Rick Cano

I’ve been using WP e-Commerce for about 5 years and each new product release has always had some bugs in the initial release but they eventually fix the items.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve used simple paypal shopping cart and it works great for a really, really simple cart…but if you want multiple options and variations Wp e-Commerce is the closest to perfect that you’re going to get. The key is to know someone who knows how to find the bug and fix them.

I’ve fixed almost 50 bugs in that past 5 years and my clients are always happy as clams!!

I’m going to give you a full proof way to make sure your WP e-Commerce admin dashboard “always” works.

Step 1: Totally remove the WP e-Commerce from your website, both by FTP and remove it from your MySql Database as pieces of code usually linger on within the database. Don’t load it back in just yet.

Step 2: Enable either Twenty Ten or the new Twenty Eleven as they are very, very simple configured templates for WordPress.

Step 3: Re-upload a clean and fresh copy of your WP e-Commerce plugin but do not enable it just yet.

Step 4: Turn off all of your active plugin’s and then enable the WP e-Commerce plugin. (if you are using a Gold Cart extension to this plugin…do not enable it yet).

Step 5: Now access your admin dashboard for the plugin and you should have a fully operating WP e-Commerce now. Best thing to do is configure your settings, then turn on Gold Cart and then turn one each of your other plugins one at a time as you may have another plugin that is not compatible to the ecommerce plugin.

Final Step: If you’re eCommerce plugin is now working correctly….enable your Primary Theme at this time….what these steps will do is eliminate each item that may affect this plugin.

Thanks again, RC

Chris, Paolo.valier and xxxdxxxd….the answer to your question is very simple…I’ a little surprised these other professionals were not able to help you??

Step 1: Extract “wpsc-cart_widget.php” from your plugin folders..this php folder controls the “Your Shopping Cart is Empty” verbiage. Make sure you don’t edit this original…make a copy of it and make edits to the copy.

Step 2: Scroll down to line 81 or therabouts and you’ll see the verbiage that needs to be edited in a very light grey color. Make sure you leave the quotes exactly where they’re at and only edit between the quotes.

Step 3: Upload this back into your Get Shopped plugin (wp e-commerce) and then test the chopping cart widget and you’ll see that the edited portion should show now.

Step 4: Not finished..in order for this particular form to not be erased when you update your Get Shopped plugin again….go to the admin section of the plugin and check off within the “presentations” tab in admin….this is where you move specific files to your “theme” location and they’ll be now integrated with your theme folders and that location…a plugin update will “never” change these settings. Trust me.

Thanks again, RC

My solution should work for this if the $4.00 fee is a one time fee no matter how many products in there order. In other words I’ve had people contact me to see if they can charge a per product flat fee…so if a client buys 4 products they wanted to charge a flat fee per each product. Seems like overkill but that’s what they were looking for and NO my solution is not for that scenario.

Keep in mind…this has “nothing” to do with shipping or a shipping fee. My client wanted to charge a flat fee at the time of checkout no matter how many products they were buying. They preferred to call it a handling fee. They still charged a shipping fee on top of that. In the old days we used to call this a “Shipping and Handling Fee”…but now the majority of clients want to have separate controls for Shipping and a one time handling fee.

Thanks again
P.S. If you need any more help…email me at [email protected] and just so you know…depending on how much help you need it may cost you as well. ??

Hold the press’s I found the solution to adding a flat fee for each purchaser..one time fee only and how to change the label to Shipping and handling.

Anyone need any help…feel free.
RC

Hey MkRank…..I’m actually trying to set a flat $2.50 for “every” product in my website but I can find where to add the code to the “cart.clas.php” and the “calculate_total_shipping function” and I always wanted to make sure that I’m using the right code:

$total = $this->calculate_base_shipping() + 2.50;

For the life of me I added it to both .php files but nothing gets added to my Total.

Let me know if you can help.
P.S. Hey Snobrrdr…if you know how to do this…let me know…I’ll even donate some cash for the cause.