Monthly Archives: July 2009

threadless + thematic (weekend) challenge winner announced

I’m pleased to announce Jan Bocinec from WP.sk as the second “create a theme in a weekend using thematic” challenge. Jan did a really amazing job integrating the threadless shopping cart and designing the navigation system. Sorry for not announcing this earlier – I was speaking at the WordCamp in the UK and I live [...]

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Solution to Featured Content Gallery & WP-eCommerce Conflict

Our friend Laura from WP by Design recently published an article on fixing the Featured Content Gallery (FGG) so that it works with WP e-Commerce – as you’ll soon see, the changes you must make are on the Featured Gallery Plugin not WP e-Commerce. If you can convince the developer of the Featured Content Gallery [...]

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Do you have a robust e-Commerce site?

If you have a WordPress powered website that gets many thousands of hits (per second?) that also runs WP e-Commerce then we want to know about it.
Please email a link including some information about your site including some stats to dan@instinct.co.nz and we’ll talk soon. We need some high profile show cases and we need [...]

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The new extensible WP e-Commerce Plugin

We believe that open source projects need to be extensible for people to participate and contribute. On that understanding we have included a range of hooks and filters for developers to use when developing their own WP e-Commerce modules. These hooks and filters are available in the 3.7 + branch of WP e-Commerce.
Filters
wpsc_filter_file
Use this for [...]

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WP e-Commerce Plugin 3.7 RC2

I’m pleased to announce WP e-Commerce Plugin 3.7 RC1.
Here is a list of the most important improvements.

More hooks added
Swfuploader works for thumbnails
Checkout redirect bug fixed
Product importer
Quarterly reports added to dashboard
The “Your Accounts” page has been fixed
Flat and Weight rate shipping no longer depend on the order of rates
Support for canonical URLs though All in one [...]

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WP e-Commerce 200,000 downloads and the rest

I’m pleased to mention that we now have had well over 200,000 downloads in the wordpress.org website. Before we hosted the WP e-Commerce Plugin on the WordPress.org site we had already logged over 200,000 downloads locally – so without actually doing any hard math it looks like we’ve probably had around 400,000 downloads (at least [...]

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WP e-Commerce Plugin 3.7 RC1

I’m pleased to announce WP e-Commerce Plugin 3.7 RC1.
Many many issues have been resolved since the old skool 3.6.12 release and many many great new features have gone into this release. We feel comfortable with where the new user interface is going in that it is the most intuitaive of all e-Commerce Plugins (and we [...]

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threadless + thematic (weekend) challenge

Our last weekend theme challenge was a total blast. This weekend I’m increasing the odds – one lucky person who submits a Thematic Child theme that looks like the threadless.com website and functions in a comparable way will win $450 USD (plus contributions for other people) and will gets profiled on our website.
The main goal [...]

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