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Articles with tips and tricks on how to better use Sunshine Photo Cart and make more money from your gallery sales
Posted on October 6, 2025
Sunshine Photo Cart 3.5 brings a major behind-the-scenes upgrade focused on a smoother, more reliable checkout flow. Orders are now created instantly when customers click “Submit Order,” ensuring nothing is ever lost—even if payment hiccups occur. Plus, enjoy better admin tools, faster searches, more sharing options, and small but meaningful improvements across the board.
Posted on April 7, 2025
Today I released an update to the Lightbox add-on which includes 30 new image transitions to help you further customize how your galleries look and function. Instead of the default "slide" method, there are a lot of unique and fun ways images can animate as users navigate the images. Check out this demo gallery to […]
Posted on December 17, 2024
Sunshine Photo Cart 3.4.7 was released today with a couple bug fixes and, more importantly, one of the most requested features: ability to watermark on a per-image basis! When uploading images to a gallery and you have a watermark configured, you will see a new toggle option to enable/disable the watermarks on the images you […]
Posted on November 11, 2024
As a photographer, your images are your livelihood. Sharing your work online is essential, but it also opens up the risk of unauthorized access or misuse of the high-resolution or non-watermarked files. Sunshine Photo Cart is here to support you with additional features to keep your images safe. In our latest update, we’re thrilled to […]
Posted on October 29, 2024
The latest version of Sunshine Photo Cart has been released with lots of bug fixes and enhancements. Per Image Pricing The biggest improvement is allowing you to set pricing on a per-image basis instead of just at the gallery level. The latest update allows you to override a gallery's price level and set a separate […]
Posted on July 11, 2024
I’m excited to announce the release of a powerful new add-on for Sunshine Photo Cart: Sell Anything! This add-on is designed to help photographers expand their business by selling a wider variety of products beyond just prints and digital downloads. Why "Sell Anything"? Sunshine Photo Cart has been a great tool for selling photo prints […]
Posted on July 5, 2024
I'm thrilled to share some exciting news with our Sunshine Photo Cart community that there is a plethora of new payment gateways now available! These include Mercado Pago for South America, Payfast for South Africa, Paystack for Africa, and Quickpay for Europe. For a long time, Sunshine Photo Cart has supported the most common payment […]
Posted on June 7, 2024
Sunshine Photo Cart 3.1.13 is released today! Another improvement to the best WordPress client photo gallery plugin available for photographers. Core Plugin Updates Order Status Update Email This release includes a new available email: Order Status Update. When the status of an order is updated, this new email will be sent out instead of a […]
Posted on May 22, 2024
Sunshine Photo Cart 3.1.12 is released today! Another improvement to the best WordPress client photo gallery plugin available for photographers. This release provides some minor UI enhancements and bug fixes to the core plugin as well as the Automated Emails and Messages add-ons. Core plugin improvements Password protected galleries are the most popular amongst photographers […]
Posted on May 7, 2024
The latest update to Sunshine Photo Cart, version 3.1.11, has significantly improved the way users can search through client photo gallery orders. This enhancement focuses on making the search process more thorough by diving deep into the order details. Previously, finding specific items within orders could be a bit cumbersome. Now, the order search box […]