Holy crap, I made a boo-boo!
I was just informed about a stupid mistake I made with my CakeShop plugin (formerly called “Simple Cart”). So please, if ANY of you have downloaded those files before today, redownload them NOW.
Here’s the reason why…
Basically, I’m developing that simple code into a serious plugin that will hopefully help a lot of people who want to use shopping systems on their site. Now, there are some awesome shopping cart plugins out there already, but they cost $$, and the only free ones I know of (which shall remain nameless), quite frankly, suck. I will not pretend that I am a magnificent coder that will be supplying the end-all to all WordPress shopping cart plugins out there. No freaking way. however, I am hoping that the one I am currently developing will be a little bit better than the freebies that are out there right now. I will say that, from people I have beta-testing my work at the moment, I’ve been told I *should* sell this plugin. But WordPress has given me so much that I don’t feel it’s right to try and make money off of this – so it will be free.
I digress.
The point is, I’m working on a HUGE beta for this – been working on it for months, and it’s nearing completion. part of what I am doing is also releasing a theme that will go along with the plugin. Sort of a “Default” theme that one can use to either re-style or reconfigure (or simply lift code from) to do their own carts. the idea was that if you used the plugin *and* the theme together, then a default credit link would show up to me at the bottom of the site. The idea was also that this would be easily removed.
However, since this is a working beta test, there are bugs that need ironed out, and some things get paced on the back burner. unfortunately, the credit link was one of them. And when I zipped up the initial coding for the plugin, I didn’t remove my credit link from the footer. In all honesty, I’d completely forgotten I’d put it in there in the first place.
So now there’s a ton of people out there trying out my little plugin, and *I* am showing up as the theme designer in the footer of their site – even on people who are using the default Kubrick theme. (see? this is why us developers LOVE to get feedback if you use our stuff – an extra pair of eyes – or two, or two hundred – are better than one!) I am SO embarrassed by this – it was a complete oversight and a big mistake on my part. All I can say is, thank God I’m not done and haven’t submitted this to the plugin repository, or I’d have SERIOUS egg on my face, instead of a bit of a spot.
So please, I implore you, download the fixed files and remove me as the designer of your site. “cause you know… I’m not. And I apologize for trying to take credit for it – I honestly didn’t mean to.
(and thank Brooke for letting me know about the issue too! otherwise I would have just gone on my merry way with no idea at all!)