I recently worked on a site where I used the Shopp WordPress plugin to set up E-Commerce. The first big issue that I ran across was allowing for user customizations of products. For example, if a product can be engraved with a name, includes the person’s initials, can include a message, etc. Shopp does include the ability to add these kinds of user input fields, but it’s done through a template tag. This means that you either have to apply it to all items, or you need a developer to set it up on a per-product basis. My client has quite a few products that are custom-made, and they really needed to be able to set up these fields themselves.
In comes Shopp Improved. It creates a user interface to allow you to easily add these fields to any product. The inputs can then be easily integrated into a shopp product template with just a couple lines of code.
- Verify that you have PHP5, which is required for this plugin.
- Upload the whole
shopp-improveddirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
Do I need the Shopp plugin to use this?
Yes. This plugin only extends Shopp, it is not a replacement.
How do I add this to my Shopp template?
Just add these lines to your template:
<?php $shoppImproved = shoppImproved::getInstance(); $shoppImproved->get_inputs(); ?>
1.0.3
- Use "new Product" directly to make sure the product exists
- Upgrade Xavisys Plugin Framework
1.0.2
- Updated to work with the newer versions of Shopp
1.0.0
- Released via WordPress.org
0.0.1
- Original Version
