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Hi, Thought I share this: I am currently setting a new shop up. Looking for optimazation options I came to the part the images. After a lot of searching and trying different tools to optimize the images I found the best tool to be tinypng (www.tinypng.com). I gave me even 100% compression without loosing the quality. Great! Then a problem came up. How do I automate this? Altough the product are not that many I didn't want to spent time by uploading it to the web and then recreate the images + recreation bumped the size up again. Searching the web I found https://github.com/Benichou34/tinify a free module that compresses the images. All you have to do (apart of installing it) is to get a free api key from tinypng. I can run with a cron job so that is good also. Only problem I have until now that when I access the module in the BO I get the following error message: Notice on line 178 in file tools/smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatebase.php(157) : eval()'d code [8] Undefined index: name Seems to work though. Will report later more Kind Regards

Hi all, Frontoffice modules may be ok to develop. But don't forget about the BO! Things like mass edit, modifing existing orders so we can add/remove/edit products, change carriers (or do anything we like with an existing order)

@lesley . Why do you think so?

@lesley I get confused. 12E is for linnode. for aws we need 36. I will have to do some digging...

@lesley didn't know I could choose cities. Is there a list I can see? I would still need to go with the 34E per month bumping the hosting cost from 200 to 398E

@dynambee An old college and friend is hosting us at 200€ per year for 5 domains unlimited emails, traffic etc. But aside of all of this the server is located in germany and since we are located in Greece I think closer is better. Cloudways (I think in the US)

Hi @lesley, No I am still waiting for my hoster to upgrade mysql to implent tb. I hope that in the main time elastic search will be ready. I am asking because I don't see me moving to a dedicated server soon. So amazon's solution seems like a good idea

Hi all, I was wondering if this module could work with amazon's elasticsearch service. This would take out a lot of the hasle of setting up elasticsearch on your own server and would help those who uses shared hosts Kind Regards

@alwayspaws (I hate iphones) :-) You have assigned a link to "dog clothes" menu so clicking on the menu text it opens that link. On my my site I have not assigned a link so it does nothing. So that is wrong. It should open the submenu if no link is assinged

note to all transformer theme users: I am currently using it on my 1.6 installation, it is the same version (I think) that works with tb. There is a bug confirmed by lee in the mobile mega menu. On the mobile menu when having a submenu and you click on the word (not the + sign) the menu does not open. Users expect it to also open when clicking on the word. Lee told me he will fix it in the next release.

Just a quick update. Since swithing to transformer theme (and the better opc layout) abandoned carts have dropped significantly. We are 0.60% up. So id DOES matter afterall. Will keep a track and see if this continues

yes.

it could even detect the abandoned carts and based on that send emails to the customers. The code is there.

https://github.com/kuzmany/mautic-prestashop I've installed it and works only partial. It correctly detect the users (by inserting a pixel), it tracks the user's activity eg what pages they visit but fails to indentify them when they submit an email or create an order

I am playing around with mautic (www.mautic.org) ATM and I must say that I am amazed. It realy takes email marketing to an other level. IMO this must be intergrated with tb. An ps module already exists but seems to be broken. More when I am actually start using it on my website

@MockoB. For me tb community is quite nice. If it has almost everything you want, why don';t you post here the changes that you want and I am sure someone will give you a quote. Don't overthink. Just do it. As I said. the theme is just one of many things you have to do. Don't stall on the theme.

@lesley You would still have 5000E to pay for adwords to go to page 1 :-D But the question could also be "What if the theme was light with no usability and looked like crap?" You don't go with the most bloaded theme, you don't go with a theme that has nothing "to say" to the users. I score 84 and 2.41sec pingdom with transformer vs 74 and 6 with my old theme. (And that's with ps 1.6, image with tb :-)) For mr are two paths to go if we are talking about tb (or ps) 1. use the default theme for good performance and upgradability or 2. if you need features go buy a theme that has those features. On my last project I spend 2000E on a custom theme and let me tell you I won't be doing that mistake again. As I said: It's a fine line between performance and usabiltiy.

@MockoB There is always a fine line between performance and usability. A too basic theme usually has not many optical feautures to make the site attractive. And then there is the price / issues of custom made themes. You have to be very selective on who you choose to design your template. What is in 4 months you find a bug ? Wiil you get support? what will you pay to fix them? Will the developer respond ? The upside of themes like transformer is that as many ppl use it any bugs are already ironed out. Then there is the cost. I would rather spend 5000 on adwords then on a theme. I think you are overthinking things. Theme is just ONE of many things to do on an eshop. Customers care more about price/ support rather than the looks. The only "feature" I need from a theme is to help customers find easy (and as quick as possilble) what they want.

Only thing I am missing about transformer theme v3 is lazy load

@MockoB tranformer and panda theme are pretty and add much needed functionality that makes your life easy. Thirtybees community theme is very light and very optimized for tb but it lacks some nice eyecandy. So for me tb community theme = light and fast / transformer or other theme eyecandy and functionality. qiute easy. Either way if you are not comfortable editing .tpl and .css files your find the theme that is closest to what you need and hire a person to customize it

@MockoB Get the tranformer theme (or any theme from tantan) I recently got transformer and after changing quite some things I think we are at a good stage. Don't think about looks only. If you wan't a basic theme go with community one. If you like features (like I do) go on themeforerst and by one.

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Hi, I just finished updating our site to transformer theme. I would like to know if it possible to hide products that don;t have an image on the frontpage not the other pages. Is this theme specific? Do we need an override ? Also see post https://forum.thirtybees.com/topic/791/hide-products-with-no-images-from-frontpage-in-transformer-theme

@lesley and I was worried that my 635mb was big :-)

Hi @lesley meanwhile I asked jhonny Li if this is something we could edit in a module's .tpl and he replied no. Also I found this https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/323340-hide-product-without-image-from-blocknewproducts/ but my programming skills don't go that far to apply it