WordPress eStore Plugin Change Log
Categories: Installation and Usage

Current stable version number details of our products can found on the Version Info Page.
WordPress eStore v6.0 Change Log
- Added an option to specify a number of products to show for each category when using the category fancy shortcode
- Added IP address capture option for every customer in the customers database
- Added a shortcode to display purchase history with product download option (Useful for eStore and eMember use)
- Ability to use a text link for a Buy Now button. Example: http://www.your-domain.com/?wp_eStore_buy_now=2 (this can be used to post a link on your facebook or twitter page)
- Added an option to disable the double opt-in email confirmation feature for MailChimp Autoresponder.
- Made the package product download option more robust so you are allowed to nest package product inside another package product or a multi-part product.
- Added an option to allow the admin to sort the products or categories by their name in the admin dashboard.
- Ability to make a product tax exempt even when using the PayPal profile based tax option.
- Added an email tag to include the shipping variation selected by the user in the email. {shipping_option_selected}
- Enhanced the download now shortcode to work with digital variation
- Enhanced the authorize.net post payment processing check to include the failure reason (if any) in the transaction result display.
- Added an option whereby the admin can choose to automatically shorten the encrypted download URL to make it look cleaner.
- Added the ability to specify a commission override on a per product basis when using the revenue sharing option
- Added the ability to POST the PayPal IPN to a 3rd party script which can be used for additional 3rd party integration purpose.
- Satellite Affiliate plugin integration option
- Added the “Do Not Award Commission if Coupon Used” feature
- Ability to left or right align the checkout button section in the shopping cart via CSS.
- Ability to specify the variation addition symbol to your liking (by default it is the “+” sign but you can make it whatever you like)
- Ability to POST the payment notification (IPN) to an external URL/script for all payment gateway (previously this was only available to PayPal gateway)
- When shipping variation is used it will always prompt the customer to hit the “Update” button at least once to adjust the selected shipping choice.
- Ability to specify multiple notification email address (the plugin can notify multiple email addresses after each sale)
- Added a new email tag {product_link_digital_items_only} This will only list the products links for digital items in the shopping cart.
- Made the pagination section for products more user friendly and customizable via CSS
- Ability to hide the quantity in the shopping cart. Helpful if you are selling digital items only.
- Download now button also tracks the sales/inventory counter
- Added Mod X-Sendfile method for file download
- Changing quantity or removing items after a coupon is applied won’t reset the cart anymore.
- Added more email tags {total_tax}, {total_shipping}, {total_minus_total_tax}
- Quantity limit per customer for individual product (this need to go to the features page).
- Quantity limit per shopping cart checkout for an individual customer.
- Changed how the revenue sharing calculation is calculated when affiliate campaign is used together.
- Ability to use the email tags in the email subject area too.
- New shortcode for recent products list
- New shortcode for random products list
- New shortcode for popular products list
- Added Some Charts in the stats menu
- Additional security check for free product download option (check the “Enforce Zero Price Checking on Free Product Download” option in the eStore settings)
- Digital variation robustness when used in conjunction with normal variation
- Upgraded the look and feel of the checkout redirection to the payment gateway
- Ability to specify a minimum and maximum cart amount checkout limitation value
- Ability to place the manual checkout form on a WordPress post or page
- Fixed commission per transaction option
- Ability to display the links on the thank you page for Authorize.net and Manual transactions (the same way PayPal transactions work).
- Ability to add reCAPTCHA on the squeeze form.
- Fixed analytic bug with Yoast’s Google Analytics Plugin
WordPress eStore v5.0 Change Log
- Added the ability to specify product specific commission for tier2
- Ability for the customer to enter a price they wish to pay for the product
- Added a new shortcode to display a list of latest products (recently added products)
- Added an option to copy the details of an existing customer when manually entering details of a new customer
- Added the option to display products from a category using any of the fancy display options
- Added an option whereby you can sort the product displays from a category
- Added a few different download methods for sites having download issues
- Ability to clean the encrypted download links table by performing bulk delete
- Added the option to use PayPal’s PDT feature to display the links on the thank you page
- Added CSS class for the variation select boxes so it can be customized with CSS
- Added an option for shipping variation
- Added support for Multiple categories per product (you can now assign more than one category for a product)
- Added option to display Terms and conditions checkbox for buy now and subscription type buttons
- Added option to display multiple product image in lightbox
- Added Fancy6 display option in the extra shortcodes plugin
- Added Fancy7 display option in the extra shortcodes plugin
- Added Fancy8 display option in the extra shortcodes plugin
- Added more download method option in the “AddOn Settings” tab
- Added a check to verify if a specified Image URL is valid when creating or updating products
- Manual payment gateway displays a summary of the items a customer is checking out
- If using with WP eMember (WordPress membership plugin) then the manual checkout will auto fill in the form with the logged in member’s details
- Added an option to reset the settings options to default
- Added an option to reset the sales data so you can reset all the test transactions before going live
- Amazon S3 Integration so that the downloadable files can be stored on Amazon S3
- NextGen gallery auto integration for “Add to Cart” type buttons
- Ability to capture lead on squeeze form submission (check under the addon settings menu)
- Ability to automatically create affiliate accounts for buyers after purchase
- Ability to specify an old price for a product (the old price is displayed as a slashed out price in some fancy displays)
- Added an option to specify an expiry date for a coupon
WordPress eStore v4.0 Change Log
- Google Analytics e-Commerce tracking
- Ability to display purchase history of members when used with the WordPress Membership plugin
- NextGen gallery alternate integration
- Added smart thumbnail options. If your product thumbnail images look a little bit squashed then this feature will fix that issue.
- Ability to POST PayPal IPN data to a external script (Can be used to integrate with the Memberwing plugin)
- Better checkout flow with an option of using fancy redirection to the payment gateway.
- Ability to track coupon per transaction
- W3 Total Cache Integration
- Fancy 3 display
- Fancy 4 display
- MemberWing Plugin Integration
- Limit download by number of download count
- Option to add customers to the database for manual checkout
- Changed the look and feel of the checkout redirection page.
- The product name, customer’s address and phone number also gets stored in the customer’s database
- PDF Stamper integration
- Added variation control options for “Buy Now” and “Subscription” type buttons
- Added GetResponse autoresponder inegration
- Option to only allow logged in members to checkout when used with WordPress Membership plugin to create an Amazon site type checkout system.
- Added a fancy display option for the shopping cart.
- Added order summary display option on the Manual checkout page.
- Added an option to add product download links to the email that gets sent after the manual checkout.
- Added built-in tax option
- Ability to setup a revenue sharing site
- TinyMCE butons to insert shortcodes
- Added the option to display a quantity text box with the add to cart button.
- Ability to display the product prices in a secondary currency side by side your primary currency (this is for display purpose only… the actual transaction will use the primary currency)
WordPress eStore v3.0 Change Log
- Added the option to add product specific instructions for buyers on a per product basis (the instruction gets appended to the main email body).
- Added a new shortcode that allows you to display a category with name, thumbnail and description (Refer to the eStore Shortcodes page).
- Added an option to display the Compact cart in the sidebar widget (useful for sites with narrow sidebar)
- Added the thumbnail display option in the “Manage Products” page for easy product identification.
- Added the “One Time Commission for Subscription Payment” option (Check under the Addon Settings tab).
- Option to upload product details from a CSV file using the WP CSV to DB plugin.
- Added Itemized sale stats in the “Stats” menu.
- Fixed some other minor bugs.
WordPress eStore v2.9 Change Log
- Product names can now be linked to another page when using the fancy display options.
- Product details copy option to copy an existing product.
- WishList Members plugin can be integrated through the settings menu of the plugin (3rd party integration tab).
- Added an option whereby a customer can enter an “Affiliate ID” in the shopping cart to give reward to an affiliate
- Added the capability to link the “Affiliate ID” field with the coupons table so customers entering an “Affiliate ID” in the shopping cart will also be able to receive a discount
- Added an option in the “manual checkout settings” section to turn on or off automatic commission awarding for manual checkout.
- Now a custom page style name can be specified in the paypal gateway settings section to allow custom template checkout page
- Upselling feature (a textarea in the discounts feature where the admin can put in some coupon codes which the customers only get after a checkout).
- Fixed an issue whereby subscription payment wasn’t sending quantity value so available qty didn’t change
WordPress eStore v2.5 – v2.8 Change Log
- Added a feature so downloadable goods can be delivered on the “Thank You” page after payment. See the instructions page to learn more.
- Ability to display the shopping cart in your own language.
- Added a trigger text that allows the shopping cart to be placed on a checkout page and it displays empty cart (add it to the shortcodes post)
- Added the capability to use the WordPress’s mailing system
- Ajax/JQuery powered squeeze page type form
- Be able to automatically redirect to Checkout page after add to cart button is clicked
- Fix quantity to not update when it is more than the available copies
- Ability to take customer input for special instructions
- Ability to offer multiple file downloads per product
- Fixed it so the Admin function link generation works for package products and muli part files
- The buy now and subscription buttons display normal buttons when the button image is not specified
- Shopping cart multi-language support
- Paginate and Search capability for Customer display list (also added transaction id, date etc display)
- Better product search capability – Partial search for products and customers
- Price round to two digit so PayPal doesn’t have issue after coupon code is applied
- Wishlist plugin integration for “Add to Cart” and “Buy Now” buttons.
- Added a 4th variation option
- The instruction/customer input field is customizable
- Added a second fancy product display option
- AWeber Integration
- Added PayPal profile based shipping capability (You can now use weights for products and specify weight based shipping in your paypal profile)
- Sell different products in different currencies from one site when using the “Buy Now” type buttons.
- Added Redeemable coupon option (also displays a message when you apply a coupon)
- Did some sopping cart beautification
- Ability to link the thumbnail image to any URL
- Ability to make the add to cart button redirect to a URL rather than adding the product to the cart (useful when you don’t sell your own products)
- Ability to customize the ruturn button text after payment on paypal
- Added manual checkout option
- Added 2checkout option. Read the payment gateway instructions page to learn more.
- Option to place a “Continue shopping” link in the cart
- Auto customer record reversal upon refund
- WP eStore can now be integrated with iDev Affiliate Software
- WP eStore can now be integrated with JROX JAM Affiliate Software
- Added shortcodes to display sales and available copy counter
- The plugin now sends email to the admin when payment verification fails
- Added a few options for automatic Free Shipping Discount
- Added conditional coupon option
- Added option to display category list like the fancy product display
WordPress eStore v2.4 Change Log
- Product categorization (ability to categorize products and display all products from that category)
- Ability to configure a “Subscription” button for any type of subscription payment.
- Variation control for digital product (digital delivery of different files depending on the selection)
- LightBox effect on product display images (Just click on a thumbnail image to see how it works).
- Ability to setup “Buy Now” type buttons with different PayPal email address (per button basis). Useful on a multi-author blog where different authors can setup “Buy Now” buttons with their products and get the money directly into their PayPal account.
- Add/edit products page face lift
- WPMU options page fix
- Added more security checks in the post-payment processing handling script.
- Ability to insert HTML (eg. URL of a page) in the product description field (Useful when you want to link to a detailed description page for that product).
WordPress eStore v2.3 Change Log
- Added Coupon Code/Discounts Feature (How to Use Coupons / Discounts in WP eStore)
- Added variation control feature (How to use variation control in a product)
- Ability to offer product specific affiliate commission when using with the WP Affiliate Platform plugin.
- Added a stats page to display some basic stats (I will add more stats and graphs in a future release)
- Option to display a link to the products/shop page in the shopping cart widget when the cart is empty.
- Added Subscription option.
- Added an empty Cart button in the shopping cart.
- Display the product name of each product next to the encrypted link in the email.
- When using the stylish display it shows the Available Quantities of that product if specified.
- Ability to use an image to display the empty shopping cart instead of just plain text (Shopping cart empty).
- Fixed a bug whereby refund was issuing another email.
- Tidied up the Pagination on the display all products page a little bit.
- Tidied up some labels
- Fixed some minor bugs and tightened some validation checking for more security.
WordPress eStore V2.2 Change Log
- Added the capability to configure packaged/bundled products from the existing products (How to Configure bundled product).
- Products can now be configured with a thumbnail image and a description and can be displayed in a stylish way with a trigger text (Display product in a stylish way).
- A list of all products can be displayed on a page in a stylish way through the use of a trigger text (Display a list of all the products).
- Added an option so the download URL can be customized (How to Customize the download URL).
- Added an option so the plugin can be run in Sandbox mode (for PayPal sandbox testing) with one tick (Running the plugin in sandbox mode).
- Added pagination in the manage products screen. This will help anyone who has configured a lot of products by splitting the page into smaller pages (eg. displays 20 products per page).
- Added product search option from the Manage products screen.
- Added a minor tweak so the return page from PayPal doesn’t show the POST data in the URL.
- Removed the Currency field from the Add/Edit products menu (This value is now derived from the settings menu globally).
- Fixed the hardcoded $ (currency) sign in display all products.
- Fixed a bug whereby the squeeze page was not working in Internet Explorer.
WordPress eStore V2.1 Change Log
- Integrated with the WP Affiliate Platform Plugin.
- Some minor code refactoring.
WordPress eStore V2.0 Change Log
- Added a Customer Database (When a Customer purchases an Item the Name and Email address goes to the database)
- Individual return URL for ‘Buy Now’ type buttons (Each ‘Buy Now’ buttons can have a different return URL to the one specified in the settings menu)
- Ability to offer a ‘Squeeze Page’ type free product download option (This can be used to let the visitors download a free digital product after they fill in their name and email address. Very effective for email list building)
- Capability to limit the maximum number of copies to be sold for a specific product (Useful when you only want to sell 50 copies of a product for example)
- Added shipping calculation capability (Useful for non-digital products)
- Added a counter for ‘sales count’ for each product (Useful to find out how many copies of a product has been sold)
- Some other minor additions









July 8th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Does anyone know of a script or plugin that will put the images a user selects more than one in their cart into a zip archive to download as one file instead of multiple files? Or could this functionality be added to the next version of this plugin?
July 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Hi,
thanks for the new version. I will be sending you an email about problems and suggestions I’m experiencing. Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for making my suggestion about the number of products to display available.
July 9th, 2009 at 6:37 am
@Paul, I think I understand what you want but unfortunately the WP eStore doesn’t do that. If you can clarity the requirements a little bit more and post it on the WP eStore feature requests post then I will consider add it in a future release.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:53 am
awesome
thank you
August 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I updated a few minutes ago from version 2.2
Its realy great what you have done. Aspecialy the variation option is great.
But i would like an option to put more than one files to a produkt, in a way that the user can download a large file of maybe 1 GB in 50 files of 20 MB, i think this would be very usefull. Or is it doable withe the digital variation option ?
August 19th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Hi Jan, Glad to hear that you like the new version… I am working on a solution that will allow you to use a large file that is broken into multiple files
August 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Hi,
I have tired your new subscribe feature and I can not get it to work. Is the some thing I am missing.
thanks
amanda
August 20th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Hi,
i worked it out.I just needed to add [wp_eStore_subscribe:product_id:PRODUCT-ID:end]
Sorry for that
amanda
August 24th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Hello again,
i tried to make a free product,
but every time i want to make the test download the script told me there are some errors in line 21 or 121 in dividing by zero or something like that.
I think that is not the way the script should run. Whats going wrong ?
Jan
August 24th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Hi Jan, I have a feeling you didn’t save the settings in the settings menu after making some changes. Please do so and let me know how you go.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
How can you tell which version of the script you are using?
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
@James, From the title of the settings menu of the plugin or from the plugins menu of wordpress.
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am
Hi,
Where can I download the latest version of the plugin?
Thanks.
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:41 am
Hi Tommy, You can find out how updates are handled here: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-and-when-do-you-get-an-update
Cheers,
Ivy
May 6th, 2010 at 2:48 am
Hi,
Where I can edit or add more text that appear at the top of the “manual check out form” (Please fill in the following details and hit Confirm Order to complete your order.)
like the demo that show “This is a demo checkout page! Any real product checkout should be done from the following URL:….” when use menu check out option..
Thanks,
Ian
May 7th, 2010 at 7:25 am
It’s in the “eStore_shipping_details_view.php” file which is inside the “view” directory of the plugin.
May 7th, 2010 at 8:03 am
I got it. Thanks for your guide.
Great plugin.