[Zain]

Oh… and additionally, would it be possible to see what discounts are being applied?

So where it displays the “Discount Applied” (in green) – please can the applied discounts be shown to the customer?

That helps to provide a feeling of having some real “value for money” through the saving made.

Thanks.

[Zain]

I’ve now tested this and it works. The original price is definitely being slashed. Thanks again for the help and support with this.

Can you point me in the right direction for the PHP file that displays the shopping cart? There are a few additional styling tweaks that I’d like to amend with the table (i.e. position of the slashed out discount and alignment of the elements).

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

That’s excellent news. It will be brilliant to be able to say that the plugin is great for order tracking when I recommend it in future. That additional feature will really help convince people to buy it (especially if they deal with physical items). Personally, I already think it’s awesome, as I only deal with digital items.

Keep up the great work. It’s always appreciated.

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Wow, thanks a lot for this. I really appreciate the help and am grateful for your excellent customer service! That’s why I always recommend WP eStore.

I’ll download it now and have a play with it. I’m sure it will definitely make things clearer to customers and also help overcome any potential issues with displaying an “advertised” price.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Hi,

Thanks for the very info on how to customise displays using shortcodes. This is very useful.

Have you considered taking the idea one step further and creating code “templates”? The basic idea is that there’s a directory with sub-directories containing all the template files for the various layouts (e.g. default folder, fancy1 folder etc.). These templates can then be customised to suit the site layout.

This idea is actually taken from John Godley’s “Sniplets” plugin. In this plugin, it’s possible to copy the Sniplet plugin default template folder and make a copy of it in the Theme directory. The plugin then checks the Theme folder first for templates before using the plugin default template files. The major advantage is that this way the template files are never overwritten with any upgrades made in the core. It also allows a lot of flexibility in terms of building a precise layout.

Anyway… that’s just an idea that you guys may want to consider. It would mean not having to build any more “fancy” templates but instead giving more control to the site Developer.

In theory, you could maybe get users to submit additional templates. Or what about a place where people can create templates for sale? I wonder if there’s a good plugin that could be used to sell these template files as downloadable products… Oh wait, there’s this store plugin I know of called…

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Hi,

Thanks for the explanation – security is always a great thing… although I’m just wondering how many expert hackers will be sending a Genuine IPN with a low total price amount and claiming it to be a discounted total price. Don’t get me wrong – it’s good that it’s there (especially if you have very high ticket items being sold), so it’s re-assuring to know that WP eStore has that level of protection.

As the cart is a form, isn’t it also possible to use hidden fields to store the data while still displaying the original advertised price?

Displaying the advertised price is important for a couple of reasons, mainly:

1. it’s less confusing for the customer.

   Seeing a different/cheaper price on the list leads to disappointment if they go back and find out it’s not true (or as advertised).

2. I’m pretty sure there’s a legal obligation for prices to be clear.

   This type of “changed” price could be seen as misleading the consumer.

If it is possible to slash out the original item amount beside the discounted amount, then I think that would be sufficient. As long as the advertised price is shown, then I think we can avoid both issues I mentioned above.

As a request, would it be possible to put the slashed out amount in a <span> or <div> with class on it? That way, at least the styling could be changed for both the discounted and advertised amounts.

Thanks again!

[Zain]

Hi Admin,

The string that appears when using the <?php echo eStore_show_compact_cart(); ?> can be seen here:

http://www.themaverickshop.com/your-cart/ (top right)

It’s the text “Your cart is empty” as well as “Visit The Shop”, which are different to the strings used by the <?php echo eStore_display_compact_cart(); (); ?>

[Zain]

Thanks for the prompt reply… although I’ve noticed another slight issue.

Using eStore_show_compact_cart() doesn’t seem to use the same text contained in the “language/eng.php” file. I’ve already changed the wording in this file, and now I’ve noticed that different text strings are appearing instead.

Any idea why this may be happening?

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

…thinking about it, having an “exclude” option would also work/be useful. For example, I’m trying to list out all the product categories except for 1 at the moment. The reason for this is because the one that needs to be excluded is really more of a “sub-category” item (but there’s no option to make this a sub-category in the WP eStore plugin… yet. )

Anyway, any help on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Hi,

I’m also currently using this function to display the Compact Cart. However, is there a way of displaying the Compact Cart when it’s not empty? It needs to be visible all the time.

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Hi Admin,

That’s what I thought would happen… although this now means that the “Product Categories” will now display the picture in the Lightbox when clicked on, rather than take you through to the product details page. That’s not really the desired functionality for the Categories page.

Surely the Fancy10 output is designed to always appear on a product details page? It makes no sense that the image links to the page it’s already on and loops round. This could make it confusing for a site visitor.

Is there a way of tweaking the code in the Extra Shortcodes plugin to use the “Thumbnail Target URL”, rather than the “Product Page URL” for Fancy10?

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Thanks for the reply. I’ll bear that in mind and will probably just create a special hidden page that is only sent to particular users.

Can I request it as a feature for the future? It would be very useful.

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Hi Admin,

Thanks for the reply… although I’m just wondering:

Where the number that is generated before the text go?

Will it also be inside the <span> tag? (i.e. will it appear "3 <span>Items</span>" or "<span>3 Items</span>"?

If it does a regex match and adds it inside, then that’s okay. Somehow, I have a feeling that it might not… :$

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

…Additional thought:

Having a look at the “language/eng.php” file, could it be possible to provide some additional control here?

Consider, for example, the following:

define("ESTORE_ITEMS_IN_THE_CART", " Items");

This will usually display something like “3 Items”, when it’s rendered.

Taking the idea from WordPress, if it was tweaked to also provide additional “pre” and “post” tags, then it would be possible to use something like:

define("ESTORE_ITEMS_IN_THE_CART", " Items", "<span>", "</span>");

This would then display <span>3 items</span>. The element now has an appropriate <span> tag, and this would provide a greater degree of control for Developers looking for that level of precision.

Anyway… just a thought. The WP eStore plugin is great, superb… awesome, and I recommend it all the time! The reason I make suggestions is really to help make it even more powerful than it is.

Cheers,

Zain

[Zain]

Hi Peter,

I’m trying to customise the Compact Cart. You can see it here: http://www.themaverickshop.com/ (demo site, top right… Yes, this is the Compact Cart with some major tweaks! CSS Zen… ).

At the moment, I’ve encased the entire cart with an extra <div id="cart"> to gain a little more control of elements inside. This also means that if I add the cart to a sidebar widget, then the CSS only affects the top cart display. I’m also using a “display:none” to strip out all <br /> tags (and the <h3>… that contains nothing).

Ideally, if these were in a <span> (or <div>) then I could use a “display:block” and position each element (text, icon, link) exactly. It would be nice to have complete control over styling and layout – this is possible if the code is changed slightly to ensure text and images have either classes or ids added to them.

The issue isn’t so much about what’s possible or not (you can see what can be done) – it’s more about how easy it is to manipulate HTML elements with minimal CSS and ensuring pixel precision. Using <span/div> tags appropriately really does help… As for <br /> tags…? Well, I’ve never really been a fan of them as they don’t do much to help with controlling the layout! :$

Cheers,

Zain

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