roguegeer

i tried zencart, but it was a PITA, and WOZ was not very useful/good/helpful….

i eventually got WP.osC to work acceptably – its a modified version of osCommerce (original codebase of ZenCart) its dated but functional and thats what I needed.

Basically setup a WP, crete a folder called ‘catalog’ or ‘shop’ inside the main wp install, unpack WP.osC in there, and go to it. i also suggest adding the WP.osC rewrite of the plugin that lets you pay without creating an account…

the regular payment modules for osCommerce worked for me (Beanstream).

i may make another attempt at zenCart at some point, as I initially tried to get it to work in WPMU and think that added one to many wrinkles.

I have still yet to nail this down, but can confirm that the random changing appears to happen more often if I use IE6 under windows (godawful browser), but still happens if I use firefox 3 or 3.5 under windows, and even FF 3.5 under os x 10.5.

If requested i will get full versions etc.

i would REALLY appreciate having someone knowledgeable talk to this point as I believe that it makes this amazing tool dangerous and less useful. I cannot in good faith give otherwise competent staff access to use NAVT lists because of these unpredictable consequences. I have to make the change and then apologize as the list of complaints come in as i go and try to fix them – the process of which makes further errors…

We are seriously looking at other solutions, but this IS the best tool for the job, it just doesn’t work reliably. please help!

I also need to do this – in particular, the theme we are using takes the first n chars of a post and overlays that on a giant ‘thumbnail’ on the front-page news rotator. events now look hideous because they show

November 25, 20097:00 pm[ November 25, 2009; 7:00 pm; ]

instead of the introduction to the event.

ANY help or comment about ho wto go about achieving this (moving the schedule box to the END of a post) would be greatly appreciated!!

1.) the alpha masking should be toggle-able or at least setable from the admin screen. I always invert it or turn it off altogether.

2.) It would be nice if there was a ‘user_icons” folder that would safely survive upgrades. (i have several sites that demand ie6 usability, for which I have to replace the icons with Gif’s… even nicer if, whey you selected one of the site blocks on the admin page, if there was a toggle to expand that item, and a.) upload a new icon, b.) provide and customization available for that site

3.) It would be great if the plugin automatically detected if the article2pdf plugin was avaialable and allowed you to replace the PDF link (eg: 'url' => the_permalink().'&article2pdf=1')

4.) ditto customizations for ‘print’ – if a theme defines a ‘print’ format stylesheet and/or template, then that will likely provide better results than printfriendly.com

5.) a widget should be included. yes, many people will use the inline stuff, but a widget is a ncie way to work with sociable too. (I currently just use the php code widget, and then do something like this:

<div align="center"><?php
	echo sociable_html(Array("Facebook", "Twitter", "MySpace", "Digg", "Google", "del.icio.us"));
 	echo sociable_html(Array("StumbleUpon", "LinkedIn", "email", "Print", "PDF", "RSS"));
 ?></div>

which gives me a nice chunky two-line widget block on the sidebar. so users always know where the share stuff is, because its ALWAYS in the same spot regardless of page, post, home, category view etc…

6.) It would be great if you removed the Yoast feed from the dashboard, and if you MUST provide a dashboard feed block, please allow it to be turned off from the admin page (yes, I know it can be removed from the dashboard, but that is a per-user setting; it would be better if the plugin admin page globally toggled the feed inclusion)

7.) a ‘favourite/bookmark’ (eg, the built in browser/non-social “bookmark” as an option would be nice too.

Thanks for taking on sociable, its a ‘must have’ plugin that can only get better!!