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The WordPress Guy : 9 great WordPress shopping carts

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:55:02 +0000

Good question to raise, thank you for your input to this post. From my experience it is very important for the longterm success of a website to have long term support from your theme and plugin providers. I am not a fan of how some theme sellers have limited follow up support for themes purchased. I think using a plugin like WP eCommerce makes sense because of the flexibility and long term support it offers. Also you are very right about portability, if the eCommerce is built in you can never get a new theme, madness really as the theme could be out of date within 12 months. Thanks again for your comment.

The WordPress Guy : 9 great WordPress shopping carts

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:28:52 +0000

Hi Mark, Thank you so much for this comment. I have added the information to the post as it is very helpful for anyone wanting to build large eCommerce sites. I am a fan of Storefront Themes and am building an impressive site right now with one of your themes which will be revealed in a few weeks. All the best and thanks again for contributing to help others.

The WordPress Guy : 9 great WordPress shopping carts

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:20:46 +0000

Hi Jayson, Thanks so much for your feedback, I have added it with a credit to you in the post. All of these real life experiences help others understand these shopping carts a little better.

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:08:47 +0000

Hi Geoff, Firstly thank you so much for taking the time to comment and I am so pleased you find my insights useful. Regarding the capabilities of mediatemple I don't speak for them but I can tell you I know personally of at least 2 sites that have around 5000 visitors per day, day in day out on a Media Temple grid service account. And that was before Cloudflare was added as a FREE addon service to Media Temple hosting. For more information read this http://mediatemple.net/cloudflare/ Regarding using google apps, you don't need to if it just to reduce load on the hosting but I highly recommend using google apps for long term simplicity. I have used it myself for a few years now and its brilliant. My rule of thumb is keep your Domain, Website and Email hosting on independent platforms. Then if an issue arises on one you can make changes on the other to fix the issue quickly. I hope that helps and all the best with your project and all of those events you are running from April until October.

The WordPress Guy : How to install bbPress with any theme

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:14:57 +0000

Hi Hugo, So glad it helped you get the forum going and you were the inspiration for this post as I was explaining it to you and it grew from there. Your forum is looking great and I can't wait to see it grow now its active. Thanks for inspiring me to learn and grow and teach others.

The WordPress Guy : How to fix Timthumb security issue

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:31:01 +0000

Hi Stephanie, Sorry not good news. Locking the back door after the burglars are in the house won't make them disappear unfortunately. Maybe you need to go to these guy and find out costs to clean up the website as they know how to for a fee. http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : How to fix Timthumb security issue

Sat, 6 Aug 2011 02:52:04 +0000

Hi Sally, Don't sweat it, as one of my VIP clients I have just made the change to your website and you are safe from the issue already. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : How to make your own WordPress 404 page you can actually edit easily

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:41:00 +0000

Hi Paul, Thanks so much for your generous feedback. I too though 404 pages were painful until I found this solution. Enjoy. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:27:43 +0000

Hi Julian, Well that is a shame even though you were sharing songs you had written and recorded yourself you were kicked off the other hosting. I think in this scenario you should consider hosting the music files on dropbox or amazonS3 and link to them via your website when people want to download them. You can still stream the files from dropbox or AmazonS3. I would suggest a plugin like audio player to do that. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audio-player/ All the best with it and let me know how you go.

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:25:33 +0000

Hi Julian, Thanks for your question, Firstly you regarding the CloudFlare service, it does look quite impressive as a concept and I am interested in your experience as a user. I would be a little reluctant to add an extra point of failure to a website as you are now relying on webhosting and CloudFlare to be online to deliver your website. Also adding yet another company to talk to regarding each website sounds like hard work too. From what I could see in their help section mediatemple is mentioned so it seems it would be fine. http://support.cloudflare.com/kb/can-i-use-cloudf... They also recommend installing the CloudFlare plugin for optimal performance. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/ If you are 'sharing files' that are not your own any hosting company will exercise their right to kick you off their service as they are meant to when they become aware of such activity going on. High amounts of downloads will usually get checked out as they also don't want to overload their server processors if they can help it. W3 total cache works fine to my knowledge with Mediatemple. All the best with your challenges and I hope that helps a little. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : How to add a contact form on a WordPress.com hosted website

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 13:54:43 +0000

No worries Tony, Glad that is helped you out. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : WordPress plugins that I find useful

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:54:06 +0000

Hi Meryl, WP-eCommerce now has the Australian Post feature built in would you believe and it work well. Hope you website is going well. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:27:49 +0000

Hi Dan, No problem at all. It's good to discuss the options. Mediatemple has just been so solid for me personally and as a developer with a many clients hosting to deal with. It has made my process less complicated through consistent WordPress stability and a great interface. Certainly worth looking at next time, all the best with your business this year and beyond too! Kind regards Tony

The WordPress Guy : 9 great WordPress shopping carts

Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:44:03 +0000

Hi Mick, I just added a couple of examples of large eCommerce solutions to the WP-eCommerce plugin area. You might also want to check out this paid add-on from a third party developer for mass importing products and images: http://www.visser.com.au/wp-ecommerce/plugins/pro... Can I also suggest contacting a few of the WP e-Commerce consultants http://getshopped.org/resources/wp-consultants/ you can aks/pay for help to setup the site properly for your client. Can't hurt to get a guru or two in to help on the big jobs. Thanks for raising the question too! I get asked it now and then too so others will find this information very helpful. Let me know how you go. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : 9 great WordPress shopping carts

Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:02:50 +0000

Hi Dan, What a privelege to have you comment on this post, I really appreciate it. Yes I have to admit that the previous version did give me a few challenges but I think you took a lot of feedback onboard which is so important to a community based platform like WordPress. The new version of WP-eCommerce is using so many of the current WordPress smarts that it does seems to be leading the way now for others to catch up. I didn't realize the difference in the numbers of hooks and filters used was so dramatically different between shopping carts. That kind of education is really helpful. Thanks again for the comment and I can wait to see more great WordPress tools coming from your part of the world. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Sat, 4 Jun 2011 05:16:43 +0000

Hi Dan, Thanks for commenting I appreciate hearing from people who read my posts and take the time to do so. Firstly the page load speed is only one factor in assessing good web hosting in my opinion. Perfect integration with WordPress is of more importance to me and my clients who don't need to pay me to do manual upgrades etc. Secondly I don't purely serve my website content to Australia I have a global audience so I prefer to deliver it from the hub of the internet. I'm sure one of my online students based in Germany get faster page loads via the US than Australia. Finally, these days CDN (Content Delivery Networking) hosting using Australian hosting is not relevant. With CDN the servers used to deliver your website change depending on their location in the world. This option is available from media temple.net and if I was concerned about local servers that is what I would use. Thanks again for commenting. Kind regards Tony

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Tue, 17 May 2011 12:32:38 +0000

Hi Andrew(2), Nope you have to edit the mx settings manually. It's very straight forward via the 'Edit DNS zone file' which you can see on the bottom right in the screenshot I tool of the management console page. It can be done in advance of changing the namerservers over too so it can be seemless when relocating hosting. What interest me is why you are thinking of leaving Dreamhost? Thanks for your comment, always appreciated. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : Why use mediatemple.net webhosting?

Tue, 17 May 2011 12:25:09 +0000

Hi Andrew, Interesting questions and as I don't work for MT I will answer from my own perspective which may or may not be correct. Regarding sharing servers with many other sites: Mediatemple actually allocates a set amount of storage for each account so there are very defined amounts of space for each account as apposed the the 'all you can eat' hosting from other companies with no set amount of space per user. Also the whole point of grid servers is that under load they bring more servers online to deal with extra load. So the idea of overloaded servers doesn't fit with this argument. Regarding downtime, there is maybe 30mins during scheduled maintenance periods every 3-6 months which I appreciate as at least they do regular work on the server rather than pushing them until they fall over in a big way. Regarding your 'big question' the bandwidth and GPU cycles are more than enough for a large number of sites to run on one account. I will say that if you are providing thousands of large media file downloads per day (ie 50-100MB each) for a video tutorial site for example without hosting the content off site you will run out of GPU cylcles. I know of one case when I had to relocate a client to the Virtual Private server hosting for that reason as there are more GPU cycles with that option. Bottom line is that if you expect 100 large volume websites to run on $20/month you are not spending enough on infrastructure. After having a bit of a sniff around about your Heart Internet they seems to provide decent support. Their webpage doesn't inspire me with it's tacky style. The unlimited hosting option is also an example of 'all you can eat' that even more outlandish than 100 websites isn't it? Thanks for dropping by and sharing your experience and asking questions I appreciate it. Kind regards, Tony

The WordPress Guy : How to promote your WordPress post faster on the web

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:31:43 +0000

Glad you found this useful Linda, Get the word out is so important and this just gives you that extra boost. All the best with your excellent website. Kind regards Tony

The WordPress Guy : How to change user from subscriber to administrator in WordPress

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:13:42 +0000

Hi Linda, How awesome for the person this tutorial was inspired by to drop by and comment. Hope you are well and thanks again. Kind regards Tony