It took a week, but access was finally granted. This will allow me to start doing client work. It a lot more phone calls in the morning to finally get everything I needed, as shortly after, I started getting requests for work to complete.
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It was bound to happen sooner or later, but the time has come for eBay complaints. I have had 3 items damaged. 1 was completely broken, but was less than $8, so it didn’t really break the band to issue the refund. The others were partially damaged. The plan for those is to offer a partial refund and let the buyers keep the items.
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The big disadvantage of premium plugins is they cannot automatically check for updates again the WordPress plugin repository. However, that can be overwritten to check updates against a different server. One of the improvements I would like to make to my version of the plugin is the ability to stay up to date without having to log in to an account somewhere, download the new version, and then manually upload to your site.
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Today I was mainly focused on getting the client work issues resolved. I dedicated the entire day to just work on that, and got nowhere. I am going in circles with no end in sight. On the plus side, I got a sale from one of my ecommerce sites. It’s the second time I sold something outside the United States. This one is going to the UK.
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eBay sales have picked up again. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day, so the mail won’t go out. Sunday has typically been a good day for sales, though.
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I finally had a chance to revisit the WordPress plugin. Still cleaning up my hacks, but I am looking at getting a license server in place to be able to track installs.
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Continuing with the client work issues from before. The good news is I was finally able to make connection to the first layer. That was at least enough to get me looking into some tasks, but still not enough for me to actually do what I was hired to do. Things are beginning to get escalated, though.
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I was pretty excited to find out the remaining conditions were finally met. However, shortly after I ran into issues and couldn’t do any work. The vendor relations person is new, joining at the tail end of my last stint there. That, combined with the fact that I am not actually new, but a returning vendor, makes this whole process even more complicated.
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Today I have good news and bad news. The good news is after the decline of eBay sales down to zero, I finally got sales again. I even got a few sales from my sites to avoid the eBay fees! The bad news I ran into some client issues.
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So I have been looking into the white label WordPress plugin from before. I quickly started hacking it up to see how it worked and was able to get it integrated with my current setup.
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