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19 February, 2015 at 10:35 pm #7989
maherali
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Hi Olly. This maybe possible already (as I see you have new shortcodes) so I apologise if it is.

Basically I want the customers to be click ‘Order Online’ from my navgiation menu and on that page I want to use shortcodes. One shortcode I want is just a button to allow for collection and another to choose delivery areas.

When they click collection I want to be able to set where the link goes (to the page with all my items + cart) and for it to have pre-set the collection tick box.
When they choose the delivery area and click ok – I want to once again set where the link goes (I know you already have this in a shortcode but how would I set where the link goes via css?).

I want something like this basically:

Except I prefer the way you have it already (Dropdown selecting postal area)

I want to do this because on some devices I have tried the website on popups can be a bit troublesome and I want the delivery/collection choice to be made before ordering ideally.
20 February, 2015 at 12:15 am #7990
Olly
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if you do this (in no particular order):

a) you have just blocked every single searchengine on the planet from indexing that page (they don’t do javascript so will never click on things and therefore never get past that content – but also see g) – which would get around that )

b) if you have more than one page with menu items and you only what that sort if thing on your main menu (i.e “order online”)page, it would be pretty pointless, as many/most people that come to your site from searchengines would never get to see it in the first place

c) you cannot cache that page – ever (you might not want to , but just saying)

d)>re: but how would I set where the link goes via css.
you do not / cannot change links via css (that’s not what css is)

e)>:re I know you already have this in a shortcode
I do ? not that I know of. (but maybe I am not following)

f)re: I want to do this because on some devices I have tried the website on popups can be a bit troublesome
sorry, but I somewhat dispute that unless you have a slow server to start off with or there are other things wrong. (but see g) below as well)
having said that, of course I’m not perfect, so if you can show me what is apparently troublesome, I’d be happy to investigate.

g) re:I want the delivery/collection choice to be made before ordering ideally.
that’s why there is the option of the popup (i assume we are talking about the delivery by postcode extension here)
instead of having a popup, one could however replace the *contents* of the page entirely dynamically, rather than having a popup – i’ll investigate , but no ETA

h) i furthermore agree , that there is a case that can be made for having an option in the dropdown/selection that offers “i will pick up the order myself” or some such thing
(in fact, I am somewhat surprised no-one ever mentioned this before)
20 February, 2015 at 12:25 am #7991
Olly
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PS: generally speaking, there are a couple of improvements that can certainly be made (as always), and I will bear those in mind and do something about them as soon as i get the chance.

I believe though that your particular idea/suggestion is not the best way to go about it
then again, that would be my job anyway, so the essence of your post is certainly something to consider
20 February, 2015 at 1:13 pm #7996
maherali
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I did use the popup feature so I can ask the customer before the order where they would want it to be delivered but it caused 2 problems:

1. Some customers may get confused as they can’t choose collection.

2. When testing on a Microsoft Surface 2 I get this error (and it only happens on this device)

So I was hoping to eliminate the pop-up feature and have a page where they select first that will then direct to the menu items having made the crucial choice of collection/delivery first and for it to be very obvious.

When I was referring to the shortcode for which you have something similar I meant this Dropbox when used with the shortcode [wppizza_dbp]
20 February, 2015 at 2:03 pm #7998
Olly
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>re: Some customers may get confused as they can’t choose collection.

as mentioned, I agree with you there (and there should be an option to select “self-pickup”

>re: When testing on a Microsoft Surface 2 I get this error (and it only happens on this device)
I am assuming we are talking about https://www.mahersyedali.co.uk here

a) i tried this on a variety of different browsers, opera , chrome, firefox, ie 8-11, on mobiles as well as on desktops. none throw an error (on the page that is).

b) when you get that error , do you get any errors in the console (as it’s an MS thing, I supposee you have to press F12 and then click on console to see what it says – let me know if there’s anything that might throw a light on this).

c) also, check if you get anything in your debug log.

d) However, before you even do any of this, fix your errors.
you are mixing secure with nonsecure content (not always crucial, but certainly a good idea to fix) as well and have unclosed element tags (read invalid html, which can/could break a ton of things)

e) you also want to check your debug log. the PHP NOTICE errors are not that vital (and can be ignored for the time being ) however , your database errors are certainly not good (to say the least).
(i did notice that there are some wppizza notices in there too. although – as mentioned – notices are pretty inconsequential, i will fix those too (provided they are not caused by something else of course)

as for everything else, i believe I already addressed this above
20 February, 2015 at 2:10 pm #7999
maherali
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d) However, before you even do any of this, fix your errors.
you are mixing secure with nonsecure content (not always crucial, but certainly a good idea to fix) as well and have unclosed element tags (read invalid html, which can/could break a ton of things)

The secure/unsecure shouldn’t cause any problems (it is just images I haven’t changed the url for yet). But it maybe the open tags this causes a lot of errors on this theme for some reason – I thought I fixed them all how can I find which tags I haven’t closed Olly?

If you ever decide to have the option for pickup i’d suggest maybe a button to pickup and on the dropdown the postal areas only – I believe this maybe more obvious (just personal preference and make the choice completely idiot proof as some may not look for ‘I will collect’ in a list of postcodes/towns).
20 February, 2015 at 2:30 pm #8001
Olly
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> i’d suggest maybe a button to pickup and on the dropdown the postal areas only – I believe this maybe more obvious

that was my idea too 🙂
20 February, 2015 at 4:36 pm #8005
maherali
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The problem seems to be intermittent. I will fix all the errors on my end just for arguments sake and we will see what to do next if it persists.
18 March, 2015 at 7:02 pm #8513
Olly
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fyi:
regarding option to select self-pickup on the popup.
i haven’t forgotten, just keep finding little things when adding and testing this that need fixing or could be better
19 March, 2015 at 12:11 pm #8524
maherali
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No problem i’m sure it’ll come in time.
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