WP eCommerce Variation Ordering Fix

For those of you who are frustrated with not being able to order your product variations in WP eCommerce, this plugin provides a simple solution allowing you to drag and drop your variations in the order that you want.

We had the plugin developed specifically for version 3.8.7.1 of WP eCommerce. It may work with other versions, but please be aware that we have not tested it on any other version. So please, use best practices and do a full backup of your Word Press site before installing.

The plugin is installed the same way as any other normal plugin for Word Press…

  • Click on Plugins
  • Click on Add New
  • Browse to the location of the plugin on your computer and select it
  • Click on Install Now
  • Click on Activate

You should now have another option under the Products heading called Variation Order. To use…

  • Click on Variation Ordering
  • Click on the name of the variation that you would like to order
  • Drag and drop the variations in the order that you want them
  • Click on Update

We hope this helps you out, as you are probably as frustrated with the situation as we were. Hopefully WP eCommerce will incorporate this functionality into a future update, but until then, enjoy our plugin. If you’re grateful for the plugin and feel like chipin in a few dollars for the development cost of it, please help us out and hit the donate button.

Thanks for helping out.

 

Here’s the link to download the plugin…

WP eCommerce Variation Ordering Fix Plugin

If you do install the plugin on other versions of WP eCommerce and have success or failure, please make a comment below so that others get the heads up on it. Thanks very much.

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Posted December 3rd, 2011 in Useful Tools. Tagged: .

18 comments:

  1. it consulting lincoln ne:

    Anyplugin that makes my job easier in handling ecommerce is definitely most appreciated.

    December 4th, 2011 at 1:09 am
  2. Shawn Hayes:

    You da man MAN!!!

    Thanks for this. I really appreciate it. This was exactly what I needed. I am going to add a back link from my site yours.

    Thanks again.

    Sincerely,

    December 8th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
  3. Sherwin:

    Hi. Doesn’t seem to work as documented with 3.8.7.4.

    After dragging and dropping a variation set’s element, and pressing “Update”, it goes back to the original order.

    Hope that helps. Thanks for this though. Just wish it was working with the latest version. That’ll be nice to know if anyone else running this plugin with that version of WP e-Commerce have the same issue.

    December 12th, 2011 at 10:40 am
  4. James:

    Thanks Shawn, appreciate the link!

    December 12th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
  5. James:

    @ Sherwin
    Thanks for the advice. Yeah we’re running 3.8.7.1 – when we update, we’ll no doubt have to update the plugin.

    December 12th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
  6. Denis Creative:

    Thanks for this plugin, And do you khow to make one of variations for default?

    December 14th, 2011 at 4:58 am
  7. Lee:

    Just wondered if you’d consider contributing this into the core plugin?

    December 14th, 2011 at 5:34 am
  8. James:

    @Denis Creative
    Sorry mate, no we didn’t implement a function to set a default variation.

    December 14th, 2011 at 6:57 am
  9. James:

    @Lee
    Yes we’d consider it. Not sure who to contact…

    December 14th, 2011 at 7:05 am
  10. Zane:

    Yeah, we’re running 3.8.7.1 also, and it doesn’t keep the order. It reverts back to the alphabetical order. Any ideas on how to get it to work?

    December 16th, 2011 at 11:54 pm
  11. James:

    @Zane
    Not sure why it’s not working for you.
    However, it looks like they’ve finally release a version which includes variation ordering… http://getshopped.org/getshopped-news/wp-e-commerce-plugin-3-8-8-beta-ready-for-consumption/

    December 19th, 2011 at 8:17 am
  12. Ciaran:

    Fantastic for making a plugin for exactly this as variations have been the bane of my life with WPEC. However for me here in West Lakes it does not seem to work… ;)
    I see it is in the next WPEC update, however… would you care to take a look into the file I have on a client site to see why it is not working as I hoped?

    January 5th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
  13. Ciaran:

    Ahh … just seen that it is not working with the latest version of WPEC…

    January 5th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
  14. James:

    @Ciaran
    Yes, it is only tested on 3.8.7.1 – we will be updating it to current version in a couple weeks and will either update the plugin to work with latest version of WPEC or switch to using the new one they have apparently implemented.

    January 6th, 2012 at 7:46 am
  15. Ciaran:

    Hi James,

    I have installed the beta version of the latest WPEC 3.8.8, and can confirm it works fairly bug free. Is that the update that you have sent them? If so, it works fantastic.

    January 6th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
  16. James:

    No, I haven’t sent it to them.

    Am just glad they’ve incorporated the facility into the main plugin!

    January 8th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
  17. Glennyboy:

    Hi

    Great plugin – wish I had found it earlier.

    Further to ordering ‘variations’ I need to order the full ‘sets’. Currently sets seem to be alphabetical, but I need them in a specific order. Is there e plugin to order the full sets or does anyone know of a way to do this?

    Best

    Glennyboy

    January 25th, 2012 at 9:39 pm
  18. James:

    @Glennyboy
    If all goes well, we’ll be updating the plugin in a few weeks to allow the ordering of the sets as well.
    Cheers
    James

    January 26th, 2012 at 7:22 am

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