Duplicate a site for testing

So I’ve been asked how and what I use to duplicate WordPress sites for testing purposes. I do this fairly regularly on my own site and sites I host for clients and friends,, I recently found a new trick using SSH to make the mysql backups too which I’ll go through.

Wp-e-Commerce 3.7.6.2 is ready for testing

Hi guys, Tomorrow I will be releasing the 3.7.6.2 version of wp-e-commerce, what’s in store? Paypal standard and Paypal standard 2.0 shipping send shipping details Google Checkout do not send shipping if shipping is 0 New Spanish translations Removed ‘Click to Download’ from purchase receipts and transaction results page Removed old unused Google Base Code [...]

Wp-e-Commerce 3.7.6

Hi Cool Cats and Coders! Wp-e-Commerce 3.7.6 just got tagged and released today, was a good feeling getting the version out the door, it fixes a whole lot of problems and introduces a lot of you to the new Settings>Checkout page which was a proud enhancement I worked on a while back. Not to take [...]

Client would like the checkout page to load after clicking “Add to Cart.” Is that possible?

Yes, it is. In the wpsc page templates single_product.php, products_page.php, list_view.php and grid_view.php find this line : <form class=’product_form’ enctype=”multipart/form-data” action=”<?php echo wpsc_this_page_url(); ?>” method=”post” name=”1″ id=”product_<?php echo wpsc_the_product_id(); ?>”> change the action so this line looks like: <form class=’product_form’ enctype=”multipart/form-data” action=”<?php echo get_option(‘shopping_cart_url’); ?>” method=”post” name=”1″ id=”product_<?php echo wpsc_the_product_id(); ?>”> Basically what we’ve done [...]