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Thanks for the reply Mauro. We only use global attributes. We set them up, add the options available for each attribute, and then apply them one by one to each product. As there are several for each item, it’s a long process to do it manually.

In other words, the attributes serve as information for the viewer, but they also need to serve as a potential way to filter products both on the front and back end. For example, in our case, users want to filter by the artist responible for each artwork, the size group, the materials used, and flags for whether a piece is framed or unframed. There are several of these that each product needs to have.

Our previous experience is with OpenCart and other ecommerce systems that use customizable fields. Once created, they can be used to filter, sort, and bulk edit just like any other built-in field. I’m kind of surprised that Woocommerce does not include this functionality since it seems like a basic inventory need for almost everyone.

if you do get around to offering this functionality, please drop me a line. Cheers, JP.

Ok, all’s working now. Dumped all the cookies and cache at all levels, including the Rocket CDN. Seems to have cleared up as I can now send requests through the form on all browsers.

Thanks, and cheers.

As a follow up, i tried it with Microsoft Edge and it works.

Even after clearing cache and cookies on Firefox and Chrome, it still spins endlessly on these two browsers.

Thanks Leah, but I think my joy was premature.

Yesterday while continuing to build the site, everything was fine for about an hour until the platform once again started to slow down. Elementor refused to load properly, and Boost seemed to forget some of the icons, CSS and javascript entirely when rendering the front end pages. Pages took up to two minutes to fully load and were still missing important elements, and the back end was so slow it was entirely unusable. With Elementor not responding, I couldn’t even access the most critical pages to correct them after things like widgets, contact forms and newsletter sign-ups started to malfunction. Adding new products (artworks in our case) was impossibly slow.

I reverted to a backup, disabled everything I could short of rendering the theme/template useless, and will try to rebuild again at a snail’s pace.

The problem is I’m now in the endless loop of blame-passing where WordPress blames it on the host server, the host server blames it on the caching systems, the theme writers (Opal-Postero) blame it on plug-ins (all of which THEY actually recommended), and Elementor blames everything on anybody but themselves. Clearly there’s a conflict, but no errors are being thrown. It just slows to a crawl and dies.

Jetpack and Boost have been disabled until I can get the system operating smoothly and correctly, albeit slowly. Luckily we don’t launch until late July.

Certainly a rollercoaster of highs and lows in the WordPress sphere. We went from disappointment to euphoria to frustration in a span of less than 6 hours!

Cheers,
JP