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1. misslaidlaw
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Okay maybe that is a bit drastic and im premenstrual but I am having problems with my website at the moment and it's getting worse with every upgrade.

   1st thing... I run a ecommerce website and I have to keep re-entering the Price tag in the Custom Fields section when I am creating a new post. I never had to keep doing that, it was automatically there amongst the others. Everytime I add it in, it does not save it, so I have to keep renentering ... Not really a big big problem but it is annoying when I have 100 + items to add to my store.

   2nd thing ... what the hell is a post_format? I have taxonimies on my main page named - price- brand- colour- style etc and they are all in a neat box. When I updated to 3.1 the bame post_format has shown up as an extra tax .... you can see it here when you scroll down! Do you know how to get rid of it?

   I am not techy and still in learning phase so please give it to me in laymans terms if you can...

   thanking you!!!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I run a ecommerce website

   What ecomm plugin are you using? Perhaps you might want to look at switching to another plugin? It could equally be an issue with any one of the other plugins you're running. Or your theme.

   what the hell is a post_format?

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats

3. junonino
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have exactly the same problem. We're using an ecommerce theme and the shopping cart is not a plugin, it's hard coded. I have been looking all over the code and the web and unable to find a way to get rid of it. The worst thing is that the theme doesn't even support post_format, yet this little annoying thing has just ruined my layout. Any ideas?!

4. misslaidlaw
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   this is still not sorted : (

   my theme is also hard coded ...did you get a solution?

5. junonino
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I went to your site and I don't see where the problem is. Anyway, the solution was to contact the theme developer - sarah neuber and update the theme to the latest release. That fixed the problem.

6. misslaidlaw
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yeah the reason why you can't see it, is because i took the taxonomies off the main page. I contacted Sarah and she said it was a WordPress problem so there was nothing she can do. I think I have the updated version ....I'm just gonna have to do without , even though that was one of the major reasons why i got this theme.

7. sabinou
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I don't want to look like I love badmouthing wordpress, but I don't think wordpress is the best CMS for an ecommerce solution.

   True, wordpress is flexible and highly ergonomic.
   But, in a way this IS a problem, wordpress evolves a lot, and very fast.

   When your sales figure depends on the stability of your website, how can you enjoy facing the threat of having your ecommerce solution become partly incompatible with your CMS's core every time there is an update ?

   Frankly, if you want stability and less fear of the future, go for another solution. If you don't want to pay, something like creloaded (oscommerce as a root, but with every imaginable plugin already hardcoded and working, saving you hundreds of coding hours to integrate the addons with each other), or oscommerce if you're code-friendly. And add wordpress next to your ecommerce solution, as your blog and not as the core of your ecommerce system.

   Just my opinion, but I've ran an online biz for five years, been blogging with wordpress for 6 years, and I never was adventurous enough to mix the two.

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