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Curious: why build an ecommerce site and leave out the add-to-cart button? Are you going to use some other way to order, or is that his idea to put the site into maintenance mode or sandbox mode so that nobody tries to order yet?

It looks pretty good in Chrome, I’d have to say … except that the add to cart button isn’t there yet. Have you set prices for products?

The columns appear centered to me, and the images dynamically scale as the width is changed. I don’t have a huge monitor attached at the moment, so it might be something I would see differently if I were able to open the browser to 2000 pixels wide or something.

Actually it looks good in Safari too, other than in both there is maybe 100 pixels of padded space extra on the right than on the left.

It does seem that Woocommerce won’t allow “Custom structure” for permalinks, which was my first instinct to use.

So it seems that one way, it shows “shop” slug in the middle of the URL, and without that box ticked, it shows “product” in the middle of the URL. The category is easily gotten rid of, but not that one level of directory/structure.

So no, what I was saying was to untick those boxes if they were ticked, not to tick them when they aren’t ticked. But, it seems that with the shop slug, it just takes the place of the product slug, and only the category bit would make it a level deeper … and I wasn’t recommending that though I sometimes use it and like it since it helps me verify how things are sorting and tells me something interesting when I assign a product to multiple categories, but I don’t think most people need it.

Looking through some other people’s issues, I haven’t seen anything that will get rid of the /product/ or /shop/ part of the URL, sorry.

Just curious, but what’s so bad about having /poroducts/ before the page title?

You should look at Settings -> Permalinks -> Optional Settings

but I think what I think you are talking about is in Woocommerce -> Settings -> Pages -> Permalinks:

Taxonomy base page Prepend shop categories/tags with shop base page (shop)

Product category slug
Product tag slug
Product base page

Making the Home and About pages different should be pretty easy.

So, to start with … it isn’t that they are just reading the same … those ARE the same page. So all you need, is to create a new, different page to be your about page, and then to update your menus to point to that page from the “About” button.

I wouldn’t worry about starting from scratch, either … if you can’t rebuild it better in half the time you took to build it up on the first place, you probably should be taking better notes along the way! But, it is always worth a little time trying to undo mistakes you’ve made along the way, it helps you understand the way things work better.

A lot depends on your theme. Some themes have things in them you don’t want or need, and some create things you start to rely on … even if they aren’t WordPress standards.

To fix your Home-About issue you would need to figure out a couple of things, first (which of those pages actually exist, and how you have your menus set up) – so to start, from the dashboard go to Pages -> All Pages, and check to make sure you don’t have a separate Home and About page already. With one theme for one of my sites, the Wootique theme creates a Home page more or less automatically, so it doesn’t even appear in my list of pages. Still, I know it is there … and the theme options let me populate it with blog posts, featured products and a list of products. You should figure out what pages are created by your theme or plugins, but if you don’t know them all right away, just make notes about them as you go.

Assuming you do not have an About page already, click Appearance -> Menus, note which menu area you are using, see if there is a custom menu being used in that area already. If there is a custom menu being used, edit it and get rid of the About page in that menus. If there is not a custom menu being used, create one that suits you but leave the About link out of it for the moment.

Then go to Pages -> Add New and create a new fresh, different “About” page. Put some copy on it or an image so you can distinguish it from your old one.

Then go back and re-edit the custom menu to include your new About page.

I ALWAYS look for the cleanest quickest way to modify WordPress without php or CSS, first.

Do you use a calendar-based booking plugin?

Last week I was figuring out how to use Woocommerce too!

ha! cool, you can use [email protected]

Very strange! I don’t think reinstalling the plugin would help but why not try it. You aren’t getting any love (success) from anything else.

Though – my usual approach to this sort of thing is to rebuild a test site from a totally diffferent URL/domain name, to be sure that no detritus of earlier development gets in the way. You’re trying to troubleshoot, after all, so you want to eliminate contamination. So, build up a new WordPress installation, add the Woocommerce plugin, and work your way back from general to specific, leaving styling options for the last. If you can get it working completely, and then you bring in your custom theme and it won’t work, then you have your problem located. If you find that you can replicate the problem earlier than the theme stage, by adding plugins or something else, then you can perhaps rule out your theme as the culprit.