nolongeractive

Sorry, YAK doesn’t currently support direct payment either.

Interesting that rather than contacting the author of the plugin, you post a message here first. Also interesting, is that in a good couple of years of people using YAK, no one has posted anything about any exploits like this. Nor have they contacted me directly about it.

Sorry for the late reply. I usually don’t check the WP forums for YAK support issues.

Your problem generally occurs when using PHP4. It’s an incompatibility introduced (by mistake) a while ago. It’ll be fixed in the next release (in a few weeks time).

It’s definitely actively developed. I would say however, that at times, it’s “sluggishly” developed. I do go through stretches where I don’t have any time to work on new features.

On the support front, I intend to add commercial support in the (near) future (for those who are bothered by the lack).

Bit late to the party, but I’d just like to dispute the fact that YAK has no support. The fact that I’m fielding a couple of requests for help a week (on average), and the General comments page has a couple of hundred messages tends to point to ever-so-slightly-more than “no support whatsoever”.

Adding the custom tags to create products was never a particularly onerous task, but still the latest version removes that requirement.

If you know how to configure WordPress, there’s no need to products to get jumbled in with your posts, so I’m afraid I have to disagree with your second point as well.

Hi

Sorry, didn’t notice this post until now. Additional payment gateways for YAK are unlikely in the short term, unless someone else contributes them. I’m too busy to support anything other than the fundamentals, I’m afraid.

Regards
Jason

Screenshots are the best I can do, I’m afraid.

Thanks, and do let me know if you have any problems.

There may be a delay in replies after Christmas (I’m on holiday) ??

To Jaxia:

You associate a post with a product (so you could have detailed info about the product on the post) — so there’s no reason why you couldn’t have links to each of those posts/products on a single page.
You can also set up a product list page, which automatically lists all the products you have available.

J

In response to the features requested by the original poster, I believe YAK (mentioned earlier) satisfies some of the requirements, but not all off them.

YAK associates a post with a product, so if you categorise your posts you consequently categorise your products. “Out of Stock” messages are supported, as are setting quantities, and the automatic calculation of costs. Comments are obviously supported as a natural part of WP posts, and I guess there are other plugins out there you could use for ratings.

However, the selection of colours is not supported, nor are alternative shipping options — at the moment shipping is a particular area which needs some work.

Not sure this is helpful to the original poster given it’s a bit late after the original message, but hopefully may be of use to anyone else with the same criteria.

Just a quick announcement:

The latest version of YAK (0.7) now includes support for downloadable content (in experimental form). It can be downloaded from here

Finally figured out the problem. I think I misread whatever reference I found that suggested using query_posts — I assumed it loaded posts ready to use in the_loop, whereas it actually just displays them. So what I thought was a problem with the_excerpt was actually 2 different sets of behaviour:

1) query_posts was dumping all posts into the page and,
2) the loop code starting with while (have_posts()) : was actually returning nothing, so the_excerpt function wasn’t actually being executed.

I don’t have it running on an externally accessible server unfortunately.

Happy to post/email/whatever the full template file, if someone wants to try it for themselves. And I guess I should try a fresh WP install, and try it on that (since I’ve got a bunch of experimental stuff on the current install)

Sorry, I should’ve mentioned. All my posts are using <!--more-->, plus I’ve tried using the_excerpt, and it doesn’t seem to work either.

I’ve basically created a page (with no content), and set the template to my custom template (I’ve pasted the top part of it below).


<?php
/*
Template Name: Display All
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

<?php if (have_posts()) :
echo "USING DISPLAY ALL TEMPLATE";
query_posts('showposts=-1&orderby=title&order=ASC');
?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>

Update: PayPal is now supported (although it’s still a little experimental).

Feedback welcome, particularly features you’d like to see added…