The WP Swag Store, which we first noticed a couple of months ago, has launched today as the new home to official WordPress gear.
The store has launched with shirts, an iPhone skin, drinkware, embossed moleskine, a fleece jacket (my favorite), and (of course) baby onesies. New items will be added in the coming months, according to the Jane Wells in the launch post. Small items like stickers and buttons are being reprinted, and will be available soon.
An interesting technical note: originally the WP e-Commerce plugins was to be used to power the Swag Store, but after a few bugs (don’t worry, all is well) the PHPurchase plugin was chosen.
Now, be honest. Who’s going to be gifting WordPress gear to confused cousins and grandparents this year?
*Raises hand*
I noticed Jane complaining about the bugs in WP e-commerce last week…made me nervous as I am currently implementing that plugin on a site. Is PHPurchase a wiser choice? I haven’t used it. The new WP Swag Store looks pretty sweet, so maybe that’s a testament to PHPurchase.
I’ll be honest, I can’t weight in too much on the e-commerce plugins; I haven’t sold much online that necessitated a plugin solution.
I do know, though, that ThemeGarden is using PHPurchase as well. If that means anything.
Good to know. Went through the ordering process on ThemeGarden recently and thought it was pretty decent. THanks, Ryan.
Sure thing!
Such teases! They show a nice big WordPress sticker on a laptop in the photos for the “Code is Poetry” t-shirt but, alas, no stickers for sale.
My understanding, which is admittedly limited, is that Jane was pretty frustrated with how WPeC dealt with inventory control on variations of products. All of the bugs the developers were aware of from Jane, and hundreds of others, have since been resolved. Just released a dev beta, feel free to give it a whirl – http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-e-commerce.3.8.Dev.Beta2.zip