flyfisher842

No not together. Just using falcon engine now because it is faster than w3 total cache

Thanks for the information about the w3 code.

# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_ENC:_gzip]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} w3tc_preview [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_PREVIEW:_preview]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp\-postpass|w3tc_logged_out|wordpress_logged_in|wptouch_switch_toggle) [NC]
    RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f
    RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" [L]
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Page Cache core

1. Do you understand the regular post category widget that comes with every wordpress install. The one that lists the categories of the regular posts and not the product categories. That is the post widget I am talking about.

2. I don’t want the word category to be used in the store taxonomy URL at all. Frankly I don’t want the word store to or the word products to be used either if I had my choice. I would prefer just the website name and the product category name like this. https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/fly-fishing/ or https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/fly-fishing/forceps/ or https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/fly-fishing-colorado.com/fly-tying/. Which would work if MP would just remove the extra backslashes when those words were removed on the Presentations Tab set.

And why should I have to put something in the category space or the store space or the products space if I don’t want anything there. This is the kind of WPMUDEV stubbornness that keeps me from purchasing the pro version or from purchasing an annual membership.

3. You are obviously not David at WPMUDev because he would often reply with an email address at wpmudev that could be replied to. If he is stll there I would like him to take a look at this issue.

If you are going to send me emails that solicit a reply please do not use a [email protected] address.

There two issues here. One is the way Bing’s robot and the Googlebot read my store page. If I removed the post widget from store page so there were only store categories on the page, then the googlebot would not have any post categories to associate with the store taxonomy but humans would also not have any post categories to browse. I seriously doubt any SEO plugin can fixe this issue.

The other issue is the way MP used the custom taxonomy structure on the Presentations tab. If you remove the word category from the category line and leave a blank there and then go to a category page within the store structure, you will get the // I mentioned in my post. This is because MP is not programmed to remove the trailing / when there is a blank in the cateogry slot on the Presentations tab. So far I have not found a category plugin that will work on the removal of the category and the trailing slash. You can reproduce that error very easily on you test setup.

Actually you can’t really change the taxonomy on the presentation page because there is no way to eliminate the trailing / so you end up to a url with // in it which is nonsense IMO.

Ex. https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/store/products//flyfishing if the category is deleted. So there are two // instead of only one in the url. I suspect the only way to eliminate the extra / is by some custom code which most of us can’t do easily.

I have been getting the weird url from the pages not found on one of my security plugins.

United States Mountain View, United States tried to access non-existent page https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/store/products/category/colorado-snotel-report/

I should have a snotel report but not in the store products category taxonomy. It would be a regular post.

Now the problem is Google and Bing have started indexing my posts like this https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/store/product/category/posttitle. This is probably because I am using a side bar on the store page with the product category widget and a nav widget for the post categories. This is just wonderfully shaping up to be a big mess that will take me a year to straighten out.

I was wrong. According to Google keyword tool, a lot more do search on store and product than fly fishing. Category is about even. Although I am not sure what they would be searching on for category. Still think it is an ugly url and not related to what anyone’s store is about.

Not necessary to sort anything out. But I appreciate the offer. As I said some themes such as the Ready eCommerce themes are designed to work specifically with their own shop cart plugin. Some of the woo commerce themes are more oriented toward the woocommerce cart plugin.

I have testes MP Lite with both ready ecommerce themes and it just does not work as well as with regular WP themes. Plain vanilla or eCommerce ones. Same with some of the woo commerce ready themes.

Often the image settings in MP Lite conflict with the image settings in the themes is what I have seen in my testing.

I am going to use MP Lite with Virtue a woo commerce ready theme. Because this theme has an easy to use admin setup compared to some others I tested. The home page slider appears to allow, if not unlimited, a large number of images in it.The thumbs appear good compared to my twentyten theme test and text is crisp. Found the Virtue in in of Raylene’s reviews.

Another one I tested and liked was Weaver II.

All this said, go ahead and close this thread out.

Interesting. I just deactivated wordfence on mylatest install. If these hacks did in fact come from wordfence, it is a good reason not to allow auto updates. A virus or worm gets into the code and zap a lot of autoupdate sites are down. Hopefully Mark will figure out if there is a problem with the free plugin code quickly.

Cais > After finally in desperation resetting the options to default, things have started working. For awhile, I could not get the gallery type or the choose gallery panels to display let alone input a gallery to a post. Now all is working ok as far as I can tell.

I tried the AJAX pagination setting on the thumb gallery and then used a slide show with Show Thumbs and it worked ok. Same deal with the regular pagination and it worked ok. This was on my final move from my test site in my consolidation. IMHO many of the issues I read on the first two pages a couple of days ago could be cured by resetting the options to default.

Some themes are designed to work specifically with their ecommerce plugin such as the woo themes or the ready ecommerce themes. Trying to force one of those types of themes to work with MP Lite is probably not a good idea. Although I have tested MP LIte with a couple of woo themes without enabling the woo commerce part and it worked ok. But I believe there is an overhead cost to doing so. Plenty of themes around that MP Lite will work with. Suggestion is to GTMetrix or pingdom.com test some for speed before using them because there is a certain amount of slow down with MP Lite enabled. It would be great of WPMUDev would test the plugin and speed up the parsing order of the calls and set a cache header expire too or make it easier to set those.

David, I run my php with furl open set to off and uploads set to off except when I am uploading. Even with those set to on, I still get the 403 error. I suspect it is my security plugins if you are not having any trouble. Please contact me by email to discuss this as I don’t want to say what I use in open forum and don’t want any discussion on here about them either. Thanks

I have set up two examples for using the same images in two different gallery folders.
1. this page is setup as a basic thumbnail gallery with the slideshow link enabled. I upped the number of thumbnails from 20 t 24 so the 23 thumbs would show. This works ok and the slideshow works ok.
https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/flyshopnew/fly-fishing-photos/

2. This is the test gallery using the same 23 images as in #1 but in a different gallery folder. They are arranged in the same sort order as in #1. I chose the slide show gallery option with the show thumbnails link showing. When you click on the thumbnails you will get 20 thumbs with a page 2 option. But when you click the page 2 you get an error.

Here is what I think is happening. The thumbnails are set to 20 in the slideshow gallery choice. There is no way to change that that I could find. And the pagination in the slideshow gallery with thumbnails link showing does not work. However the slideshow works fine. IMHO, you should be able to set the number of thumbs to show within the slideshow gallery option or the auto pagination needs to be fixed.
https://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com/flyshopnew/fly-fishing-photos-slideshow-test/