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If you’re trying to get WordPress/wooCommerce to automatically put smaller images on a 600 x 600 white background, I don’t have a solution for you, but if you are willing to process the images on your PC before uploading them, you’ve got a couple of options.

First, Photoshop has a batch editing capability you could use. If you search for “photoshop batch edit” you’ll find a bunch of tutorials on how to set up a new action to affect all the images files in a folder.

I use Imagemagick from the command line to do batch photo processing. There’s a version of it for all the major operating systems. The command(s) you’ll use will vary a bit depending on the OS, but there are plenty of examples out there. Basically, you’ll be using the “convert” command if you want to create a new image file, and the “mogrify” command if you want to use the same file. For example, if you want to put all the JPEG images in the current folder on a 600 x 600 white background, you’d run the following command from the command line:

mogrify -gravity center -background white -extent 600x600 *.jpg

I don’t think MainWP has a setting for this; I think it uses the WordPress’s settings.

Fortunately, WordPress allows you set the FROM and use SMTP using the phpmailer_init action in your child theme’s functions.php:

add_action('phpmailer_init', 'sendMailViaSMTP');
function sendMailViaSMTP($phpmailer) 
{
	$phpmailer->isSMTP();     
	$phpmailer->Host = 'yourmailhost';
	// Force it to use Username and Password to authenticate
	$phpmailer->SMTPAuth = true;
	$phpmailer->Port = 587;
	$phpmailer->Username = '[email protected]';
	$phpmailer->Password = 'yoursenderpassword';

	// Additional settings…
	// Choose SSL or TLS, if necessary for your server
	$phpmailer->SMTPSecure = "tls";
	$phpmailer->From = "[email protected]";
	$phpmailer->FromName = "Your From Name";
}

What you’ll need to do is go through and change all the settings to those applicable to your server, and all your mail from MainWP will use these settings and send mail via SMTP, which you should be doing, anyway.

In terms of maintaining the site, having everything on one installation of WordPress seems like it would make the most sense, and would solve your problem with displaying products everywhere you want them. However, the more plugins you have, the more likely you are to run into plugin conflicts with updates, and that would be a headache to debug. You should plan on having a staging site to test updates before going live with them.

I suggest considering some options that would prevent you from being limited by the 20-plugins you’re shooting for.

For example, you could look at the following options that might allow you to run everything together:

• a dedicated server with plenty of resources for what you need
• or a cloud-based server that would scale based on your resource needs and traffic
• or running your database on a different server than the one on which you host the WordPress files (some hosts do this routinely) since MySQL is one of the major resource-hogs with WordPress
• picking a web host that offers security solutions that make it unnecessary to run a full-featured security plugin
• make sure you include a caching plugin like WP Super Cache and a CSS/Javascript optimizing plugin like Autoptimize in the planning for your WordPress install
• use WEBP format for all your images to make them as small as possible

If I were you, I think I’d contact a few reputable web hosts that offer shared, dedicated, wordPress, and cloud hosting, tell them what you want to do, give them an estimate of your monthly traffic, and ask them what solution they offer that would handle it. Some even offer automatic staging sites with WordPress, eliminating yet another plugin, and most have a 30-day free trial. If they have a common control panel, you can export your setup and move it to another host if it doesn’t work out.

Hi @jpnl,

I couldn’t leave this alone. 🙂

Here is a code snippet you can put in your child theme’s functions.php to add the store address placeholders (or others) to the footer text in WooCommerce > Settings > Emails:

add_action( 'woocommerce_email_footer_text', 'addWCFooterPlaceholders', 10, 1 );
function addWCFooterPlaceholders($footer_text){
    /*
        This function adds the following placeholders to the WooCommerce
        footer text:
        * {store_address}
        * {store_address_2} 
        * {store_city} 
        * {store_postcode} 
        * {store_country} 
        * {store_state}
    */
    // The main address pieces:
    $store_address     = get_option('woocommerce_store_address');
    $store_address_2   = get_option('woocommerce_store_address_2');
    $store_city        = get_option('woocommerce_store_city');
    $store_postcode    = get_option('woocommerce_store_postcode');
    
    // The country/state
    $store_raw_country = get_option('woocommerce_default_country');
    
    // Split the country/state
    $split_country = explode(":", $store_raw_country);
    
    // Country and state separated:
    $store_country = $split_country[0];
    $store_state   = $split_country[1];
    
    $search = array(
        '{store_address}', 
        '{store_address_2}', 
        '{store_city}', 
        '{store_postcode}', 
        '{store_country}', 
        '{store_state}'
    );
    $replace = array(
        $store_address, 
        $store_address_2, 
        $store_city, 
        $store_postcode, 
        $store_country, 
        $store_state
    );
    
    $footer_text = str_replace($search, $replace, $footer_text);

    return $footer_text;
}

It won’t add the available placeholders to the tooltip for the footer text, so I put them in as a comment in the code snippet.

Once you’ve added the code snippet to your child theme’s functions.php, all you have to do is add the placeholders you want to use to the footer text box on the WooCommerce Email Settings page. I’ve tested it in WP 5.9.2 and WooCommerce 6.3.1, and it works with no errors.

The 6.3.1 update was a security update. I think what you’re seeing is that since version 3.7 or so, WordPress will push security updates for plugins if they judge them to be serious enough to justify it, whether or not you have autoupdates enabled. It doesn’t happen often.

Hi @mywebmaestro,

I just encountered this issue yesterday. It’s marked as resolved. Did you ever find a solution?

Hi @blogaid,

You can use the List View to change the order of the images in the Gallery Block, not just the position of the Gallery in the post.

@hellofromtonya, the image toolbar with the arrows does allow me to move the images within a Gallery Block, but I believe what @blogaid is pointing out is that in Twenty Twenty Two with no other plugins and an existing new Gallery Block, if you:

• Use the List View to select the Gallery
• Click the Media Library link to open the Add to Gallery dialog box
• Click the Edit Gallery link
• Try to drag-and-drop an image to reorder it in the gallery

Drag-and-drop fails to reorder the images in WP 5.9, whereas it worked in WP 5.8.x.

In the Editor, if you click the List View (Shift-Alt-O), you can drag the “Image” item in the list to reorder them in 5.9-RC4-52636.