Some Bug Fixes I found for Template Monster templates

[patrioticflags]

I purchased my template from Zen Cart Skins because they sell a bunch of the same ones for $118 instead of $140. However, using the live preview on Monster Template, I can verify that these same two bugs are universal in Monster Templates Zen Cart Templates.

First, if you buy one, you should pretty much plan of uploading all the test/stock graphics and sql patches. The instructions you get are terrible. I went through all the instructions and my template was only about 25% set up.

I have found three bugs. Two are pretty serious ones that I have fixed.

First. Large numbers of their templates with defeat your SSL certificate on Firefox. The header files are pulling fonts of a google server. This causes Firefox to deny a padlock icon and say the site is only partially encrypted.

In your header file, you will probably find something like this:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:500' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

change to this:

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:500' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

The second bug involve the jquery lightbox plugin:

While I was trying to figure out how to fix this, i looked at a lot of live previews of templates. Shockingly they are selling large numbers of templates with jquery lightbox with a major bug. The template comes with the script and the css, but is missing a pack of images.

In Firefox the images just do not come up. So you don't actually know anything is missing. In Chrome you get broken link icons and it looks like crap. To fix this I had to download the jquery lightbox .5 program. I just googled it to find it. Create a folder root/includes/images/lightbox

Place the images in this folder.

There is still another issue I have not resolved. In the live previews of templates with lightbox, it shows a magnifying glass icon in the bottom left corner of the images. This never shows up for me on my own server.

Social Media bug.

Many of the templates come with a social media icons mysql patch. In the instruction, you are told that the patch will add a menu item in configuration to get a control panel for the social media icons. I have tried this on two installations of Zen Cart. It adds the icons to Zen Cart, but you do not have a control panel. To turn icons on or off you have to use phpmyadmin. Also, the way the social media icons/links are set up is pretty half ######. You get a full fledged interactive google plus button, but none of the other buttons are interactive. I will probably end deleting their whole social media plugin and just coding my own buttons. That way I can get the type of buttons I want.

[stevesh]

Thanks for helping, but what I took away from your post is: "Never, never buy Template Monster templates from anyone."

[patrioticflags]

Thanks for helping, but what I took away from your post is: "Never, never buy Template Monster templates from anyone."

It is pretty weak, that they have the same two flaws (not counting ones I haven't discovered yet) that are repeated over and over throughout their templates.

The big joke is they want you to "buyout" a template for like $4,000. They will stop selling it. Most of the templates they sell, they have ten different ones that are all slight variations of each other. Some may be 100% identical except for different colors in the CSS. There are also all these sister sites selling the same templates. Even if the template is pulled from the sister site, they will still be selling templates that are almost the same.

The one I liked the best is only available in open cart. I e-mailed asking if it would be available in other formats in the future. They wrote back that they would gladly convert it for $500 extra. I thought to myself, so i pay $640, then they turn around and offer it to all future buyers for $140 (or $118 or $125 on sister sites).

Zen Cart Skins, which sells them for $118 has no support whatsoever. They say free support, but all you get is a form and no one ever responds.

[TemplateMonster]

I purchased my template from Zen Cart Skins because they sell a bunch of the same ones for $118 instead of $140. However, using the live preview on Monster Template, I can verify that these same two bugs are universal in Monster Templates Zen Cart Templates.

Hey Patrioticflags!
Could you please specify the website URL where you bought a Zen cart template and its number?
Thanks for describing the issues you've found. I'm going to send it to our Support team. But have you contacted them before or created a ticket with the bugs?

The one I liked the best is only available in open cart. I e-mailed asking if it would be available in other formats in the future. They wrote back that they would gladly convert it for $500 extra. I thought to myself, so i pay $640, then they turn around and offer it to all future buyers for $140 (or $118 or $125 on sister sites).

Concerning the template customization, you probably talked to TemplateTuning, as they are our only partner who provides any customization at all. And if you order customization at TemplateTuning, your customized design (you paid for) will never be re-sold, there will be no future buyers!

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