Steps to activate plugin:

1) place contents of zip file in the wp-content/plugins directory.

2) activate the plugin from the wordpress plugin page

3) Create a page called "Products page" containing the text "[productspage]"

4) Enter the url of the page you just created into the "Products Page URL" field on the Options page in "e-Commerce"

5) Create a page called "Shopping cart" containing the text "[shoppingcart]"

6) Enter the url of the page you just created into the "Shopping Cart URL" field on the Options page in "e-Commerce"

7) Create a page called "Checkout" containing the text "[checkout]"

8) Enter the url of the page you just created into the "Checkout URL" field on the Options page in "e-Commerce"

9) Create a page called "Transaction Results" containing the text "[transactionresults]"

10) Enter the url of the page you just created into the "Transaction Results URL" field on the Options page in "e-Commerce"

11) If required, enter in a GST percentage and an email address for the purchase log on the Options page in "e-Commerce"

12) Go to the "Payment Gateway Options" page in the "e-Commerce" tab, and enter in the appropriate details. (the default paypal gateway accessed is the paypal sandbox)

13) To prevent the Shopping Cart, Checkout and Transaction Results pages from being displayed in the page list, you have to edit the sidebar.php file in the theme you use.

14) Get the ID numbers of the Shopping Cart, Checkout and Transaction Results pages, this is the number after the "page_id=" part in the URL of each page.

15) Open sidebar.php in a text editor and find the line similar to "<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>' ); ?>", in the default theme, it is on line 42

16) Edit this line to look like this "<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>&exclude=3,4,5'); ?>", the word exclude tells it to exclude the pages from the list, and the numbers after the word exclude are the ID numbers of the pages to exclude

17) Add in the categories and Items, and the shopping cart plugin will be fully set up.


Notes:
If you are upgrading from a previous version, you will need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin.
If your server does not have the PHP image functions installed, you will not be able to resize images once they are uploaded.
If your server does not have the PHP image functions installed, you will not be able to resize images once they are uploaded.
I have not been able to find a way to pass the required variables from page to page using permalinks that dont use mod_rewrite, if you cant use mod_rewrite, the plugin will not work with permalinks turned on.

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