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Simple Shopping Cart · Version history

Simple Shopping Cart changelog and version history

Latest version
5.3.3
Oct 13, 2026 (28 days ago)
Releases
77
since 2009
In the last year
11
about one every 31 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20093 releases
  • 20101 release
  • 20113 releases
  • 20123 releases
  • 201313 releases
  • 20145 releases
  • 20153 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 20174 releases
  • 20181 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20235 releases
  • 20247 releases
  • 202516 releases
  • 20269 releases

20269 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 5.3.3Latest

    • Security improvement: PayPal Standard payment notifications are now always checked against the PayPal email address in the plugin settings. The optional “Use Strict PayPal Email Address Checking” setting has been removed. Make sure this setting uses your PayPal account’s primary email address, not…
    • Security improvement: Product prices are now only registered from published posts and pages created by an Editor or Administrator. Previews and drafts no longer register prices. Developers can change the required capability with the wpsc_dynamic_product_register_capability filter.
    • The saved product price data is cleared once after this update and rebuilt as product pages are viewed. If your site uses page caching, clear the cache after updating.
    • Improved security by escaping more output across the plugin.
    • Fixed PayPal Standard checkout using the old cart items and total after a product was added with AJAX add to cart.
    • Fixed a Stripe API error related to Stripe Managed Payments.
    • Fixed an issue with the plugin’s blocks in the block editor.
    • Fixed a PHP deprecation warning when exporting orders to CSV.

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 5.3.2

    • WordPress 7.1 shopping cart block compatibility update.

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 5.3.1

    • Added new settings for the store pickup feature. Store Pickup Documentation
    • Fixed an admin settings UI issue related to WordPress version 7.

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 5.3.0

    • Updated the language translation POT file.
    • Updated the unique Cart ID generating code to use a more robust method.

  5. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.9

    • Added more disable funding options in the settings menu of the PayPal PPCP checkout.

  6. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.8

    • The deprecated PayPal Smart Checkout menu tab has been removed. If you were using it, switch to the new PayPal Checkout option. See the setup guide
    • PayPal API connection related message updated to be more clear and informative.
    • Gutenberg Block API v3 related console warning fixed.
    • Fixed a small JS related issue for the cart.

  7. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.7

    • Added a new settings option that can be used to specify the default PayPal locale for the PayPal Commerce Platform Checkout option.
    • A small CSS update in the orders menu for WordPress 7.0.

  8. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.6

    • Added output escaping to the new PayPal API settings interface fields.

  9. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.5

    • Improved the Stripe post-checkout handling code to prevent a potential issue with some server configurations.
    • Added output escaping to the ‘wpsc_display_product’ shortcode parameters.

202516 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.4

    • Added a new feature to auto send invoices to customers for Stripe checkout.
    • Fixed an issue with the new AJAX add to cart feature when a button image is used.

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.3

    • Added a new feature to enable AJAX add to cart buttons. view documentation

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.2

    • Added a new hook for the IP address so it can be customized if needed. The new filter hook is ‘wpsc_get_user_ip_address’.
    • The ‘custom_fields’ email merge tags support added for manual checkout instruction emails.

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.1

    • PayPal PPCP Checkout related improvements (the custom var data is added to the ipn_data array correctly).
    • Github repository link added in the readme file so developers can contribute to the plugin.
    • Fixed an issue with the {custom_fields} merge tag when using it with the newly added ‘resend sale notification’ feature.

  5. Simple Shopping Cart 5.2.0

    • Added a link to the newly introduced tax feature’s documentation on the Tax Settings menu for easier access.
    • Renamed the plugin from ‘WordPress Simple Shopping Cart’ to ‘Simple Shopping Cart’ to avoid potential trademark issues and better reflect the plugin’s core purpose and functionality.

  6. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.9

    • The PHP error related to coupon functionality has been resolved.

  7. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.8

    • Updated the ‘Enable Sandbox’ option label and description to make them more descriptive and clear.
    • Code refactoring to improve the variable names to be more descriptive and consistent with the plugin’s shortname.

  8. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.7

    • PHP 7.4 compatibility update.

  9. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.6

    • Tweaked the newly added feature’s code to be PHP 7.4 compatible.

  10. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.5

    • New feature added to specify price modifications for product variations. This allows you to adjust the base price of a product based on the selected variation option. Variation Documentation
    • Added the Turkish language translation file.
    • New js event listener ‘wpscOnManualCheckoutSubmit’ added. It triggers on manual checkout form submit.
    • New filter hook ‘wpsc_before_manual_checkout_form_submit’ added. This will allow adding contents befor the manual checkout submit button.
    • New action hook ‘wpsc_manual_payment_checkout’ added. It triggeres after manual checkout form submit on server site.
    • Added a new setting to hide the country field in the manual checkout form.
    • Added an optional phone number field to the manual checkout form.
    • New tax and tax by region feature added.
    • Product thumbnail is now optional in ‘wpsc_display_product’ shortcode.
    • Some code refactored.

  11. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.4

    • Refactored Cart ID handling for improved security.
    • Added sanitization for cart button shortcode parameters.
    • Added sanitization to the cart quantity update function to prevent negative quantity values.
    • Improved the dynamic products to be able to handle variations.
    • Added a warning message that appears when the Stripe gateway is enabled but the public key is not properly configured.
    • CSS class names for coupon success message updated to be more specific.

  12. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.3

    • Updated the German language file. Thanks to Roland Stumpp for submitting the updated file.
    • New dynamic product feature added to protect the download file url.
    • The add to cart button’s price validation code has been improved.
    • Fixed a ‘nonce’ field issue with the manual checkout feature.
    • Updated translatable strings in the JavaScript file.

  13. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.2

    • Added Manual/offline Checkout feature. view documentation
    • Old/unused ajax handler hook using the old plugin prefix has been removed.
    • Updated the timeout value of the PayPal PPCP token creation API request to 60 seconds.
    • Added a filter hook ‘wpsc_paypal_api_request_timeout’ to allow customization of the PayPal PPCP API request timeout value.
    • File url option in the ‘Product Box’ block has been repositioned.
    • Added a new option to ‘Resend Sale Notification Email’ in order details page.

  14. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.1

    • Refactored the hook names to make it match the plugin’s shortname.
    • Added a check so if the cart contains reference to an old class, it will reset it to prevent a fatal error.

  15. Simple Shopping Cart 5.1.0

    • This release focuses on code cleanup and optimization improvements.
    • If you see any issue with this update, please roll back to the previous version and let us know.
    • Here is a download link to the previous version: Download Version 5.0.9
    • Refactored the cart class name to make it match the plugin’s shortname.
    • Refactored the static JavaScript filename to match the plugin’s shortname.
    • Refactored the static CSS filename to match the plugin’s shortname.

  16. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.9

    • Removed the deprecated function ‘wspsc_check_and_start_session’
    • Added the global cart_id variable to the cart class.

20247 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.8

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.7

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.6

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.5

  5. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.3

  6. Simple Shopping Cart 5.0.2

  7. Simple Shopping Cart 4.7.2

20235 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.7.0

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 4.6.8

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 4.6.6

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 4.6.5

  5. Simple Shopping Cart 4.6.4

20221 release

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.5.4

20201 release

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.5.0

20181 release

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.4.0

20174 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.3.7

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 4.3.5

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 4.3.3

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 4.3.0

20162 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.2.8

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 4.2.4

20153 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.1.3

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 4.1.0

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 4.0.8

20145 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 4.0.1

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 3.9.8

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 3.9.6

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 3.9.4

  5. Simple Shopping Cart 3.9.2

201313 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.9

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.8

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.7

  4. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.6

  5. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.5

  6. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.4

  7. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.3

  8. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.2

  9. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8.1

  10. Simple Shopping Cart 3.8

  11. Simple Shopping Cart 3.7

  12. Simple Shopping Cart 3.6

  13. Simple Shopping Cart 3.5

20123 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 3.3.1

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 3.3.0

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 3.2.7

20113 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 3.2.3

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 3.1

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 2.8.4

20101 release

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 2.8.1

20093 releases

  1. Simple Shopping Cart 2.6

  2. Simple Shopping Cart 1.7

  3. Simple Shopping Cart 1.6

Questions about Simple Shopping Cart’s releases

What is the latest version of Simple Shopping Cart?

5.3.3, released on Oct 13, 2026 (4 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Simple Shopping Cart updated?

11 releases in the last year, about one every 31 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from March 2009.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Simple Shopping Cart’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.