Tribulant Software Blog

Shopping Cart plugin v1.6.7

Antonie Potgieter — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:02:58 +0000

We worked hard on this new release of the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin. A long list of new features were added, many enhancements were done to existing features and a big bunch of defects/bugs were sorted. Please see the release notes before I tell you about some of the feature highlights. If you want to skip all the talk and get down to it, get the latest version from your downloads section right now. New Feature Highlights This version of the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin is packed with many new features. Let’s have a look at them quickly. There might be...

Checkout – Stripe Payment Gateway

Antonie Potgieter — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:36:38 +0000

We present to you to the Stripe payment gateway extension plugin which allows you to start selling online on your WordPress website using the Stripe payment gateway and our WordPress Shopping Cart plugin. How does Stripe work? It was a huge pleasure and a wonderful experience for us to work with the Stripe API as they provided thorough API documentation, a logical flow and great functions to use. The Stripe payment gateway has a great architectural design from both a programmer, a merchant and a customer’s point of view. This gateway will keep customers on your WordPress website while processing...

Checkout – iPay88 Payment Gateway

Antonie Potgieter — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:55:05 +0000

We released our seventh extension plugin for the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin. This is the iPay88 payment gateway extension plugin which allows you to make sales through iPay88 using the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin. How does iPay88 work? Your customers will add products to their shopping cart on your WordPress website using the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin. When they are ready to pay, they go through the checkout procedure depending on your settings in the plugin. This is where iPay88 comes into play. Your customers are sent through to the secure iPay88 payment page where they can fill in their...

Newsletter plugin v3.9

Antonie Potgieter — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:17:07 +0000

This major release of the WordPress Newsletter plugin has a very long list of new features, improvements to existing features and fixes to potential problems in the plugin. You can view all the details of this release in the v3.9 release notes before we look at some of the feature highlights in this release of the Newsletter plugin. New Feature Highlights This release is packed with amazing new features which you’re going to love! Automatic Updates/Upgrades We have implemented a smart automatic updates system into the plugin which works with the standard WordPress automatic update system. Now you no longer...

Checkout – First Data API

Antonie Potgieter — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:42:27 +0000

We have released our sixth extension plugin for the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin. This is a payment gateway extension plugin for the First Data API payment gateway. The First Data API payment gateway processes payments on your WordPress website through your First Data account while keeping customers on your site at all times. How does First Data API work? As your customers add products to their shopping cart on your site and proceed through checkout, they are prompted for credit card details on the billing page to make a payment with. The Shopping Cart plugin will communicate with the First...

Happy Easter 2012

Antonie Potgieter — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:55:43 +0000

We wish all our customers peace, good health and prosperity throughout the Easter holidays. May you get all the needed rest and spend this special time with your family and friends. Let the joy of Easter fill up your heart today and for the rest of the year to come. For all premium WordPress plugins, we’re offering 40% OFF with the coupon code “EASTER” (without the quotes). This is valid until the 25th of April 2012 and can be applied to any purchase on the Tribulant Software website.

Newsletters: Embedded Images

Antonie Potgieter — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:53:33 +0000

We built our first extension plugin for the WordPress Newsletter plugin to expand it’s functionality and this specific extension is very useful to most (if not all) clients. The Embed Images extension plugin was designed specifically to prevent image disabling in newsletters, eliminate all loading delay of images in HTML emails and ensure 100% reliability in email image delivery. The concept is revolutionary. How the Embed Images extension works In regular HTML emails, as you know it, when the user opens the email the images are loaded in the email from the server, a remote location in relation to the...

Newsletter plugin v3.8.9

Antonie Potgieter — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:31:52 +0000

With amazing new features for both the users and the administrator, this new release of the WordPress Newsletter plugin will change the way you send out bulk WordPress emails. Version 3.8.9 has several new features, mostly in the back-end where the administrator configures and manages newsletters. Please see the release notes before reading some of the feature highlights in this release. New Feature Highlights SSL/TLS Settings for SMTP A simple but useful ‘SMTP Protocol‘ setting to turn on ‘SSL‘ or ‘TLS‘ for SMTP. You can set this to ‘None‘ to use regular HTTP protocol on your server to connect to...

January 2012 Newsletter

Antonie Potgieter — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:05:59 +0000

We are well into February but we would like to speak about the start of the new year and about what happened at Tribulant Software during the month of January. Happy new year and 10% off plugins New team member New plugin releases WordPress FAQ plugin v1.4.6 WordPress Shopping Cart plugin v1.6.6.4 WordPress Newsletter plugin v3.8.8 WordPress WHOIS plugin v1.4.2.4 Upcoming plugin releases WordPress Newsletter plugin WordPress Shopping Cart plugin WordPress FAQ plugin WordPress Slideshow Gallery plugin Happy new year and 10% off plugins We truly hope that you had a positive start to the new year and that 2012...

WHOIS plugin v1.4.2.4

Antonie Potgieter — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:42:49 +0000

This release of the WordPress WHOIS plugin has several fixes and improvements to enhance the experience with the plugin overall. You can view the release notes of v1.4.2.3 and v1.4.2.4 before continuing to read this post. We are disappointed to say that with this release, there will no longer be a free version of the WordPress WHOIS plugin in the WordPress.org plugins directory. We used to have a free version in the WordPress.org plugins directory with a sponsorship link below the WHOIS search form (which was not in the paid version) but due to guidelines of WordPress.org we had to...