Hi,
Just completing a CC site, if anybody can lend a hand with error checking. (or other helpful suggestions)
Know errors
http:// font link in head (looking for that now)
Add to cat button disappears on hover (not good)
dearsanta.ie/ds-20
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I canāt believe Christmas is already around the corner! Awesome that you built this on ClassicPress and Classic Commerce. I took it for a spin and have some points of feedback. 
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Love, love, love the stencil-y font for this application.
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On the homepage, I like the different typography. It could benefit from some whitespace between the text and image elements.
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The nav bar could use some tweaks. Iād make it make it 2x taller and remove the ātabsā look of itā¦ and instead color the whole background of the active item (full height of bar). Or, if you wanted to keep the tabs look, maybe remove the red background on the bar to make is seem a bit airierā¦though, in that case, Iād still make the tabs bigger and more padded.
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The drop-down menus donāt match the design. Mostly, itās the rounded cornersā¦but, the background color could also use some cheering up. The background color of the mobile menu is different than this oneā¦and perhaps a bit severe. Iād find a more integrated color and use for both menu backgrounds.
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The Countdown to Christmas widget counters are a bit too close together and could benefit from a bit of whitespace between the counters. The way they flew into place didnāt feel like a benefit.
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In the footer, you have Returns, Refunds, and Complaints. The capitalization doesnāt match the other menus here and itās too long (wide). Iād recommend chopping it a bit to Returns, Refunds & Complaints [or simply] Returns / Refunds / Complaints. Or, better yet, Returns / Refunds / Support.
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The blue bar at the bottom for the cookies noteā¦ the texts are not on the actual buttonsā¦unless you hover the buttonā¦then the text jumps onto it.
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The contact form page is rendering a raw shortcode instead of a contact form.
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The āLike us on Facebookā widget requests a like on Facebook without providing a link to your Facebook.
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On the example letters, it just says āDearā and then goes right into the letter. Maybe add in a line for clarity that a name will be going there, like, āDear _________________,ā ā¦and finish off each example with āLove, Santaā to be clear that the letter wonāt be coming from some random elf provided by a temp agency.
Overall,ā¦ pretty cool site! 
For the most part, Iād put a little more work into the navigation bar and menu ā¦and fluff everything out with some whitespace to improve the aesthetic.
Disclaimer: Iām not a designer and my feelings wonāt be hurt if you toss these suggestions in the bin.
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Thank you for the feed back.
Re your disclaimer. Iām not a designer either so takes lots of iterations to get things looking even half right
Re contact us I usually use CF7 on WP sites but does not work on this, so will install an alternative
Iāl edit footer menu
FaceBook link added
Unly just added cookie notice css problem
Drop down in main menu is only for me to find pages without placing an order each time now removed
Iāll change complaint to āsupportā in footer menu
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Letter texts edited as per suggestion
Iām getting a blocked Google font:
Mixed Content: The page at āhttps://dearsanta.ie/ds-20/shop/ā was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure stylesheet āhttp://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Alegreya&subset=latin&ver=cp_ca570ce6ā. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
Also you might want to read this:
I think you need to be looking at 16px font.
Yes I mentioned font problem in opening post. Once I find what is adding link in header I will change it to to https
I wasnāt talking about this. I meant the overall body text font-size. For me it is too small and hard to read.
I have increased body and menu font by 2px is that any better?
I am seeing 15px now (so increase of 1px).
The trick is donāt use px for font size.
If you use html {font-size: 100%} then whatever the user has chosen in the browser settings will be the base font size. From there, use em and donāt change much, since the browser has good defaults.
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I have swapped many of font sizes in to a % hopefully they are the right size now. I still have a few to do.
Regarding layout and fields on the product pages I have added filters and actions into the child themeās function file. Is that where they should be or have I erred on the nominal location.
Previously custom emails to customer etc I put in a folder called emails in a folder woocommerce in the child theme is that the correct place for them?
If I edit templates>cart>cart-shipping.php
Where do I save, so I can use, my edited version, and not have it over written in an update
Thatās one way to do it and works fine. The only problem is that you are getting plugin and theme functionality all jumbled together, so if you ever change your theme you will need to sort that out. I prefer to use a small plugin for CC mods. There are more details here with a sample you can download. How to add code snippets to Classic Commerce ā Classic Commerce
That will work, and it will also work if you put them into a folder called classic-commerce.
https://classiccommerce.cc/docs/installation-and-setup/template-structure/
But, again, you can also add these through a plugin to keep everthing separate from the themeā¦
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It appears I have some reading to do
If you put that into themes/yourtheme/classic-commerce/cart/cart-shipping.php it wonāt be over-written on update.
Yes, but very easy to read. 
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Ok Iāll put there. That puts it in the theme folder. Previous advice was use a plugin
Client happy so site now live 
Iāll move āfunctionsā stuff to a plugin and see how I go from there.
Thank you for the very quick response
You can do either. The theme option is prob simpler.
Thank you for using CC.
If any one has kiddies and wants a āSantaā letter use discount code cp2020 to get letters for ā¬5 + ā¬1.95 p&p
Link to the site
https://dearsanta.ie
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Progress report.
In case anyone is curious how the site is doing. Running reasonably well so far with well over 200 orders.
Occasional glitches only,
Order confirmation emails not always sent. (I am assuming this, as if I change order to pending and then back to processing the site resends and customer then gets the email)
Occasional non acceptance of coupon codes, does happen but in most instances it is likely to be due to customer error. I.e order two letters on one order but with one incorrect code when customer tries again code wonāt be accepted. Possibly due to a cache
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