wilhud

Yes, that did the trick. I kept re-installing the wordpress that I can downloaded earlier and the problem still persisted. Once I re-downloaded the wordpress zip and did a clean upload everything worked fine.

Thanks!

The spinning gif issue appears to be something to do with the visibility:none tag that is placed on the wpsc_loading_animation class. The theme I am using is doing something to cancel that out. If I add an additional tag to set the display:none then the animation remains hidden. However, just having visibility:none does not seem to hide the spinner. I will need to dig deeper to see if it’s a jquery script that’s causing the issue or something else, but for now I’ve hidden the spinner using the display:none style.

Wil

After some testing, I found that in my installation of the plugin, when I would pull down the variations dropdown menu and select a new value, no function was firing. I went into the script at wp-e-commerce>wpsc-core>js>wp-e-commerce.js and changed the following line…

jQuery( 'div.wpsc_variation_forms' ).on( 'change', '.wpsc_select_variation', function() {

To instead read…

jQuery( 'div.wpsc_variation_forms .wpsc_select_variation').change(function() {

Once I made that change, the dropdown then updated the values according to the item I selected.

Hope that helps.

Wil

I am having the same problem with the default WP theme activated and no plugins loaded. No JS errors occur yet the variant prices do not show up when the dropdown is changed. They do, however, add the correct price into the cart. This did not occur until I updated to the latest WP and the latest WP E-Commerce.

Well, the major issue is now fixed. It seems a file or two may have been corrupted or not updated in the plugin, so I was able to fix it by just re-installing the wp-ecommerce plugin. Now the only issue is the spinning gifs when a product shortcode is loaded.

The spinner appears to be caused by the theme I am using. It’s Grand College from Good Layers https://goodlayers.com/

I will start focusing on this issue now that the major problem is sorted out. I will continue to post any findings here, in case it helps anyone else in the future.

Wil

I have turned everything off on my WP install, the theme, the plugins, all but just a bare bones 2013 theme and the WPEC and Gold Cart and pretty much get the same results. The only thing that was solved was the spinning load icons on the productpage listings go away when I disable the theme, but that’s a minor thing. I’m more concerned with the cart not refreshing.

Is it not a built in function to refresh the page when the add to cart button is clicked or to have the cart widget update on the fly? If not, are there any workarounds for this? I’d even be fine with re-directing to the checkout page after the add to cart is clicked. I’ve turned on Fancy notifications, but all that seems to do is say Loading after the button is clicked and then does/says nothing after that.

Thanks,
Wil

Our file is not as large as yours. Ours is approx. 100MB in size. I tried increasing the php max_execution_time and was able to confirm in my php_info that the increase did take effect. I don’t think it did anything however, as users are still having trouble downloading. We aren’t getting quite as many complaints about failed downloads, but I think that has more to do with the fact that less traffic is downloading now. Unfortunately, it is cost prohibitive to upgrade to a VPS server right now. As a workaround we’ve been manually delivering the files to users who are having issues, but that is an extremely tedious process. I’d really like to see if anyone has gotten this to work on a shared hosting environment and if so, how.

Thanks,
Wil

So I found this in the documentation…

To ensure files are protected from direct linking, Force Download can be used. Files will be served by PHP. However, if your files are large, or server is underpowered, you may experience timeouts during download – in this case you would need to either look at your server or use the redirect method.

If your server supports it, use X-Sendfile; its the most reliable method. Apache serves the download giving you the best performance. Files are also protected by a .htaccess file making this method secure.

So it appears to be the server setup. However, it is somewhat vague and doesn’t specifically state what to look for on the server. There is the mention of X-sendfile for security, which I definitely want to use. However, I don’t think GoDaddy shared hosting allows for this method. Which means I would probably have to upgrade the plan to a Virtual Dedicated or find hosting elsewhere. That’s a huge step to take though without knowing whether or not it is going to solve the issue. Anyone have any experience with this issue?

Thanks,
Wil

It appears that this is showing up in the query for the post…

wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_author = <current_users_id> AND wp_posts.post_status = 'private'

So because the page is only showing connected results for public posts or posts assigned to the current user that are private, then other users do not see the connections…even if they are admins or editors. Is this part of the query controlled by the plugin or is this a function of WordPress. I checked the WordPress documentation and from what I have found, they say they allow editors and admins to see one another’s posts…

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Content_Visibility

“Private content is published only for your eyes, or the eyes of only those with authorization permission levels to see private content.”

However, I have tried digging through the plugin code to see where it may be assigning this to the query and I have not been able to find it. So I’m unsure where this is being controlled…in WordPress or in the plugin.

Any guidance or assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Wil

If anyone is looking for a fix that uses the more current versions of jQuery rather than reverting to an older version, you can download the programmer’s updated version of LoopedSlider called SlidesJS…

https://slidesjs.com/

It appears to have been a permalink issue. I switched the permalinks off and back on and it started working as expected. Shoulda thought of that before. Figured I’d post the resolution in case anyone else had a similar issue.

Wil

Digging into it some more, it appears that the function is being triggered, but the get_post_type and is_single functions are returning no values causing the template to not load. I tried changing the priority of when the filter triggers, but that does not appear to change anything. Still receive no values from those functions. Any ideas on what I may be able to do to get those functions to work as needed?

Thanks,
Wil

I had the same issue as James. Changing the slug to something besides ‘type’ fixed the issue. I would let your developer know that this could be the issue. Would definitely help them get it updated quickly if your theme has a similar taxonomy setup.

Thanks for the heads up James!

By the way, I think the shortcode option will solve my ease-of-use concerns. Forgot about that.

Wow, that looks like exactly what I was trying to program, lol. Thanks, I’ll have to try it out!

Wil