Adding post thumbnail support to Shopp means products can now have new representative image that is independent of the gallery.
One simple use case for this is using thumbnail on the category pages and maintaining completely different set of gallery images on the product page..
Post thumbnails are regular images uploaded using WordPress's media tools just as you would expect they can be used from any template, not unlike regular post thumbs..
You are not limited in how you use these new images range of filters are built in to Shopp Featured Images to afford further control...
Upload the directory to the wp-content plugins directory.
Or install it using the tools built in to WordPress's Install Plugins page.
Are product thumbnails stored in the database..
Even if you have configured Shopp to store its images in the database, Shopp Featured Images simply pulls WordPress's own media handling tools so any post thumbs will be saved as regular files and can be re-used across posts products...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
Minor fix during the registered post type callback. 1.1.
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