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So I know quite a few people have been asking us for some new features and bug fixes. I am pleased to tell you that our ‘most major’ release since we launched is finally here. What does it include? Bug fixes We fixed a horrendous bug that meant one could to update the number of items in...

Here’s Part 1. 12. Test. Everything. A lot. You have to make sure that everything works just as you want it to to deliver the best customer experience. 13. Under-promise and over-deliver. This will pleasantly surprise your customers e.g. saying that shipping will take two days but delivering in...

We’re going to do something interesting over the next few days: give out 100 e-commerce tips. We don’t think we want to write a hundred posts about it, so we’ll batch them up. So here goes: Never leave unanswered emails for more than 48 hours, or your will lose the sale. For transparency,...

Well, DukaPress 1.0.1 was released a few hours ago. It is available for download here. This 1.0.1 release includes the following: We added pagination to the products Grid view. The addition of this changes the way one uses the Grid Display short code. This is documented here. We fixed a bug where...

We noticed that we had neglected to include what could prove to be an essential feature: pagination. What do I mean? When you use the shortcode to display products on one page in a grid view, and you have more than just a handful of products, then you get an ugly and large page. It is obvious that...

Well, its been a few months of nothing but toil on our contribution to the greater WordPress community. We love building stuff with WordPress and make our livings doing so (at Nickel Pro and at Likechapaa). However, building e-commerce sites with WordPress has always been a great difficulty for us....

We are pleased to announce that the DukaPress website is now up. When DukaPress is ready, we shall publish it to the world on this website.