Well, yesterday WP-Ecommerce 3.6 RC2 was released from Instinct, and is fully functional with Wordpress 2.5. I am running both on my site and have no issues.

Here’s the back story….For those of you that don’t know, Instinct has a plugin for Wordpress known as WP-Ecommerce. It allows you to add a shopping cart to your Wordpress blog. It integrates with Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Bluepay and others. There are modules that can be added on to the plugin like:

• Gold Cart (allows for mulitiple image uploads, and adds more payment gateways)

• Grid View (allows you to place your products on the page in a “grid” type fashion)

• Dropshop (this places a static shopping cart at the bottom of your screen and allows you to drag & drop items into your shopping cart)

• Members Only (this allows you to create a “members only” area of your site that is password protected)

• MP3 Module (this allows for a 30 second clip of audio files to be previewed on your products page)

With that being said…it’s a really good plugin and I love it! Don’t get me wrong, there are bugs that go along with all the cool features. Depending on what type of server you run and the way it’s configured, there can be issues. But not to worry, there is a support forum for the plugin and as if that’s not enough, I offer support here as well. You can find that over here.

There are so many modifications that can be made to tailor it to your own site….and in the coming days and months I’ll start to highlight the modifications that I’ve come up with, with step-by-step instructions and screenshots included.