you rocks their website .. they have no good documentation or FAQ at less

Thank you From Champions Of Africa ( Pharaohs ) ;)

These guys have taken Flutter as the baseline and are adding features and goodies to it. Again, the support and activity by the developers is great, making it way easier to tackle hard-to-answer questions.

Also thanks for walking through the issues that I noted.

Your explanation as to why Shopp does not set up full paths with categories makes total sense. It would be nice though if there was a feature to select whether or not to use category paths, as some sites may not have products that live in multiple categories. This would mostly help increase usability in being able to use conditional tags on single product pages.

Thanks again for your ongoing support and advancements to this wonderful plug-in. I look forward to seeing what lies in store for Shopp in the future!

If I may, I’d like to respond to your points in the “Cons” list. I think the first and third points “Conditional Tags are tricky” and “Documentation is very scattered” are part of the same problem. So that’s an important one to figure out so we can solve two problems at once. I’d really like to tackle this issue, but as I am so ingrained in the project, I have a hard time looking at the documentation as someone new to the project. I monitor usage analytics, but so far it has not been revealing as to what we’re missing. We’ll keep working at it though.

On point #2, “Permalink structure does not include a full path to a product by default”
We actually had set Shopp up to support full path (by category) to the product, but as products can live in multiple categories, this can create multiple URLs to the product. This has a negative impact on SEO (ala canonical URLs), and so we changed the behavior to build URLs without category paths so that all products would have a single, unchanging permalink.

There’s not much to address on point 3, as we think its not just a fair price, but perhaps even a generous price for the amount of features and functionality we’re providing (and constantly adding).

Thanks again for your article as it gives your readers an understanding of what Shopp brings to the table as part of a developers arsenal of tools. It also helps me better understand where we need to improve! Cheers!

Great post!