It's a good thing I don't count on online income to pay the bills, because for the last three months it has been a constant zero! And this isn't for lack of effort! (A lack of intelligence perhaps, but I have worked at it.)
I sincerely hope I am the least successful internet affiliate in the world, because if other folks are doing as poorly as me, then there's a whole lot of effort being wasted online.
I sincerely hope I am the least successful internet affiliate in the world, because if other folks are doing as poorly as me, then there's a whole lot of effort being wasted online.
Well ...... maybe it's not a total catastrophe. I do have some money queued up in my Amazon affiliate accounts, and once one of them breaks the $10.00 limit I should get a deposit in my Paypal account. Still, $10.00 isn't exactly a huge amount of money.
Things got so bad I even go back to Clickworker from time to time. And this is Clickworker WITHOUT access to UHRS, (which is where most of the money is made), because I refuse to back to working on a Windows PC. (We use Apple PCs in our household.) So I "earn" pennies a day.
Ugh ......
But the internet gods apparently haven't finished humiliating me, because just recently I updated the software on my tea store, ( tea-universe.com ), and now ...... the site doesn't work anymore!!
My store uses WooCommerce, the WooZone plugin, (to grab products off Amazon), and the Kingdom theme. Two days ago I updated Kingdom to version 1.7, and everything went wonky. This surprised me, as I thought all three pieces of software were written by the same group of folks, (AATeam, or something like that), and so would play well together. Ha, ha .... jokes on me!
IMHO Kingdom is a hard theme to work with. Or maybe the problem is WooCommerce? At any rate, all this stuff combines into what ain't a normal straight-forward WordPress page. But after fussing with it a bit I finally got the appearance of the store pretty well stabilized. In fact, I kinda like how it looks now better than it looked on the older Kingdom theme:
IMHO Kingdom is a hard theme to work with. Or maybe the problem is WooCommerce? At any rate, all this stuff combines into what ain't a normal straight-forward WordPress page. But after fussing with it a bit I finally got the appearance of the store pretty well stabilized. In fact, I kinda like how it looks now better than it looked on the older Kingdom theme:
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| The new appearance of tea-universe.com |
The huge problem is that, once you attempt to checkout with items added to your cart, by the time you're redirected to Amazon the cart is somehow empty!
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| What happened to the items in my cart? |
So what I have now is a nicer looking store that no one can order anything from. Phooey!
I've paid $5.00 on Fiverr to some guy in India who claims he can debug WooCommerce problems. We'll see if anything comes of that or not.
In the meantime ...... does anyone happen to know of a way to fix this problem?
I've paid $5.00 on Fiverr to some guy in India who claims he can debug WooCommerce problems. We'll see if anything comes of that or not.
In the meantime ...... does anyone happen to know of a way to fix this problem?
Earn money in your spare time on the internet, huh? Nonsense, I say!
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Update: the guy from India directed me to some documentation, which helped, and made some suggestions, which so for haven't worked. So what I have done is disable the shopping cart altogether. Now you simply click "buy product" and get redirected to Amazon to complete the order, (add it to your shopping cart, and check out).
If I have time I may fight with this crazy software some more, but in the meantime at least tea-universe.com is functional again.
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Update: the guy from India directed me to some documentation, which helped, and made some suggestions, which so for haven't worked. So what I have done is disable the shopping cart altogether. Now you simply click "buy product" and get redirected to Amazon to complete the order, (add it to your shopping cart, and check out).
If I have time I may fight with this crazy software some more, but in the meantime at least tea-universe.com is functional again.
