Thanks and keep fighting the good fight!

I’m just about to get started on a new project and was going to reluctantly use Zen-cart. In fact, that’s how I ended up here because I was looking for a solution to use with Wordpress instead

Thanks again!

MIT is another open source license. A lot of software is dual licensed under both GPL and MIT because MIT is GPL-compatible. For what I have envisioned for the plugin, I think the GPL is better suited.

Regarding documentation, I had thought along those lines about allowing the beta crew to participate in building the documentation. It may not be a “wiki” exactly, but it would allow for beta team contributions to the documentation.

Hope that answers it for you.

With regards guillermo’s comment, does this mean your plugin is not going to be open source? what is MIT?!

@emma: No it’s definitely not a prank post. I promise you’ll be seeing screenshots soon enough. Now that the engineering is mostly complete, I’m working out some of the final core features. The largest of what is left to develop is the catalog and product views.

@emma & @dee: I would say that the system will just work with what I call “out-of-the-box” functionality in any theme. That’s because nearly every component interface (the shopping cart, product displays, etc. will be able to be placed in existing pages/posts using shortcode tags [shortcode-example] right in the post/page editor. However, in order to get “power features”, you’ll have to do some theme customization using the shopp PHP tag. I do hope to have complete documentation to help even novice people do that. As far as potentially conflicting plugins, I have been very careful to engineer the plugin to be a good plugin citizen. That said, I don’t have a tremendous amount of experience with how other plugin developers have developed their plugins. In terms of Shopp, though, I can attest to it playing nicely with others and following best practices so that it would be unlikely to be the cause of any problems. For tech geeks out there that might be reading and interested, the entire system is strongly object-oriented and encapsulated in it’s own MVC-style design, so I have very little namespace pollution which will ensure it will cause little, if any problems. I hope if any issues do come up, that they will be discovered quickly and easily during beta.

How willyours stand with the them issue? Will you reccomend themes it does with with?

Thanks