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Can we talk about setting up a payment gateway for a new client?
Had a client in Chicago who needed Stripe set up with their custom booking system. Thought it would be a quick hour, but their old site code was a mess and it took me two full days to sort it out. Anyone else get stuck on something that should have been simple?
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blake_owens20d ago
Man, I feel that. I once spent a whole afternoon trying to add a simple contact form because the existing theme had three different jQuery files all fighting each other. It was a nightmare lol.
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faithpatel20d ago
Oh man, @blake_owens, "three different jQuery files fighting" is the perfect way to put it. I've had that exact same fight with a theme before.
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sanchez.julia20d ago
Took a hammer to that problem last year. Ended up just ripping out all the theme's jQuery and loading a single clean version from a CDN. Had to rewrite a couple of the form handlers, but at least they stopped fighting. Sometimes you just gotta start over with the basics.
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garcia.mila20d ago
That Chicago project sounds exactly like my last Stripe setup. I spent a whole day just trying to find where the old form data was even being sent. It's always the "quick" jobs that turn into a huge mess.
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