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One other thing to keep in mind is that regardless of where your website is hosted, fonts.googleapis.com and ajax.googleapis.com are blocked in mainland China. When I was working there and running a WordPress-based website for my company, this prevented the website from loading entirely.

We were able to fix this problem on the backend WordPress interface by installing the Disable Google Fonts plugin, as you mentioned. A lot of WordPress themes reference the fonts.googleapis.com so that they can offer a large range of typefaces. To fix this on the front end that your visitors see, you will need to have someone change the CSS file for your website and replace the reference to fonts.googleapis.com with fonts.useso.com. However, this will apply to all visitors to your website globally, so you should test it to see if it creates a noticeable speed difference outside of China (compared to Google).

You can also do this by using the Replace Google Fonts plugin. Or, ideally, by hosting the font file on your own server instead of using an outside library. It’s just a tradeoff between Chinese visitors being able to load your website and how these changes affect performance outside of China.

FYI, Useso.com is a subsidiary of the Chinese internet security company 360.cn. They saw the problems created by blocking Google Fonts and Ajax APIs and created mirror libraries on their servers in mainland China, which are not blocked. More information is available at libs.useso.com. It’s in Chinese, but if you open the website in Chrome, just right-click and translate it to English.

I am in no way affiliated with the following service, but it seems relevant to mention it, especially since the test is free. To test your website’s performance in China, go to: https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx, enter your URL and wait for the results from Shanghai, China. On my basic WordPress website, those results timed out after 47 seconds. Click on the View Waterfall link next to the location and for Shanghai it showed me 1 error relating to fonts.googleapis.com.

Yes, disabling “expand shortcodes in indexing” fixed it. Thanks so much!

I’d really like to know if this is possible as well. Especially if I can display a different price based on the options selected in the form.

You should put the number of desired categories in between the “”.

I just realized that the button in the upper right corner of every dashboard called “Screen Options” gives you the option to choose which fields to show in your list of pages/posts/products/etc. In my case, just unchecking SEO Title made all the difference.

Wish I would have known this a long time ago. Perhaps Joost should add it to the getting started tour. I know that more experienced WP users would know how to adjust this, but WP isn’t only for the pros anymore. ??

Yeah, this has been a serious UI flaw for a long time and it isn’t only with Woo Commerce. If your post/page title is more than a couple words, the list of posts/pages gets really stretched out and makes it very difficult to navigate.

It would be great to have some settings for which columns to display in the post/page/product dashboards, or at the very least toggle all SEO information on or off. Really, please create a solution ASAP.