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closed as dont use this anymore

This can be closed now. They are two different urls so its correct

I decided to uninstall woo commerce as I wasnt happy with it after another couple of issues with customer orders. My overall page speed has improved by more than 1.5 secs without the call to admin-ajax.php. 1.5 secs is a very long time on the web.

I will be using Etsy or Folksy rather than this plugin.

I should add that I am using WP User Avatar as well. There is no SSL issues with it however if jetpack is disabled.

I have disabled jetpack comments in the meantime which resolved the SSL error.

I am following the below so have a category-(my category slug).php and also tried it with category-636.php but it still picks up the archive.php template.

If I modify the archive.php template I can get the result I want but it applies to all categories.

Im therefore not sure how to do this with the theme.
cheers

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In the case of categories, the hierarchy is fairly simple. For instance, suppose the slug of the Category in question is news and the Category ID is 6. The Template Hierarchy specifies that WordPress will use the first Template file it finds in your current Theme’s directory from the following list:

category-slug.php
category-ID.php
category.php
archive.php
index.php

Hi,

Is there any news on this. I have disabled the plugin until I see confirmation that this security issue is resolved.

thanks

Hi there,

I never actually found a fix for this or got a response from woocommerce. So still unsure why it has so much of a strain on this function. There was a recent woocommerce upgrade so not sure if that would have helped.

I made the change to the heartbeat which slightly improved things for a while. I also signed up to Cloudflare CDN which helped but eventually with an increase in traffic it started to slow down again until I couldnt really do anything within the wordpress admin panel without smashing my monitor in frustration. So the only way I found to resolve was to upgrade hosting which I had been putting off for a while. I moved from my shared hosting to VPS and pages are loading fast and although I can still see the load times for admin-ajax.php slow in pingdom it doesnt affect the overall load time of the page as it seems to be counted as a background process. So with VPS and also cloudflare my site can handle it no probs even with a spike in traffic.

WordPress in general seems to need a lot of power behind the scenes so if you add a lot of plugins and have a lot of posts + traffic then eventually you will outgrow shared hosting (unless you are having this issue with VPS).

The only problem with that is to move to VPS with the hosting company I was with was really expensive as they were looking for $100 a month. They were actually helpful when I was on shared hosting trying to resolve this as they increased the CPU to around 60% when I should have only had 25% but I just couldnt justify paying their monthly fee for VPS. So I looked around at the hosts www.ads-software.com recommend and choose one of those. Costs about $15 for 1st month then moves to $25 a month for my VPS.

On shared I was paying only $80 a year but it was worth the upgrade just so I can keep all the functionality on the site. I’ve also been able to add plugins back on that I had to remove to help speed up the site and it doesnt have any impact on speed.

Would have preferred to find a solution that would work on my shared hosting set up but I just couldnt deal with the hassle anymore.

Its not a fix but it just means that you can concentrate on the content on your site rather than worrying about if people are going to get frustrated by how slow your site is.

cheers

Hi,

I have the latest version of wordpress installed.

I just need to bulk edit posts from a category so the quick edit and bulk edit doesnt work with the theme at the moment. The workaround I guess will be for me to move to the twenty twelve temporarily and then switch back after I’ve finished which is better than individually editing each post. Not a big problem as I rarely will need that functionality.

If I find a fix I will let you know.

cheers

I should mention that I have this issue in google chrome as well as the latest version of IE. I havent tried on firefox.

thanks

Sorry this was not related to this plugin it was theme related.

Hi
Thanks for getting back to me.
I made the change you requested to the twenty twelve theme and i can see that the strain on admin-ajax.php still exists so it must be a woocommerce plugin issue as ive uninstalled the plugin and checked just with your theme and there is no call to admin-ajax.php

I will add to the Woo Commerce support forum.

thanks

Thanks for replying.

I just noticed that you can add a cart widget to the sidebar which only appears if something has been added to it. To be honest I’m happy with that and I will just leave the sidebars for the woocommerce pages to the default ones. Apart from a few CSS issues on mobiles the woocommerce fits in very nicely to your theme – very impressed by woocommerce plugin and your Hueman theme.

cheers

Hi

it looks like you may have worked this out. Are you able to let me know how you can add a different sidebar?

cheers

Hi Tom, the plugin works perfectly.

Is there a way to also add content to that page. For example on your website homepage can you also add text underneath your featured slider?

Thanks