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Comment on Disable WP E-Commerce scripts and stylesheets by Justin

Justin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:37:30 +0000

great post! i hate how many scripts/styles they include and couldnt figure out how to stop it without editing the source files. really kills my pagespeed score. combining all the neccessary ones into single docs, minifying & gzipping FTW. =)

thank you!

Comment on WordPress Error: Unable to create directory / Is its parent directory writable by the server? by Zomby

Zomby — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:16:17 +0000

ok
thanks for all

Comment on Disable WP E-Commerce scripts and stylesheets by Mirko

Mirko — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:32 +0000

Very nice! You (and Google) saved me from boring documentation reading!

Comment on eCC compatible shopping cart reviews by Ammon

Ammon — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:37:20 +0000

Hi Lisa!

Glad you found my post helpful. I wish I could give you some happy news and a good suggestion, but alas my search did not go well. I tried all the carts in the winners list and several in the losers list and all of them failed in one way or another. Especially WP E-Commerce. I think it was the worst of the bunch. No wait, LiveCart was the worst, but WP E-Commerce came in second to last.

As far as I can tell, Webgility’s eCC integration software just works like crap. Expensive crap, but crap nonetheless. The interface is horrible and you have to manually adjust so many fields after syncing that it ends up being a big ol’ waste of time. Inventory synch works some of the time with some of the carts, but even that basic functionality is really iffy because it often doesn’t synch product variations, which means its totally worthless.

I did find one cart that looks really good: OpenCart. It’s fast and pretty and the code is great. If your client really wants Quickbooks integration (and can pay for it) I would suggest using OpenCart and contracting a programmer to make you a custom Quickbooks integration program using the Quickbooks Web Connector. A good place to start would be http://consolibyte.com/. Their website is messed up right now, but they do custom Quickbooks integration with OpenCart and they have a connector they are testing now. It only syncs inventory in one direction so you have to manually set up products. The quickbooks web connector is a mess so you prolly want to go with a really experienced developer.

Good luck!

Comment on eCC compatible shopping cart reviews by Lisa Kuntz

Lisa Kuntz — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:59:10 +0000

Ammon,

Thanks so much for this great list!!
I am researching integration of instore POS + ecommerce solution. We mainly do wordpress development & would like to use a wp cart, so your article is very helpful!

Can you email me a link to the site that you are using this solution on? I would really appreciate it. I need to make a suggestion to our client in the next day.

I really appreciate it!
Thanks,
Lisa

Comment on eCC compatible shopping cart reviews by George

George — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:59:20 +0000

Open Cart is the winner for me so far, although I cannot close the door to zen-cart just yet…..it does have some functionality i can use.
One example is that it keeps the text field attributes the same in all products used. this means that with a little java-script you can do calculations, attach calendars with restricted dates etc etc….. I cannot do this in OpenCart or i have not actually looked into it yet. OpenCart 5 looks very promising and the VQmode add-on is amazing!

Opencart is very good once you spend around $150 in add-ons. You can do things x10 faster after this.

I also like Eclime, it comes 95% ready to use and looks good but there is no much going on with it , and no much support.

One new arrival is TomatoCart…..and now this looks promissing!!! There is a lot of buzz around it at the moment because it looks shiny…. but i will wait a bit until i use it.

Comment on WP E-Commerce 3.8 and Thematic = no sidebars! by Ammon

Ammon — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:40:42 +0000

The fear of upgrades is why I’m abandoning WP E-Commerce all together. It’s just not worth it!

Comment on WP E-Commerce 3.8 and Thematic = no sidebars! by Ando

Ando — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:45:08 +0000

This disappearing sidebar trick was driving me nuts! Such a stupid and annoying bug! Your page.php fix didn’t work for me (although I used something similar to fix a similar issue I had with the twentyten theme)
Another approach over at the getshopped forum worked – http://getshopped.org/forums/topic/themefunctionsphp-breaks-thematic-sidebar/

The only problem now is remembering to fix it each time I upgrade wp-ec.

Comment on Disable WP E-Commerce scripts and stylesheets by Tim Kock

Tim Kock — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:16:58 +0000

This also does the trick but you can’t use conditional tags (e.g: apply only on specific page)

add_action(‘init’, ‘filter_wpsc_script’, 5);
function filter_wpsc_script(){
if(function_exists(‘wpsc_the_product’)) {
remove_action(‘init’, ‘wpsc_enqueue_user_script_and_css’);
}
}

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