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Hmmmm. I do see an improvement in the overall load time of category pages. I notice a boost in loading of product pages, especially in the server response time or time till first byte. Which can be critical during peak times. For a site as large as mine, it's a huge plus. What about areas of the site where cookies are required in order to function? And the EU cookie law?

I agree @big_goals. Getting them there the first time and converting into buyers is the challenge.

Hello all, I received an email from Brian Dean and he gives insight on RankBrain. It's a top 3 ranking signal and he announces the death of long-tail keywords. 🤔 Please take a read. https://backlinko.com/google-rankbrain-seo. Comment your thoughts.

No. I never had the chance to get back to it. Search engines love crawling it though. Now on my to do list

@reflex-ocasion it works like a charm. @burt coded a nice module to handle my pile of categories that functions similar to this. Speaking of nice, I think OSCommerce needs a nice graphic artist for some cosmetic upgrade. I have to dress it up some to make it look nice. I have one more question. What about manufacturers whose name start with a number? Thanks for your time you sacrificed away from your family

@burt also, I love the way small ideas spawn into something great. Hence, the Key System.

Yes it still suit my needs. I'm mostly intrigued by the functions of that simple code edit. Or shall I say curious?

Hello @justcatering, @burt is the one that facilitates the EDGE version. Alert him as soon as possible about this so he can look into it. I use the EDGE version and I am not aware of any security breaches but I've done 3 things for security Use a reputable webhosting company All pages using https protocol. Use a cloud server service such as Google Cloud or Cloudflare You may want to change all passwords that grant access to your server and change credentials in your configure files. I've had no problems with security in years since using EDGE version.

@reflex-ocasion The first piece of code was from an earlier version. I don't have the code of allmanufacturers.php from the earlier version. I have included the link to the older version in my original post above. Thank you for your quick reply.

Hello all, I'm using All Manufacturers for BS by @reflex-ocasion https://apps.oscommerce.com/clER0&all-manufacturers-bs. It's a great module to have for search engine crawling and user experience. A step further (for large stores with hundreds or thousands of brands) would be to arrange on the All Manufacturers page alphabetically like: A Animal Apple B Bakery Box It has been done by @amseek here: https://apps.oscommerce.com/00fKs&all-manufacturers but not adapted to BS version nor the Community Edition by @burt. I have the instructions and code for the All Manufacturers from 6 years ago OSC version 2.3.1: All Manufacturers Contribution v.1 for osCommerce 2.2 - Alpha-Split Layout Option (March 2012) -------------------------------- Created by Art Main OSC:amseek www.goldcoastdesign.org http://addons.oscommerce.com/profile/253123 Overview -------- This contribution adds an alphabetized list layout option to the all-manufacturers contribution. You can choose to control the number of columns to show (or let the program choose), the width of each column and the alignment (CSS text-align values) for each column. Please note: There are still a couple CSS quirks with regards to the borders and overall layout. I don't have the time to track these down, but just so you are aware. The Alpa-Split php and html are sound though. Thanks ------ Alex Kaiser (alex@pooliestudios.com) - original mod Installation ------------ 1. Install the All Manufacturers Contribution v.1 for osCommerce 2.2 (contrib page: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1685/v,22) if you don't already have it installed. 2. Apply the following changes below. 3. To enable, change the COLUMN_LISTING value to 'alpha-list'. ==================================== allmanufacturers.php: ------------------- find (app line 30): define('COLUMN_LISTING', 'false'); // added by azer change to false for columns listing ------------------- add after: //+CSS/Alpha-Split Layout Option $num_cols = 'auto'; //number of columns (int) or 'auto' (default is 'auto') $list_align = 'left'; //CSS 'text-align' values (default is 'left' for Alpha-Split layout, otherwise default is 'center') $col_width = 'auto'; //CSS 'width' values (if just a number, 'px' will be assumed). Default is '150px' //set to 'auto' for no set CSS width (Alpha-Split layout only) //-CSS/Alpha-Split Layout Option ------------------- find (app line 97 [line 186 if you have CSS Layout Option installed]): } else { // column ------------------- before add: //+Alpha-Split Layout Option } else if (COLUMN_LISTING=='alpha-split') { $manufacturer_name_query_start = "select manufacturers_id, manufacturers_name from " . TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " where manufacturers_name"; $manufacturer_name_query_end = " order by manufacturers_name"; $manufacturers_query = tep_db_query('select count(*) as count from ' . TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . ' order by manufacturers_name'); $item = tep_db_fetch_array($manufacturers_query); $num_manufacturers = $item["count"]; if (!(tep_not_null($num_cols) && is_int($num_cols))) { $num_cols = 5; } if ($num_manufacturers > 0) { $num_headings = 0; foreach (range('A', 'Z') as $letter) { $manufacturer_name_query = $manufacturer_name_query_start . " like '" . $letter . "%'" . $manufacturer_name_query_end; $manufacturer_name = tep_db_query($manufacturer_name_query); if (tep_db_num_rows($manufacturer_name) > 0) { $num_headings++; //adjust for letter headings while ($manufacturer = tep_db_fetch_array($manufacturer_name)) { $manufacturers_result[$letter][] = $manufacturer; } } } } if (tep_not_null($manufacturers_result)) { $column_itor = 0; $itor = 0; $num_per = ceil(($num_manufacturers + $num_headings) / $num_cols); foreach ($manufacturers_result as $letter => $manulist) { $itor++; foreach ($manulist as $index => $manuitem) { if ($letter == $curr_letter) { $itor++; $curr_letter = null; } if ($itor >= $num_per) { $curr_letter = $letter; $column_itor++; $itor = 0; } $manufacturers_list[$column_itor][$letter][] = $manuitem; $itor++; } } //set up user chosen params $pattern = '/^(\d+)(in|cm|mm|px|em|ex|pt|pc|px)?$/'; if (preg_match($pattern,$col_width,$matches)) { if (empty($matches[2])) { $col_width_text = 'width:' . $matches[1] . 'px;'; } } else if ($col_width != 'auto') { $col_width_text = 'width:150px;'; } if ($list_align != "center" && $list_align != "right") { $list_align = "left"; } ?> <style type="text/css"> <!-- div.alpha_list_container ul { text-align:<?php echo $list_align; ?>; } div.alpha_list_container ul li { <?php echo $col_width_text; ?> overflow:hidden; } --> </style> <div id="manufacturers_list_container" class="alpha_list_container"> <?php foreach ($manufacturers_list as $column) { ?> <div class="multicolumn_list"> <?php foreach ($column as $letter => $manu_list) { ?> <ul class="alpha_list"> <li class="manufacturer_letter"><?php echo $letter; ?></li> <?php foreach ($manu_list as $manufacturers) { echo '<li>' . "\n" . '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'manufacturers_id=' . $manufacturers['manufacturers_id'] . '=' . $manufacturers['manufacturers_name']) . '">'. $manufacturers['manufacturers_name'] . "<br />\n"; echo "</a>\n </li>\n"; } ?> </ul> <?php } ?> </div> <?php } ?> <div style="clear:left;"></div> </div> <?php } //-Alpha-Split Layout Option ==================================== stylesheet.css: ------------------- if you do not have the CSS Layout Option installed add: /* multicolumn_list */ div#manufacturers_list_container { float:left; } div#manufacturers_list_container ul { margin:0; padding:0; list-style:none; } div.multicolumn_list { float:left; } ------------------- find (within the CSS Layout Option css shown above): div.multicolumn_list { float:left; } ------------------- change to: div.multicolumn_list { border: 0px solid #d9d9da; float:left; } ------------------- add: div.alpha_list_container { border: 0px solid #d9d9da; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; } ul.alpha_list { font-size: .7em; border: 0px solid #d9d9da; border-left-width: 1px; } ul.alpha_list li a { display:block; border: 0px solid #ffffff; border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; } ul.alpha_list li a:hover { border-color:#d9d9da; text-decoration:none; } li.manufacturer_letter { font-weight:bold; background:#D7E9F7; border: 0px solid #d9d9da; border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; } I know page splitting is probably done much differently in BS. So I've included the code for reflex-ocasion's All Manufacturer's page: <?php /* $Id$ osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions http://www.oscommerce.com Copyright (c) 2017 osCommerce Released under the GNU General Public License */ require('includes/application_top.php'); require('includes/languages/' . $language . '/allmanufacturers.php'); $breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE, tep_href_link('allmanufacturers.php')); require('includes/template_top.php'); ?> <div class="page-header"> <h1><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></h1> </div> <div class="contentContainer"> <div class="contentText"> <?php $manufacturers_query = tep_db_query("select manufacturers_name, manufacturers_id, manufacturers_image from manufacturers order by manufacturers_name" ); $manufacturers = tep_db_num_rows($manufacturers_query); while ($manufacturers = tep_db_fetch_array($manufacturers_query)) { ?> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-4" itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> <div class="thumbnail equal-height"> <?php echo ' <p class="text-center"><a href="' . tep_href_link('index.php', 'manufacturers_id=' . $manufacturers['manufacturers_id'] . '=' . $manufacturers['manufacturers_name']) . '">'. $manufacturers['manufacturers_name']; echo ' <br /> '; echo tep_image('images/' . $manufacturers['manufacturers_image'], $manufacturers['manufacturers_name']) . '</a></p>'; ?> </div> </div> <?php } ?> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="buttonSet"> <div class="text-right"><?php echo tep_draw_button(IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE, 'fa fa-angle-right', tep_href_link('index.php')); ?></div> </div> </div> <?php require('includes/template_bottom.php'); require('includes/application_bottom.php'); ?> I'm not a coder so I have no clue where to begin. Any input/advice @MrPhil @kymation @frankl @wHiTeHaT will be appreciated. Do you think this would be ideal for core code?

@burt from what I read a customer makes a purchase from a site. Days later TrustPilot sends the customer an email asking to review product. If customer opt-in to write a review, TrustPilot attributes the review to the product and not the website the product was bought from. The review is shown across all TP affiliated sites that sell that product.

@burt I believe the module works but it could be the approach of the site owner. Like myself, in fragrances it should be easy to get reviews, but I don't aggressively pursue them as I should. You got services like TrustPilot that does all the work. But your competitor could have the same review for the same product. I noticed that while Googling the other day. Avid shoppers will notice that almost immediately. The content isn't unique but it's rumored to boost conversions and traffic. I guess it's some kind of structured data markup to let the search engines know that it's syndicated content. Reviews build trust with new shoppers. I would like to use the other site's reviews as a placeholder while I build my own collection. In my view it would be "What our customers are saying..." and if you're still not sure here's "What other reviewers on [external site] are saying..." Just as @frankl stated you can display reviews from Amazon but we know that will come at a cost, loss of sales.

@clustersolutions great points. I'm gonna put forth an effort to get customers to leave reviews. Especially, the area of my site where I need to prove authenticity of the products. I use Gary's Key system. But not as aggressively as I should. I got 2 more reviews last night and I submitted them to Google. If I can get the reviews built up to over 100 then I'll be in good shape.

@clustersolutions @MrPhil @frankl I just discovered that a lot of sites in my industry use a review syndication called Trust Pilot. Several sites that compete against each other use that company. I noticed it when different websites had the same rating, same amount of reviews for the same product. I know Google love reviews but I don't know of the ranking or traffic impact it has.

Yes, I've doe it by using that module, didn't get much action.