Dan Dan

Thank you again for your patience!
I deleted my current theme, reinstalled it, also installed the theme “Altitude” to test out another theme. No change. So I reinstalled WP 3.8.1, but no change after that, either.

I don’t do any coding myself. I use a Mac. I absolutely do not mess with any coding, it is out of my league. That is why I got into using WordPress, because it is supposed to be the most user friendly website building tool.
My host is FatCow.

The good news! I just found out the issue!
Basically, I just called FatCow tech support, and somehow they were able to fix the problem by changing the server paths or something or another. I guess the cookies were unable to follow the right path, and that was the issue? I just feel like giving them a cookie for resolving this!

Thank you for all your patience with me, though! I really appreciate it.

I just tried to use other shopping cart plugins to test if they would work. I’m coming up with the same issue… Do you know what the problem could be? I tried to change the template again, and it still doesn’t work. I mean, the plugin seems to be working fine for a majority of people who download it. Any explanation as to what might be causing this?

This must be frustrating for you, I apologize.
I deleted the plugin, then re-downloaded the .zip file from www.ads-software.com and installed that one. Still no success.
However, out of curiosity I checked my “Cart Orders” tab. I realized that all my orders had been going straight to the trash!!
Hopefully that last discovery can lead to a resolution.

I appreciate your patience.
I should have specified, but I was using the shortcode for the shopping cart. I meant that besides the button and cart shortcodes, I was only using the contact form shortcode. I just restored the latter.
This is why I do not understand why this plugin isn’t working for me. I have done exactly what I was told to do, and I double and triple checked to make sure I was doing it right.
Copy [wp_cart_button name=”Test Product” price=”29.95″] and paste under a picture or wherever. That part translates into a button, and it takes me right to the “Shopping Cart” page I made.
Copy [show_wp_shopping_cart] and paste it to the “Shopping Cart” page. Then it tells me “Your cart is empty.” So somehow with all my fidgeting around with settings and trying different themes, the problem has changed from not showing up at all to now it doesn’t recognize my attempts to “purchase” an item.

Thanks again for your support.
I was using Contact Form 7 shortcode on my contact page, but even when I deleted that the cart only says “Your shopping cart is empty.” I checked everywhere on my pages and settings, and I don’t see any more shortcode being used.

Thank you for your patience.
Just changed the theme to Twenty Thirteen, but no luck. Again the button itself is clickable, and the link takes me to my designated “shopping cart” page, but the shopping cart itself will not show any items in it. The bottom bar reads “Your shopping cart is empty.”

Thanks for the link.
I deactivated all plugins except for WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart, and still no success. My template has some built-in features like a pricing chart with a clickable button. Would that somehow be interfering with this plugin?

Thanks for replying!
Hopefully I am answering your question correctly, but I have my permalink set to “post name.” But reading about .htaccess files scares me, just let me know if that’s what you need instead.

Also, thank you for the tutorial, but unfortunately I have tried exactly what it says so many times… It has to be more than an installation issue