Author: Manuel

MercadoPago is one of the largest and most important payment gateways for many Central and South America countries.

This platform allows the payment of products and services electronically through many different payment methods. They work with national and international credit cards. Payment links, QR payments, offline and cash payment methods through companies given in each country.

This allows a very important and necessary flexibility when it comes to checkout a sale.

Our EDD MercadoPago plugin is an integration of this payment gateway with Easy Digital Downloads plugin to sell digital products with WordPress. From eBooks, to WordPress plugins, to PDF files and more, they make selling digital products a breeze. Easy Digital Downloads is simple to use and free to download.

MercadoPago continues to make improvements to its platform, and so do we. In this new version we’ve included the “Binary Mode” for the Custom Checkout, that allows it to request a successful/failed purchase status immediately.

We have tested it in many countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, etc. Thus simplifying e-commerce for Latin American countries and without risks.

In addition, a fix was added that corrects the redirection of a failed purchase in the Custom Checkout and we’ve added the portuguese translations files in it.

Release Notes

We are very happy today because we are publicly launching our payment gateway ‘Mercado Pago’ for Easy Digital Downloads!

Easy Digital Downloads (EDD), created by Pippin Williamson, is a free e-commerce plugin from WordPress that focuses exclusively on digital products and can also be easily used for services or any online sale. Its main objective is to make the sale of digital products simple and complete. A great thing about Easy Digital Downloads is that it can be mounted and used immediately and is also quite lighter in speed and resource consumption compared to other e-commerce stores. Its excellent coding allows to integrate external extensions such as the sale of software with licenses or recurring payments among the most used.

EDD-mercadopago joined etruel a few months ago and we have been working hard, but also enthusiastically on it, creating a totally new and intuitive product. It works completely integrated with EDD in Checkout Basic mode and is compatible with EDD Software Licenses.

However, if you need compatibility with EDD Recurring it is also possible to do it with Custom Checkout, but for now it only works with credit cards and with a purchase form integrated in the checkout of the store. It does not use the recurring payments of Mercado Pago but those of Easy Digital Downloads generating movements in the activity of the account of Mercado Pago as common purchases.

To see more features take a look at the product page at https://etruel.com/downloads/edd-mercado-pago/

Development notes

In these months we notice that the API of Mercado Pago is quite harsh with a lot of information mixed between old and new APIs, and that for Custom Checkout it does not have a total testing environment as it does for the Basic Checkout.
For this reason, also knowing the needs of many users and also having a full and functional version tested with the Basic Checkout and everything possible with the Custom, we decided to release the product and continue working, debugging and improving the plugin while we enable it for purchases and use it in production environments.
This will allow end users to use it and give us their opinions and suggestions as well as needs that may arise to implement new functions to the plugin.

Price Notes

As a new product is launched at promotional price with a discount code with one month duration. Use the code 30EDDMP to get a 30% discount before the coupon expires!

We released version 2.4 of WPeMatico.

In this version there is an outstanding feature that is the new external cron process.
From now on we have deprecated the calling to the old file wpe-cron.php
We still have it to keep the compatibility backwards, but if you use external cron you would have to modify the call to the new URL that follows the WordPress standards.
We’ll keep it a few more weeks and we’ll announce in the administration screens that it will be removed.

This new process to run with cron follows strictly the WordPress standards, cancelling external calls to configuration files, improving performance and data processing for the execution of the campaigns.

So much in so little.

A major version composed of several minor versions.

Although it seems that there are no big changes because it is a major version, we have divided all the new features and fixes in several small releases.
This helps not to deal with all the changes together, reducing dramatically the error margins and the generation of bugs with their corresponding support tickets.

So many of the features listed below were added and several more that come in the following minor releases.

Changelog

• Added custom statuses to campaigns.
• Improved from scratch external cron processes . If you use external cron, you should take a look at the new URLs in Configuration.
• Improved insertion of tags and categories in messages.
• Added possibility to add tags in the post type Topics of BBPress.
• Resolves a problem when getting the source coding chrset
• Solves a problem in the controls of duplicated by hash.
• We changed the transient name from encoding_hosts to wpematico_encoding_hosts.
• Increased transient cache time of encoding_hosts to 6 hours.
• Improved security when saving data in all admin screens.
• Fixes a reported vulnerability that was only available to users who could access the WPeMatico Settings screen.
• Implementation of the sections by WordPress filters in the different tabs of the Settings.
• Installed extensions are now showed in the plugins page in the row of the WPeMatico plugin.
• Fixes some warnings on the Licenses page.
• Fixes the Uncaught Error: Calling a get_columns() member function on the page…
• Changed the constants printed in the debug file to a limited white list of them.
• Fixes some problems with multiple alerts in the campaign edit js.
• We fixed many bugs based on your feedback. Thanks for helping us out!

Take a look and download it from WordPress.org by clicking here!

After several weeks of work on it we are very happy to present our new website to our customers and friends. It is the first of a series of planned stages for the improvement and modernization of our website and the offered services.

As for the design, we continue with Vendd as our Parent theme, an excellent theme with support for Easy Digital Downloads, but we have modified our child theme a lot and implemented better searches and data disposition among many other things.

We have added sections to the home page to include our latest developments and acquisitions. Like Fakturo, a free plugin developed exclusively for accounting and billing of SMEs. With extensions for subscriptions and automatic invoicing.

We also make more official our developments for Easy Digital Downloads by dedicating an exclusive section to it in our homepage. We are talking to our EDD friends and very soon we will have several more extensions to offer to our users.

Although the most significant change in the website is the top search bar by categories. If you go to the item Blog or one of its categories as news, it will search the posts in that section of news, however if you are in Questions & Answers the search will be directed to the documented answers of the FAQ; in all the other sections will be shown the categories of the downloads to search for products in our store.

In fact, it’s a lot of things more, so check it out here. Very soon we will follow the changes in our menus, user accounts and FAQs. Stay tuned!