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hey cableman,
maybe I can offer you some assistance. This may be a restriction by the hosting provider. Are you using hostgator by chance? Many are turning off the ability of php to send emails with the builtin command. Damn spammers making it harder for us!
Anyhow, if you are, look for the plugin called Cimy Swift SMTP. Here’s a link for you: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cimy-swift-smtp/ . When I was with hostgator I had to run this plugin to get wordpress to send any emails.
Hope this helps mate. I know how frustrating getting something working can be.
Frank
I wish I could say something changed, but I even went to the hosting agent and no changes, no errors. I had about 30 people pull the file and then nothing. Everyone keep getting the error. And that was for all products. Even when I went to the admin section and generated a download link, it would fail.
The products were not sitting in the download plugin directory though. I moved it over to the download directory, and created a new product and viola, started to work again. Other’s still don’t work.
I’d share the details on the site, but I’d rather do it off the forum, if possible.
Frank
A quick update. I’m not sure what is causing the issue, but I moved my files from a dedicated directory to the downloads directory in the plugin and it seems to be working….But the old files, still getting that error. Not sure why. If I try to do a download right in the browser, it pulls the file just fine.
I checked with the hosting company and they have no error logs nor any restrictions on file access or downloads.
I’m stumped.
Frank
Hey me again,
I did finally find the email under the file eStore_includes2.php. I had to modify the title line and take out ‘free’ as it immediately gets tagged as spam.
Also, had to turn off the wordpress mailing option and let the script send the email, as it was giving the sender as ‘wordpress’, and ‘wordpress@mydomain.com’.
Cheers!
Frank
Ok, I’ve decided to partially fix the problem by offering only one download on the squeeze.
But I’d still love to be able to easily modify the email that is sent on a squeeze page download.
Thanks!
Frank
It would be an interesting project to find some way to setup a store and have it read vendor RSS feeds for relevant products and then have eStore display them. That would be toooooo cool.
F
Hmmm. Interesting. I’ll have to talk with my hosting vendor to see if there is anything there. Thanks very much for the fancy code for buy now products!
By the way, I love this plugin!
Frank
Hmmm. Did find the file where download links are handled, but the system will still only permit one download at a time.
I changed the two lines in eStore_includes3.php to add a target=”_blank” to the download urls but doesn’t work. Even if you open a new window, it chokes waiting for the first download to complete.
I can see that this would stop a person from downloading from 100 places at once, good feature, but is there any way to permit up to 3 downloads at once from one order, to permit the user to download all of their downloads.
Thanks!
Frank
Ok, answered my own question. There does seem to be a small problem with the download page links that are created. The links should have the _blank option set to start the download in a new page to release the current download page to allow the customer to download another product at the same time.
I’m going to peek into the code and will offer a solution, if I find it.
Frank
Just a quick update. Figured out how to use paypal sandbox. But I do have a new question.
On my first site, I have a combo product and I get to the thank you page without incident. Now the combo product is 3 downloads all together. Ok. I start the first download and it downloading. So far so good. If I select the second product to download while I am downloading the first, when the first finishes, it thows an error, invalid download link.
To me that is a bit of a problem. Also, I can only download one thing from the page at a time. Is that my desktop or the software limiting downloads? I can download up to three things at once with IE, so don’t know what’s going on here.
Thanks!
Frank
