So far my posts have not given the impression that support for zen-cart mods in ZenMagick has a great future. Still, I always added that the answer to the question of whether a mod can be supported or not depends largely on the structure of the mod and most of all on the number of actual templates includes.

For the next release a couple new plugins will be available that should hopefully make it more interesting for people using multiple mods to move to ZenMagick.

In particular there will be:

• A new plugin adding support for cross-selling using this mod
• A store locator plugin using Google Maps
  (Initially, only one location is supported, but the plan is to make it possible to add multiple locations)
• There might be support for the new Multisite module which is hosted here
  I have to add though, that this is still open and I actually feel that this might be something that deserves native
  support in ZenMagick (either in core or as  another plugin)
• There is also going to be a new plugin that will contains all the music related code.
  This means, that out of the box, ZenMagick will have only support for the default product type. Installing this new plugin will seamlessly make music products work.
  This might also be a good way to distribute other product types…

I am also pondering a rewrite of the captcha plugin. There are heaps of articles about the usefulness of captchas and I think it would be nice to have a more generic structure, so that it might be possible to drop in new captcha classes that use different images algorithms or even to allow to randomly select one…  Of course, this would require that all classes implement a defined interface (which might be even only one method!)