WP eComerce Gold is a great shopping cart for WordPress based sites. That said not everything about the set up is intuitive and one of the first problems you may have is getting the Gold Cart Options Tab to show if you are upgrading from the free option to Gold Cart. Here’s what I discovered.

When I unzipped the downloaded file from instinct I ended up with a folder titled gold_cart_ files the instructions read

Copy the contents of the zip file (a folder called gold_cart_files) into the wp-shopping-cart folder. Now it should automatically display a new tab called gold options, once you have entered in your API key all of the additional gold features will unlock.

If it does not appear straight away you might need to deavtivate (sp) and then reactivate the e-commerce plugin.

I didn’t see the new tab called “gold options” right away (actually when you do get it working it’s “Gold Cart Options” but that’s a minor point). What happened in my case was that when I unzipped the file two files ended up outside of the “gold_cart_ files” folder one of them was the readme and the other was a .php file titled “gold_shopping_cart.php” in my filing system I have one folder for WordPress plugins and so this file got a little lost in the forest. So if you’re having the same issue first find this file.

Got it? Good, but now where should you put it? If you’re thinking it just fell out of the “gold_cart_files” and you just need to slip it back in there think again. It actually lives in the wp-shopping-cart folder, but outside of the gold_cart_files folder or any other folder.

Now when you go back and refresh your browser window you should see it just fine under the sub-menu of the e-Commerce tab.

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