce themes and modules made for WP e-Commerce then any other WordPress extension. Not such a shabby claim eh – but its true.
So to make sure our Plugin is truely the best canonical e-Commerce platform we’ve decided to take a few things out of the Plugin and make them add-on modules instead. To begin with I personally think we could afford to remove the following from core;
I strongly believe that by removing these features from core and by us providing documentation on how they tie back into the Plugin as modules / Plugins will make WP e-Commerce a little and faster Plugin. It will also work as a resource that you will be able to use to base your own add on modules.
What else do you think could be removed from WP e-Commerce core and replaced by an additional Plugin?
Kia Ora team. I’m pleased to annouce a new minor realease of the WP e-Commerce Plugin. No major enhancements have been added to this release however the following fixes should improve your online shop.
* Fixes to the Paypal Pro merchant file
* Fixes to the Paypal Express Checkout merchant file
* Tracking email improvements
* HTML in descriptions does not break RSS (thanks to http://www.leewillis.co.uk)
* Category permalinks will now be regenerated properly on installation and on update
* Category list bug preventing viewing a product when viewing a category fixed