"...by the end of 2019" lol I really hope they will do it, but for now on I just can't wait and count on Woo integration except for small sites.
@Mar I can understand your frustration and yes the statement about Woo version is really misleading for sure and I think they should really state that explicitly for all new users with a clear warning for now on. If I knew that before I would never have made the switch at that time.
I think it's more an underlying problem with the Wordpress platform in general than just Alidropship development issues. There is too many dependencies and factors here. I can't count the number of times I had to contact any other plugin developer's team to fix issues for something I bought that doesn't exactly work as advertised just because WordPress or Woocommerce did an important update, that's the game sadly.
Also, I don't think the Alidropship team expected all these issues too, sadly it's also part of their growth strategy as a company, I just hope they will continue to improve on all fronts and innovate for their users. Many time they listen and implemented long-awaited suggestions. And surely their time objective is not aligned with ours (woo users) yet.
I almost lost a whole year to fix all the issues I had on my Woo store until August when I had these CPU spikes as described in this thread. Not necessarily due to last Woocommece update but more to the fact I had almost 1000 products with lots of variations. And even with an 8 Go RAM Vultr server, the result wasn't satisfying after months of hard work. Depression was a "light" word to describe the mood I was in at that time.
So yes it's infuriating, to say the least, and we are many in that case. But I just can't blame the developers here, nor ourselves either (which is even more infuriating).
IMHO, Ali Woo plugin development shouldn't stop, just the time Woocommerce does the necessary fixes.
But until then, I think I will try the original flagship version. I need reliability above anything else.
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@Yaros I will ask for one request even not the right channel:
- Let's say some of us goes back to Alidropship original
- Then Woocommerce made their changes and we choose to go back to it.
Could it be possible to allow a local development license provided the original license, so when it comes we only have to upload our woo backup version?
Let's say a same license valid for 1 live site and 1 local with the same domain (still within ioncube encryption).
To be able to encrypt license to be to tied to the domain name only, not necessarily a real live domain.
Like in MAMP PRO i can fake a domain name like mysite.com not tied to any DNS and use the same license for the real live domain.
Even more now this seems to me a necessity, for development, backup, versioning etc... and it lowers the cost when you pay for hosting for a site that is not live yet after weeks/months of development.
Also when a site grow to much and needs cleaning so you can do it locally then reup it once done.
I know this has been already discussed and answered here but this should be allowed as long as it doesn't impact your sales and intellectual property. If technically possible I don't see any reason not to do it.
Last, do you think it could be an option to contact Woocommerce team about these developments and maybe team up on this front? (I'm just suggesting, I don't really how it could be done obviously). I saw a commit 7 days ago on the github repo about this, hope they will do it eventually).
