I'm just starting to install the Shopp plugin on my test site http://www.shepherdjim.com/ and would love to see it in action on other Atahualpa sites.

And, of course, it'll be helpful to hear of any troubles and tricks anyone wanted to take the time to share with the rest of us.

The e-commerec shopping cart installation at http://www.shepherdjim.com/ is not active so you can feel free to fool around by making "purchases" and such.


Jim

Hey Jim et al

Since you started a new thread I thought I'd keep this one bumped and fresh, instead of replying to the other one. How are you finding Shopp?

Ecwid is now working with Ata, but is sadly lacking in features in the backend at this stage. Down the line this might be good.

Using e-commerce and liking it just now. Price is good (free without add-ons) and it is doing the job. Am I missing the forums somewhere?

Not sure if it is on my end, but your ecommerce shop is taking a little time to load, and the same when clicking on products. Having a look around the entire site is loading a tad slow for me. Perhaps someone else can confirm. Looked on both Firefox and IE8 - both hang on waiting for page to respond. As I said might just be me.

Keep us updated when you have shopp running. Might help me make a decision either way based on your feedback.

John

Originally Posted by Liston

Hey Jim et al ...<snip>...

Using e-commerce and liking it just now. Price is good (free without add-ons) and it is doing the job. Am I missing the forums somewhere?

I'm always slow on the uptake -- I don't understand your question. ?

Originally Posted by Liston

...Not sure if it is on my end, but your ecommerce shop is taking a little time to load, and the same when clicking on products. Having a look around the entire site is loading a tad slow for me. Perhaps someone else can confirm. Looked on both Firefox and IE8 - both hang on waiting for page to respond. As I said might just be me. ...<snip>...

No, you're not imagining the slowness of http://www.shepherdjim.com. I activated the default WP theme and it go a lot more zippy so I can't blame host GoDaddy -- though I might hit them up for re-location on a speedier server (or maybe one with not so many "sharers" just for the hell of it.

I removed the fancy hack I had posting my "announcement box" on the home/landing page. I had the feeling it was pretty code intense and maybe being involved with every page refresh. Though, I have to say, that pages are still slow to load even while I'm just editing in the Dashboard -- making changes even just to "text" in posts or pages.

I think you might be working on UK Barbell at this time -- it took me four clicks to load it.

Question: what does one do with 100 kg Atlas Stone? Hate to think how much the Royal Mail would charge for you to ship me one! lol

Jim

Jim,
About your slowness. I know that it is your 'play' site. When was the last time you optimized your database? How many rows in your wp-options table. You would be surprised to see how many plugins write things into the wp-options table but don't give you a way to clean it out.

Originally Posted by juggledad

Jim,
About your slowness. I know that hi is your 'play' site. When was the last time you optimized your database? How many rows in your wp-options table. You would be surprised to see how many plugins write things into the wp-options table but don't give you a way to clean it out.

Hey Paul! Thank you! I've been using the DB Manager plugin just to auto-back up the sites -- not sure I'd ever noticed that the plugin also "optimized". Doing the "opt-thing" does seem to have speeded up load times quite a bit.

Now, is attending to the number of "rows in the wp-options table" taken care of by the optimization or is there something else I have to do?

Jim

Unfortunately cleaning up the wp_options table is not that easy. You have to go thru it and figure out which rows are for old pluging or themes you aren't using.

How many rows are in it? (you can see this in phpMyAdmin)

UPDATE:
try the 'Clean Options' plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-options/) to help identify orphan wp-option entries