Hi,

Yes, it has been test and it doesn’t work correctly. We have made an update however and hopefully, it will be ready for download later today or tomorrow.

Best,
ThemeBurn team

Hi,

I confirm that Shoppica causes the slower response time of your site due to your heavy category structure. This problem appears only with too many nested categories and it seems your are the only one with so much categories (thousands) till now. That’s why we didn’t attempt to fix this edge-case issue for Shoppica 1.x. We can’t use the opencart cached categories when building our menu, because of the code limitations in opencart. A lot of code rewrite is required, which would cause hard times for most of the users when trying to upgrade.

The good news is that we did this for Shoppica 2.0. I can confirm, we have rewritten the category fetching logic and its a lot more faster now. The Shoppica 2.0 was about to be release in February but we have delayed the release for April in order to provide more features and more testing. I am pretty sure 2.0 will fix your performance issues. After the 2.0 release, we are going to build a list with the opencart plugins that are tested and 100% compatible with Shoppica 2.0.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
ThemeBurn team

Hi,

I have now upgraded my installation to the latest version of opencart and latest version of Shoppica, it has virtually killed my websites. I am still having major speed problems at http://www.footystuff.co.uk

u: demo
p: demo123

I also keep getting ‘Server Error’ messages.

Why is this the case?

I have now tried 3-4 versions of BOTH OpenCart and Shoppica. Why is it taking so long for someone to resolve this issue with nested category structures? It is fundamentally a basic requirement of e-commerce stores. Magento has no such problems and if I remove the Shoppica theme, the problems go away.

Please advise

Hi,

we already sent you an email on May 11, 2012 with an experimental shoppica cache plugin, which improves the site performance with large database a lot. We didn’t get any feedback from you though.
We want to inform you that the performance of Shoppica2 matches the default opencart performance very closely as we reduced the overhead to the best possible minimum. We did make tests with the sql dump you sent a while ago and the difference with the default opencart theme is minimal – the overhead Shoppica 2 adds is below 5%.

We sent you another email with updated cache extensions. Our tests show that performance gain from these extensions is significant – Shoppica 2 outperforms opencart with more than 30%. Please, try them with Shoppica 2 and send us a feedback.

Regards,
ThemeBurn team