Tag Archive for 'e-Commerce'

e-Commerce enters WordPress 2.7

WordPress is involving to 2.7, so will e-Commerce plugin, the new e-Commerce plugin will take advantage of most WordPress 2.7 features, here they are,

1. Favourite action dorpdown, for those who do not know what this is, there will be a new dropdown box in the header section of WordPress admin panel:

2. Help

3. Collapsable and Sortable boxes

4. Visually, new icon decorated menu bar

5. As you can see, the new WordPress admin colour scheme.

Some of these features are already released with 3.6.8 RC2, and more will be revealed in the following realeases.

Some little features in the next RC release

Here are some of the little features will be added into wp-e-commerce plugin in the next release cadidate.

1. Adding variation sets from products page in a thickbox, now you don’t need to go through the hussle to go to the variations page and add the variations and go back to the products page, by clicking on the link “Add new variations”:

then this window will “popup”

Then a new variation checkbox will be added to the page.

2. Table rate price, set a price rate table based on quantity your client is adding to the shopping cart.

3. A new looking of the action section at the bottom of purchase log page.

New WordPress e-Commerce Admin Shop Settings

As the image shown above all the settings of a e-Commerce shop is under only one submenu now, nice new compact looking and ajax enhanced tab switch make your life much easier with settings.

New jQuery enhanced product image management

A new good-looking, user-frindly, jQuery-enhanced product image management functionnality was added to the wp-shopping-cart wordpress plugin, users can upload product page with only one click, and they can set the thumbnail image settings in a “popup”, it will give the product management page a new compact looking, in addition, with gold cart present users will have more easy-to-use experiences with this functionality, they can order product image galleries by just drag and drop them into the right places, and if users want to choose a different product image, they can simply drag the one they wanted to the first place, deleting image is even more simpler, just click on the red cross on the top right corner, for safety reasons I placed a pop up massage box asking if they want to delete the image, then user can make there final decision or click on cancel if they just clicked on the wrong the place.

Screen shots.

Shipping System — step 2

The front end of the new shipping system of Wordpress shopping cart plugin is out now, it is pretty much a list of prices that returned from several shipping modules, now we have four to start with, UPS, USPS, table rate and flat rate, with table rate admins are able to set a shipping price with given total product price in the cart.

Screen shot:

Table rate screenshot

Table rate screenshot

And here is a screenshot of the front end of the shopping cart checkout page:

checkout shipping system screenshot

Checkout shipping system screenshot