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Absolutely. I wish you guys the best and I hope it all works out for you. If you have anything that you can show once your done I would certainly be interested in it!
Have a great one!
I simply used code to embed the images in the page and CSS to give it light box and switcher functionality. The only thing that is Shopify-related on the dedicated glove page is the “Add To Cart” and size selection drop down using the buy embed code.
The ability to switch through images using the buy embed function like you would see in a dedicated Shopify template is not available yet, as far as I know, but I am pretty certain that is one the many functions they are hard at work on.
Without going into too much detail, not necessarily, but if you also click on the product to prompt the product’s summary to pop up you will notice a link in yellow that states “View Glove Page” which is a dedicated page we have for all of our products on our WordPress side. This allows us to expand on our SEO initiatives and offset any irregularities we may receive with search engines.
We also use some dedicated plugins that allow us to keyword assign a wordpress page that a collection is on and that is very helpful. Of course, we are always trying to tweak our set up and it is still a constant effort on improving our visibility. As of now though, we have not been negatively effected and we have had this up since November 2015.
Apologies for the late response. We were rolling out a new product line and things have gotten a bit hectic (in a good way).
As for my choice regarding Shopify, I have used many other eCommerce platforms in the past starting from my old Joomla days (~10 years ago) with the free Virtumart and then eventually moving on to Hikashop. While they did the job of serving as an eCommerce platform, both of those options were limited in what they could do in regards to reporting transactions and overall visitor engagement so it was difficult to discern where we were experiencing drop and what we needed to correct or improve on.
I finally made my move over to WordPress and have been utilizing it for the past 6 or so years. I decided to go with Marketpress as the eCommerce platform and while it offered more options it was a bit difficult to deal with and integrate into our set up, however, I must say the customer service was top-notch. I stayed with using Marketpress for the next few years but once again the biggest issue was reporting eCommerce activity and visitor engagement while also trying to tie-in social media initiatives and campaigns to certain product offerings. It was just too simple of a platform at the time (they may have since made some great strides since then though).
When I finally made my way to tackling the Ironclad eCommerce site the eCommerce platform it was working off of was a proprietary platform that placed many of the reporting features, payment gateway options and even simple layout changes behind a paywall. This wasn’t something I was used to, especially coming from such an open-source platform like WordPress.
After reviewing several eCommerce platforms in order to replace the one in place I was down to two platforms – Magento and Shopify. I was very much leaning towards Magento at the time due to it being such an open-source platform and having a greta supporting community. However, I had to come to terms with the fact this was would be my first experience with it and I wouldn’t have the time to compensate for a learning-curve, moreover, nor would I have the luxury of making any mistakes as we process quite a few online orders and the avalanche I would cause if I disrupted that channel would be unacceptable.
So, I investigated Shopify a bit more as it was a dedicated eCommerce platform running on, what looked to be – and confirmed to be, a stable environment – that required little set up on my behalf in regards to integration in a WordPress set up, customized reporting features that showed much of the data that I had always desired without any complex Google Analytics set up, a robust inventory management system and when I noticed they were offering embeds to products and cart integration I figured that this was the direction to go in order to get the desired results quickly while also minimizing any potential mistakes or challenges that may arise while deploying our new website face and store.
Don’t get me wrong, it certainly came with it’s own hiccups such as there being only one button embed style so if you had a dark site, like we do, it would look severely out of place. There were several other issues, many of them cosmetic but some were actual layout conflicts, that had to be ironed out or are still being tweaked but the Shopify dev team was surprisingly responsive with the issues I were bringing to them and they were on it quickly.
As we stand now, we have a solid and stable eCommerce platform that allows us the flexibility to work with whatever platform we are decide to use, we have some excellent integration with our social media channels now that allow us to sell directly through our Shopify store, we pay less than what we were paying on the previous eCommerce platform and I have my sanity. The last item certainly being the most important because I can now focus on running the marketing division, deploying strategic & creative promotional campaigns and make sound adjustments to our WordPress set up as needed in order to accommodate the ever-changing online retail space.
In the end, it all comes down to what works for you and what you are comfortable with, but I think if I hadn’t gone through so much of my previous eCommerce experiences back in the day I wouldn’t be so appreciative of they strides that the Shopify platform offers. And, based on my almost-daily conversations with their dev team, giving feedback on their embed button program, I am confident that this will only evolve and provide more features in the future.
I can vouch for this being able to stand as a full-fledge store. I was the one that built http://www.ironclad.com and gave a lot of feedback to the Shopify development team while I was doing so on the improvements needed for their buy button embed functionality to successfully exist in a WordPress environment.
Their team was/is great and we have had some excellent success with this feature. I’m looking forward to some of the improvements they are going to bring in the future.
We actually just went with the following code:
.uk-slideshow .hupso-share-buttons, .uk-slideshow .cb_p6_patreon_button, [id^="wk-"] .cb_p6_patreon_button { display: none; }It worked but it is still a bandaid fix and it may have more to do with the slideshow widget than it does with the this plugin.
I don’t have an answer on how the slider pulls the data, unfortunately. However, here is the site that has all the features for this suite just for you to reference. I wish I could be of more help in getting you the slide shows pulling methods.
I’m waiting to hear back from them about what they are going to say about the slideshow function. I’ll keep you posted. Thank you for responding to all this.
Just FYI – I added the following code to my custom.css file.
[id^="wk-"] .cb_p6_patreon_button { display: none; }It removed the Patreon button from the home page slide but not the side bar slide shows in single posts. Still looking at how to resolve this sitewide.
Sorry for so many replies to this thread. I also notice that it doesn’t have an effect on the buddypress group forums or bbpress forums either.
You can see the slide shows are “clean” here in the side bar.
I can say that the code change did not have an effect, unfortunately.
Here is a screen shot of that snippet of the code here.
In this instance, I can say that the text is being input manually in to the slide show and not pulled from a post.
Actually, I already have tried that after reviewing your support posts. I don’t like bothering developers of a plugin, especially if it is free.
There is an item on line 18 that states:
global $post;
$get_url=get_permalink();
Does that also need to be replaced with the code you stated as well?
I’ll give it a try right now and let you know. Stand by.
It also appears to be happening in every slide show widget that I have on the site. You can check the side bar of our front page articles.
You can see an example of this here.
Barring this, you have done a great job on this plugin. I hope for a resolution and would like to contribute and review this plugin once this is can be resolved.
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