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I am very happy to announce that DukaPress is now available in both French and Spanish. This is all thanks to the work of Danilo Casati (for the Spanish translation) and Wolforg (for French translation). You can find the language files here: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dukapress/trunk/languages/ You...

A common question that we face is that of people wanting to know how to best build a DukaPress powered website. Many people ask us questions that one way or another mean the same thing: Apart from installing and configuring DukaPress, what else can/should you do? While we cannot answer this question...

Begi is a clean, minimal and highly customizable WordPress e-commerce theme. It is based on Vanilla Cart whose development ceased a while ago. Theme Features Clean, minimal and stylish Drop-down menu support 2-column layout and widget-ready sidebar Support for WordPress 3.0 custom menus Support for...

There are probably millions of WordPress themes out there. So, what if you the perfect theme for your WordPress site and you want to use DukaPress but make it look good (instead of the default plain out of the box DukaPress)? In that case, you can: Hire someone to make DukaPress match your theme...

We’ve been getting reports of a really weird problem from some people. The problem is: When you click “add to cart”, the cart widget is updated but as soon as you move to another page (or refresh the page) the items in the cart disappear. Weird, eh? Also very painful because it is...

We’ve just updated the premium addon, Dukapress Shipping Pro to use Weight Classes as the shipping rate. What does this mean? This means that as you create your custom locations using Shipping Pro, you are now able to set different shipping rates for different weights instead of one rate as before....

Suppose you have a DukaPress powered shop and that you live in Nairobi, Kenya. You sell stuff online and deliver them to your customers. Most of your customers are in Nairobi and a few major Kenyan cities but you also have customers in the continent of Africa and North America. How would you charge...

Well, today is a big day for us. We’re releasing DukaPress 2.0 Beta right here, and right now! Grab the download here. The Beta Testing period is now over. Get DukaPress 2.0 here. Why Beta? We chose to go with a beta version for two main reasons (and many smaller ones): Before we upload it...

One of the things I dislike the most is that the mobile payment method in DukaPress is very manual. This is how it works: someone orders for something and pays via mobile phone the shop admin gets the mobile payment received notification on his phone the shop admin then marks the order as completed...

Over the weekend, there was the IPO48 event in Nairobi where participants have 48 hours to come up with a start-up from scratch to “market”. The event was really interesting and it proved that even in Nairobi it is possible to build amazing technology-driven businesses in just 48 hours. ...