The short version:
Joomla shopping carts, please STOP sending pending order emails to customers BEFORE they had a chance to actually complete their transactions with Paypal (yes, I kind of expected this from VirtueMart but from you redShop? Really?)
The long version:
Recently, one of the very usefull features of sh404sef, automatic short URLs, started supporting K2 content... Here's how to enable it.
Based on all the postings over on the community forum, most people starting with K2 have the same bunch of questions...
One of the features that K2 chose not to bring over from Joomla articles is the concept of "Show Unauthorised Links". In Joomla, this simple checkbox allows you to display to all your visitors the link and intro of articles that have an access-level of "Registered". Once users click on the link, then they get prompted to login to view the full article. That is a pretty common workflow for sites that use a paywall or register wall... So how do we accomplish this in K2?
Has this ever happened to you: you are editing the local version of your live site, make some changes, answer some emails, tweet, then you do some more changes and suddenly you realize you were editing the live version instead of the local version? Maybe it's just me but here's some things I do to make sure I don't get fooled!
Using 2 of the most popular extensions together can work wonders as long as you know some of the tricks... I've learned them the hard way...
One of the things that shocked me when I started working with Virtuemart was the fact that if you use Paypal (I would guess probably 80% of Virtuemart users?), a customer attempting a transaction on your site would receive an order confirmation email BEFORE their Paypal payment was even processed!!
That's not how an ecommerce site shoudl behave and thankfully, there's a solution!
