Planned Improvements
There is a competitor on the horizon Magento . A lot of potential but the installation is kind of tricky. I like the direction of its development. Worth watching. I checked out the forum there were 200 people on-line.
SEO issues
Ok to put products in more than one category. product url defaults to first category
http://www.painrelief101.com/products-page/shoulder-and-neck-heat-packs/ultimate-body-vest-microwavable-067
NOT ok
content under more details in part of the page. Duplicating the information in the single product page. The issue may be a percentage of page issue.
Product Title should be wrapped in an h1 or h2 tag controlled by the shop.css
PAYPAL SETTINGS
IPN must be set
Gold Module Problems
CVV not being pass in default configuration
Shayne has the FIX
Cart Limitations:
- No useful import / export function for product data
- Need a checkbox to have shipping same as billing so that buyers do not have to enter the same address information twice. Code hack to allow this feature proposed 3 months ago. Not included in subsequent updates.
- No ability to get Inventory Report - Each Product must be examined in the cart individually to determine product availability - Real Problem for larger stores
- Products set with availabilty limits
- No way to uniquely identify products with SKU or Product Code number
- coupon option is causing a database error
- No printed invoice or packing slip
- Shipping cost options too limited to be of much use in USA
Here is an example for hacking the code to add UPS features from Shayne
NOTE: The "shopping_cart.php" file is from the 3.6 RC1 release I believe, so I would not use it, but only look at it and take the integration that is inside of it and apply it to your current file.
Here’s the download link:
http://www.stasticdesigns.com/files/shopping_cart.zip - Purchase log is poorly formatted requiring scrolling to see critical information
- Can not rearrange product order within categories. Only displays in order entered
- No wysiwyg editor for product description - html entry is inconsistent see below.
- Updates and modifications by developers to language files are not dated or commented making maintenance of customization very difficult and time consuming.
- Photo Resizing: does not handle proportional resizing well - original image 800px by 574 px - resizing cut off outside edges of picture
- Inconsistent styling in product description boxes
1st product description <p class="wpsc_description">
allows <b>, <u> ,<strong>
displays but Mishandles <center>, <ol>, <ul><h1 ….h4>,
<h2> tags inside the first product description breaks the htlm generation if tags are inside the wpsc_descripton block the block leaves out the text.
Works
<p class="wpsc_description">
Versatile neck and body heat and cold wrap.
<br>
</p> does not work <p class="wpsc_description">
</p>
Versatile neck and body heat and cold wrap.</h2>
<br>
Continuing Problems with wp ecommerce cart
Cusor does not take focus ie change to hand when hovering submit/input buttons
Should have at least breadcrumb navigation back to a category overview page (has been added to new Market Theme, not in Ishop)
Browser title still only reflects main page title so every page in the cart is the same, is not picking up cateogries, url is by cagetory.
Upgrading still a royal pain; auto upgrade put the files in a subdirectory that was not recognized by the plugin manager.
Still no way to have custom theme that are not over ridden by each up date - Need to be able to save changes to a custom theme name
Phase I Improvements
When on individual product pages no navigation back to category page or main product page.
Larger font on the product name on the product page, - done
When displaying category page I do not want the category thumbnail or at least make it smaller or relocate it. - No category page currently -
Need to get rid of bullet point on categories and menu items on product page and category page. - got rid of categories on individual product pages and category pages. - but still need on page navigation
Activate wysiwyg editor for product input - ????
Pictures not formating right, cutting off right and left edges. When photo fits the space available the background is black - should be white or better it should be transparent. When clicking on a picture to enlarge it, the picture opens in a new page instead of a lightbox type overlay.
Notes:
The category label should not be shown in the cateogry listing.
Also the show_cats_brands.php function formating over rides the sidebar formating.
Current changes
Hard coded top menu - CSS in style.css moved to current scheme - /themes/dkret3/schemes/Fluidelity-JRedit.css
With the hard coded menu - would like access to the orginal category display page. It presented a fully expanded list of all categories/subcateories and individual product pages in an indented list with bullets. That would be a seperate top menu selection - Complete Product List or just Product Listing
This would be the orginal product_page. Additionally, it is needed for the shopping cart plug-in continue shopping link. that is the page that it defaults to.
Verify that none of the pre-existing code was removed - Only commenting out is acceptable. - Done I think
Top menu label for all should just be a label like "Products" - (except Home ) Add a page listing to dropdown to cover the page content currently linked to by the top menu label. - Done
Not sure that fixed width menu fields are the way to go. A commented out example of css for variable width would be helpful for future. - Made smaller, might be good for now
Loss of the menu sub-layers by hard coding.
Product titles in indivdiual pages should be larger
Phase II Improvements
Need Cart modified or something for SKU entry
Page Titles - They alway render as Product Page - Bad for SEO and for Search results click through - They should render as category or Product Title.
Thickbox / Light box not working - need back posts rel= " " updated when fixed.
Page # Navigation - should standout more, - changed style sheet ishop div.wpsc_page_numbers need to add comma’s between numbers
Phase III Improvements
Add side bar navigation of categories and product pages
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