WP e-Commerce 3.8.6 Released
Hi everyone,
We’re excited to announce out latest 3.8.6 release! With this version, we’re now completely compatible with WPML. By using WP e-Commerce and WPML together, you can easily translate product descriptions and categories into other languages without having to create multiple products for each language. The URL structure is also flexible for you to modify it to suit with your languages.
3.8.6 also include improvements and bug fixes for variation handling. You’ll notice that editing variations is now much faster (we cut 66% of unnecessary database queries). For more information you can read the full changelog.
We’d like to thank Amir and Mihai for WPML integration, and Ben Huson, Paul, Delingren, eggProjec, John Beales and Taran Hubbert for helping us patching bugs. WPEC is an open-source effort, and we’re happy to see contributors pouring in their support in the form of code and patches. Please head to our Google Code site and help us out with the issues whenever you can! For those of you who prefer it, we also have some mirror on github.com.
As always, before upgrading, make sure you have a backup of your files and database. You do it for WordPress. You do it for BuddyPress. Please do it for WP e-Commerce too!
Upgrading now! Changelog on WordPress Extend needs a clean up, it’s all in a single paragraph. My patches for price hooks and filters didn’t make it into 3.8.6
https://code.google.com/p/wp-e-commerce/issues/detail?id=623
Running 3.8.6 on Visser Labs, working sweet. Nice work team!
Glade to hear that!
Will put your patches into the next wpec – I know you have been waiting a while sorry they slipped through
The support forum doesn’t seem to work, so I’ll use the only contact possibility you have: Comments in posts.
My API key doesn’t work, how can I reset it or reactivate it. I get the “Sorry, the API key was incorrect.” error message.
sounds like you have a few problems here send me an email michelle@instinct.co.nz and ill see if I can help you resolve these.
Michelle
Wow. Just updated. Have to meet with the client this afternoon. Can no longer uploaded images to products!
Error: Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in ….wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/includes/display-items-functions.php on line 1018
Your forums are defunct. I assume you know that. I’ve recommended this plugin many times in the past, have been a supporter even when times got rough in the switch to 3.8
You’re on the right track, just please have beta releases for each sub version! My clients are update happy and will update as soon as it tells them to. However it seems like the WPEC updates keep breaking.
i apologize, i retract my statement. It actually wasnt a plugin error. Just a coincidence that this started happening as I upgraded… It was an issue with the image metadata. I apologize!
Hi Paul
How did you solve that issue? I have the same problem..
In this case where the page for each category had the category name eg “Clothing” ,the category title has now been replaced with the title of the most recent product in that category.
Damn this sucks! I wish your change log could also list the bugs that are introduced with each version.
(and +1 to Paul’s comments above)
Hi marc,
We are looking into this now for you but is not something we can recreate on our sites.
There is a fix for that here: http://getshopped.org/forums/topic/product-title-is-been-displayed-instead-of-the-category-title/
If you need a hand implementing it let me know in the mean time we will keep working on the bug you report, what theme are you using?
Mychelle, The parent theme is Genesis by StudioPress
Mychelle, I appreciate your assistance, but the shop had been working acceptably with the current theme for over two months, from WPeC 3.8.2 through 3.8.5.
This morning the 3.8.6 release came out I updated it 3.8.6 and the title error occurred. This is the only upgrade or change that occurred. That would make this seem to be an issue of Instinct making a change that is non-standard for WP themes. Why can not the fix be part of WPeC?
Hi Marc,
I accepted that this is a problem with wp-e-com and not your theme I pointed you to that solution as I am unsure how long it will take before the fix for your problem will be released as another update.
If your happy to wait until we can recreate the bug, fix it and get another version together then thats fine – I just thought that you might want a quick fix for now to get your store back how it was.
Thanks for providing your theme name I will start looking into recreating this bug now.
Hopefully we can get it sorted and fixed ASAP.
Thanks
Mychelle, Since Genesis is a premium theme and a true framework I would be glad to forward a copy to you if you wish.
Mychelle, I’d like to comment here since, as others have stated, the forums seem to need some work. I’ve installed 3.8.6 and am noticing an issue where the order of my form fields on the checkout tab don’t seem to take no matter how many times I drag and drop to change the order. Any fix available for this? Also, just something I found out quite by accident after hours of wondering what was going on. Apparently, I can’t add more than 5 checkboxes to a formfield. The moment I do, the checkboxes disappear from the page and when I come back into the checkout tab to investigate, the options I entered are gone. Odd.
Thank you for your time. My butt is on the line with this client and if I can’t get this fixed within the next few days, I’ll have to search for another solution and spend two more weeks catching up, thus loosing my profit margin and rep.
Regards,
Shane
Hi Shane,
Add your form fields and save the checkout form before you start ordering them – this should work.
The new fields need to be saved before they can be ordered.
As for devs we have a list of them here: http://getshopped.org/resources/wp-consultants/
however if you would like me to recommend some to you that I know then you can contact me michelle@instinct.co.nz – let me know how you get on with your custom form ordering to.
Getting this error now
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/content/42/5742742/html/remix/index.php:2) in /home/content/42/5742742/html/remix/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-core/wpsc-constants.php on line 17
The Changelog http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/changelog/ supposed to be in bullets form?
Doh!
all fixed – just give WP repo a little while to catch up with the change
Just wonder will this upgrade mess up my current ecommerce? Previously was a mess but I have a backup then.
Hi Eric,
make a backup of your database and your site and you will be fine to update this is just a minor update so you should be fine but make a backup of everything just to be safe!
Thanks Mychelle!
Is that the only way to backup my wpec? I mean whole site back up. Or back up the database will be fine? Cos the whole site back up is huge!
I downloaded current .zip its missing css, wp is saying broken theme is missing css. any ideas?
ha i forgot this was a plugin not a theme.
I just updated as well and found that the cart only shows a quantity of “1″. When a user enters a quantity of more than 1 of the same item, the cart will still only show “1″.
Just upgraded to 3.8.6 and the individual product pages are now missing the “add to cart” default button, the photo and the additional description. I haven’t done any customization yet, so almost everything is on default. The product preview page works fine, it’s just when you look at the individual product that things are missing. Any ideas?
Have your say…I am having the same problem, all my pictures disappeared on the product page after the upgrade. I can still see the image on my products page, but once you click on the individual page, the images are not shown, but I do see them in the manage images section in the admin panel. Please help
Having the same problem. When I create a new Product page I stream in the text and there is no add to cart information. If I duplicate existing pages and edit them the add to cart that was originally there remains. WP 3.2.1 and Weaver 2.2.4. prior to the upgrade everything was sweet.
Having the same problem regarding the single product page. No images, no button, just the description text. No solution yet?
Back to normal with 3.8.5…
Hi Kowens, have you been able to resolve this issue cause I am having the same problem and can’t seem to find an answer! How frustrating!!!
Overall I’m pleased with the 3.8.6 version; we’ve just started our WPEC shop and it all looks good. However, we’re having a major problem with the fact that SKUs are not passed on to Paypal, since we use a post-Paypal script that requires the SKU information. Has anyone figured out a way to force WP E-Commerce to send the item SKUs to Paypal? Alternately, is there a way to remove WPEC’s “Add to Cart” and “Buy Now” buttons and replace them with Paypal-generated buttons (since Paypal-created buttons already contain the SKU numbers)?
Hmmm this would be a new feature. Its not a bug. I’ll talk to the team about a way to do it in a future release – we’re pretty busy right now though. So if anybody wants to write a patch for that I’m happy to contribute financially
Hi Robin
I have the same problem regarding how to remove the WPEC ‘Add to Cart’ and ‘Buy now’ buttons now that I’ve integrated Paypal. It looks ridiculous having two set of buttons but I’ve spent hours trying to make them invisible using coding but as yet to no avail.
If you received a solution, I would be so grateful to hear it!
Many thanks
Hi again Robin
Just tried something else and hey presto it works!
Don’t know if this is useful but in Appearance, Editor, wpsc-products_page.php, I entered ‘img src=”" style=”display:none” ‘ here:
Joanna
I wonder if it is compatible with the freight calculation module of the post of Brazil. Here’s a link to the PHP file of the post office to inform me. My shop is working, but I am afraid to change and have problems.
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I need help, I upgraded and now none of my pictures in the product page show up, looked everywhere for a resolution to no avail. Please help….
Hi centralcloseout, did you find a fix for your product images disappearing on your product pages? Mine are gone too, plus the add to cart button is missing and my shipping isn’t being added at checkout! Any help would b great. I have tried emailing support, but haven’t heard back!!
Unfortunately I was not able to resolve any of the problems I encountered when I upgraded. I ended up reverting back to the previous version which was working. Hope you find a resolution. I personally am very disappointed with this plug-in.
As mentionned above, I have the same issue and had to go back to 3.8.5. But… I need 3.8.6 for the WPML support. Does someone from the WP e-commerce staff know what to do to fix this issue ? Any help would be greatly appreciated…
As mentionned above, I also had the same issue and had to go back to 3.8.5, but I need 3.8.6 for the WPML support. Does someone from the WP e-commerce team know what to do to fix this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated…
I could not get subcategories to display on Categories pages on my store. So, I have just upgraded to WordPress 3.2.1 and WP eComm 3.8.6…using the Thesis Theme. Now, not only do the subcategories not work, but variations have stopped working as well. Has anyone tried this combination…with Thesis?
Tomorrow is my deadline for getting this site up. I will pay real dollars for some help. If you can help, please contact me: catherine@catmorrisodonnell.com
Hi . I’m developing one of my e-commerce website in wordpress. I’m getting problem about payment gateways. Could you please help me out to use my payment gateways (paymobile, moneybookers, moneygram, western union) in Wp-e-commerce or any other idea about my payment gateways.
looking forward to hear from you !
Thank You
Mychele, Could you guys post a “trusted developer” list so that people such as myself who’ve gotten their store 99% of the way there but need help with fixing some buggy issues? That would be a huge help.
Thank you for your time,
Shane
3.8.6 Release will show coupons deduction in checkout but won’t apply in Paypal page
The ‘billingstate’ issue on the checkout form is still an issue for me. ‘Billingstate’ doesn’t show up under ‘billing’ it shows up under ‘shipping instead’. This has been a problem for me all along through every update. Please can somebody tell me how to sort this out? It is VERY frustrating and also very confusing for customers. This is my only gripe with the plug-in otherwise I think it is great! Would be good if Royal Mail postage in the UK could be added somehow too without having to do it manually!
Im using paypal standard and after checkout has been completed i cannot see what coupon has been used. Anyone know where i would find this information?
why does description and additional description strip html or any short-codes? cant add no video, no short-codes from any plugins, no html. whats the fix or work around for this?
That coupons thing dont work … it shows the discount… but when pay trought paypal the client pay the full ammount …
Hey -
Due to many confusing issues during setup and some random, sporadic missing information from my product and category pages, I have yet to update to the latest version. Based on the issues I’m reading here, appears I made a good decision!
Currently, I am confused as to why the SKU isn’t passed along to PayPal. In it’s place is an auto-generated Item # from the plug-in. For transaction processing and order fulfillment post-payment gateway, this makes no sense. Also, following an extensive online search, I see this has been a HUGE request on this and many other e-commerce platforms…and seldom (if ever) is the issue commented on in the platforms forums (including yours). What gives?
This seems like a VERY SIMPLE solution user either/or code in the gateway PHP and adding a button to trigger on the gateway selection screen in WP E-Commerce. I’m not a code wizard, but something tells me this one isn’t rocket science…but for some us…it’s the fuel that propels the rocket. C’mon folks – SKU #’s are a defacto standard in commerce sales, tracking and fulfillment.
Get ‘er done already!!!!!!
Finally…I realize this is a “FREE” platform and I’m appreciative. However, it’s the LACK of obvious features in either free or paid versions that is KEEPING ME FROM UPGRADING to 2-3 of your paid products…
Trust happens at the front door…not the back.
Thanks – climbing off my soapbox now.
Jason
http://www.laidbackusa.com
And…
I forgot to mention the “coupon” info being passed to PayPal as well. Providing customers with discounts only to be negated “post checkout” is embarrassing and unprofessional at best.
I’d say issues such as this for CUSTOMERS / USERS of WP E-Commerce should be PRIORITY fixes — Without release until the FIX is proven.
-jk
hi i want to know that i have 2co merchant gateway ..is this pluggin support 2co gateway??
Soo… any chance we’ve gotten the solution for the product images and Add to Cart button missing on single product pages? I’m going to start hacking. With an axe. Please let me know if you know!
kthnxbai
elli
Buy now button has gone missing so my shop doesn’t work at all. Meanwhile, if I try to change store settings I get constant error messages such as:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/agreenmo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/settings-page.php on line 653
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/agreenmo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/settings-page.php:653) in /home/agreenmo/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881
Please help – it’s urgent as my shop is completely inactive at the moment.
Hi Sophie,
Did you upgrade or change anything in your store? These sort of things don’t just go missing however take a look on your presentation settings page and make sure you have not turned off or hidden the buy now button.
If you have run an upgrade or changed anything can you provide any info in to what? might give us a few more clues and we could give you some better advice.
Thanks
Michelle
O sorry for the double comment I forgot to mention these errors have been fixed in the next release due shortly. However the messages displayed are only warnings you can tell your server to not display these and only log them to your error logs but putting the following code in your config.php file
ini_set('display_errors',0);Michelle