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Hello @Ed

Now I’m hosted with ClowdWays on Vultr servers on a $11 account vs the $29 account I had with WPEngine.

If I’m not wrong, if you check out WPEngine shared plans they don’t even mention how much resource your app has dedicated, yet on Cloudways everything is transparent, you buy RAM, CPU and have bandwidth volume include. You can also choose from different datacenters ( Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, Vultr )

Not sure if they are the best out there, or suited for any needs, but for me they made a big difference at half the price

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Changing hosts did it for me. I was getting 1 – 1.2sec page response time on WPEngine. Moved to something half the price and now I’m getting 0.5sec page response time. I’m happy at this point. So, I wanted to let you guys know about this.

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Hello @Ed

I have paid for, customized and use your theme on my website. I’m only trying to point out what I experience, wishing you will address it and hopefully correct it in the future. I’m only print screening the results Google Page Speed returns for YOUR own website! Claiming that’s false information, it only makes me think something’s even fishier.

Here’s another, 1.2seconds server response time.

To replicate it, please do the following, anyone trying your theme can do this and draw his/her own conclusions:

Go the the main page of your demo site ( http://swiftideas.com/ ) > right click a product > copy link address. Then, go to google page speed tool and paste the url: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Please understand you get milliseconds response time for cached pages!! Pages that are static, where no processing (php or db) takes place. Server just spits it out.

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One more thing (for the creators): here’s your atelier website returning 1,6s page response time!!! with google page speed. So, please stop saying it’s fast. 1,6s response time is awful. Probably you get low values for cached pages which are static (no code processing, no db query/extraction time), so it’s normal they are fast

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Same here, getting 1,2 seconds server response time. One thing I noticed that can improve performace is not inserting into the database, theme options that are the default ones. There are about 30 theme related parameters per page. With 1000 products, it can be a lot of extra database entries that are not actually used, in case they are the default ones, because the theme seems to check the values of these parameters and if not there it uses the default values anyways

Then it seems there are a lot of .woof files that can be combined together and I saw a suggestion to encode these files as .woof2 maybe ?

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Your atelier.pot file has 2000+ strings.

You have basic stuff in there like: Add to Cart, Username, Out of stock, Remember me

Why would you have these (override them from Woocommerce) in the first place ?

Shouldn’t you only provide a .pot file with the strings not already in Woocommerce, or at least not the obvious ones ?

You point me to translate a theme. Do you know what it means to translate 2000+ strings, when most of them are already in Woocommerce which is translated in my language, while Atelier not ?

So you override most of Woocommerce strings, but not provide a translation in my language ? Who in their right mind translates 2000+ strings of a theme ? And it should be ok as long as they are theme specific strings, but force me to translate Add to Cart, Username, Out of stock, Remember me and 1000s that normally already come translated with Woocomerce is ridiculous and most of all unfeasible, time and money consuming

But why ? Why override: Add to Cart, Username, Out of stock, Remember me ?…

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Ok, so basically your theme overrides Woocommerce translation files. This means that instead of translating only the theme specific stuff, I need to translate all Woocommerce (2500+ lines) + theme specific stuff

Can you please tell me what do I need to do to revert the translation to the Woocommerce one ? Better to have 2500 expressions translated. I have tried this without success, even if the translation files are in that directory:

load_theme_textdomain('woocommerce', $wpDir.'/wp-content/languages/woocommerce');

Can you please advice ?

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Just to make sure, you are saying I should use 2 totally separate menus, one for desktop and one for mobile ?

I have done this, but because the menus are basically the same, minus the mega menu, I thought there might be a more economic solution

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Hello,

I’m having one more problem. When I try to set a Filter by attribute, the attribute dropdown is empty. Any ideas ? (I have set a couple of attributes to a couple of products, not all products have attributes, but I’m figuring there should appear something on that list)

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I have added some filters to the WooCommerce Filters widget area, but I can’t add that area to the Shop page. The mobile version seems to include them just fine, but not the desktop. And the shop page doesn’t seem to have a Meta options area (screenshot). Any ideas ?

Also do you recommend any advanced filter for Woocommerce that is compatible with the Atelier theme ?

Thanks!

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So, how can I change the image, text, etc on the top carousel widget. The one that says: Inside Atelier: A Sneak….

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