ricky11

Since China blocks facebook, there is no use to attempt to display the Facebook module on the home page (using default theme) , even if the module displays asynchronously it will still not work, It will only display a blank white box. Many websites even some of the big names try to target China but fail because their site gets stuck by loading googleapi or Google fonts which are not allowed in China as well as Facebook. Often the site takes forever to load or gets stuck when loading a module. Is their a way to disable modules based on user country?

Hi, can i use the geolocation module that is already built in to PS... All these paid modules seem to be using maxmind for queries, which is limited to 10,000 queries, but they still charge users for something that technically is a free service from maxmind. Nevertheless PS has this built in, but am I right in saying that it is limited to restricting users form viewing your store from certain countries. Can this be extended to showing different images bases on county, or content localization? Thanks. Ricky

Hi, I am trying to display our telephone number in display header based on the users country. Some countries we don't have contact numbers so I would not need anything to be displayed. Anyway to do this without third party addons? Thanks

That sounds great Good Job Team. Comment: I didn't see any changes made to the one page checkout, I thought that there was going to be improvements to the OPC in the next release. I was hoping that users did not need to click "save" in the OPC..This has now more than 800 votes and is one of the top 3 most requested feature for PS here : http://feedback.prestashop.com/forums/124931-general Are any of the top 3 requested features in .11 ? I don't see them being added in the release notes. Also still no change in the BO to remove the DOB, Salutation & "Receive Email from partners", As well as adding customized fields. This still painstakingly needs to be done in code. If anything this small feature or fix, I hope is taken care of in the coming release. Thanks for all your hard work. RICKY

Which one did you choose?

did you give up on this question? I think its best to manage using third party like mailchimp or sendinblue. their is a newsletter block module, you can manage there, although its very limited. Let us know!

Its strange that we can't delete newsletter subscriptions in the BO even using the newsletter module that is built in 1.6 If a user signs up with email address only using the newsletter box, its impossible to remove them.. or i can't find a way in the BO.

So, you don't use sendinblue anymore? How is sendinblue better than mailchimp? does it integrate better with PS?

Most of my products have only one color, but some have two or three, how do I display the color thumbnail only if the product has two colors? Usually if the product T-SHIRT has 1 color like black, the photo will show a BLACK t-shirt, thus we dont need the black colorbox to show underneath the image in the product list. If the T-SHIRT has two color options like BLACK & BLUE, then the colorboxes can show. I am using 1.6.0.9 default theme Thanks.

I heard PS will skip 1.6.10 and go directly to 1.6.11 ? it seems the Beta Prestabox has already adopted 1.6.11 and I was told it will be coming soon to the community edition. When can this be expected, and I hope the release notes will be posted up here too. Thanks Ricky

Thanks.... there is a tremendous amount of back end server work to get the store to display in under 2 seconds, even on a good VPS. I have decided not to display any products on the home page in order to speed up the display time, so there should be almost zero database queries unless the user is logged in. We should be focusing more on the core of front end development rather than the back end. If you look at other Ecommerce options like shopify or bigcommerce you can load 50 products on the page page and get it to load under 1 second. Sure i can buy modules and modules and modules to speed it up, but that is not a solution.... Prestashop speed is now holding a lot of us back. I dont like worrying about backend server, spending too much time on it, and i am quite experienced. I am using default theme with default database, but it still seems i need to optimize php queries.. i.e. work that prestashop should have done. they finally deferred loading of JS in 1.6, but there is still a lot more work to do.

If you are running a managed VPS hosting plan, the ask your hosting provider. You can use login direct to your root server, just ask them, not difficult,... Why are you running on a vps with only 20 customers? Try shared hosting first, site5.com is great, then if too slow you can go to vps. otherwise if you want to focus on selling only and forget backend, use bigcommerce or shopify, you worries will end, but you have to pay for addons apps... similar to paid modules on prestashop. --- i am not sure how the support is for addons. good lock and post your results... i hope someone else will see this post so they can help you.

I totally understand what you are saying, i guess that is why prestashop is soon launching prestabox which is SAAS currently in beta i think. Have you tried cloning your store on another host to see if the same problem exits? I know that is long and tedious but it would be hard to pinpoint why 100% mem is being used. I couldn't tell you, i myself switced from bigcommerce.com to prestashop, and somedays i wish i didn't, but if you use default theme without heavy customizations it works quite well, best of all its free. Best RICKY

Still no fix for this, although i hear 1.6.10 will have some tax fix... fingers crossed.

Setup: Using 1.6.0.9 Uninstalled unneeded modules and analytics, including best sales/top sellers,etc, disabled all non prestashop modules using default them All optimizations turnon, no cdn, disabled minify html. Index page has no product listing only slider and advertising module, top menu, cart block, currencyblock + Facebook social plugin. based on the above their should be a low number of database queries run when no items in cart. I am getting 33 queries being executed on main page without any items in cart. As soon as one items is added in cart, the main page goes from 33 queres to 80-81 queries per page. Is this normal? Is there is a need to run all these queries in teh index page when i am not showing any database objects on the homepage such as new products or best sellers. If anyone wants to have a look, here is our site with database profiling turned on. thanks. I could not find any topic about how to reduce database query calls. Some of the sql statements seemed so unnecessary, for example language query, if we have only one language why do we need to run this query?? Site here : http://goo.gl/NoplWz