It's been around two years since our last change of appearance. Back then I bought some software that would allow people to sell their own puzzles on the site. Since then, some new sellers have joined Rare Puzzles and some others will come soon. During this time I have learned about some of the challenges of a marketplace website. The most important one is having buyers and sellers in different countries.
Change to improve
In an attempt to make things easier for buyers and sellers (and for me as well), I will be installing some new software in the next days. It is a Wordpress plugin that hopefully will improve the one we have right now. As a consequence, the appearance of the website is also going to change significantly. For that reason, t is likely that at the beginning Rare Puzzles will look like a new website. However, the content is going to remain the same.
The change of appearance will probably take place in two phases. First, I will install the Dokan marketplace plugin and verify that everything is working. After some days, if there are no major hiccups, I might need to install a new Wordpress theme so that Rare...
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Some Updates
13
Mar
Thank you very much to everyone who has provided input about features and appearance of the new website. The new Wordpress theme has been giving me some trouble for some time, but some issues are being solved. Here are some updates:
The problem with the display of the images in the catalog has been (finally) solved. The images were not cropped proportionally and visitors couldn't see the whole picture of the box. That same problem remains in the single product page, but the solution for that is also close.
The side navigation that allows users to filter the puzzles based on Brand, Content, Condition, and Number of Pieces was added after it was disappeared for some time. The option to include an additional filter to select In-Stock/Out-of-Stock puzzles is not feasible in Wordpress except with some tweaking of the code, which is beyond my knowledge at this point.
However, in order to make the navigation easier, the Out-of-Stock items have been removed from the catalog. They are still indexed in search engines and they still appear in searches within the site, but only available puzzles are now listed.
The shipping module has not been working, and users received the frustrating message...
Testing the New Website
07
Jan
Here we go.
During the next coming days you will often see the site down for maintenance and going back and forth through different changes and variations.
It is because I am testing the different modules to be sure that everything keeps working.
I hope the transition will not bee too bumpy.
Feedback and suggestions are highly appreciated at [email protected].
(Photograph by vagawi).