For some of you that requested to be added to the beta team consideration list know, I’ve been toiling with shipping calculations in Shopp as of late. Last week I sent out an e-mail to those who had asked to participate in the beta looking for input on what is really needed for calculating shipping costs in an e-commerce plugin for WordPress. I got a decent amount of response (thank you!) and was finally able to find a solution. continue

Shopp is still shaping up. Today, I’m going to continue providing updates on development progress for the new WordPress e-commerce plugin. This past week, work focused primarily on creating the interface for handling file uploads in the product editor and some redesign on the product options interface. continue

Here’s a weekly update on where development stands with the WordPress e-commerce plugin, Shopp. My feeling is that providing a weekly update will continue to help generate excitement about the project and to demonstrate my commitment to bringing it to the WordPress community. I can also use regular updates to describe specific features in much greater detail by breaking up coverage while fielding comments and questions specific to them. So here’s where development stands, one week after the first public announcement… continue

I’ve been silent a good while, but not without reason. I’ve been engrossed in several projects of late that have kept me more than busy. One client project in particular has required development that I felt would be useful to the WordPress community at large. So today I’d like to announce a new e-commerce plugin for WordPress that I am looking to release by the end of May or in early June. continue

And I thought life couldn’t get any busier. [Inserts foot into mouth.] This is just a reminder that whatever the state of things, it can always get more extreme than you can imagine. It also brings to mind that when ‘things’ are already at an extreme, it doesn’t take much added extreme-ism-ness to make it feel completely overwhelming. continue