WP e-Commerce RC3
Posted March 11, 2011 by jghazally
One week has passed and we have had a few hiccups but nothing too big,, I hope this will be the last RC before the Final stable gets launched as we plan to roll out a few bug fixes into 3.8.1 quite quickly after the launch (say a month compared to 14months!)
Required Changes Made
- Make Dashboard Widgets Show only for administrators
- Tax fixes for Tax Inclusive
- Tax Display Fixes for Your Account pages
- Shipping Same as Billing Fixes
- Fix Product Ordering interfering with Post Ordering in back end
- Fix undefined functions
- Fix Product Importer from not adding default category OR using the Post Status
- Add in allowed XHTML Tags for Product Category Descriptions
- Removed Bulk Edit Product Price and other meta (to be re-implemented for 3.8.1)
- Shortcode for Single Products Page Fix
- Adding additional hooks and filters for packing slips
I would like to thank all the developers and Bug Reporters that have helped us make this the most stable version of 3.8 ever. I look forward to seeing this go stable. However as always:
- Backup Your Database
- Backup your files
- Setup your development server
- Download the RC3
- And test test test!
Bam! Congrats to the team!!
This is an awesome release
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GREAT JOB guys!!
Can’t wait until the stable public release is launched!!
Congratulations!
Looking forward to the final release! People have been asking if Smart Manager supports 3.8, and we are eager to update.
I would suggest to test one of RCs on your testing server (if you have one) and let us know how it goes
We are always keen to hear from other plugins/software/services authors about compatibility 
Just another coelpmte WP newb saying thanks for posting this. lol add another thank you to the pile you’re collecting. Great along with learning WP to begin with of course no tech subject is coelpmte, w/o figuring out how cyber scumballs are using it to terrorize people.It’s karma, karma I tell you !!! All these mile long acronyms and techno jargon are payback for all the terrible things I’ve done ! Sighs, may as well add mass WP hacker attacks and backdoor plugins to the list of things that give me a headache.Anyway, venting concluded, thanks again.MrSmith
Update!
we almost finishing our first theme for WPEC 3.8,
Bangkoo Free WordPress ecommerce theme
http://tokokoo.com/demo/wpec38/bangkoofree/
tomorrow will be release
enjoy it guys
just let me know if you find some bugs, thanks to getshopped team
Awesome theme, Anggi, thanks!
I hope the new version doesn’t clutter the admin pages as the last up-date Version 3.7.8 does.
I don’t mind getting news about WP e-Commerce or RC3 as long as it is not in the way of using the cart admin pages. It is now.
Since moving to a new host is planned, the clutter encourages investigation of an alternate cart solution.
Note: up-dating to Version 3.7.8 also lost a few settings. User settings should be unaffected with any subsequent up-date.
We would encourage you to test this on a backup of your site. Either you’ll like it or you won’t – we certainly hope that you do
Thanks for the feedback, Thomas. In 3.8 all the information is in dashboard widgets, so if you don’t want to see it you can just go to screen settings and hide particular widgets. As for settings backwards compatibility – we are doing our best to keep the settings (and all other backwards compatibility, like themes, merchants, etc..). However 3.8 is so different from 3.7 that it’s almost impossible to have 100% backwards compatibility. 3.8 is also much better than 3.7. Particularly in terms of code quality, so upgrading to minor versions of 3.8 will be painless and no settings will be lost.
I agree with Dan: give it a try on your test server. And after you try it – let us know, if you like it or not and why (especially if you don’t like it, so we would know what do we need to improve)
Carl Franzon October 3rd, 2011 10:21 am If I am not intending to tsbdriiute my plugin but simply want to add some custom functions, such as custom post types. I want to keep those separate so that as I change themes, I don’t lose everything. I have seen it done as you describe, creating a plugin but I have also see it done in functions.php, adding a line something like:require_once ($functions_path . customfunctions.php’);and then you create a separate customfunctions.php which contains all of the special functions (or alternatively each function could be in its own file)Is one way or the other a better practice?
This may not be the best place to post it, but I can’t register to post on your forum because emails from your site cannot reach me
“Total Shipping” and “Total” in transaction results emails don’t get translated on my installation (WP e-Commerce 3.8 RC3). This is what I did to fix it (wpsc-transaction_results_functions.php, lines 237-240).
$total_shipping_email.= __( ‘Total Shipping’, ‘wpsc’ ).sprintf(‘: %s’, wpsc_currency_display( $total_shipping, array( ‘display_as_html’ => false ) ) );
$total_price_email.= __( ‘Total’, ‘wpsc’ ).sprintf(‘: %s’, wpsc_currency_display( $total, array( ‘display_as_html’ => false ) ));
Same thing with $total_shipping_html and $total_price_html in lines 255-257. Line 259 also looks suspicious…
You are probably just using old POT (PO) file. I will update it before doing RC4.
Thanks for your reply. It makes sense. There’s no official translation for my language (polish), so I’m using an unofficial one I found on the internet and edited.
I tried uploading the RC3 and when I activate it, it becomes a “broken theme”
I get the message:
Broken Themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
wp-e-commerce Stylesheet is missing.
It’s a plugin, not a theme. I suspect that you have uploaded it to wp-content/themes. try uploading it to wp-content/plugins instead.
Thanks.
But several languages (qTranslate) are still not working!
e-commerce always changes to default language!
I would suggest to try WPML. It plays nicely with wp-e-commerce.
change qTranslate to WPML is now is too late!
Is very much to change
Hey Justin,
I have some good news, it seems that a plugin called “Theme My Login” is compatible with your plugins, there is almost a seemless integration. Since you have my backend details – login and logout, have a look as you will probably find it goes a long way to almost making the site a nice little membership side to it similar to the Deal A Day sites your emulating.
Wrong post
But yay for compatibility!
Hey Richard. That sounds cool. Any chance you can send us a link to see that?
Hey Dan,
Just click on my name it will take you to the site where I have been messing around with the plugins, GD Beta 3 & WP – Ecommerce RC 3, the registration & login are visable under the deal stats on the side bar, once you have registered you can login & out, I only need to add a link to the account page (redirected on login atm) and also remove the link to the dashboard and we have a nice little members area
– If there are no transactions on the profile it won’t display the transaction history on the account page (for obvious reasons). Apart from those minor things it is a fully compatible plugin!
Its very awesome to see Group Deals running on your site mate!!!
#proudmoment
Thanks Dan,
While it is live and can be purchased, it is only a product I purchased exclusive rights to, thought it would be better to have something on the site then nothing
– The real stuff begins when looking for new suppliers and building a base of subscribers/buyers 
Hello everyone, I am glad to see an tpuade, and I am glad that you are improving things, thank you for giving me the chance to have my own social network!So far, all the improvements, are great, esp., if I am reading correctly that as an admin I can go and change members photos to something besides a default pic., because when too many members have that, it seems to encourage others to follow suite, very annoying lol.I will be one of the members that will be switching to a paid plan once you make those available! I am excited about that, and in the mean time, until you are able to make that happen I am just trying to get more quality members, best regards!
What specifically are you fixing for the Tax issues?
My issue is that the user must register in order to display tax on the checkout page. Does this release fix it so that the user can be registered or unregistered and see the tax?
I’m not sure and it hasn’t been explained properly in the docs why the user must register in order to see the tax info in their order total.
Tony Zeoli
The tax should be displayed no matter if you are logged in or not. Check out the new RC3 on your test server, it’s pretty cool. Also RC4 is coming soon, and stable after that. If you see any glitches – let us know.
Hey Tony. That is pretty strange – we’ve never “intentionally” made the Plugin do that. I agree with Valentinas, you should give RC3 a whirl and let us know what you think…. Also if you remember, you’re a part of the reason the Digital Downloader was made in the first place, so please give it a whirl and let us know what you think!!
Link > http://staging.getshopped.org/news/new-plugin-digital-downloader-is-now-available-of-alpha-testing/
I must admit, after taking about two years to get the last buggy one working properly I am so reluctant to change it ever again. There was no support or anything which is very poor by todays standards. Is there going to be this time? I think people would agree that that should be made perfect before any new products are released
Hey Dan!
Ha ha. Yeah, I am the part of the reason. That is true. I will certainly test it on my new Netmix site I’m launching soon. It will be nice to have a digital download store on that site.
As far as the tax issue goes, I guess I must not have it set up correctly then. The tax only displays in checkout when set user must register to check out. I will test the release candidate 3 on my test blog and see what I can come up with.
I’m hoping the documentation project clears up the confusion about how to set the shopping cart to display tax without forcing the user to register. Not sure why it’s doing that for me.
Here is the site we are building: http://s111576.gridserver.com/ It’s a retail fashion site.
I’ll be at WordCamp Raleigh. Hope to see you guys there. I actually moved to Chapel Hill and am running a major WordPress network project, ReeseNews.org.
Good luck with RC4 and then subsequent launch.
Tony
Hello
Do you have a date for the final release (before first April or after ?)
Regards,
Ludo
Is anyone else experiencing the issue where the admin menu on the left hand side for the store disappears? I installed 3.7 (current stable version) and then upgraded to the beta to find that the menu in the WordPress admin pane has vanished.
Any ideas?
I had the same problem with version 3.7 but was fixed when updating to 3.8
the problem I am having is I keep getting no page found errors, so am rebuilding a few product pages new since this is a site in progress and unpublished right now. also, when clicking on specific categories on the product page, I do not even get the 404 page not found on the site, I get a browser page not found… should not there be a statement on page, no products in category as before….
hi
I need the language files in German and Spanish.
Where can I download these files?
Thanks.
http://languages.getshopped.org/projects/wp-e-commerce
When, approximately, will be RC4 and Stable be out? I’m trying to set up an online business, and I’m stuck between this and another plugin – but I wanna use this one, but it’s not stable and it sticks /store/ in the URL
Michael, what’s the other one that doesn’t put /store/ in the url?
eShop doesn’t put anything in the URL – it just attaches to your posts (or pages). It’s pretty good, but I think WPeC 3.8 is better. I just wish it didn’t stick /store/ in the damn URL and make permalink editing not work.
Hello,
I’ve just noticed that in the Specials Widget, every item always shows product thumbnails and links of its (variation) parent. Look at the functions wpsc_the_product_thumbnail and wpsc_the_product_image in /wpsc-includes/products-template.php
$product_id value is overwritten by the parent’s id, shouldn’t it be the opposite?
I guess this check could take place BEFORE so it would get the stuff from the parent only if there is no particular content.
I know this feature could not properly be considered as a bug, but the issue becomes really annoying in conjunction with additional WPEC extension plugins such as Group Deals, where the deal (product) parent = vendor.
I get this warning after activated the WP E-Commerce RC 3 :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’, expecting ‘)’ in /home/creat39/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-includes/category.functions.php on line 238
Is that a bug?
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I’ve been testing this latest beta pretty extensively and have found just one bug. For the single product displays, the image is using the wrong width setting.
In wpsc-single_product.php I had to change
wpsc_the_product_thumbnail(get_option(‘product_image_width’),get_option(‘product_image_height’),”,’single’);
to
wpsc_the_product_thumbnail(get_option(‘single_view_image_width’),get_option(‘single_view_image_height’),”,’single’);
Thought you should know
i followed all the iurtsnctions properly yet i get an error message in my admin page. Something like : Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/avnerunl/public_html/demo/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-admin/admin.php on line 585. What is the possible problem?
Hi
I am going to use 3.8 for a new store that I need to start working on in the next week or two. When do you guys reckon the stable public version will be released? I am about to download RC3, but there is a theme I want to use and those developers say that they will release 3.8 compatible version just after 3.8 final released . . .
I can’t wait to use 3.8!
Thanks!
Hi there
A couple of queries about 3.8.
Using a custom shortcode tag in the visual editor or additional description box to output some html -shows up ok in the products page but the single product page displays the shortcode tag?
Also is there any way to set a default variation for a product rather than having ‘please select’ – you used to be able to do this by creating the default variation first. – also the ‘from’ that appears before the price even when the variation prices are the same?
Any ideas?
>> is there any way to set a default variation for a product rather than having ‘please select’
I am also looking for a solution for this….
and @Mike Dee
>> “the ‘from’ that appears before the price even when the variation prices are the same?
I found a solution here: http://staging.getshopped.org/forums/topic.php?id=19422
Basically append the code (below) to the file “functions.php”:
* wpsc_remove_from_for_variations
* this removes the ‘from’ text in the price for variations
**/
function wpsc_remove_from_for_variations($from){
return ”;
}
add_filter(‘wpsc_product_variation_text’,'wpsc_remove_from_for_variations’);
Hi Cobra
I had written a bit of code to strip the ‘from’ text out, but this is a much neater solution – thanks for sharing
Cheers
Your welcome Mike. I will repost if I find a solution for:
>> is there any way to set a default variation for a product rather than having ‘please select’
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