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Yeah, I wish they'd do a better job with sending out their blog posts as newsletters... I get the renewal emails with discounts for early renewals, but never anything else.
I had to find out via Twitter that they released a beta for a Quiz add-on a week ago, something I've been looking into getting off of Code Canyon for a few months now. But now that there's a Gravity Forms add-on for quizzes, that's almost my own Christmas present! 😉
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI'm only just beginning to play with Marketpress, but not on a multisite installation, so I'll have to get back to you on how I like it or not. Right now, it's giving me fits with the new version of Executive, so I may have to switch themes for this project, but I'm still tweaking.
I can't answer about WooCommerce and Multisite from personal experience as yet (my multisite project isn't slated to begin until January or February), but additional multisite features in WooCommerce is something a lot of users have requested on their WooIdeas site
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberare you talking about the area that shows up behind the slider area on the homepage? It took me a while to find that, too, because that black header and the gray background are together, same image.
It's the background image in the #wrap section of style.css. I changed the black header to a different color on one custom site, and nearly had a fit trying to figure out how to get that gray part of the image be the visible background for the homepage slider on another custom site.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberMy workload for the time being is beyond crazy with customizing Genesis themes for projects and clients that I don't get over here frequently enough (not daily, anyway) to be of any quick help to anyone, but I'd be happy to help out when I can, too 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 25, 2012 at 2:31 am in reply to: Topic for Discussion: StudioPress for personal use or for clients… #1551SummerMemberThat story is a long strange journey, and I'm kinda glad I'm still taking it 🙂
The short version is I hand-coded my first website in 1994 (the first two domains I registered were still free back then!), and discovered WordPress completely by chance in 2005 and was fascinated by it.
I ended up converting the first two FarPoint Media sites from Movable Type to WordPress sometime in 2006 I think, and sometime in 2008 after struggling with a few clunky free themes we jumped on the Revolution bandwagon (I'd been impressed to see what someone had done with Revolution Black), and my first major Slice of SciFi upgrade used Revolution City not long after.
I've been using Revolution/Revolution Two/StudioPress/StudioPress Genesis themes for my WordPress websites, both personal and client sites, almost exclusively ever since. 2012 is the first year I've really made a go out of making a primary business out of website design, simply because of what seems to be a flaky job market for people with more than 25 years Unix admin experience but no network admin or Windows admin experience to go along with 🙁
Fortunately, there seem to be a lot of people who want and need WordPress help, so I'm hoping that need stays around for a while, as well as awesome StudioPress themes to use 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 24, 2012 at 12:34 pm in reply to: When to use forums -vs- when to use support request? #1496SummerMemberGood to know they'll be hanging around more than 30 days 🙂
I've actually seen that type of "hints" behavior in a couple of places, bringing up KB articles as certain keywords are being entered into a ticket, and I'm pretty sure Media Temple is using something like that as part of their support ticketing system, too.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 24, 2012 at 11:08 am in reply to: When to use forums -vs- when to use support request? #1487SummerMemberIt would be nice to know how long the old forums will remain available for reference.
One other thing I noticed, unless you login to the old forums, only the General Discussion forum is openly readable. I understand making the Themes forums for members only, but shouldn't the Plugins forums also be open, since most of those are also freely available to the WordPress community at large?
That said, I'm also not a fan of a system where the same question could potentially be submitted ten times a week and repeatedly answering it takes valuable time away from the support team. It also handcuffs the more savvy folks in the community when they could spend a few minutes finding a solution in the forums instead and figure out the problem on their own, rather than submitting the question themselves to be handled a twentieth time 🙂
Believe it or not, I used to also belong to one of the Woo clubs, but finally I dropped them last month. I know, I know... take your shots 🙂
I could probably have eventually stomached their massive changes in pricing & licensing for WooCommerce extensions, but with their jump off the cliff in terms of QA prior to releasing a theme, on top of their getting rid of the support forums in favor of UserVoice, plus their "take it or leave it good riddance" attitude in responses to the majority of their customer base who were not happy with the new ticketing system (4 days to 2 weeks to answer a question, dozens of complaints of lost clients and projects because of the longer turnaround to resolve even the simplest questions), it was just too much and I canceled.
Probably should have canceled sooner, but I have clients now using WooCommerce premium extensions and one still using a WooTheme (I actually lost money on that project because of their QA problems). I don't know that I can switch that site over to a Genesis theme any time soon, but I am looking at the feasability of moving my WooCommerce people who aren't using premium extensions to another e-commerce platform (no, haven't decided which yet, but the only other decent WP community out there seems to be WPMU and I'll be playing with Marketpress soon, and I may see if it's even worth the trouble to replace extensions with options available at CodeCanyon).
Apparently, I haven't been the only one who's left Woo, because after only 3 months or so, they are finally listening to their community concerns, leaving UserVoice and going to another trouble ticketing system that's more open. Too little, too late from my opinion, but their experiment with one-on-one closed system trouble tickets didn't work... I think their biggest problem was when they also got rid of the old forums completely in exchange for a read-only Knowledge Base, they didn't provide anything new to allow their community to continue to BE a community, outside of leaving comments on blog posts. The lack of communication had become so bad, a couple of folks who had been really active in their old forums even suggested creating a new forum on a new domain they'd manage on their own.
Since the plan and the direction is a little different here, I truly hope the end result works out better here, too.
And for the record, after my time this year wrangling Woo products (I truly only decided to jump in with WooCommerce because of the appearance of the Genesis Connect plugin), I have become painfully appreciative of the time StudioPress puts in to making sure a theme is ready before it's made available. If I haven't said it enough before, let me say it now: ten thousand times Thank You, StudioPress!
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