[Plugin: WP e-Commerce] Avoid. It is buggy and the developers are snide about that.

Hey dnobendno, I work with the team on a daily basis and get nothing but sunshine from the Instinct crew. I’m an external WordPress Developer, what’s your issue, send me a message. ??

i have to agree with dnbendo..
my problem is just a very simple pagination..

i’ve to the old and new forum of intinct but no reply at all…
its been almost 6 months since i started using the plugin

i just couldn’t start promoting my site properly with this..
its very disappointing..

Have you tried the various fixes posted in this thread:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/302383?replies=23

The one that seems to apply best to your case is probably this one:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/302383?replies=23#post-1295373

Any use?

yes i’ve been there all the time…
guess that im not as lucky as those people…

things i’ve done for pagination to work but did not
removing content – wpsc_category_url_cache in my database
updating and fixing urls in settings>admin
deactivating and activating wpecommerce
reinstalling the wpecommerce
asking for help on the wpecommerce forum

my user name on the forum is pacifier if you would like
to check mr. leewillis77

genim, I’m with you; a plugin like this should have far fewer problems than it has, and users shouldn’t need to be constantly implementing hacks in various bits of code.

If you need to be a developer to get it working should you do anything slightly out of the ordinary (like use Google Checkout instead of PayPal!) then Instinct should say so.

Sorry for venting, but I’ve been trying to find out how to get Google Checkout to work for weeks now with no joy (although a few suggestions for code hacks that don’t work). I’ve wasted a lot of time, $100, and potentially damaged my credibility with a new client by choosing this product.

If I can’t get it working soon I’ll have to write off the time and money.

@genim – have you tried the fix I linked to – namely making sure your page slug matches the category name?

@newbonic… i understand the pain… i still have a few days to overdo things before ill find a new solution

@leewillis77… yes i think im very sure it is the exact slug that my category name does (i copy and paste it from the category settings and i also make sure its the same)

[wpsc_products category_url_name=’ruby‘]

Can you send us a link to the page that includes the shortcode:

[wpsc_products category_url_name=’ruby’]

CLICK TO THE SITE

so thats page that has the shortcode
[wpsc_products category_url_name=’ruby’]

i tried the funny
[wpsc_products category_url_name=’colour/ruby’] but i know its not gonna work…

(same for the sapphire, emarald etc pages…
[wpsc_products category_url_name=’sapphire’]
[wpsc_products category_url_name=’emeraldd’] ect..)

on the pagination settings in the admin
i set it to ‘yes’, ‘9’ items to show and ‘bottom’

What happens if you publish a page at https://www.thegembank.com/ruby that contains the shortcode [wpsc_products category_url_name=’ruby’] – does that work?

That was what was suggested in the other thread I think, and at least we can maybe narrow down the issue if that works.

hmmmm.. not working still…
https://www.thegembank.com/ruby

i don’t know when this started. before i had only 4 items so im not bother but when i tried to add more, just then i found out it shows all the items…. but in hte product page the pagination works okay

Hi, either change your shortcode as follows:

[wpsc_products category_url_name=’ruby’ number_per_page=’2′]

Swap “2” for however many you want to show. NOTE: this attribute only works if you have pagination turned on – but I think you do right?

OR ….

Make the changes below to wpsc-includes/shortcode.functions.php

function wpsc_products_shorttag($atts) {
+
+       $number_per_page = get_option('use_pagination') ? get_option('wpsc_products_per_page') : 0;
+
        $query = shortcode_atts(array(
                'product_id' => 0,
                'product_url_name' => null,
@@ -26,7 +29,7 @@
                'price' => 0,
                'limit_of_items' => 0,
                'sort_order' => null,
-               'number_per_page' => 0,
+               'number_per_page' => $number_per_page,
                'page' => 0,
        ), $atts);

[I’ve submitted that patch to the Instinct guys so it should go in the next release]

Hope that helps.

hey..
the [wpsc_products category_url_name=’ruby’ number_per_page=’2′] works,
but i don’t why the normal shortocde do not.. there’s some glitches on the page display that i have to work still

anyway i really want to thank you and your time to this, so much much appreciated… its ashame that to this going you get to need help outside of instinct

but i don’t why the normal shortocde do not.

It’s a bug. The Instinct guys will include the fix has already gone into SVN for the next release.

Glad the fix works for you.