Comments on: CubeCart V5: A Developer’s Review

By: Homar

Homar — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:12:39 +0000

Hello All,

We have now released the Blueprint theme for CubeCart V5. You can read more about it here: http://www.shopdev.co.uk/news/blueprint-cubecart-v5-theme-released.php

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:52:09 +0000

looking fresh and cleaan! but hurry up and get it released so I can get away from crappy v4 !!

By: Homar

Homar — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:04:14 +0000

A demo of our first CubeCart V5 theme is now available. Please note that development is still ongoing. There are still a few minor issues to remedy and we’ll be doing some thorough cross-browser testing.

http://www.shopdev.co.uk/demos/blueprint/

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:51:09 +0000

yes Id like to know when your first V5 might be available?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:22:54 +0000

Sounds great. Any rough ETA’s?

By: Homar

Homar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:33:30 +0000

Hello Fred,

I’m still working on our first CubeCart V5 theme. It’s definately coming together nicely. It has taken a while since all of the template files have been coded from scratch to ensure a consistent and semantic markup.

Kind Regards,
Homar

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:30:37 +0000

We need updates!!

By: Homar

Homar — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:17:48 +0000

I think that this may have been overlooked. It shouldn’t be difficult to push a 301 (permanent) redirect from the relevant 404 action. If this doesn’t get added in the next release, I might create a small plugin to do this. I agree that this is a significant roadblock to those upgrading from CC4.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:33:21 +0000

Great article,

My biggest problem is i have a high traffic, good turnover cc4 shop, i have been told that cc5 does not currently support cc4 urls or even perform a seo redirect to the new cc5 seo friendly urls.

This means that anyone upgrading from cc4 will lose massive amounts of traffic and business and is surely something cubecart should have thought of?

By: i Smith

i Smith — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:23:31 +0000

Thanks for the review I cant see myself upgrading to version 5 for the time being due to the lack of features and all the bugs found in the final release, cant believe they were not fixed/found in beta versions. I currently use a heavily modded version 4 cart and looks like a lot of modders aren’t to sure about the new version as there isn’t anything being releaced yet so will have to hold tight.

I think i will stick with my current version 4 site as its serving me fine for the time being but is looking really dated comparing to other competiter sites and may consider upgrading once things stabilise and features increase, however looking at other software options there certainly is plenty more in the sea with more features out of the box so may take this route of jumping ship when cc4 has stopped its surport.

Opencart5 look good found some nice mods and skins for it too )