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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Mass Advertising for WordPress] User bewareThat was my fault. I can see where it looked as if I was talking about the commercial plugin. I fixed it.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Mass Advertising for WordPress] User bewareAll of my comments above were based on the ‘Free’ plugin since I never paid for their subscription services. During this Free period, They wanted me to install code into my website’s header, which made me suspicious. Also, the new visitors this plugin drove to my site stayed for half a second and then left (kindof like a robot). I can’t comment on their paid services.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [WooCommerce] Just not good enough. Going back to MagentoActually, I must apologize. After reading my post I realized it sounded disrespectful toward Nippi9. The ‘closed mind’ comment was out of line and not what I meant to write. I meant that Nippi9’s mind appeared to be set on this subject and my intention was not to convert him. I was explaining my decision, from my perspective, for the benefit of other potential users.
Anyway (believe it or not) I wasn’t trying to advertise my web store on this forum. In fact, if readers go to my site from here with the purpose to see how the WooCommerce plugins work, I can’t expect them to say, “Oh, whilst I’m perusing this site , I’ll just buy this here t-shirt.” In other words, I don’t consider forum readers as potential buyers.
In fact, I just recently built my website and I wanted to see if forum readers felt that the WooCommerce plugins were doing the job displaying my shirts. I believe this is on-topic as we’re talking about WooCommerce plugins not working. Since I’m new to e-commerce and using WooCommerce, I wanted to see if this was my problem. So Comments such as “Its slow as heck – it bombed whilst i was trying to use it” are valuable to me–even though it was intended to be insulting. It tells me that I may have to look into dedicated hosting. I also now know that I should probably look into the Eparcel plugin, the Multi-image per variation plugin, the Grouped Products plugin and others.
Thanks for the insight.
Ric Esrey
[business name self-redacted so it doesn’t offend anyone]Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [WooCommerce] Just not good enough. Going back to MagentoNippi9’s comment:
You making an appeal to popularity as why I should not call it how it is?
If you read my post, I said that WordPress’ popularity was a factor
“when I chose the structure for my website.” On the contrary, I’m not trying to convince Nippi9 of anything. I realize his/her mind is closed. Yet in my opinion (and for the benefit of others reading this review), I went with the WordPress option because high popularity attracts more developers, which fosters more competition, which equals better functionality for less money. It works the other way with decreasing popularity.Furthermore, WooCommerce does not cost me $1000.00 a year. My Baron Air t-shirt shop, which you can see [Link redacted] uses the following WooCommerce plugins:
WooThemes Canvas — $99.00 Note: I could have used a free theme, but I liked the design flexibility of the Canvas theme.
Product Add-Ons — $49.00 Note: This allows me to have input boxes so customers can customize their orders.
CSV Import — $199.00 Note: This isn’t essential, but it certainly saves me time over typing the products into WordPress individually.
Catalog Visibility Options — $49.00 Note: This isn’t essential, but it allows me to put my shop in Vacation Mode when I want to.
PayPal Express — $79.00 Note: This was essential because I use it as my payment gateway. The advantage for me was that it collects payment at the PayPal site so I don’t have to bother with SSL on my site.
WooCommerce — Free
Google Analytics Integration — Free
Product Archive Customizer — Free
WooDojo — Free
I also use other (mostly free) non-WooThemes plugins which I did not list. Anyway, that comes to $475.00 total. But I actually bought this stuff during WooThemes’ half-off, birthday celebration so it cost me $237.50. According to WooThemes, I’m not required to pay for the plugins every year–only if I want continued WooThemes support and updates. Also, they told me that the renewal fee was typically 50% off the regular price. The support is worth a couple hundred dollars a year.
When I checked into Magento, I couldn’t even discover what the package would cost. They wanted me to contact them for a quote. That left me with the ‘if you have to ask, you can’t afford it’ impression. Also, I wanted a blog along with an e-commerce site and no one does blogs better than WordPress.
Best regards,
Ric Esrey
[Signature moderated]Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP-Lister Lite for eBay] Variations IssuesWell then, if I might ask, why not offer an intermediate version that includes the ‘Upload Product Images to eBay’ feature but does not include the inventory sync stuff? The ability to upload product images would be well worth $60 to me. Plus it would allow me to feel as if I helped support future WP Lab development.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP-Lister Lite for eBay] Variations IssuesThanks Matt,
You’re correct on both issues. I only wish your Pro version was closer to $50 or $60. Even though I don’t really need any more functionality than what you provide in the free version (except for possibly the uploading of images to eBay), I would buy it just because I love the plugin and customer support. I’ll keep watching for your Christmas sale. In the meantime, I’ll add my five star rating.
Best regards,
RicForum: Reviews
In reply to: [WooCommerce] Just not good enough. Going back to MagentoHi nippi9… So, this is a ‘WordPress’ forum. It’s probably not fair for you to rate WooCommerce at 2 stars because you feel as if a ‘Non-WordPress’ solution is better.
Also, you said, “WordPress is just not meant for ecommerce. Its not an efficient structure for products and categories and it just doesnt work very well.” I disagree. When I chose the structure for my website, I picked WooCommerce and WordPress over Magento even though Magento was a little more popular. The reason for my decision was because WP was (and is) growing in popularity exponentially in all areas–Magento is not. For instance:
75 million websites utilize WordPress
47 percent of all CMS websites use WordPress
14 percent of the top 10,000 most trafficked CMS websites
22 percent of all websites in the world
48 percent of the top 100 blogs use WordPress
13 percent of all ecommerce sites use WooCommerce (a WordPress plugin), more than any other system
WordPress is translated into 40 language
WordPress.com gets more unique visitors than Amazon.com
29,000 WordPress plugins with 300 million downloads
– I found these stats at: http://www.sunriseadvertising.com/wordpress-is-winning/#sthash.4VTeX0oe.dpuf but other websites confirm the numbers.Maybe I’m wrong, but I believe WooCommerce does everything I need. You can check out my site at [Link redacted]. Is there something that my e-commerce site is missing that Magento would do for me? If so, I’d like to know.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin] Permission problemI’m not certain if the issues above are the same as my problem. I can use UpdraftPlus to back up to Dropbox. Yet Google Drive is problematic. After UpdraftPlus sends between 70% to 90% of the chunks to Google Drive, I get a Google Drive Upload Error. The 401 error states the problem as ‘Invalid Credentials.’ Then, UpdraftPlus starts sending chunks from the beginning again. This doesn’t always happen in the same spot in the backup. Sometimes it happens around the 70% point, sometimes it makes it to the 90% range before it errors out. Also, I was able to get it to back up successfully after several retries over the course of three days. Here is one of the sections with the error:
5908.777 (9) Googledrive chunked upload: 72.6 % uploaded (608436224)
5909.268 (9) ERROR: Google Drive upload error (Google_Service_Exception): Error calling PUT https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v2/files?uploadType=resumable&upload_id=AEnB2UCvBDY3A: (401) Invalid Credentials (line: 79, file: /home/content/p3nexnas05_data03/50/2104150/html/wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/includes/Google/Http/REST.php)
5910.196 (9) Googledrive chunked upload: 0.1 % uploaded (524288)
5910.744 (9) Googledrive chunked upload: 0.1 % uploaded (1048576)