that we make the best e-commerce
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Kia Ora Team! I am very pleased to announce the latest and greatest release of the WP e-Commerce Plugin.
The 3.7.5 release has had some very thorough testing – months of it. The following list should give you a fairly good idea of what has been updated and / or changed in this release.
And well what else can I say, We’ve fixed a lot of peoples bugs, issues with the plugin, and have prepared the Plugin for a very VERY exciting NEXT stable version 3.7.6 which is going to have some amazing features, If your interested see Dan talk about WP e-Commerce this weekend at wordcamp NYC! and see why the organizers chose WP e-Commerce to sell tickets on the wordcamp.org website.
If dev@instinct.co.nz has helped you please resolve your issues, do this by marking your forum threads related to any problem you may have had as resolved!
Enough said. Download the latest Plugin and good luck with your online business – may we help generate you all the revenue you desire. In the next couple of days we’ll look at providing some screen shots… stay tuned!
Hi Team. We’ve uploaded the last of the release candidates for your testing – we’ll be releasing WP e-Commerce 3.7.5 this Wednesday. This is your last chance to have a say.
Changes from RC3 to RC4 are as follows:
1. Misc Javascript improvements
2. Flat Rate and Weight Rate improvements
3. HTML Tables can now be added to product descriptions
4. Purchase log bulk actions now work
5. PayPal gateway module fixes and improvements
6. Stock claims are now cleared when the cart is emptied
7. Presentation Settings / Edit Products page improvements
8. Misc Coupons Fixes
9. More slashes stripped from Variation Names
10. Categories widget fixed
A big thanks to everybody that helped contribute to this release.
I’d like to congratulate Eric Hansel for winning our latest thematic theme challenge. Eric did a smashing job on the checkout page and he released the code back to us on time and within the guidelines. As we say here in NZ, on time and on budget.
The saga continues; The threadless theme is ready for the Plugin but the Plugin is not ready for the theme. Eric’s checkout page allows for a lovely looking split checkout process (i.e. step 1 shipping, step 2 billing, step 3 payment) but the current version of the Plugin does not.
The current version of WP e-Commerce supports a one page checkout. This is great for most e-Commerce sites but not for all – for instance the threadless.com checkout process would be too cluttered if they tried to capture all that information on just one page.
The goods news is that the next (next) major release of WP e-Commerce (3.7.6) will indeed come with a much smarter checkout system allowing for split checkout as well as being able to handle different checkout forms for different product categories.
And don’t fret about this release being far away. A trial version of this release will be available in the nightly builds repository within the next few weeks. Keep watching this space. And once again well done Eric!!
I stumbled upon yet another WP e-Commerce Theme today called AppCloud. If you use it please post your comments and reviews here. I think it looks pretty cool.
» View / Download AppCloud Theme
I am pleased to release Crafty Cart 2.0 for public beta testing. This version has been re engineered so that it is more compatible with more recent versions of the WP e-Commerce Plugin.
Please test this theme and add your comments, fixes and suggestions to this post.
To date our weekend theme competitions have been a total success.
They have proven to us all how easy it is to create themes using thematic and it has shown us all how easy it is to style and create WP e-Commerce friendly themes using our new Template Engine.
We’re not ready to release this theme because I’d like to see the checkout page improved – it needs some designer love.
The winner of the ‘third thematic theme weekend competition’ will receive $300 USD to finish off the Threadless theme originally developed by Jan Bocinec from WP.sk.
To get the theme ready for main stream use we have already made a few mods to Jan’s theme, the Threadless inspired theme now uses a php Cipher technique to generate the nice anti-aliased drop down links and we’ve also properly widgetised the theme.
When you install the existing Threadless Theme you will notice that the checkout page is somewhat vanilla. You need to modify the CSS and the Checkout page html so that it looks a bit more flash. Check out the threadless.com checkout page for inspiration.
To edit the checkout page you’ll probably want to start editing these files.
For HTML » shopping_cart_page.php
For CSS » threadless.css
If you have a burning question or you’re a little stuck then post your questions here.
The grand prize is $300.00 (plus any additional community contributions) and possibly a shout out at the New York WordCamp during my presentation. Plus all the fame on our website.
There will be three runner up winners. Each of which who will receive a threadless.com t-shirt voucher.
I’ll admit the prize money isn’t huge, especially if you’re a New York high roller, but for a lot of us $300.00 will come in handy and to be honest this shouldn’t take you more then a weekend. If somebody adds to the prize kitty then you will obviously win more cash.
Because you want to be a WordPress RockStar. The theme will become a GPL theme and you’ll be given all the credit we can give you. We’ll blog about you, we’ll tweet about you and hopefully announce your skills at the next upcoming WordCamp where I’ll be speaking.
You need to test your work, zip it up and then email it to dan [at] instinct.co.nz, I will then forward it to the right people here at Instinct HQ for testing. Also you must use the latest version of the WP e-Commerce Plugin available from our website (currently RC3 in our blog).
The deadline is 31st October midnight UST.
Not only are we sponsoring WordCamp New York, but I will be attending, “and” I have been confirmed as one of the speakers. Of course it goes without saying that I will be talking about and demonstrating the worlds most popular WordPress e-Commerce Plugin.
The WordCamp New York website is a very special website for us. It is the first WordCamp website to use the WP e-Commerce Plugin as a method to sell tickets online. The Ticket Plugin does a lot of cool things – it integrates with gravatars to create a spiffing attendee page, it generates pdf documents that administrators can use to print a list of attendees on the day, plus we have built a range of stats related dashboard widgets so that the organizers can quickly and easily get an overview of how ticket sales are going. I’ll demonstrate all of this on the day during my action packed presentation.
Also I will be arriving in New York on the 12th of November and I will be leaving on the 19th of November, that gives me plenty of time to meet with lots of you. I am interested in discussing e-Commerce and new business ideas – of course I’m also looking forward to making as many new friends as possible and doing as much networking as time permits. So if you want to catch up please send me a note and we’ll arrange something.
See you there!!