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Comment on How to recoverer from putting the wrong link in an email campaign by Mike Goodstadt

Mike Goodstadt — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:29:23 +0000

Hi, Can the link redirects be the whole link? eg.: http://www.examplesite.com/portfolio/wrong-link-p...

Comment on 9 great WordPress shopping carts by thewpguy

thewpguy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:55:02 +0000

Good question to raise, thank you for your input to this post.

From my experience it is very important for the longterm success of a website to have long term support from your theme and plugin providers. I am not a fan of how some theme sellers have limited follow up support for themes purchased.

I think using a plugin like WP eCommerce makes sense because of the flexibility and long term support it offers.

Also you are very right about portability, if the eCommerce is built in you can never get a new theme, madness really as the theme could be out of date within 12 months.

Thanks again for your comment.

Comment on 9 great WordPress shopping carts by upupcreative

upupcreative — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:29:34 +0000

I'm seeing a lot of "plug-in free" WP e-commerce themes popping up (i.e. at ThemeForest) and I'm wondering what you think about the advantages and disadvantages. I'm thinking it seems to make the most sense to use a plug-in like WPEC that you know is going to be around and supported and updated for awhile, particularly because this gives you the freedom to use different themes, if desired, without having to start from scratch with the ecomm functionality. Thoughts?

Comment on 9 great WordPress shopping carts by thewpguy

thewpguy — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:28:52 +0000

Hi Mark,
Thank you so much for this comment. I have added the information to the post as it is very helpful for anyone wanting to build large eCommerce sites.
I am a fan of Storefront Themes and am building an impressive site right now with one of your themes which will be revealed in a few weeks.
All the best and thanks again for contributing to help others.

Comment on 9 great WordPress shopping carts by mgason

mgason — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:26:59 +0000

Hi,
i do the support at Storefront Themes a premium theme provider for WP-Ecommerce themes. You certainly can build a substantial store with WPEC. I would highly recommend the plugin Smart Manager, for WPEC if you have lots of products. (I know plugins for plugins!).
I LOVE it. It gives you all of your products in a spreadsheet style view and allows batch updates and changes such as 10% off all TV's. You can change different things about 50 products on one screen and just hit save to write all to the database. Plus the developers are super responsive. I have written 3 times and said it would be great if it could do this or worked this way. Each time it has been updated within 6 weeks!
Smart manager http://www.storeapps.org/
Mark

Comment on 9 great WordPress shopping carts by thewpguy

thewpguy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:20:46 +0000

Hi Jayson,

Thanks so much for your feedback, I have added it with a credit to you in the post. All of these real life experiences help others understand these shopping carts a little better.

Comment on Why use mediatemple.net webhosting? by thewpguy

thewpguy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:08:47 +0000

Hi Geoff,

Firstly thank you so much for taking the time to comment and I am so pleased you find my insights useful.

Regarding the capabilities of mediatemple I don't speak for them but I can tell you I know personally of at least 2 sites that have around 5000 visitors per day, day in day out on a Media Temple grid service account. And that was before Cloudflare was added as a FREE addon service to Media Temple hosting. For more information read this http://mediatemple.net/cloudflare/

Regarding using google apps, you don't need to if it just to reduce load on the hosting but I highly recommend using google apps for long term simplicity. I have used it myself for a few years now and its brilliant.

My rule of thumb is keep your Domain, Website and Email hosting on independent platforms. Then if an issue arises on one you can make changes on the other to fix the issue quickly.

I hope that helps and all the best with your project and all of those events you are running from April until October.

Comment on 9 great WordPress shopping carts by Jayson

Jayson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:29:02 +0000

I have used Jigoshop and ill give it a plus for being so configurable with css and html, but the problem is there is a little selection for free payment gateway, it has authorize gateway being sold for $49 but Eshop have it free and Wp-ecommerce have the the google checkout free.

Comment on Why use mediatemple.net webhosting? by Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:09:22 +0000

Great blog! Thanks for all of your insights.

I have two questions and I wonder if you could give me some advice.

1) I am considering using media temple due to their advertised ability to handle traffic spikes. I want to use WordPress more for its CMS abilities than for its blog features. More precisely I plan on using a membership plugin along with an events manager plugin to allow members to register for one of a couple of hundred events which we host across the country from April to October. A busy day for us might be a few hundred visitors logging in, looking for an event, reading the details and registering by completing several forms and receiving a confirmation email. So we're looking at a few dozen page views and some simple server-side processing (updating/viewing db info, notification email) per visitor.

Can the grid handle this? Not looking to host a 100 sites. If the grid could handle just this one, that would be great. If it could handle more than this then putting up a few smaller sites in addition would be awesome.

2) While my app will need to send members confirmation emails, I was thinking about using Google Apps for Email for the email needs of the site staff (e.g. answer inquiries, etc.). Would off-loading staff email to Google boost performanace for my grid or would it have no impact?

Thanks for any input!

Comment on How to install bbPress with any theme by thewpguy

thewpguy — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:14:57 +0000

Hi Hugo,

So glad it helped you get the forum going and you were the inspiration for this post as I was explaining it to you and it grew from there.
Your forum is looking great and I can't wait to see it grow now its active.

Thanks for inspiring me to learn and grow and teach others.