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.
- Better UPS integration
- US checkout form field state issue fixes
- Checkout Form Fields (snazzy new interface)
- Google Checkout fixes (Please make sure you update your themes in wpsc/uploads/themes)
- Added australian Post shipping module for testing
- Coupon `total_quantity` condition fix
- Multiple conditions ability added
- Coupons page gets a slight interface upgrade
- Added product dimensions form fields into edit products page
- Import script auto detects line endings for csv files
- Introduction of .MO and “gettext”
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…
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…all that power at my fingertips, I know I’m going to blow them off in a minute. Well done Instinct, legends!
*Downloading*
Looking forward to 3.8 just hope it doesn’t break everything like some of the recent updates have had a habit of doing :(
Thanks guys keep up the good work,
@Prydie
Many of the more recent updates have been sweet. How far back in time are you looking bro?
3.8 is going to break all my customisations as I like to product tables :( Change is good.
How can I contact support with a question reqardin my gold cart API failure ( read all documents, tried everything ) ? Been trying on forums and mail contacts – no response till now.
yes where is the bloody support i too have shelled out for the gold cart files and ZERO SUPPORT i cant even register at the support forum getshopped.com coz it dont work
jeez guys
support pleez
multiple image function works but does not display mutiple images
heme is wpa storefront
thank you for your support
3.8 features sound great. Can’t wait. I assume we’ll be able to “seamlessly” upgrade from a 3.7.x version to 3.8?
I just upgraded and now Gold Cart created a fatal error. I need a fix ASAP!
Fatal error: Call to undefined function nzshpcrt_listdir() in /home/sobebot/public_html/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/upgrades/gold_cart_files/gold_shopping_cart.php on line 832
Wordpress has stopped working altogether thanks to this fatal error.
Also, when I try to add formatting to the product description (options such as bolding, bullets ect) it takes me to a 404 page. This was the case with an older version on wp e-commerce as well. Can this be fixed?
Umm sweet. Sorry about that. We got a fix but errr ‘beta’ on a live site… like Ma.tt says you always backup first ;)
I’ve tested this on my test server and scould not reproduce the problem, Ill be incontact.
best
jeff
Change the function call (around line 745) in `upgrades/gold_cart_files` from:
$gold_nzshpcrt_merchant_list = nzshpcrt_listdir($gold_gateway_directory);
to:
$gold_nzshpcrt_merchant_list = wpsc_list_dir($gold_gateway_directory);
that should fix that fatal error. Sorry about that,
Best
jeff
Coupon’s are looking good… nice to see the addition of free shipping! Would still be nice to be able to set a shipping region as a condition to that though as you might very well want to offer free standard shipping in NZ but still apply international shipping (which is obviously significantly more expensive)…
Also, in relation to the marketing tab is there anything in the pipeline around Sales? Right now it’s a painful process to run a sale as every product has to be individually maked down (and that markdown price isn’t visible in the products admin list making it that little bit more painful), then everything has to be maked back up after the sale. It would make more sense to be able to specify a global sale $ value or %, with start and end dates, similar to the coupon system, under marketing and have a checkbox on the product listings that sets weather to include that product in sales, similar to the include tax checkbox.
Funnily enough @macropiper (lord moderator) came up with that coupon for sales idea just the other week too. Its on the agenda – we won’t get rid of the form field because making a coupon doesnt also make sense for people that just have one or two products on sale.
Absolutly, I think coupons are an essential part of the process and it’s good to see them getting some love. There just needs to be a mechanism for running sales that doesn’t require the user to “opt-in” (and also allows for prices in the product listings to reflect/show the discount before getting to the checkout process). Looking forward to 3.8 and beyond ;-)
Hey Dan, have you considered adding my completed German translation to the new Version? I dropped you a note via twitter a couple of weeks ago.
If not, would you mind?
Updated german translation for wp e-commerce: http://is.gd/5yH2m
Thank you!
Can you convert that do using the .mo technique used in this beta. The new support site will have a new page for translators so we can better manage all your efforts…
When will 3.8 be available? Our store really needs the state issue fixed!
Its in the 3.7.6 update,,,, or does that still not work for you?
best
Jeff
mmmm Variations prices now duplicate in the development version
lovely
simply lovely
still looks to be missing the updated flatrate.php edits I made.. so I will be adding those to our dev version we will be using
email me.. I will happily share that code
Can you email me with a description and flatrate.php with your edits? We are planning on modifying flatrate for some really necessary ‘Zone’ Editting functionality but that wont be happening for a little while..
my flatrate.php edits are throwing errors on your latest beta.. I’m going to go through and re-add the edits to the latest version, then I can send you the updated code
FYI
looks like ur gonna need some way to reset the checkout forms to default..
upgrading to the latest version leaves the checkout forms blank and undefined
so users would have to add new form feild to recreate the entire checkout forms
..painful
what version did you upgrade from? I just tried an upgrade from 3.7.4RC4 and I still have me checkout form fields….
I was on a previous beta version.. so that may have been the issue
I tried upgrading to the Dev version on another testing site, and that worked fine..
so proly disregard that last comment :-)
This happened to me as well. I went from 3.7.5 to 3.7.6 beta and the checkout form fields is completely blank.
Deactivated and reactivated and all of the fields are there… sorry.
Is this beta not tagged in SVN?
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-e-commerce/tags/
No,, as you probably are aware, Im no SVN / Terminal Expert, and Tom the man that does those changes is at a linux geekference(conference). will be done once initial testing goes well I guess,,,,
Get him to show you when he gets back :)
Can we please please add a wish list feature in one of the up coming releases? I’m always getting requests for that.
I think my friend Asley from SA has made that Plugin. I’m not sure – I’ll send him your email address with your permission.
I would love if you could do that! repulsive_pasture at hotmail .com
FYI “Screen Options” tab has disappeared from the product admin page, meaning that you can’t show/hide any of the panels… a pain if you happen to have hidden most of them before the upgrade ;-)
Good spotting. I use this feature all the time too!!! I think WP may have changed their API in 2.9, either way we’ll check it out and the next beta will have this problem resolved :)
I planning to introduce resume writing services for a fee. Will wp-ecommerce plugin help me charge for a service. I will be collecting some information about the buyer and will have a file upload contact form in the sales page.
Hi
Will “Cross Selling” work fully in the new version and will it have the option to select goods.
Keep up the good work.
great… a new forum there will be… as long it is pretty much responsive..
we could have a couple of beer while waiting…
Has the broken image issue been resolved on pages secured with SSL? Excellent work fellas!
I get this when i active the plungin:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in …/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/merchants/library/googlecart.php on line 359
I get a similar worded error when I forget to turn off security plug-ins before up-dating/up-loading. Make sure your install is not conflicting with security or other plug-ins. For example, I de-active firewall plug-in for moment, install and reactivate firewall. Then there is no error message for the exact same up-load.
Thanks for reply
I’m not using any firewall plugin so i think isn’t that
i’ll try a clean installation anyway
I use qtranslate plugin to switch language in my site, is there any way to make it work with wp e-commerce also ?
Thanks !!
Just a question, has anyone ever gotten Intense Debate to work? I need it ASAP and I’m just having so much trouble with it.
Nevermind! Got it to work :)
Just wondering if a turn on/turn off feature for subcategories is going to be included in the new release? Or is there a fix out there already (other than a javascripted one) that I don’t know about? This feature would be very very handy since the sidebar can get quite horribly long when you have a wide range of products.
Thanks =)
In a desperate attempt to fix issue I was having with 3.7.5.3, leewillis77 suggested I install this beta. I did and it fixed the other problems, but now my button text and labels are showing text like TXT_WPSC_QUANTITY instead of Quantity. Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gary
Fixed.
For anyone else who may come across this, I was using an old theme from before this update. There are theme updates in this release too and I simply took the default themes files and copied them over my files, leaving my stylesheet, which is the only thing I needed from my old theme. All is right now and this new version rocks.
Thanks,
Gary
Hi guys,
The rumour says support for multiple currencies is coming in the next release.
Is that correct and do you have an estimated ETA for it?
I need i badly.
Keep up the good work,
Henke
Hi There,
Just wondering three things please:
[a] are you at Instinct the developers of the wiki plugin for WP?
[b] if so where is it on your site/s?
[c] are there live examples or a demo?
Thanks in advanse,
M
I’ve tried to install but it says there’s an error on line 5 of the UPS shipping plugin. Any ideas?
Cannot wait for the proper release! Absolutely hanging for the Australia Post shipping module! Once this ready I’ll be switching from my oscommerce system.
EDIT: this is the error…
“Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in …/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/shipping/ups.php on line 4″
I understand that you are beta testing the new Australia Post Shipping option, and I have a few concerns regarding the development of this module so far.
Looking at the code, you appear to add the total cubic weight of all items together, then divide that weight into the cubic root for the final dimensions to compare against the Australia Post API for the shipping cost.
There is a major flaw with this method when the cubic root calculation is greater than the allowable girth of an order (140cm girth or 35cm width x 35cm height). Let me give you a real life example:
Our client has a product with the following details:
Weight: 13kg
Length: 31cm
Width: 31cm
Height: 40cm
This product is shippable by Australia Post standards for a normal parcel, however the beta release calcuates the cubic root to have a girth of 35.2cm x 35.2cm (0.2cm above the allowance) rendering this product unshippable.
Perhaps there’s a simple fix for this issue that has just been an oversight? Like many others, we’ve been holding out on this script, and we want to ensure that it calculates correctly.
You can test our findings using the Australia Post shipping calculator, OR API URL to see what I mean. It should return correctly for 1x Item. Anything greater than 1 is obviously above the 20KG maximum weight per parcel, which is understandable.
On a side note – will the Australia Post shipping method be developed to facilitate for larger orders with more than a single parcel requirement, or will customers be required to place multiple orders (this would be a nuisance…).
I hope this feedback helps with the development of the next beta release?
i really hope i dont live to regret this…
ive been looking at the endless complaints regarding wp e-commerce on various blogs and the wp site. ive deeply considered shopp but i cant help but be drawn to the prospects wp e-commerce offer when it does go right.
i eagerly anticipate 3.8 and its features to hopefully coincide with my site launch at which point i shall upgrade to gold once i feel im satisfied with the basic plugin..
just out of curiosity approximately when can we expect 3.8??
dont let me down guys =]
What about adding;
- The ability to INCLUDE tax for regions which this is a requirement. E.g. australia, Ireland, UK. It would show it exclusive for outside those regions.
- Also the ability to customise the shipping regions for the Flat Rate. E.g. add a seperate region: U.K. or Germany
I agree with the tax regions idea. That would be very useful.
Hey guys, sorry to bother you here, but I cannot post any question on the new “getshopped” forum. I can log in with my username, but cannot make a reply, nor can I start a new topic.
Any suggestions?
Kind regards, Robert
Regarding the update,………. I’m not using the shipping module, still I get cUrl errors while checking out because my server doesn’t support cUrl. Will this new update solve my sorrows?
Kind regards, Robert
“Sorry your transaction did not go through to Paypal successfully, please try again”
anyone else getting this message?
I have updated the Portuguese/BR translation of version 3.7. The link is:
http://www.2shared.com/file/11199992/b07e96eb/pt_BR.html
отличный плагин! как раз то что искал
Using the plugin with the shopping cart widget completely breaks any theme, including the default wordpress ones.
Looking forward to 3.8 cause really need currency conversion for selling internationally. Other than that all working great.
I am hoping that another issue will be addressed with respect to sales tax collection. I am using version 3.7.5.3 Gold Cart in the US. Each state’s tax rates varies by the county the product is shipped to. In the case of New York I can only select one tax rate for the whole state. For tax compliance purposes I must be able to select individual rates for all of the counties I ship to. Please let me know if this is being worked on.
Besides that issue I LOVE YOUR PLUG-IN! Thanks.
great article, thank
I am having a problem with the checkout fields. I did an initial test purchase and just entered random stuff in the fields but now that random text is ALWAYS there. It doesnt clear. And its not just on my computer (I cleared the cache), its visible to all users and really doesnt look good.
How do I clear these fields? Please help. I have 2 sites I need to go live with and this is a real issue!
I purchased the gold cart and I’m using Version 3.7.5.3.
Thank you!
Dave
Hi Dave,
If you are logged in (say as admin) then yes your details will show up on another computer, as these details are stored in your usermeta,,, on ANY omputer on ANY browser, if you log OUT (so your not an admin) then those details are NOT shown,,,,
thats how it SHOULD work,, is this not how it works for you?
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