- Mar 22, 2013
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I've had this Fiverr-clone type website for many years. It's a wordpress site.
The site has been dead for a while because paypal. Another issue I had recently is the my hosting provider removed older PHP versions, and this site doesn't work on newer PHP versions. I mean it works, but has many problems. My host returned the old PHP version for this site, but told me that eventually that will go away and they won't be able to run the site on the lower PHP version.
But the site has other problems too. Like I'm running it on really outdated wordpress version, and outdated plugins. And when I'm writing a post I can only do it in "html" form, can't switch the post editor to visual, etc.
Clearly, I need to make some change...
In essence, I always used this site to sell anything I can think of (ebooks, graphics, social media services, anything). It's not a real Fiverr clone, there aren't really sellers, it's all my services and all the sellers are me. In retrospect this may have been more trouble than worth, but I had some ideas years ago and I did it. But I don't wanna do that anymore. Like imagine the same person contacts 2 "sellers", and now I have to pretend it's different people replying to the messages. It's ridiculous, I never felt good about it.
So I'm thinking I'll just turn it into a shop. I'll continue to sell anything I want on it, but people will be buying the stuff from the site, not from individual sellers (which never existed anyway). I'm also thinking I'll keep it wordpress. And I don't need paypal in my life, so I'm thinking I'll just accept payments from all those payment processors that are cool (all crypto, perfectmoney, payeer, etc).
What do you guys think?
The site has been dead for a while because paypal. Another issue I had recently is the my hosting provider removed older PHP versions, and this site doesn't work on newer PHP versions. I mean it works, but has many problems. My host returned the old PHP version for this site, but told me that eventually that will go away and they won't be able to run the site on the lower PHP version.
But the site has other problems too. Like I'm running it on really outdated wordpress version, and outdated plugins. And when I'm writing a post I can only do it in "html" form, can't switch the post editor to visual, etc.
Clearly, I need to make some change...
In essence, I always used this site to sell anything I can think of (ebooks, graphics, social media services, anything). It's not a real Fiverr clone, there aren't really sellers, it's all my services and all the sellers are me. In retrospect this may have been more trouble than worth, but I had some ideas years ago and I did it. But I don't wanna do that anymore. Like imagine the same person contacts 2 "sellers", and now I have to pretend it's different people replying to the messages. It's ridiculous, I never felt good about it.
So I'm thinking I'll just turn it into a shop. I'll continue to sell anything I want on it, but people will be buying the stuff from the site, not from individual sellers (which never existed anyway). I'm also thinking I'll keep it wordpress. And I don't need paypal in my life, so I'm thinking I'll just accept payments from all those payment processors that are cool (all crypto, perfectmoney, payeer, etc).
What do you guys think?