sgumby

That was not the problem and your answer really didn’t acknowledge that I’ve been doing this for 25 years. You are pointing out basic stuff that would never be a problem in my world because I know what I’m doing.

In a nutshell the problem is that you have too many options that are not well labeled so we can’t make intuitive guesses on what settings are needed. I’m sure you have documentation that explains to the nth detail how this works but I don’t have time to read a whole book to create a simple slider.

Size > Slider Size: Width and height should allow 100% width and auto for height. When I am forced to set a height here it seems like that will be a fixed height. Somehow, you need to make it clear that’s not how it works.

Size > Limit slide width: While on I would assume it would limit to the width I set just above but it doesn’t. I have this on and when I set by browser resolution beyond this point it stretches to fill.

Size > Force full width: Should not be needed if I can just set width with 100%. BUT this is the setting that when turned on is what solved the problem. But by this point I had tried EVERY SINGLE SETTING COMBINATION that I could think of….including turning this on and off a few times. It was completely by accident that I turned this back on and it fixed my problem.

Background image fill…..this seems to be set at globally or for each slide. However this should be the standard css options and behavior otherwise its hard to know exactly what your options do.
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.php

And editing a slide did not have a “what you see is what you get” because the fill options didn’t work…it had the background showing in completely weird and unpredictable ways. The width resized properly while the rendered version that was actually on the page did not.

In the “Free Full-Width” theme I downloaded there was a border under the top line of text even though the border setting was at 0. I could not find this border and so I just had to make a guess that if I set a css property manually it would effect this element.

And when I download something called “Free Full Width” I’d assume that this resizing problem would be solved by the default settings…. It was not.

The bottom line which I said initially. I’ve been doing web development for over 25 years. I’m self-taught which means I’m GOOD at jumping in to new programming languages, systems, plugins, etc and figuring them out quickly. A task to add a simple 3 slide slider with 2 headers and button should not take me more than an hour. It took me closer to 4 to 5 hours to figure this out. I could have built a slider from scratch in this amount of time. And I actually have but unfortunately it only works with elementor and this site uses divi.

This is NOT a solution that is for someone looking for a quick, easy solution. I’m sure it doesn’t all kinds of fancy stuff if you want to stick around to be an expert…..I don’t have that kind of time.

I really wish someone would build a simple slider that just works for all sites that doesn’t use an actual background image that we can’t set alt tags for.

Thank you for your response.

I have a ton of experience (over 25 years) with options and variations outside of woocommerce….and with some really large companies. I managed a site for 15 years for customizable rings that had 1000s of variations for 1 ring. This site use to do $100k in business EVERY WEEK and when I started with them they were barely doing $1000 per month! The point is I know what I’m talking about…

Right now a customer that didn’t know how to work these options and variations might not know how to see that there were other color options…..this is a big problem. This is the core of the problem. We need customers to be able to understand how this works and your approach to this makes it harder for an average person to understand. The client that had the ring site used to say we have to spoon feed customers because they don’t understand stupidly simple logic.

In my humble opinion your logic is off and will be confusing to a customer by not allowing full selection of the first option for color. The others absolutely should be displaying conditionally.

And we need to have defaults selected because for SEO purposes. We need to show search engines a product page that has a set price for a product configuration and we want that to be the cheapest price……so we have to set defaults.

I am reasonably certain I could make a new script to do this correctly…..however I first need to completely bypass add-to-cart-variation.js. Any thoughts on how to do this?

I think that you don’t fully understand. I had different option names. One was “Fundraiser T-Shirt – S”. S for small, M for Medium, L for Large…. Each had a different name. It failed to create all of the options if the price was the same for all of the options.

And I don’t know what you are saying about PayPal. I’ve been developing solutions with PayPal for over 25 years. I can still use an old fashion payment links and they work fine.

Ex: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=my_account%40my_domain.com&item_name=T-Shirt+S&amount=25.00

The problem is likely that the logic in your plugin doesn’t key the options properly. If you are using price as the key you can’t then have 2 options with the same price.

The dollar sign was not the issue. In fact it worked as 1 option with the dollar sign.

I understand you have other plugins. I’d have to reconnect with the client to reconnect paypal again because everyone wants to link up accounts rather than do it the old fashion way. I have a limited budget for this project because the client is non-profit so I’m trying to get this done quick and dirty. They already had your plugin installed and working correctly in an other instance that didn’t require options. So the easiest thing is to just reuse your plugin.

If you have this plugin doing options you should key those options off of something other than the price. Its not logical to assume that all options will have a different price point.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by sgumby.

“WordPress by default should email you when regular users are created…”

This works if I’m the admin. I’m not always the “admin” because I’m not always the owner. Many times I’m just the web developer.

I don’t know. The plugin says its not them and I don’t really have the time to dig through the code at this time to find out. I think what I might do is just install an old random plugin because it seems that the autoupdates only happened on sites where all the plugins would have been compatible.

Its not the hosting company. I am the hosting company for all but 1 of the sites.

This topic has more info.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forced-wordpress-core-update-6-8-2/