bear with me for a day or two, I’m just doing something in the main plugin that will aid that and will let you know here and post a bit of code (although regardless of that you are missing something somewhere or it should at least show up on the frontend)

it does that already no ? (i.e there’s a list of ingredients you have added before adding the whole shebang to the cart)

i have put that idea on my list of things to do …no ETA as to when that will be implemented though

The extension doesn’t as such allow you to set prices on a multiply level (i.e different prices for different multiplications of the same ingredient – not at the moment anyway)

However, there’s a way you can work around this somewhat (which might or might not work in your particular scenario, don’t exactly know what you are trying to do)

you could have a custom group (cheese and bacon and ham for example) which a customer can select one of each only once (or permutations thereof) for 0.00.

you could now add a second ingredient (also called cheese ) for 0.50 which is not in this custom group, but just in a default group/setting

essentially now a customer can/should (depending on your settings of the custom group) choose 1x cheese for free from that aforementioned custom group.

if he wants to add another cheese, he has to add from the other/default group (at whatever price you set there….

hope that makes sense……(!?)

Hi, having read your comment, I’m just working on a version (because it’s fun and I have a bit of time) that allows you to do that (using prettyphoto)

might take a few days until i make it available in the WP repository but it’s in the making

much better to integrate this sort of thing into the plugin than coming up with some hack/workaround i would think

I think we talked about this already by email and am just catching up here with the comments section.

anyway, v2.5+ has now more custom fields one can use

sure, why not.

there are a ton of plugins available that allow you to do that. (i.e put a login/register screen on a page before getting to the contsnt of it)
just have a look around on wordpress.org. I’m sure you can find one/some that satisfy your needs

Hi Tom,

in short: up to a point

the add ingredients extension allows you to setup custom groups (for lack of a better word)
i.e you could say “pizza a” allows to add dessert a or b or c for example (free or plus some additional price per topping – up to you)
and various other options (if you go to http://www.wp-pizza.com/twentytwelve/ and select “Make Your Own Pizza” you can get an idea. happy to expand/explain more if required.

furthermore, i am in the middle of testing an updated version of this extension that allows adding toppings for half/quarter pizzas (or whatever meal you choose) as well as pre-selecting or excluding toppings on a per menu item (meal) basis and a few other bits and bobs. this hopefully will be ready in a week or so ( I will make an example available in the 2012 theme somewhere)

having said that , at the moment there’s no option to say “order 3 for x £” etc and add toppings to each
(something i need to look into in conjunctions with so-called coupons i suspect)

although you could call your menu item “3 pizzas” of course for a certain price you set depending on size, I suspect it would get messy or at least not very obvious to whoever fulfills that order….

happy to provide more detail if required

sounds like the “delivey by post/zipcode” perhaps is what you need ? (provided the menu/categories stay the same)

am a bit confused to be honest.
first it’s different menu, now it’s same menu just different branches.
not quite sure exactly what to suggest other than the above , but feel free to expand a bit . maybe I’m just a bit dense at the moment

Hi Carl,

first of all: note to self – must sort out the formatting of this page at some point. I took the liberty to just put some line breaks into your reply for readablity.
(actually the whole site could probably do with a change…one day)

secondly, allow me to retort and yes, let me be defensive of my work (why shouldn’t I be !?)

in no particular order:

• “is what I’m talking about…”. At least I know now what you are talking about. It really wasn’t clear to me from everything you said previously (hence I always said something along the lines of “maybe i’m missing something”, “feel free to correct me ! etc etc….but maybe I’m just stupid)

• when going to burger king / or wherever , you have a one-on-one talk with a person where you can discuss things etc. when you order things online and pay there and then – by its nature – you don’t.

re: “imagine going to Burger King and asking for a few extra pickles and they say, “Sorry, you get the pickles we give you.””

Can you please tell Burger King to export your shops over here ? Because “Sorry, you get the pickles we give you.” is EXACTLY the answer you’d get if you were to ask for this here.
If you just want extra Mayo , you go to the corner of the shop where the Box with Mayo is. To me, that’s the equivalent of the comments textbox on the order/checkout Page as it’s not menu item specific.

I cannot think of one online shop where you can say “i want to order this – pay here – , but actually no , I would like to have some more bits I’ll just write it in a box and get these too….(sure on some you can leave comments per item but that doesn’t change the order itself). Having said that , maybe you know of one and can send me link which might give an idea as to how one could implement this.

Either way though. None of this is relevant. The plugin clearly doesn’t do what YOU want it to do. That’s a shame, but maybe you need to look at another solution for your sub sandwich customer.

Furthermore, I have to say I am feeling a bit irked by your comments

• as far as I am concerned , we had a discussion about what this option was all about. No point of me trying to program stuff if I dont even know what it is supposed to be doing.

• saying that I do not reply to or take into account users comments I find – quite frankly – offensive (especially given the conversation we had about order history etc right below this conversation. I even wrote some code for you to make it work for you as per your requirements)
  Furthermore, if you look back over our exchange here you’ll find that may absolutely first response was “is not such a bad thing per se (and I might just add that option at some point).”

• if i were not open to users suggestions, we wouldn’t even have this discussion and neither would the plugin have many of the options it has

• Gilads request is an ENTIRLY different thing. And if you were to read my reply, you would have seen that it’s something I am planning to do (in fact am in the middle of doing) because it’s a good idea…

• Denis’ request: I quite clearly answered that one with reasoning why – along the lines he suggested – it’s neither practical nor user-friendly (or at least i could not come up as yet with any reasonable solution)

• I have answered absolutely EVERY users emails sent to me (quite literally hundreds), comments in this message section as well as support requests on wordpress.org …mostly within hours.
  Furthermore, pretty much every users suggestion – if possible and halfway useful to more than one person – has been implemented so far or is in development.

This plugin and its extensions were/are developed and maintained in my spare time as a hobby and to get a better idea of how WordPress works as I was and am developing a few WP sites.

From there it grew into this thing that takes up a lot more time than is healthy. Just to be clear – and i hazard a guess that’s the case for most worpdress plugins – the plugin and extensions will never even come close to recouping their development costs. Not to mention the time spent on supporting users .

Am I claiming it is perfect? No, of course not.
Am I saying it works for absolutly every scenario ? No.
Do I listen to users suggestions ? Absolutely, all the time . (claiming otherwise is just wrong)

If this plugin doesn’t work for you. Feel free not to use it.
If you don’t want to use the extension. I’ll refund you.
If you want a total custom solution, pay someone to program this from scratch and be prepared for a (well into the) 5-figures bill.
If you find me difficult to deal with for some reason ? Don’t use it , don’t demand things and don’t ask for help .

Saying things like “I will have to find another option if that is the case. I need a solution soon.” and ” but we need to have the ability” etc sound just demanding and rude

As i said previously: once we had established what it is you actually need/want I would have integrated that when time allows without any costs to anyone (and will probably still do that). Simply because I think it’s not a bad idea and might be useful.

I just felt the need to clarify a few things regarding where I am coming from and to what this all sounded like to me.
As always, maybe I have misunderstood things. Feel free to comment etc

Olly