WordPress eStore Plugin Change Log

Categories: Installation and Usage

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

Paul Says:
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?

George Serradinho Says:
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.

admin Says:
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.

Hotelsinus Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 10:53 am

awesome
thank you

Jan Says:
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 ?

admin Says:
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

Amanda Robins Says:
August 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am

I have tired your new subscribe feature and I can not get it to work. Is the some thing I am missing.

thanks
amanda

Amanda Robins Says:
August 20th, 2009 at 6:04 am

i worked it out.I just needed to add [wp_eStore_subscribe:product_id:PRODUCT-ID:end]

Sorry for that

amanda

Jan Says:
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

admin Says:
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.

James K Says:
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm

How can you tell which version of the script you are using?

admin Says:
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.

Tommy Says:
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am

Hi,
Where can I download the latest version of the plugin?
Thanks.

Ivy Says:
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

Ian Says:
May 6th, 2010 at 2:48 am

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

admin Says:
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.

Ian Says:
May 7th, 2010 at 8:03 am

I got it. Thanks for your guide.

Great plugin.