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Forgot to mark this as resolved. ?? Thanks again!

I guess you can tell I’ve been playing around a lot! ??

So, I’ve tried two different ways, the first way here: https://www.lotuskey.com/wordpress/category/prints/

And the second way here: https://www.lotuskey.com/wordpress/prints-shop/

The first way is as I described above – each product is put into its own post, which I then link to a category (used only for products) and then have the link to that category for easy access. This way it goes through my feed as well as having a static location. [I feel I should note here, I am loading original images from my desktop and creating products via your plugin, then directing the link to the appropriate item in Society6. I’m not a hard-core coder, so I’m not sure if any of this has any bearing on the outcome of things, but I thought it was a detail I should mention.]

The second way was something I just tried, to see if loading speed was faster. I created a page and inserted the Shorthand code to show all items in the shop.

The load speeds seem to be the same. Maybe this isn’t a code issue and is just a loading speed issue on my end? I’d have to ask other friends to check it out and see how it loads for them. The scrolling just seems a lot more jerky than my other “display category” link: https://www.lotuskey.com/wordpress/category/portfolio/

Hope I’ve been more help than hinderance! Thanks again for all the great (and quick!) responses!

Thanks! I was playing around with the idea of showing multiple images (or a t-shirt design) and when I noticed the gallery option, I thought “hey, why not?”.

Makes more sense now that you’ve explained it – that “gallery” is this instance is not in the typical WordPress Gallery sense, but as a repository for images to use, so you don’t have to dig through all of your images again to find the image you want to change to.

One other question: I am using your nifty plugin (which I hope to make a small donation to the cause with my next paycheck) as a way to link to my Society6 items. Because I want them to appear in my main feed as they are added (since I am making new designs all the time) but I also want a way for people to click directly to the latest list of all items for sale, I had used the Shorthand button to create posts for each item (once created in the shop) and assign that post to my ‘prints’ category for easy menu navigation.

To my question – I notice that when I click on the category these posts which contain shop items are housed in (and houses only shop items) that the resulting “page” that displays showing the selected category is very slow to scroll down. I don’t notice this on other categories-set-as-menu-items links, so am I abusing the system here somehow? Why would making individual posts to house the shorthand code for the shop items slow down a feed?

Thanks again!

Oh, I meant to add – the only way I’ve found to fix the problem is to go into each individual post, click the “edit Gallery” button, then change the default “link to” to “media file”. But I have literally thousands of archived posts I would need to do this to, and I’m not sure I’m up for the tedium! Surely there is a better way??

I too did not get an email when I did a test of the form. I even changed the field from “Use email of WordPress user” to filling in the email address manually. Is there something I’m missing?

As far as changing the “Thank you for contacting us”, make sure the ‘Change label for fields of the contact form and error messages’ check box is checked. You are then able to change the submitted message as well.