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eShop for Wordpress

eShop for Wordpress is a lightweight ecommerce shopping cart plugin for Wordpress. It has been created with accessibility and ease of use in mind. It utilises paypal, but might be expanded for other payment gateways in the future.

Currently this plugin has been tested in version 2.3.3 but should work in 2.2. It may also be usable with extra manual configuration in version 2.0.11.

Features

Since eShop was released, eShop remains one the highest value plug-ins for my WordPress powered site – and one that I retain absolute confidence in. The developers have been continually, and graciously on top of any version upgrades that have come with WordPress, progressively adding improvements — making it a high value plug-in for anyone looking for a well thought-out, highly functional shopping-cart system for their WordPress powered web site.

Daniel Denk of Remote Sensing Tools

• Paypal only
• 1 product per page
• Product form will appear on the edit page
• Products can have multiple options
• Upload downloadable products
• Basic Statistics
• Fully searchable
• 3 methods for calculating shipping charges, plus various zone settings via Country or US State
• Parent pages can list featured products, or sub product pages (just like categories with posts)
• Admin has access to an Order handling section
• Automatic emails on successful purchase, with option to send one from the admin order handling section.
• User configurable email templates.
• Configurable Out of Stock message.
• Basic Stock Control
• Automatic creation of required pages such as shopping cart and checkout
• and more!

Installation

Download the plugin, upload to your Wordpress plugins directory and activate. Further instructions and help are included.

Changes from 2.3.1 to 2.4.5

(released on 4^th April 2008)

many files have been tweaked. the major change is that the plugin should be compatible with Wordpress MU. This version is only compatible for Wordpress versions prior to 2.5. No more updates are planned for this version of eShop.

Changes from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1

(released on 4^th March 2008)

There have been numerous bug fixes for this release and many files have been changed. No database amendments have been made although a new table has been created.

The major feature for this release is the creation of a file for upload to Google Base – check the help page for details.

Changes from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0

(released on 24^th January 2008)

Random product listing, and single random product facility added. Fixed a bug with featured, and category listing of products.

Changed files:

• eshop.php
• eshop-plugins/list-subpages-descriptions.php
• eshop-plugins/iinclude_page.php
• files/eshop.css
• eshop_settings.php
• eshop_about.php
• eshop_help.php

Upgrade instructions

The random product is dependant on the Stock Available flag, as such this is now set to no by default. previously it was set to yes, all non single product pages should be amended.

Changes from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2

(released on 1^st December 2007)

• eshop.css admin updated
• eshop_countries.php now able to filter by zone.
• paypal.php – stock control was affecting number of purchases, now fixed.
• checkout.php – updated to fix errors when dealing with US States. Plus added in a few enhancements.(thanks to sbruner for spotting this)
• eshop_help.php – added in a little extra help for sku.
• eshop_install.php – minor alteration.

Changes from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1

(released on 13^th November 2007)

Minor bug fix in paypal.php.

Changes from 2.1.2 to 2.2.0

(released on 13^th November 2007)

• cart-functions.php: fold pages now works correctly, table removed from front end for displaying zones and replaced by a small form, class added to shopping cart form
• cart.php: cart links recoded – div with class older replaced with ul and class ‘continue-proceed’
• eshop_orders.php: minor fix for when first installed, zip code changed to zip/post code, fixed division by 0 error
• eshop_install.php: corrected one country – Sao Tome and Principe
• eshop.php: default level now set to 7 (editor) but can be quickly changed in the script, fixed session destroy to work correctly
• checkout.php: zip code changed to zip/post code, added not applicable as an option to the US States dropdown, cart links recoded – div with class older replaced with ul and class ‘continue-proceed’, major update as per paypal.php
• paypal.php: major update in hidden check – necessary upgrade for all
• paypal.class.php : fixed validity errors, changed redirect page from <h3> to <p><strong> for more portability between themes, altered text to be more user friendly on the redirect page.
• eshop-onload.js: necessary fix due to previous invalid form.
• eshop_help.php: updated with more help!
• files/eshop.css: updated with more styling, but different colour scheme.

Changes from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2

(released on 5^th November 2007) No database changes, small updates to checkout.php and cart-functions.php.

• Fixing US phone numbers
• correcting spelling mistake
• correcting shipping address spurious comma.

My thanks to Daniel Denk for spotting these, and the previous errors.

Changes from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1

(released on 3^rd November 2007) Fixed bug when Stock Control was not used. Only one file affected: eshop-plugins/get-custom.php

Help and Support

Please direct all help and support queries via our forums

Donations

Feeling generous? then please dig deep and donate as much as you can afford!

eShop in the wild

• The Cabinet of Curiosities
• Remote Sensing Tools
• Green Methods
• darmstadt-vor-freu.de
• CMSThemeStore.com

Downloads

• eShop Cutline (1.4 KiB)

• Using The More Tag On WordPress Pages,
• eShop 3.7.0 released, customisation news &
• Setting Up A Static WordPress Home Page.