[Hidden-tech] Any WooCommerce experts out there?

[Jeff Brand]

While some of this depends on the theme, the default WooCommerce theme 
uses pretty big image photos in the single listings. While there are 
image size controls within WooCommerce's settings, the tags/CSS on the 
front-end don't really adapt the layout accordingly.

Combined with WordPress' image scaling behavior, if you start with a 
non-square and/or smaller image than the image tag is looking for, 
really weird things start to happen.

I believe the standard theme's product image assumes it will be 300px 
square. If that falls under the "way too big" category, then some theme 
modification is necessary. If 300px would be fine but isn't what you're 
seeing, create a larger (650px+), square product image to be used. This 
will let WP/WC create the intermediate image sizes and use the proper 
version in the entry.

One final note is that a quick search on Ultimatum reveals some unhappy 
customers. Combined with WooCommerce's rapid development and 
occasionally significant changes between "minor" version releases (v2.3, 
the latest, being one of them) there's also a possibility that the theme 
is broken in other ways and needs additional serious attention.

On 3/28/2015 4:29 PM, Lynn Nichols wrote:
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> I have a local nonprofit client that has a WordPress site in development
> and there appear to be some major issues with WooCommerce. Product
> photos are way too big, even though they are small in the media library
> and I've tried to regenerate thumbnails to no avail. I also can't get
> the navigation to show up any of the WooCommerce pages.
>
> I'm running a child Ultimatum WordPress theme but the problem is
> happening no matter which theme is activated.
>
> To make matters worse, I will be on vacation for three weeks starting
> Monday so I've really run out of time.
>
> Anyone out there with WooCommerce experience who might be able to
> troubleshoot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lynn
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