sandervdnd

Any update please? Thanks.

Oh, and apologies if this is a duplicate question — search on the support forum is currently not working for me. Sander.

Hi @agod

No, I lacked confidence and backed out. Also looked at Yilt (Did not like their HTML editor at all, would never buy now since they are GoDaddy owned since a few weeks) and Mailchimp for transactional e-mails (They only support 4 types so this was not a great fit to send tracking numbers out for example) but decided that I wanted to keep things ‘light’ and easy to maintain. Also did not want to limit myself as some of these services do not support every type of transactional e-mail.

So I ended up styling the default e-mails, which isn’t all that hard to be honest, using a child template. I used a plugin to quickly review the changes I made in e-mail CSS and code but I forgot the name. I also used Delicious Brains’ SES plugin to send via AWS SES (I love everything they make and am a big SpinupWP fan). I must say that I am really happy with the functionality now. Light, fast, easy to maintain and reliable. I might take my designs one step further later by using Designmodo’s Postcard.

I still use Mailchimp too. I use their abandoned cart automations, and made an automation to ask for reviews after a week or so. And I use it for my newsletter too.

Hope this helps.

To come back to your earlier question @labbapo11

I am working on a ton of things right now and have not had the time to create a cron job. I did however run the WP CLI command manually, waited 24 hours, and all seems fine. Products are added to the feed and to Google Merchant Centre.

Since my shop is in the making I am not sure what the performance impact will be for rebuilding the cache each time. What I do know is that Redis makes a massive difference. When disabled, page load times on average increase by a factor of 5.

I have not had the time to test other plugins and their behaviour with Redis / Object Caches.

@labbapo11

SpinupWP confimed to me that I can run a WP-CLI command to flush Redis.

wp cache flush

… and that I can schedule this via a cron job.

In the meantime I will test some other feed generators too. Perhaps they support Redis out of the box.

Understood @supportadtribes it’s a pity though because e-commerce websites cannot make good use of page caching, and are great candidates for a persistent object caching option such as Redis. Those are the same websites that likely need the feed to Google Merchant Centre and others. Anyhow, I do understand that you cannot support everything. Thanks for the prompt reply, appreciate that.

@labbapo11 I am using SpinupWP to deploy my servers. Hope that I can use WP-CLI with their implementation of Redis and a Cronjob to flush the object cache before the feed-gen kicks in. Since I focus on Europe only, I assume I can run this once a day at 3AM when there are likely no users active.

@labbapo11 and @supportadtribes I am running into the same issues.

I am testing Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce as we speak, and love it so far. So I am ready to buy, but also need to figure out how to deal with the Redis object cache. All these WP caching plugins don’t perform as well as server-based caching, so I’d like to stick with Redis.

Once I purge the object cache the feed is updated. So perhaps a cron job to purge the object cache before the feed will be generated will work.

Aahaa! That fixed my problem. Sorry about that and thanks for the prompt reply!

Anything we can do to help to debug?

I went trough the HTML code but could not find any reference to Mailchimp. No warnings in the console either.

In my case I am using Elementor with a [short code] to the checkout page. All Mailchimp for Woocommerce settings are default.

Same here!

This also fixed my problem. I got a ?wc-ajax-checkout 500 Error which was gone as soon as I disabled both MailPoet plugins. Thanks for the quick heads-up.