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PixelStores says

^ You read it wrong. I was pointing about the reason why the iteration phases started existing more than the past (2-3 years back). By saying author experience, I didn’t mean number of items but just the experience. We can’t compare Collis and Justin in terms of marketplace experience.

Ok, thought i read it wrong. sorry.

I’m frustrated and annoyed with the ratings system.

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PixelStores says

Problem is, unless you’ll change significantly design of that theme, you can’t upload it as a new one, no matter what changes you’ve done in the backend.

Purethemes is correct here, i had the same situation with my product. If your gonna keep to a similar design with a new framework and want to upload it as a new item you could always try contacting support first with a design handy so they can compare the two and see what they say.

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PixelStores says


Facts are that you released the rating update, and you had a ton of people complaining about it (still haven’t read a reply for this comment, which is not mine). Many asked to change the position of the break-down, and then you did it. You launch the survey, people point out drawbacks about the “support” and “customizations”, and then you see what you can do.

The problem is not with the staff (justinfrench or team) but with the management that didn’t involve in these features 2-3 years back. The current product owner is not experienced as an author as well as probably not having experience as buyer. So mild iterations becomes unavoidable – and taken care well too as of now.

If you still have to blame for these iterations, I would recommend doing so towards the staff who already had author/buyer experience in the past as well as not involving with these improvements to get them optimized. May be they are busy with adding obesity through new services. Just my understanding through observation.

By having one item your suggesting i’m not an author with experience? Excuse me nerd.

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PixelStores says

Well.. to be honest the new star ratings along with the author ratings has had a dramatic effect on sales and i’m really disappointed.

For the time i was travelling around aus i was unable to provide support for my item and therefore had users giving me a 1 star.. fair enough.

Mid last year after the travel i decided to relaunch myself with a new brand and framework for my theme, unfortunately due to being the same design i couldn’t list the theme as a new item and should update the current one, so i did. Sales came through with alot of positive feedback about the update and how great the support was. Excellent!!! I thought…I have earned back my clients/customers trust and left them happy…

Looks like the days without providing support has crept back on me…the ones that left the negative rating obviously moved on before the update, so the low ratings were/are still there.

It’s really frustrating, i spent so many hours on the framework for the theme and it feels i have been kicked in the nuts.

If i had a choice i would want to remove my current theme along with the ratings.

I have a new theme lined up and to be honest i’m not even sure if i want to sell it here.

Theres not much i can do here.

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PixelStores says

Hy PixelStores (Matt) .. thanks for reply.

If i change the header of the theme option is successful. I am still very confused how to get into the menu. Whether the header should be made like this.

<? php
/*
  Template Name: Header 1
*/
  ?>
Sorry if I am asking a lot, I just started in wordpress :)

The method your mentioning with the template names is for creating page templates, you won’t have to do this if you have some options the user selects in the theme options…

You would create a select box in the theme options with some values like “Header 1” that are saved based on the users choice… You would write a similar function to the one i wrote earlier but you would use the switch method for the theme options instead of the custom fields.

Cheers

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PixelStores says

Hi There,

Just checked the source for one of your products page and looks like the “Add to Cart” buttons are not there so this clarifys its not a css issue.

I would check to see if theres an option in the theme options for catalogue mode and make sure this is not on.

Otherwise try contacting the theme author to see if he can help. :)

Cheers

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PixelStores says

For one of my projects what i did was to use the get_template_part function and and a number of if statements to show the right header the user has chosen in the custom field for that page.

So for example, if your using the WPAlchemy_MetaBox class and have a select box for one of your custom fields you could use this code or similar to determine what the user has chosen for the header.

function get_header_template() {
    global $post, $your_mb;
    $meta = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $your_mb->get_the_id(), TRUE);        
    switch ($meta[header_choice]) {
        case 'header_one': 
            get_template_part( 'templates/header', 'one' );        
        break;
        case 'header_two': 
            get_template_part( 'templates/header', 'two' );                
        break;
        case 'header_three': 
            get_template_part( 'templates/header', 'three' );        
        break;
        case 'header_four':
            get_template_part( 'templates/header', 'four' );        
        break;
        default:        
    }
}

The following files would have the different template design/structure code,

/templates/header-one.php
/templates/header-two.php
/templates/header-three.php
/templates/header-four.php

You could also use your theme options api that could set the default header template.

Hope this helps..

Matt

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PixelStores says

Hello,

Not quite sure on how much of WooCommerce you know, but you can setup affiliate links along with normal products without any additional plugins.

Your best bet would be to start here,

http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/ecommerce/woocommerce

Matt

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  • Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
PixelStores says

Welcome to ThemeForest bro :)

Be sure to be creative in the design process and not rip other themes selling here, you could also look into developing a Theme for a specific niche, these sell well.

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  • Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
  • Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
PixelStores says

Hey mate,

Send us an email via my profile page, I’m available for freelance and be able to help out with some custom WordPress work, all in good time too. :)

Cheers. Matt

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