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  • Madchatthewundefined Madchatthew

    @phenomlab Yeah I am with you there. If they stop maintaining the google chrome one I will have to import my bookmarks and stuff into a different one and switch. I hoping they don’t stop maintaining it though.

    Now some software once it is installed will have an update feature so you don’t have to do that every time, but unfortunately, the google chrome one doesn’t.

    phenomlabundefined

    @Madchatthew said in Arch Server Progress:

    Now some software once it is installed will have an update feature so you don’t have to do that every time, but unfortunately, the google chrome one doesn’t.

    Yes, that was always the case with the Ubuntu repository for Chrome. PITA.

    Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
    Executive IT & Security Leadership
    Phenomlab Ltd

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  • phenomlabundefined phenomlab

    @Madchatthew said in Arch Server Progress:

    Now some software once it is installed will have an update feature so you don’t have to do that every time, but unfortunately, the google chrome one doesn’t.

    Yes, that was always the case with the Ubuntu repository for Chrome. PITA.

    Madchatthewundefined

    @phenomlab said in Arch Server Progress:

    PITA

    LOL yes for sure!!

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  • Madchatthewundefined

    So I have to come on here and celebrate now! So I was ignoring the Dovecot upgrade in Pacman and decided that it was time to upgrade Dovecot. The only problem with that, is they revamped the whole thing and there are major breaking changes. I had version 2.3 and now am running version 2.4.

    I have spent over 18 hours total getting all the config files setup properly and running. During this though I found that I had a couple of things setup the way I shouldn’t have and was able to modify them to be better. Now that I have the new Dovecot version setup, I can now look into getting some extra features to work with it, like better spam protection and quota amounts and some other things.

    I am very happy and pleased with the result. I can email my gmail account and my wife’s gmail account and pretty much get the emails instantaneously on both sides. Now I can setup my website to be able to send mail when a purchase is made and that sort of thing.

    I am stoked!

    By the way, check out my webpage so far and let me know what you think. It is a wordpress website and I think I am going with SureCart for the store. I know the popular one to go with is WooCommerce, but most of the plugins that I need cost a lot of money to use. With SureCart I can do pretty much everything with it the way it is. I have to finagle a couple of things, but better than paying hundreds of dollars to use woocommerce the way I want. At least for now.

    If anyone has any other recommendations that are free and open source ecommerce solutions let me know. I will check them out. So the website is https://graceunboundbindery.com

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  • Madchatthewundefined Madchatthew

    So I have to come on here and celebrate now! So I was ignoring the Dovecot upgrade in Pacman and decided that it was time to upgrade Dovecot. The only problem with that, is they revamped the whole thing and there are major breaking changes. I had version 2.3 and now am running version 2.4.

    I have spent over 18 hours total getting all the config files setup properly and running. During this though I found that I had a couple of things setup the way I shouldn’t have and was able to modify them to be better. Now that I have the new Dovecot version setup, I can now look into getting some extra features to work with it, like better spam protection and quota amounts and some other things.

    I am very happy and pleased with the result. I can email my gmail account and my wife’s gmail account and pretty much get the emails instantaneously on both sides. Now I can setup my website to be able to send mail when a purchase is made and that sort of thing.

    I am stoked!

    By the way, check out my webpage so far and let me know what you think. It is a wordpress website and I think I am going with SureCart for the store. I know the popular one to go with is WooCommerce, but most of the plugins that I need cost a lot of money to use. With SureCart I can do pretty much everything with it the way it is. I have to finagle a couple of things, but better than paying hundreds of dollars to use woocommerce the way I want. At least for now.

    If anyone has any other recommendations that are free and open source ecommerce solutions let me know. I will check them out. So the website is https://graceunboundbindery.com

    phenomlabundefined

    @Madchatthew Hey Chad. The website looks fantastic - so well laid out and a breeze to navigate. Out of curiosity, why did you choose to use a Gmail account to send mail from rather than the domain itself? In addition, one theme (which I use over at https://phenomlab.com) that I know for sure has WooCommerce built in (it is in fact a bundled plugin) is Impreza

    https://themeforest.net/item/impreza-retina-responsive-wordpress-theme/6434280

    The theme itself is $59.

    709d19ff-bd2c-47fd-9315-bf8460a0276b-image.jpeg

    Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
    Executive IT & Security Leadership
    Phenomlab Ltd

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  • phenomlabundefined phenomlab

    @Madchatthew Hey Chad. The website looks fantastic - so well laid out and a breeze to navigate. Out of curiosity, why did you choose to use a Gmail account to send mail from rather than the domain itself? In addition, one theme (which I use over at https://phenomlab.com) that I know for sure has WooCommerce built in (it is in fact a bundled plugin) is Impreza

    https://themeforest.net/item/impreza-retina-responsive-wordpress-theme/6434280

    The theme itself is $59.

    709d19ff-bd2c-47fd-9315-bf8460a0276b-image.jpeg

    Madchatthewundefined

    @phenomlab I just got the email server up and running and fuctioning properly this morning. I have been working on getting the other two sites working with email so I just haven’t been to my site yet to update the email. I was just using gmail as a temporary one. I also set that one up because the email server wasn’t running properly.

    I will have to check this theme out. It would be nice to have the store function the way I want and not have workarounds to it. Make it look more professional then.

    Thank you on the review, I really appreciate it!

    I forgot to mention as well, that I was able to get the email server updated to use the latest security for passwords, which from my understanding is ARGON2ID. So that is nice as well.

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  • phenomlabundefined phenomlab

    @Madchatthew Hey Chad. The website looks fantastic - so well laid out and a breeze to navigate. Out of curiosity, why did you choose to use a Gmail account to send mail from rather than the domain itself? In addition, one theme (which I use over at https://phenomlab.com) that I know for sure has WooCommerce built in (it is in fact a bundled plugin) is Impreza

    https://themeforest.net/item/impreza-retina-responsive-wordpress-theme/6434280

    The theme itself is $59.

    709d19ff-bd2c-47fd-9315-bf8460a0276b-image.jpeg

    Madchatthewundefined

    @phenomlab said:

    In addition, one theme (which I use over at https://phenomlab.com ) that I know for sure has WooCommerce built in (it is in fact a bundled plugin) is Impreza

    Yeah, I love how your website looks and so fast! I am definitely going to check that out. Is that a one time fee or a yearly fee for $59?

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  • Madchatthewundefined Madchatthew

    @phenomlab said:

    In addition, one theme (which I use over at https://phenomlab.com ) that I know for sure has WooCommerce built in (it is in fact a bundled plugin) is Impreza

    Yeah, I love how your website looks and so fast! I am definitely going to check that out. Is that a one time fee or a yearly fee for $59?

    phenomlabundefined

    @Madchatthew One time fee, yes. You can purchase annual support, but I’ve never needed to.

    Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
    Executive IT & Security Leadership
    Phenomlab Ltd

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  • phenomlabundefined phenomlab

    @Madchatthew One time fee, yes. You can purchase annual support, but I’ve never needed to.

    Madchatthewundefined

    @phenomlab That is awesome! With that bundle, can you have add-ons that people can check that will only show up when they choose a specific product? Can you also have a terms and conditions popup before they check out and if they don’t check it it won’t let them checkout but will let them save their cart? Sorry for all the questions. I looked into some of those things and I would need to purchase a plugin that is over 100 dollars for the addons and the terms and conditions one cost money as well. So if those things are included in that bundle, then that is an amazing price for all of that.

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  • Madchatthewundefined Madchatthew

    @phenomlab That is awesome! With that bundle, can you have add-ons that people can check that will only show up when they choose a specific product? Can you also have a terms and conditions popup before they check out and if they don’t check it it won’t let them checkout but will let them save their cart? Sorry for all the questions. I looked into some of those things and I would need to purchase a plugin that is over 100 dollars for the addons and the terms and conditions one cost money as well. So if those things are included in that bundle, then that is an amazing price for all of that.

    phenomlabundefined

    @Madchatthew said:

    can you have add-ons that people can check that will only show up when they choose a specific product?

    I think you can do this in WooCommerce, but not entirely sure to be honest.

    @Madchatthew said:

    Can you also have a terms and conditions popup before they check out and if they don’t check it it won’t let them checkout but will let them save their cart?

    Yes, I think this is a WooCommerce setting.

    You could also get creative with some JS to provide the functionality you are looking for.

    Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
    Executive IT & Security Leadership
    Phenomlab Ltd

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  • phenomlabundefined phenomlab

    @Madchatthew said:

    can you have add-ons that people can check that will only show up when they choose a specific product?

    I think you can do this in WooCommerce, but not entirely sure to be honest.

    @Madchatthew said:

    Can you also have a terms and conditions popup before they check out and if they don’t check it it won’t let them checkout but will let them save their cart?

    Yes, I think this is a WooCommerce setting.

    You could also get creative with some JS to provide the functionality you are looking for.

    Madchatthewundefined

    @phenomlab that is what I was thinking. I will have to do some research and bend it to my will LOL

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