Duplicate products were being displayed when using the productspage shortcode on a Page.

The Cause:

This tends to happen if you use the drag and drop sorting of products while viewing all categories. That’s right, you’ll get duplicate products and sometimes not all of the products will show up too.

Solution:

While this is annoying it’s quite easy to fix. Go into PHP MyAdmin and the wp_wpsc_product_order table and remove all products with a category id of 0. Refresh your site and it’s fixed.

If there is still an issue after removing the category id of 0, then remove any duplicate product_id rows in the wp_wpsc_product_order table too.

PLEASE NOTE: It’s always a good idea to take a backup before making any alterations.

One of the most common problems you’ll encounter when building your websites is that the images on your pages take forever to load. This can be a real problem because your visitors are unlikely to wait around for the page to show up in their browsers.

It’s also a sign of unprofessionalism and a problem generally associated with cheap, do-it-yourself websites.

Your images might look small on the page, but if you haven’t changed the ‘file sizes’ of them then they’re bound to be much bigger than they need to be.

I’ve just come across this great tutorial on “how to optimize an image for the web; while preserving the image quality; which will help your site load faster”.

Optimizing Your Website Images

http://www.reichelgraphicdesign.com/…al_resize.html

The Problem With Most Websites – How many websites have outdated information and look like something from the ‘dark ages’? Quite a few! It’s fine to build a website yourself, but have you kept abreast of the changes in technology and simple aesthetics? Most people don’t have facilities, skills or the knowledge to maintain a website themselves and they are reluctant to pay someone to do it!

Solutions – There are some relatively easy software platforms that can be installed on YOUR website that you can manage and update yourself. The one I use here ‘WORDPRESS‘ is made freely available and provides a highly advanced system that…

• Has an inbuilt administration panel so you can maintain the website yourself from any computer, anywhere in the world.
• Updates each website component as advances are made to technology.
• Can be set up on your own domain with YOUR choice of web hosting companies (I pay less than $60 per year for domain renewal AND hosting).
• Keeps you connected to a huge network of people who create new programs, build templates and themes and generally offer them FREE.
• Is highly regarded and quickly indexed by the major search engines (like Google).
• Can easily be set up as a blog or a regular website without any need to know any programming (such as html or php)…and much more!

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