I have a client that has an e-commerce site using Drupal 6.16.
When they discontinue a product, they change the product to unpublished which then returns a 403 error for the average user and Google. This obviously isn't the best option for SEO.
What have people done in similar situations? I was thinking of using the CustomError module to redirect them to a category page or similar, but that effects all 403's on the site and briefly stopped access to the admin of the site.
Thanks!
The best would likely to keep the products published, disabled buying (depending on the e-commerce module/solution) and update the description with reference to a replacement product and/or information about the discontinuation. This way existing links to the discontinued products will still work, and link to relevant and precise information. Which is the best SEO you could have.
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I'm working on a web project that will consist of an online shop that will create some kind of blog post after checkout and let you edit this blog post.
So the customer can just buy a post on my website and edit it as he likes.
The post may contain text and media.
I'm looking for a nice tech stack to develop this online platform.
I have some kind of proof of concept using WordPress, WooCommerce, and a self developed plugin that will create a blog post after a WooCommerce checkout event and turn the ownership of the post to the customer's account.
The plugin also limits the maximum amount of media for upload and restricts access to the media of other users.
Next steps will be to modify the WooCommerce account page and list the blog posts there with a link to the editor, so the customer can edit posts anytime.
But I think this solution lacks scalability.
Depending on the popularity of the platform, there will be a lot of blog posts created, and I fear that someday, after a couple of thousand blog posts with multiple media types, etc., WordPress will come to its limits.
I have read something about static site generators, and I'm wondering if it's possible to have an online shop that will create a static site and let the customer edit it like my WordPress proof of concept now. With a nice editor and the possibility for online payment, etc.
Is there anybody that can recommend a nice stack for this kind of platform? Or maybe someone who can take my fears about the scalability of WordPress away?
I want to migrate content from Django CMS to WordPress but can't find any resource which would help regarding this.
Depending on the scale of your website it may be difficult to migrate it on your own. There is no automated "plugin" which can help you migrate all your blog posts / products / pages etc. If your website is big in scale and you are not confident in doing everything on your own you can hire an agency to do so. Upon searching the first result on google is this service provider: Multidots
Cannot recommend them as I have never used them but you can at least get a quote for this. Manual migration may take some time but it would be worth it. What you can do is create all your pages, posts, products in Wordpress which essentially is not a hard process. It is important to keep your link structure the same or have proper redirects in order to keep your SEO score and not have 404 errors.
I'm developing a WordPress website and finding myself stuck at a point. I have made several e-commerce sites and blogs but haven't really made this type of website.
This is an educational website. I'd like to know how can I implement the following workflow.
1- Someone comes and registers themself.
2- Pays a specific amount.
3- After the confirmation of the amount, he will be redirected to all the resources.
I'm actually done with the registration process, now I'd like to know how can I do the /2 and /3.
If there are any free or paid plugin which offers this workflow, please mention.
You can use Gravity forms (https://docs.gravityforms.com) to display the payment options. This can be used along with a customizable payment plugin (preferably with Gravity Forms integration) that will allow redirection to the required resources on payment confirmation, similar to this plugin offered by Novalnet.
I am looking for a theme for forex trading website. Where customer can sign up for paid membership and receive reports daily.
I want a theme which can deal with basic front end design (Company information based home page, about us, contact, blog) and users can signup and login there account. While at back end I can manage accounts and update reports daily.
What you're asking for can be accomplished many different ways, so you'll need to explore what works best for you and your particular skill set. Here's my take in things though.
I would likely go about this with WooCommerce and their StoreFront theme. Storefront is very generic looking out the the box which makes it very customizable. It doesn't have to look like a site that sells t-shirts.
WooCommerce is free and very actively supported. They also off an extension for paid memberships, which it sounds like you'd be interested in.
I hope this info helps give you some direction.
I´m currently developing the Intranet for the company I am working for. The site is currently based on SharePoint, but I have to migrate it to Wordpress. And that´s my first developer experience with Wordpress, you just should know. Creating the theme, content and working with the WP Admin area works very well, but where I´m feeling defenseless is the permissions topic.
Generally, the whole page content is managed by the Marketing department. So, for me it is ok that they have access to WP Admin and I would use one of the predefined roles available.
But there will be also an area for the departments where specified users per department should be able to
edit the pre created page content
add subpages and edit its content (it would be nice if it can be defined which page templates can be selected by the user)
add posts for a pre created category (that should not be changeable by the user)
edit its profile and password
A whole access to WP Admin should be therefore prevented.
I read much information about roles, capabilities and reviewed forums and blogs presenting potential plugins. But to be honest, I´ve lost the overview and I´m totally scared about what´s the right way to do such like this the professional way.
Is there anybody who was already in such a situation or knows a good resource where to read more?
Thanks a lot.
John
PressPermit is the tool I choosed. It covers all needs described in my question.
Note: To use all features, you need to buy a support subscription currently available for $55 a year for one site.
However, a very powerful tool and in comparison to Advanced Access Manager I tried before, it really supports permissions also for multiple roles.
If you are thinking about, use the screencasts to see if the tool cover your needs. Unfortunately, there is no trial available, but you can request an evolution wordpress installation which was setup within one day in my case. This service costs $5.