A Bit of Good Outcome
One of the tasks I was trying to accomplish yesterday was to modify the “Coming Soon” page to add a line about the store being closed, but to try again later. Or, something close to…
Articles from August 2026
One Frustrating Day
I did something (brain to keyboard interface) in the Events plugin that reduced the title block to teenie-tiny letters, rather than the large headline font it’s supposed to be. Expended several hours trying to reverse…
Store Bumps
The base eCommerce software I’m using presumes a 24-hour on-line presence is acceptable. For a cafe business model (which essentially what Stu-Boy’s Lemonade Emporium is) does not work well. Store hours are important. What that…
Working On Simpler is Better
Well, if you’ve been paying attention (as if anyone out there really was), you’ve noticed the site got considerably simpler visually. Way too much clutter in the other one. Following through with my comments from…
Same Path, Different Direction
After five days of struggling with the online/POS challenge, and a bit of reflection and analysis on how the business works now, I’ve decided to stay with what I have now for POS (’cause it…
Bummer, Still No Joy
Attempt number 2 to stand up the alternate POS ended in disappointment; this POS does not present the WooCommerce Product Add-Ons in either the product selection or after adding a product to the cart. Bad…
Yet Another Stumbling Block
Wow, this is getting to be frustrating. After going through the iterations I addressed in my last post I hit a wall over POS implementation (and pricing). So, I deleted the original POS, again, and…
Oops on Me
While preparing and testing the potential POS, I forgot one foundational premise: POS implies in-person contact. In my testing of the POS, I was trying to inject a delivery/pickup process. Silly me, POS is pickup…
Closer, as in not so far away as before
Just had a long chat with Chatgpt to assess what plugin combinations will work best for what I’m trying to do (which is simultaneously offer on-line ordering with in-person POS). As it turn out, not…
Moving Once Again
OK, the critical error issue seems to have resolved itself. A second issue cropped up–email anomalies. I have been out of the networking business long enough to forget the issues surrounding SMTP and header analyses…