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:
- New streamlined Database (Matt Mullenweg – We bow down before you!!!)
- Advanced shipping Zones (Ben Huson we love you!!!)
- New Members Only module (Tom good work!!!)
- Advanced checkout allowing for multiple checkout form sets (Jeff bloody legend mate!!!)
- Duplicate Product now also duplicates Variations (Dale that one is for you!!!)
- Variations now support SKU and Sale Price (Great new feature – until child products take over)
- QR Code module (Vales – nice work buddy!!!)
- New Events & Ticketing Module (perfect for every wordcamp!!)
- Tons of “canonical” plugins in the WordPress repository already (love you community!!)
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.
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Good stuff. I can’t wait to be able to arrange categories, and to have the cart release items immediately when they’re removed.
Happy new year !
Posted this in forums but wanted to put it here too. I’d be willing to pay for a module to allow this:
“I have a very hard time getting product pages indexed in search engines. If I can get them indexed, it is even harder to get any decent search engine rankings for these rankings.
Is there any way to write a custom title and meta description to a product page? If not, this would be a very helpful enhancement for future releases.”
I would have no problem paying as much as $40 for a module to allow this functionality. I know that it would lead to far greater conversions and a greater ability for any site to rank in search engines.
Happy New Year Guys!
I’ve just finished writing a plugin that works along side WPEC
it gives the user the ability to enter page ID #s on an options page to enforce HTTPS/SSL
so if the WPEC users have a SSL and are using authorize.net, they can use this plugin to redirect those pages to be HTTPS
hoping you would consider adding this as a “core feature” of WPEC… and maybe sending a little link love my way
Happy New year to the whole team and A BIG thank you for making my Ecommerce possible! I’m having a blast too and am enjoying the ride of progress that ecommerce is continually making.
Keep it up and I’m really excited to discover new trunk!
In reference to # 6
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6.Variations now support SKU and Sale Price (Great new feature – until child products take over)
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Does this mean that Variations will support table rates for each variation? For instance, if I have a product that has multiple variations with different prices for each variation, will I also be able to set it so if a certain quanity is selected there is a discount for that variation?
The biggest issue for WP e-Commerce in 2009 was the really, really terrible support. Questions are only rarely answered on the forum. Documentation is feeble.
How is Instinct going to solve this problem in 2010?
I installed the trunk version on a fresh install of WP 2.9.1
I’m interested by the event and ticketing solution and I cannot find anything about that in the ecommerce administration menu.
Did I miss something. Should I installed some additional modules?
Yeah Merry F’ing Christmas to you guys too and Happy New Year ripping everyone off! I have to say your programming and this shopping cart has to be the worst I’ve ever seen. Programming is incomplete and documentation is extremely poor. Now, I would have a real big problem if this were truly open source, but the fact is I paid for Gold Cart and MP3 Functions upgrades and neither of them work properly, if they work at all. As the cart still seems pretty much the open source version even after $50 of so-called upgrades. The MP3 Functions don’t work at all and the Gold Cart’s functions of lacking, like where is the recurring billing support you claimed in your features? Where’s the documentation? I scoured your forums and everyone else is complaining there about these things and no answers. I think you should give me and others their $50 back, but since that will most likely will not happen I figure I’ll get my $50 back through bad adverting about “Instinct Entertainment” and the people involved with it. I will be starting a site just to warn everyone out there about you nice little scheme. I’ll even pay Google AdWords money just to tear you guys down. If you had any integrity at all you would do what is right! Good Luck Dan!
Slim is going a bit far, but I respectfully suggest following Apple’s Snow Leopard strategy for any upcoming releases – i.e No new features at all, just clean up code and debug. A complete moratorium on new features until every last bug has been squashed, documentation improved, and code lovingly cleaned and commented.
Thanks and good luck for the New Year.
I agree! There is NO POINT in adding new features if the old ones don’t work! I love how easy it is to customize this plugin but it needs to do what it’s supposed to! I think we should have a vote on this. All people against new features say “I”.
slim is going too far. But I also want to echo this.
It’s great adding features, but pretty pretty please lets make the current ones stable first?
Thanks and happy new year!
We’ve got about 8 important but non critical bugs we’re working on. About another 8 minor bugs. None of the bugs we know about actually stop WP e-Commerce from working – unless maybe you’re using some pretty funky settings or doing things we havent really considered.
On which case email us the bloomin sites in question and the FTP access we need to fix things :D
As I’ve been critical of this plugin in the past it’s only fair that I give praise for improvements.
And I have seen them, especially with the latest release. Well done. And the customer support on the forum is also way better. That in itself makes a huge difference.
I seriously considered other solutions on a number of occasions, and the only thing that kept me here, was the time I had already invested, and the hope that it would improve. Finally that hope seems to have been vindicated.
Happy new year to you.
This column is getting painfully thin. Maybe a bit less padding?
Looking forward to a great year working with Instinct Entertainment and some of my customisations being merged into WP E-Commerce core! All the best.
Thanks mate. So are we :)
Hi, I love this e-commerce plugin, but the Spanish language have LOTS! of problems, are you gonna release any update soon? I don’t know much about programing, but I could help by translating the words from english to spanish at least :S
Geez… I’ve been playing with WP Shopping Cart for some time now comparing it with eshop for wordpress and after reading all these comments I’m a little iffy as support is everything to the success of a program. I would love to see in your new version the ability to have url redirect… meaning… you put something in your cart, pay for it after payment you’re redirected back to say a form… ejunkie does a great job with this but it’s another reason why I’m holding back. From making the jump to gold cart. Thanks!
@ Todd
Using the Cforms plugin, you could add custom forms to the transaction results page
allowing the user to submit information after making a purchase
Hi EnlightenMental,
Would you care to let us know how to do that in a bit more detail? It sounds like a great idea!
Yes please! more info! :)
- install the cforms plugin,
- create a custom form
insert that form below the [transaction results] shortcode on the transaction results page
i.e.
when users make a purchase and are directed to the Transaction Results page, they will see the form below the transaction results text
to take this one step further, you could give the transactions results page a custom template and make the cforms form more dynamic,
i.e. make the form contain the transaction id, user id, user email, $purchase_log['id'] etc
I like this so much.
Thanks for posting.
Looking forward to your next post!
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