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WP Ecommerce or the like….

Ok, there are a couple questions here. One, I’m wondering how I could allow a blog user to put a donate button or similar type thing on their blog. Is there a plugin for this or would I need to while suggesting it and pointing them to signup for paypal or the like if they haven’t already have them then send me the code they get for the button and offer to put it into their selected template manually, at the same time making the template they are using a copy of the one that is for general use.

Secondly I see there are buggy issues with WP E-commerce plugin, what about qukshop? If I want to be able to allow blogs to be created in order to use as shopping outlets or the like what plugin is best to go with?

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:03:54
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    One, I’m wondering how I could allow a blog user to put a donate button or similar type thing on their blog.

    Paypal does a static one for emails that doesn’t include javascripts. That’s what’s suggested over at wp.com.

    When you build the code over at paypal, it’s one of the options.

  • andrea_r
    • The Incredible Code Injector

    I’m actually forming a list of wp-ecommerce alternatives. gimmie a couple days to go get it and write ’em all down. :smiley: Then you can tes tthem too.

    There has actually been a couple new e-commerce plguins for WP lately that *should* work in MU. haven’t finished testing them all or been able to get some of my site members to test them for me.

    I *am* willing to share the info with the premium forum members though. :smiley:

  • freeblogger
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Sounds intriguing :slight_smile: Looking forward to it. Andrea_r

    DrMike, I knew about the email link and had thought that the viable choice but didn’t know if there was something else that I hadn’t seen or didn’t know about……giving the option for them to be able to email me the script and hard coding it into a special version of their selected template is a good customer service ploy to I would think maybe….something to differentiate from some others perhaps?

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    The email link: It’s the easy way out. :slight_smile:

    You could hard code a widget and assign it to specific blogs although I would think that it would be “Yet Another Query That Gets Run” and I do try to stay away from those as much as possible.

    The assigned would work but 1) You would be dealing with more files, 2) you would have to give them access to ftp and that’s iffy, 3) you may get a client that changes things every day if you don’t give them ftp and tell them to email you the files. It would work though. Just a pain I would think.