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I’m not a fan of this plugin’s markup, at all. I really wish plugin authors who wrote markup were more familiar with CSS. You should write simple, straightforward, semantic HTML. There’s so many crazy class names, unnecessary divs, places where divs should be that they’re not, and just generally overly verbose ways of doing things.
The biggest two annoyances for me are that categories just get thrown in with products, together in a div. Why in the world wouldn’t you separate those two totally different things?
Also the product price gets thrown inside the anchor tag which holds the product image. What? Meanwhile, the title is outside of it, so when you mouse over a product the price highlights and the title doesn’t…….. I mean I really can’t understand that one.
There are a lot of other small examples that I can’t recall off the top of my head and I don’t want to make this a book, but I just wish the markup was a lot better.
Another extreme annoyance is that for product variations (IE sizes, colors, etc) you have to individually input the price for every individual variation! I find that to be absolutely crazy. Every other field on the variations allows you to leave it empty and set a default, but the price field doesn’t so you have to change it in 30+ places every time you make a price change to one product with a moderate number of variations. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find a plugin that alleviates this one.
So far I have a really bad taste with this software. Whereas I styled my whole theme and 5 long articles in a couple days, it has taken me almost a week just to get as far as I am styling the store, and I’m nowhere near done. And every time I try to work with the 6 products I’ve put in for styling and testing purposes, I get a really horrid feeling about what a pain it’s going to be to manage inventory in this thing.