Beta 3 Update
Hi Team. We’re pleased to annouce Beta 3.
The WP e-Commerce 3.7 Beta 3 Plugin is the same as Beta 1 but with a number of bug fixes and enhancements that will improve your WordPress e-Commerce experiance.
New Template Engine
Our most frequent request. We did what we were told, we closed the curtains, locked the doors, copied the WordPress template engine and made our own. Now you can control and customize any part of your e-Commerce site. Based off the WordPress templating and Query system WP e-Commerce now has the best template system in town. Web designers can now go crazy!!
Our friend Wes Davis from Net Prophets has stated the the new Template Engine cuts his development time down by half. We’re totally chuffed and glad to be of service.
Intense Debate Integration
Instinct worked with the guys at Crowd Favorite to release an e-Commerce specific version of Intense Debate that lets people add Product Comments and reviews to their products. We felt it was better to do this then come up with our own commenting solution.
A faster Javascript experience with jQuery
WP e-Commerce has swapped out 90% of their custom made Javascripts with ultra fast jQuery. Essentially meaning a much faster e-Commerce experience for your customers.
Some people wonder why we didn’t do this in the first place, its because WP e-Commerce was around before jQuery and this has meant that unfortunately we’ve had to retro fit all our code. Its very close now though – our testers have been very happy with the results.
Video Tutorials!!
Our friend Adam Purcel at Hungry Dog media has launched a number of free WP e-Commerce video tutorials. If you want proof that the WP e-Commerce Plugin works then play the video – if your install does not go this smooth we’re pretty certain you’re doing something wrong or you have a crazy custom built server made by an old school Linux beard ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO-Xrs6qD5U
Goodbye Plugin Conflicts
We’ve been using wp enqueue for a while now, wp enqueue is meant to stop Plugins conflicting with other Plugins. This time round we’ve been a little more and have support for wp enqueue script and wp enqueue style.
Thumbnail Crop
Its hard to make that perfect thumbnail image – we’re Mac fiends here at Instinct and we appreciate the joys of Photoshop so we’re the first to admit that writing code to create the perfect thumbnail image to suit everybody’s needs was always going to be a difficult task.
So rather then try to come up with the perfect image cropping algorithm we’ve made a cropping tool that will allow you to make the pixel perfect thumbnail images.
Settings > Shipping
Shipping management has always bothered me a little so we’ve begun a user interface overhaul. Internal and External shipping calculators have been split up and we’ve moved the edit button to a more logical place.
Checkout Page Thumbnails
Now we have a great new Template engine it was easy for us to add Thumbnail images to our checkout page. If you want to remove them it easy.
A treat for members only / subscription sites
We’ve made a few improvements here. First of all we’ve added the ability to sign up, login and purchase all on the same screen. This greatly improves the user experience for your customers.
Settings > Payment Gateways
You can now change the Display Text for each Payment Gateway in the admin section.
For instance (and using the above image as an example) you can now change the word “PayPal Standard” to read differently in the admin section of your site. It could read something like “Pay by Credit Card” instead.
USA Tax Law
In regards to the USA tax we’ve modified a couple of things to ensure we follow USA Tax law. We have had many a USA customers comment on the way Tax works with regards to our Plugin, so we got a friend in the States to find out the Tax Laws and give us some scenarios so we could make it work just the way it should! To clear the air and make sure we are on the same page, the scenarios we have implemented are as follows:
Scenario 1
My shop is in Alabama. A customer from Texas buys a product and ships it to Alabama (He gets charged tax)
Scenario 2
My shop is in Alabama. A customer from Alabama buys a product and ships it to Texas (He gets charged tax)
Scenario 3
My shop is in Alabama. A customer from Alabama buys a product and ships it to Alabama (He gets charged tax)
Scenario 4
My shop is in Alabama. A customer in Texas buys a product and ships it to Texas (He doesn’t get charged tax)
These scenarios work by checking the shipping country select box and billing country select box on the checkout page.
We understand that sometimes these scenarios don’t suit your needs, for example if you customized your checkout page so a customer does not have to enter shipping details, we have added a new option in the checkout settings page called Lock tax to Billing Country. If you have this turned on the shipping country and billing country will be locked to each other, so if you change one the other will automatically change. This changes the above scenarios to:
Scenario 1
My shop is in Alabama. A customer from Texas buys a product he now ONLY has the option to ship to Texas (He doesn’t gets charged tax)
Scenario 2
My shop is in Alabama. A customer from Alabama buys a product he now ONLY has the option to ship to Alabama (He gets charged tax)
Crafty Cart 2
We use Crafty Cart for our development site and we can’t seem to contact Bill the original developer so we’re going to release a new version of Crafty Cart unless Bill comes back to us with more information – if you know how to contact Bill please do.
We have also designed a Crafty Cart version of Drop Shop but its not yet released.
A few misc things
- Chronopay probably won’t work until 3.7 Beta 4 or full launch.
- Gold files have moved. The new folder should be automatically created when the e-commerce plugin is activated, but if it is not, you will have to create it yourself. The details are in the readme download file.
- iShop and MarketPlace themes will be updated in the next Beta release
- As always when upgrading make sure you backup first.
Feedback and Testing
Post your feedback / comments here.
Download 3.7 Beta 3
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41 Comments
hrm…I’m getting this error when I try to activate (I replaced the full path with ~)
Warning: require_once(~/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/includes/save-data.functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ~/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/admin.php on line 18
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘~/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/includes/save-data.functions.php’ (include_path=’.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php’) in ~/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/admin.php on line 18
same here. I almost had the last one working fine as well.
same here
Sorry about that, I forgot to add a file to the SVN, I have added it and re-uploaded the beta.
Try downloading again in an hour or so or try the development version now. It takes up to an hour for the zip file to be generated again.
Thanks Tom!!!! Have fun people…
Tom, what is meant by the “development version,” as opposed to the zip file? Thanks!
he means the dev release found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/download/
hmm my hyper links i created inside the descriptions for each product are still not working. I posted this on the previous build:
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On a fresh install of WP 2.8.1 beta and 3.7 latest development version (as of June 24th). I can’t get hyperlinks to work in the product description. In the WYSIWYG editor all the links are highlighted etc. under html i can see the correct code (although the html editor is crammed into about 1/4 size it should be, you can still scroll).
Any way you could get this fix into the next development version Dan?”
Is this something on my end or something thats not included on this release?
also noticed that I cant get “Select what product group you want to display on the products page:” to work. I have it set to “Select a product group” which used to display my categories. Again, may be something on my end but this how i had it setup with 3.6
How do you mean “display my categories”. Did it list your categories at the top of the page?
We’ll look at this.
Anybody besides me having problems with the shopping cart? Quantities aren’t incrementing correctly, line items are bouncing around, can’t figure out a pattern, really. Thinking about deleting the database and starting over in case some gremlin got in there and corrupted it. Would love to start a new site with 3.7 rather than building a 3.6.12 site, but….
Variations problem got fixed, though. Good work, gentlemen. Brandon, is your site working? URL?
You’ll need to tell us more about the quantities bouncing around. Can you please describe in detail what is happening using our development site as your example: http://apps.instinct.co.nz/wp_2.7
(for instance, i click on add to cart and x happens, then I click on something else and then x happens and the qty displayed in the sidebar vs the checkout page is not matching up to something else)
Thanks for that :)
Tested your dev site. Cart seems to work just fine, although the ” Number of items: 4 ” in the cart reflects the number of DIFFERENT items in the cart, not the true total quantity. V 3.6.12 cart reflected the total quantity of items in the cart.
Also note: that I am running WP 2.8…your devsite is 2.7?
Apples and oranges?
Dan, I sent to Tom an email with screenshots of MY test site and the funky behavior in WP 2.8 and your Beta2 & now Beta3. Want me to send that email to you as well?
Hi again…bored of me yet?
Beta 3 is excellent. It’s a big step up from beta 2 and fixes many of the bugs I and others were having, so great work, fellas.
There still seems to be a couple of bugs however (naturally, it’s a beta). The one I’ve found most problematic is when it comes to paying. If I’m using “Manual Payment/Test Gateway” – When I come to purchase my items, I’m given an error of “We’re Sorry, your order has not been accepted, the most likely reason is that you have insufficient funds. ” rather than the acceptance note I had expected. The sale does not go throgh (in the backend), as you would expect.
And on that note, it might be nice to be able to adjust that failure message – I’m fairly sure I have enough funds to pay for some penny sweets :)
I also have a couple of feature requests which I think aren’t that hard to include which I also think people will find useful.
1) When adding a new product, have the option to use an image that has already been uploaded somewhere else (i.e. to allow people to use Amazon S3 for their image hosting for example) – so you just need to provide a URL rather than uploading an image
2) Be able to set a default amount of stock – for example, people might normally only have 1 of each item in stock and if they’re adding thousands of inventory items, then it would save quite a bit of time to be able to just have a default option
3) Likewise with a default weight – if we could set that, it would also save plenty of time
4) Be able to have “do not include tax” ticked by default – same reasoning as the above 2
5) An import feature (Ok, OK, this one might not be so easy!… but still, beta 4 right? :) )
So, in general, great work guys I would imagine we’re pretty close to being sorted now! Excellent stuff. Keep up the hard work,
Rich
The UPS shipping calculator does not work. It display nothing in residential or commercial mode.
Have you entered a ZIP code? What hosting provider are you using?
Tom:
I am having the same issue with the “insufficient fund” thingy pointed out above.
Is that a known issue?
I took a look at http://apps.instinct.co.nz/wp_2.7/.
Some things I noticed that didn’t seem working:
1. Gallery doesn’t display a gallery.
2. Price range selector doesn’t limit price any.
3. Shortcode ‘Add 2 Cart Shortcode’ doesn’t show any example.
4. ‘Product Slider Shortcode’ page works. However, the product title and price overlap each other. Perhaps just a theme issue.
5. ‘Show Cats’, sort ASC or DESC doesn’t seem to do anything.
every time i try to active the plugin with wordpress 2.8 i get the following error.
why is that?
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\shop\wp-content\plugins\wp-e-commerce\wpsc-admin\display-debug.page.php on line 97
Hello,
Still testing in background and some of the same issues are occurring while others have been fixed.
Issue #1
I removed and added new gold cart files again, but multiple image ability is still missing
Issue #2
Shipping is still pretty much dead except for flat rate
Issue #3 if possible
Is there a way to download the US tax rates for the 51 state default selection, when turned on it stays at zero and New York now requires me to charge.
Fixed
Visual editor and html works great
Payment works great just wish there was an option for express checkout to quickly turn off information forms.
Almost there and thanks for working so hard on these needed updates!
Products are still not displaying for me in admin. They show up on the website, but not in admin so I can not edit them.
wp version 2.7, latest version of wp ecommerce
Hi Bryan,
regarding your first few issues:
1. We’ve tested Multiple Gallery Images seem to work.
2. Tested all shipping modules, they work for me too, apart from USPS since I don’t have an account with them. If anyone has got feedback on this module that would be great.
3. If someone can pass us the tax rates for the 51 states we could probably get that in there (for a later release)
And about not seeing products in the wp-admin section, this is new to us can you pass us a link to your site with admin access to dev@instinct.co.nz
Jeff
There are actually two different Bryans writing, odd ain’t it. Anyways, I can see all my products but do still have the multiple image issue. I will check and reload again and see if the issue goes away. I guess I will start working on the tax codes and send it to you guys maybe I will get a small discount on another product?
Bryan Kite
Multiple Image issue? Do you mean Gallery View for Single Products? If so I have checked and it works fine, have you set the option to display gallery thumbnails? Settings>Presentation>Show Thumbnail Gallery
And have you installed your gold_cart_files in the correct place? wp-content>uploads>wpsc>upgrades
No, I mean as an artist I want detail views of each painting I make. In the last version when adding a product with gold cart it would give you an option to add another image. From the users end when they clicked on the thumbnail, the lightbox would open showing several images they can view just like a slideshow. I have removed everything and reinstalled activating gold cart and I assume they are in the right place since I followed the instructions and I have the option to activate, and the tab is there.
When I add a product I can add one image and one thumbnail and that is all. I am using the wp 2.8 with e-commerce beta 3 and the latest gold cart files. For me it is not working.
I think lots of us are testing with different versions.
I was assuming that these sets were valid to test:
- wp 2.8 with sc 3.7 (beta 3 and nightly builds)
- wp 2.8.1 beta with sc 3.7 (beta 3 and nightly builds)
Further, I was assuming that 3.7 shouldn’t be put on a wp 2.7.1 install.
So:
- If running 2.7.1, stay with sc 3.6.12
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
The product variations still do not work with table rate price discounts. ALSO the checkout still doesn’t reflect table rate prices when you update quantities. What’s up with that?
Why I cannot show search box for products?
Hi guys,
I just upgraded to beta 3 and all my products are not showing on the website and in the backend. As if I’ve never uploaded any product or defined any category. I’m using WP 2.8. Once I’ve downgraded, everything went back to normal. Is there a fix for this?
Make sure your wordpress database user can rename tables in the database.
Where can I check the permissions? I went to the hosting control panel for details on the database user but there is nothing I can see or change besides creating a new user.
I noticed that on the current version, you can’t list more than one product category on a page. I’m trying to list multiple sub categories using the tag:
[wpsc_products category_url_name='p220-series']
and using more than one only shows the contents of the first one.
Thanks!
Hey everyone!
Great job on the plugin, it really fits the bill for us. I know you’re busy working on bugs and the such and I’m anxiously awaiting release!
For the moment, however, there is a minor issue with the specials widget: it isn’t pulling the filename for the thumbnail from the database correctly. The script looks like it is pulling the “image” field from the “product_list” table which is just an integer (right click, view image, etc… and I looked in the db). Funny thing is, there is nothing in the “thumbnail_image” field otherwise I would switch to use that. I think maybe the script means to call the “image” field from the “product_images” table but, alas, that is not happening and I don’t know how to make it do so.
The thumbnail path is loading correctly but the variable in specials_widget.php (line 28), “$special['image']“, isn’t the correct variable.
Is this a widely experienced issue or is my installation messed up? I have uninstalled, deleted tables, and reinstalled the plugin but no joy.
Note: this is not an expert diagnosis as I’m only a novice and self-educated programmer otherwise I would have figured this one out on my own!
Also, clicking on the title of the product in the store page attempts to load the product page but then kicks back to the homepage.
Check it out at dev.f3stockphoto.com.
WP 2.8.1beta1
Latest e-commerce 3.7beta3
Thanks for your insight and your work!
- Patrick S.
Patrick@F3Studios.com
dev.f3stockphoto.com
Fixed product specials widget now.
You need to turn permalinks on and reset the URL’s under Settings > Admin and your site will work fine.
That site looks awesome!!!!
Hi Folks,
just my 2 cents here but instead of trying to add more and more widgets and features shouldn’t there maybe be ONE fully functional version out there?
The way I see it:
1. WP 2.8 users can not install the 3.6 simply because it doesn’t work
2. WP 2.7 users are getting more scarce because everyone is upgrading
My issue (as discussed frequently in the forums [dunno if anyone looks there]) is that I upgraded to 2.8 because of various plugins working better and can’t run 3.6 anymore because it doesn’t work on 2.7 and the 3.7 betas don’t seem to work either.
Like I said: just my 2 cents.
Here’s a link to the problem experienced and which is discussed in the forum
http://www.instinct.co.nz/forums/rss.php?topic=5168
I have just upgraded to the Beta 3 and now the gold cart is not working. there is no tab for it in the navigation and I cant see how I turn it on. I have deleted and readded the files but cant get it working?
I’m using WordPress 2.7.1.
there also seems to be styling issues with the shipping where I cant select ‘edit’ on each option as this only appears when i hover on the option itself and disappears when i go to click it.
Re gold cart. You must not have not read the new instructions – I just witnessed two people doing it here and it works fine (better then ever actually).
Here is a working WordPress 2.8 site with Gallery View switched on:
http://apps.instinct.co.nz/wp-2.8.1
Click on the Ratchet product.
Comments closed. We are about to upload a new development version – blog post coming real soon.
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