WP Shopping Cart Troubleshooting

Categories: Additional Resources

Can’t Remove an Item from the Shopping Cart

Make sure you haven’t included special characters like apostrophe (‘) in your product name.

The Price Shows up as $0.00 in the Shopping Cart

Make sure you have entered the Price to two decimal places and didn’t put any symbols or characters. eg. 10.00 or 6.70 or 1999.95 etc (Do not put currency symbol in the price field)

NextGen Gallery doesn’t show the “Add to Cart” buttons correctly

Make sure the wp eStore template file is in the “view” directory of NextGen Gallery.
You using something similar to the following to display the gallery:

nggallery id=1 template=wp-eStore]

Variation Control Not Working

Please make sure your theme’s “footer.php” file has a call to the wp_footer() function of WordPress or it won’t add the javascripts in the footer. Many themes are not designed according to WordPress standard and causes problems. Simply add the following line in your “footer.php” file to solve this:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

Iba Says:
January 9th, 2010 at 2:53 am

I am trying to add the shipping cost but it’s not pulling up in the shopping cart.
Here’s the code I put in:
[wp_cart: FFT NB Gingerbreadman:price:9.00:shipping:4.95:end]

admin Says:
January 9th, 2010 at 3:23 am

@Iba, I just tested that exact same code that you are entering on my test site and it’s working fine… can you please make sure you have the latest version of the pluing? The latest version of the plugin can be download from the following URL:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart-plugin-768

DeBorah Beatty Says:
January 17th, 2010 at 8:55 pm

Is there a way to set a standard shipping price, but not have it apply to digital products? I have a physical book, CDs and then several ebooks I’m selling through my site.

Thanks.

Ivy Says:
January 17th, 2010 at 10:58 pm

Hi DeBorah Beatty, Yes there is a way to do this.
The following post will explain this in more detail (option 1):

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-the-shipping-cost-calculation-works-in-wordpress-estore-50

Ivy

DeBorah Beatty Says:
January 18th, 2010 at 1:05 am

Thanks, Ivy, but I’m not using the estore plugin and the option to use the Paypal shipping option is not available in the simple shopping cart plugin. (wish it were, that would be easy)