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Strange Symbols:

These can easily carry over from other sites or documents if you are copying the description from somewhere and pasting them into the editor. I have also seen this happen when the encoding on the pages, and the character encoding and collate on the MySQL database are set to conflicting values, however I would put my best guess on my first point about copy/paste being the culprit. When editing your product in WP-eCommerce or page in WP, click the editor over the HTML using the tab in the top right and look for these symbols, or strange spaces, or apostrophes that don’t look right. Delete them from the description and replace with the appropriate character desired.

P & P – Postage & Packaging:

Localization and language packs are always interesting, especially when the plug-in comes from a different country anyways. You can change this by going to your “/wp-content/plugins” folder, opening the “/wp-e-commerce” folder and navigate down to “/languages” and then to the “EN_en.php” file. From here you can either do a text search for the following two entities and replace the resulting text with S&H or whatever you like. Just remember to use “&” for the ampersand (&).
a) TXT_WPSC_PNP
b) TXT_WPSC_PP

For everyone with line-number friendly code editors:
a) Line 757
b) Line 776

Edit Links

These only appear when you are logged in as an administrator, but I do understand that they can be a bit annoying even for an admin and even remove them from my templates. You will need to first locate your theme files. Best practice is to have relocated your themes files to “wp-content/uploads/wpsc/themes/<yourtheme>/” where <yourtheme> is the name of the theme you are using “default” is most common. In this folder you will need to remove the following line:

<?php echo wpsc_edit_the_product_link(); ?>

From the following files:

a) products_page.php
b) single_product.php

All better ??

Checkout Process

First things first you will want to fix the “1. Billing/contact details below:” line as it is currently an active field when it should be a header. In the store admin, Settings -> Checkout. You will see this line and then a drop down box with a few options. Make sure “Heading” is selected here.

As for the rest of the process, I am afraid I am not able to offer much help as the server appears to be running very slowly right now and took about 10 minutes just to squeeze the following error out:

Warning: urlencode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /nfs/c02/h06/mnt/39341/domains/getskinrelief.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/merchants/paypal_multiple.php on line 185

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/c02/h06/mnt/39341/domains/getskinrelief.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/merchants/paypal_multiple.php:185) in /nfs/c02/h06/mnt/39341/domains/getskinrelief.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/merchants/paypal_multiple.php on line 251

This is happening because on the Billing form you have compounded the Country and State into the same variable in the form of an array: collected_data[6][0] and collected_data[6][1]. You should remove this custom code from the file and instead return to the store admin section and go to Settings -> Checkout. At the bottom you will see a link to “Add New Form Field”. Click this. Though it will appear at the very bottom you are able to set the order so that it will appear after city and before country. Set the type to “Text” mark it as mandatory and you will be all set.

Hope this helps, and feel free to let me know if you have any problems.

How big is the file size on the image you are trying to upload? I have seen this happen quite a few times when people will upload images from their cameras or something which are usually upwards of a MB. The resize functions then have to load this full file size into memory on top of the other memory it already needs to allocate to create the various resized outputs.

I might suggest resizing the picture you are uploading so that the dimensions of your source file you wish to upload match that of the dimensions of the largest picture of your website. For example, resize the image from your computer to match whatever you have the dimensions set for the single product page image.

Settings -> Presentation -> Thumbnail Settings: Single Product Image Size

This will likely greatly reduce the file size of the image before even uploading it to the site, making it easier on the image-processing.php file and allowing you to work with the memory limits set upon you by your hosting server.

Almost $5000 for your basic (Novice) package and you can’t even include an XML sitemap? I’ll stick to my $40 Gold cart and FREE XML sitemap plugin. Great plug though.

Version 1.2.1 released last night fixes the issues seen in the check_opt_in() function which occur after upgrading to WordPress 2.8.5 and up. It also corrects an issue that was seen with the function used to prevent duplicate email addresses from being registered with the AWeber system.

Regarding the form parameters required, the plugin upgrade also includes instructions for how to retrieve the variables required. From the AWeber control panel, when viewing your forms, clicking on the “Get HTML” link for the desired form results in a popup window. This window by default shows the code for the Javascript form, however there is also a link at the top of the popup titled “Raw HTML Version” which then reveals the parameters required by the plugin. This allows users to retrieve the parameters without having to sift through the Javascript resource.