crdunst

Don’t worry, I found it. Thanks for building in the filter – it’s reassuring to see plugins built the correct way and with documentation ??

https://www.relatedpostsforwp.com/documentation/disable-related-posts-under-posts/

Perfect, worked a treat, thanks for the quick response.

I just logged in to say the same thing, they’re overwhelming, especially when you manage multiple sites and don’t know which plugin they pertain to (as the ad is for another of your plugins).

I appreciate the plugin, and the fremium model works – upselling your products on your own plugin pages, but not spamming the notification area all over the dashboard.

I’ll give that a try, thanks for the advice.

Hi Donncha, thanks for coming back to me. If it was one site, I’d probably agree with you. In fact the first time it happened I didn’t suspect WPSC – I know it’s in safe hands. When it happened the second time, both cases immediately after installing WPSC, both related to ‘cutwin’, the odds of that happening are extremely small. Also one of the sites was running through a third-party firewall specialist (Sucuri), so it’s even less likely to have been hacked another way.

Both sites were mature and stable i.e. not migrated from another host, or new to their hosting account where permissions could be set up incorrectly. Both sites were kept up-to-date in terms of updates.

Not seeing the issue before doesn’t mean it’s not an issue! There’s also another poster above seeing the same thing.

Perhaps there’s a flaw when WPSC is first enabled, or when the cache is empty – I don’t know, just throwing it out there. If you think about the odds of that happening on two sites directly after enabling the plugin, it’d be a heck of a coincidence.

Regrettably I’ve lost confidence in the plugin, but take this information and do with it as you wish – I’m just trying to give you some feedback.

Regards.

Thanks for your prompt reply. The client has been adding the events, so I’ll take a look and see if that’s the case, thanks for the pointer.

On the instances that I cleaned up, the links themselves weren’t changed, instead <script> tags were inserted in posts. When the page was rendered, those scripts were changing links in the page – in the main nav, sidebar etc.

Fortunately we had database backups to roll back to remove the scripts themselves. Then we re-uploaded a full fresh copy of WordPress (as backdoors had been dropped in the installation).

If you don’t have a database backup, you can always as a temporary measure do a find/replace in the DB on the start of the <script tag to something innocuous such as a <br. Then re-upload a fresh copy of WordPress, delete post revisions, and work through those posts to manually remove the now-changed script snippets.

Disappointed I didn’t get even a token response from Automattic, but we’re no longer using WPSC on any client sites.

I feel your pain, good luck.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by crdunst.

Thanks for your quick reply, I’ll take a look.

I just came to your support section to ask the same question. Great to hear you’re looking into it. In the meantime, so you know of any plugins that would work to log the outgoing messages?

The tests for a particular site all seem to go through fine, but our site is an ecomm store, and customers have complained about not receiving order confirmations. It’d be great to be able to track back and see the status of a particular email.

Thanks for your feedback Jeroen. The custom checkout field might be the way to go.

Reading your link, it looks like your pro ‘ADVANCED CHECKOUT FIELDS FOR WOOCOMMERCE’ plugin would allow us to add a dropdown (for England, Scotland, Wales, NI), conditionally showing when the UK is selected as a country. Then your Advanced Free Shipping plugin would be able to hook into that to exclude Free Shipping to one of those options (NI). Is that correct?

Thanks for your help.

No worries, good luck ??

No idea I’m afraid, but perhaps smushpro/ImageMagick is causing your initial problem of resetting woo image sizes? I’ve never implemented any image compression plugins on any sites I’ve developed (hundreds) – I’ve never considered the image filesizes to be too bad within WP after resizing.

It depends on the site of course, but most small/medium sized businesses don’t need to count the bytes to that degree. I might look into the image compression plugins you mention to be sure. You can speed up sites significantly though with a caching plugin, good hosting and some other basics.

Coming back to your first point – it’s worth uploading at a good resolution/dimension to begin with – not just for resizing purposes at a later date, but also if you open images in a lightbox, you need the larger size for that kind of thing.

When you upload an image to WordPress, the original is saved as a ‘full’ copy. It generates copies of that image in thumbnail, medium, large, then all of your woo sizes. If you use the regen plugin it takes your ‘full’ image (the original) and generates the images from there.

If you’re not using the woo functionality to purchase, you could easily re-purpose everything around quotes. As chance would have it I answered a question on StackOverflow a while ago – your basket could just be renamed to ‘Your Quote’, and checkout renamed ‘Submit Your Quote’ if that makes sense?

Easier than trying to strap extra ‘quote functionality’ over the top of unused ecomm functionality:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16725425/using-woocommerce-checkout-for-quotes-only/16732019

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by crdunst.

It sounds like the lightbox is part of the YITH plugin. It’s likely to be leveraging Woo’s ‘add to cart’ functionality though.

Take a look at this page, follow the instructions and see if it helps:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/change-add-to-cart-button-text/