nolongeractive

Apologies, somehow missed your email.

The problem is YAK uses the default priority when filtering content (to be exact it uses an action, not filter, but the process is the same). I’ve added a new DEFINE for YAK’s priority, and set it to 20 (rather than the default 10). I think this will fix the issue.

LOL

I’ve shifted the instructions out anyway. They’ve been moved to the yak home page (on the WP Extend site).

I would add the following styles to your css:

table.buybutton {
width: 100%;
}

table.buybutton td {
text-align: center;
}

PS. You’d be better off posting this sort of thing to the YAK discussion group, for a quicker answer.

Everybody really needs to stop getting retaliatory when somebody offends their plugin.

I don’t think I’m being retaliatory. I think I’m making a valid criticism of an attack without supporting evidence. Frankly, I don’t care whether people use my plugin or not. Really. I use it on a couple of sites, it’s useful for me. If others find it useful, that’s great.
That said, triplemoons has provided evidence (now), so let me address that… ??

In reply to each of the points:

1) Originally YAK had its own section (back when the WP menu was at the top), but someone suggested tighter integration within the WordPress menu structure, which made sense at the time, hence the reason the pages are now split across multiple menus.

2) Again, this used to be in a separate file, but I followed another suggestion that the instructions should be bundled with the plugin (rather than making someone go to a different site). Can’t please everyone I guess.

3) Valid criticism I think. I’ll add the info to the basic instructions.

4) I don’t like auto-generating pages. I used a plugin a few years ago which auto-generated pages. Horrible. So, I’m afraid the shortcodes will remain.

5) That’s a feature. I want(ed) closer integration with WP — and a lot of users appear to like that ethos.

6) That’s in the handbook. And you’re right — you’d have to pay to find out. Oh the humanity. That said, basically, go to the Payments tab, add a new payment type. Give it a name (such as Credit Card), then select “SPECIAL: Credit Card” from the drop down. Create a landing page (more markup I’m afraid) for successful orders, and select it in the dropdown in section “Manual Credit Card settings”.

7. I do make it known. From the home page:

Detailed installation and configuration instructions can be found in the YAK Handbook, but basic installation instructions are included in the plugin (after activation, in the “Settings” menu, click “Yak” and then read the “About” tab).

But valid point, I don’t actually say you have to pay for it right there. Will fix that.

Lack of support? Erm… I don’t think so. I’ve never not addressed messages on the forum (originally) and in the message groups (now), nor failed to reply to emails.

As for confusing backend, perhaps you could explain what you find confusing?

Finally documentation: there are step-by-step instructions describing basic configuration and setup in the About page. There is also info below each of the fields in the settings pages. I charge for the full docs in the same way as a number of other open source projects. Other developers charge for their plugins, for additional features, or solicit donations. My experience with donations, is that no one does it, and frankly, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with trying to recover a little of my time investment.

I wonder how much time you’ve personally invested in contributing to the WP community yourself? I wonder how happy you’d be giving away your time, for free, as a majority of plugin developers do?

The answer to your question is undoubtedly because of the not-insignificant effort in developing such a solution, the fact that people like you immediately rubbish a project with nary a word of constructive feedback, thus things do not and will not improve.

YAK supports manual credit card entry. Basically the customer enters their credit card number, basic validation is performed, and then the data is stored. Once you fulfill the order, the credit card data is blanked out from the db, so it doesn’t comprise too much of a security risk). It also handles per-option quantity.

Just for your info…

Well there’s mine… atrocious ratings, but seems to work for one or two people. ?? I know there are a few others out there (search for “cart” in WP’s plugins page), but I don’t know enough about them to comment on how good they are.

…I’m not spending money on anything I’m not sure of

There are a number of free options.

So, somehow despite the fact I keep an eye on the forums for questions about YAK, I still manage to miss every post, until about a month later. Sigh.

Anyway, YAK supports downloadable products (after payment of course), by sending an email with one-use (one use per IP address that is) links. However, it doesn’t support 2Checkout at the moment. I understand 2Checkout uses a similar API to authorize.net (which is supported), so it’s probably not a big change to support… it just depends how good their test environment is for me to try it out.

Hi Billy

This was fixed quite a few months ago. I’ve had a few complaints of similar issues since then, but have resolved most (if not all) of these to configuration problems.

Do you have the categories setup correctly?

By the way, if anyone else experiences a similar issue, please post to the YAK forums here.

Well YAK doesn’t have any need to touch the .htaccess file, so it’s not likely to be that.

Can’t comment on WP e-commerce, as I know nothing about it, but in terms of your requirements, you could use categories to group different products together. There are a couple of plugins that allow you to create products as posts (my own, YAK, and eShop both support this, AFAIK) — so you can categorise those product-posts to your heart’s content.

Not sure about discounting. YAK supports promotional codes, but they’re not linked to a specific product or category (at the moment). You can create multiple promotions (with % or fixed discount), so that might cover your requirements — not sure.

The latest version of YAK supports an ‘accounts receivable’ style payment type, so that might work for a purchase order.

Heh. No need for apologies. I’ve been developing for a loooong time, so I recognise the flaws in my code as well as anyone. The main problem is that Yak evolved, it wasn’t designed. What started off as a simple idea for something my wife needed has been bolted onto, stitched up, plastered, disassembled, reassembled, etc, etc, etc. I’ve made vague attempts to tidy up, but new features always seem to take priority over fixing structural problems. I would redesign the codebase myself, if I had the time (or was independently wealthy).

That said, Cyclemart.us is very impressive. Glad you were able to adapt YAK to your purposes, even if it wasn’t quite as straight-forward as it could’ve been.

Is it considered bad form to plug your own project? ??

I don’t know about being efficient to integrate into WP, but my own plugin (YAK) supports downloadable products so might be suitable for selling software packages.