Odinkinder

Ok, so I got nothing so far, all of the plugins turned off and on, two debugging plugins tried nada! No luck so far! Odd thing, when I shut off Jetpack, then tried to reactivate, it said my site was not accessible to the public, not true, tried other devices, I can see it just fine.

What next?

Ok, thanks, Michael, I’ll try Debugging and deactivating the plugins. I have never seen anything like this before.

It’s ok now, the recent update to Jetpack caused a conflict with the Subscribe2 plugin. The author of that plugin updated his to eliminate the conflict.

Hey Matty,

Open source is a good thing, since you can involve other creative minds besides your own, development can move so much quicker.

That said, “getting paid,” is the Achilles of open source, and if something is not done we will lose our best and brightest authors because it’s just not financially prudent.

I have a similar problem over at my on line motorcycle magazine, The Biker’s Garage. I put a considerable effort into my magazine, but, it has yet to earn any real money. I can spend days generating original content, making photographs, researching, writing. It’s actually quite a time drain. It’s been doing well in other ways, I’m seeing six to seven thousand visitors a month, so the content is useful, and popular. The downside is money, I have Google ads in the side bars, and I just picked up Amazon, fingers crossed I get some sales there.

I think the issue is that my readers don’t know how I make money, they don’t know to “click out” on a Google ad leaving my site, and they don’t understand I can make money from the stuff they buy on Amazon. Perhaps they just see the ads and think I’m being paid for them like in a print magazine.

I’m at a point where I’ll have to decide if I will continue or not. Nobody will feed me for free, so I have to make a choice where to spend my effort, my web development and SEO work, or the magazine. I’m considering actually writing an article, “Support The Biker’s Garage,” and lay it all out in regards to the money, that way people can understand and choose the “correct” action to take.

They always say “You get what you ask for.” So I’m going to ask, I suggest you might want to do the same. Personally, I think a suggested donation of 1.00 USD is not too much to ask.

T.

And if he gets it done, we should all slip him a buck…. ??

I have been thinking about the whole “donation” thing….. ever been at an intersection, and there’s a homeless standing there?? And what do you do? You give him a buck, maybe more. What has he done? Nothing, he was just standing there, in need of course, but he’s just there. Don’t get me wrong, charity is a good thing, it shows compassion for others, so it’s all good. But, the bottom line is, he has contributed nothing…

So now you got a guy coding an open source plugin, and maintaining it, for THOUSANDS of folks, and it’s an essential for their sites….. I’d say he’s contributed something, don’t you think it might be worth the time to slip the author a buck or two??

Just saying….. ??

T.

And if they would have slipped you a buck, you would be a millionaire!
(let’s hope you are by now, or some day will be)

Got it back, thanks… ??

I agree with Dix…. in fact, that’s what I do when I set up a site, my clients pay out up front on what I call “core” plugins. I think the biggest drawback to the donation system is folks don’t know what is appropriate for a donation, would a buck do? Five bucks?? Ten??? They don’t want to insult the author by not donating enough, so they don’t know what to do, then end up paying nothing. Perhaps a “suggested” donation??

This change is not working for me. Still have a hole where my stats used to be.

I tried the fix, and it didn’t work. I still just have a hole where my stats used to be.

And I just turned Subscribe2 off and I didn’t get my stats back, so no, the issue is not resolved.

Did you notify the Subscribe2 author his plugin is causing a conflict?

I’m missing my stats too after the latest WP update, so what’s going on??

Now see? This is more helpful, thank you. They are not totally in love with the Woo Commerce appearance, so they went out and found a developer to make changes. I told them that while he was at it, he might as well make it responsive too. We shall see how it goes. I told them that all that would needed to be done was uncheck the box controlling the Woo CSS, and then I could style the pages. But, these folks have a hard time understanding things. One of the principals went in the code editor today and messed up the functions.php file and crashed the site……. lol I got it back up in five minutes, we’ll see how many more times that happens before they learn to keep their fingers out of the works.

Thanks for your help.

Sorry, but no, the Woo plugin has it’s own CSS for layout, changing the theme’s CSS has no effect on the CSS in the plugin.

Yes, I undertand that, but, would it hurt to configure the CSS so that the pages that have two columns on it for the right one to “float left” at `@media screen and (max-width: 760px)? Or, to have your forms set to something like 100% width? And, I have looked at your CSS, with an eye toward modifying it, and in Text Wrangler, it just a long string, doing a “hard wrap” does improve the situation some, but, not by much. Also, the moment my client hits the “upgrade” button on the next version change, it all gets wiped away. They have spent well over $200 USD on “extensions” on your site, and we thought we were done, and at the last minute, with a deadline looming, the “free” part of the plugin fails us. I must say, they are not thrilled. All we need is some float left on the columns in the product, and check out page, and for the cart to be responsive in width.

Now, can you offer some help in this area please?