WP-Ecommerce and WordPress Shortcodes

  • retrobou

    (@retrobou)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    Here is my problem. My client sells scrapbooks. WP-Ecommerce has all the functionality they require EXCEPT 1. Customer insists on a pageflip book. They are ok with the typical thumbnails and product images..but want a flipbook on each product as well. I have installed pageflip, which is working great…problem is…WP-Ecommerce description editor does NOT recognize WordPress Shortcodes, which is what needs to be plugged in the description to call the flipbook for each product. I left a message on the WP-ecommerce forum, only told that a hack would have to be made?? Well, what kind of hack…can anyone help? Is there a way for me to call the [book id=”1″} shortcode in html syntax instead? I’m sorry, shortcodes are new to me, what would be the html version of a shortcode? Or, can I replace the Ecommerce editor, which does not recognize shortcodes, with the WordPress editor? If so, what files would I need to copy?
    Other than that WP-Ecommerce, rocks, does everything else we need..but client is not happy at the moment. I have uninstalled WP-ecommerce, loaded eshop…but that does not allow image uploads at checkout that client needs..and they said they never will…so thats out…
    Help me someone please 🙁

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  • zcold

    (@zcold)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Im not sure what you mean by wp-ecommerce editor. It sounds what you need is a good wp-ecommerce template. You can write your own functions and themese for wp-ecommerce. Have you looked into that?

    I know this is 10 months old. But anyone looking to incorporate something into wp-ecommerce should know its just a matter of templates. Heck write your own function to pull the product data. All the code is there, you just need to sift through it to understand what is happening as Instinct doesnt really comment their code well at all and dont provide any real documentation about the project. Its a good script however. You just have to get into its templates and you should be able to solve your short code hack. You may have to add something in the code, but just look at the templates (specifically single_product.php ) and see what functions are being called and then so a find in all the code to find the function… modify or add as needed 😉

    If you can’t code, hire someone, don’t try to hack it yourself..

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