Page 2 – WordPress Groupbuy Theme

WPGroupbuy v2.1 has been release

After v2.0 release on January/2014, we got a lot of feedbacks, ideas and bug report from clients. Instead release v2.0.1 and other small updates, we decided to work to add more features, fix bugs and improve the system. We are now happy to release WPG v2.1 with these changes:

1. Improve site performance:

By working with css, js, images, html code, WP Query code… we made site load faster, smaller files. Remove unuseful stuff and site is now use less resources. We made big change of timthumb by changing its URL slug, no more complex URL, it now shorter, load faster.
We also improve the checkout process, you can choose multiple payment method and checkout easy.

2. New features:

API: allows you customize site as you want, you can now add your own payment gateway. You need to contact us to get document about API.
More payment methods: Offline method (Cash on Delivery), SagePay, PayFast
Allow merchant edit their own deal, they can change status of deal to pending or publish.
Subscription lightbox: When you first visit a deal site, you will be asked for choosing location, enter email. Now WPG supports it, you can turn it on/off easy.
Set shipping fee based on cart.

3. Bug fix:

SSL error when checkout as guest.
Show active deals on featured position only.
Fix thumbnail display on some pages.
Add upload form for some section on admin panel.
Voucher code page now supported responsive version.
Add checkbox ask client accept term of service when checkout.
Fix redirect issue.
Some HTML design, css for the theme.
Fix empty error when choosing featured category.
Other small bugs.

How to make your WPG site load faster

We receive many questions about how to make WPG site load faster. This is the tutorial tell you how to speedup your site.

1. Choose the right hosting

Shared hosting, VPS or decaded server, so which one is the best? I recommend you to choose VPS or Decaded Server with more than 2GB RAM. With shared hosting, you are limited on RAM, Bandwidth, Disk space. You will need a powerful server. You can choose below hosting provider:

Dreamhost
Hostgator
Bluehost
iPage

2. Use cache plugin

We using WP Super Cache and it give best result. You can check bellow settings:

Use mod_rewrite to serve cache files. (Recommended)
Compress pages so they’re served more quickly to visitors. (Recommended)
Don’t cache pages for known users. (Recommended)
Cache rebuild. Serve a supercache file to anonymous users while a new file is being generated. (Recommended)
Extra homepage checks. (Very occasionally stops homepage caching) (Recommended)
Cache Timeout: 3600

Save your setting and update .htaccess file

3. Use CDN service

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance. CDNs serve a large fraction of the Internet content today, including web objects (text, graphics and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks.

(Left) Traditional scheme of distribution
(Right) CDN scheme of distribution

There are many CDN service providers here. But I recommend you use Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloudfront. S3 will save your files (static files like images, js, css…) on the cloud and Cloudfront is CDN service. It is cheap and easy to use, price depends on your uses. I pay only $0.47 last month.

Follow this tutorial: How to take WordPress to the cloud with Amazon S3 & CloudFront

4. Use CloudFlare

One last thing to do, signup an account at CloudFlare and change your DNS. Remember to install CloudFlare plugin on your site.

And result is:

gtmetrix.com test result

tools.pingdom.com test result

If you need help, please reply here or email us.

WPGroupbuy v2.0 has been release!

We are happy to announce the release of WPGroupbuy v2.0! WPGroupbuy plugin v2.0 comes with a lot of improvements in performance. It now add many features such as merchant account, management tools…etc, that means for you more clients, more profit.

The new WPGroupbuy also comes with new design with easier to use design and mobile friendly layout has been added and is ready for your visit.

We like to thank you for your support and if you have any questions or problems feel free to contact us at any time.

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Holiday Deal, 50% Off for all packages

Thank you for your business this year. It has been a pleasure helping you reach your goals, and we look forward to contributing to your success in 2013. For this holidays, we give you 50% off for all packages. Click here for more information.
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About changing domain & name

We want to inform that own website & products will change the name. No more WPGroupon, it will change to WPGroupbuy and new URL is https://wpgroupbuy.com. We have trouble with ‘groupon’ term and that is the reason why we need to change.

We are now changing the site and reconfig it, if you get any trouble, you can send an email for support.

WordPress WPGroupbuy theme, plugins v1.0 released

WordPress WPGroupbuy theme, plugins v1.0 have been released. We have done a lot of jobs and trying to give you better experience. You can view more features at https://wpgroupbuy.com/features/ and checkout demo here https://wpgroupbuy.com/demo/.
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Hello world!

Hello and welcome to WPGgroupbuy.com, this is the first post. You can find here more information about WPGgroupbuy updates, theme and plugin process. We also keep posting about tips, tutorials, … etc. Follow us at Twitter to get latest news. There are nothing to write anymore, check WPGroupbuy features and purchase :)

Thank you for your support!