| Some quick feedback: * The website is slow in general * These links gives 404: https://greytontourism.com/directory-categories/food-drink/ https://greytontourism.com/directory-categories/retail/ * A link to the Admin dashboard is visible on some pages * Your e-mail doesn't have a mailto link * Your telephone doesn't have a tel link * Your address doesn't have a map link * Your search interface is very heavy * The calendar for booking any accommodation is extremely slow and cumbersome. You will loose many of your potential bookings because of this. Always make it as easy as you possibly can for customers to spend their money. Don't get in their way. * The green on white text is hard to read The website design is nice and friendly, and inspires confidence. It seems like a nice town to visit! WordPress is not a good platform for your goals, you will probably be better served by a normal HTML/CSS page and using Surreal CMS or similar for day-to-day updates. Good luck! |
wrt choosing Wordpress - it certainly does have a lot of drawbacks like you mention, our reasons for going with it:
1. There are about 10 web designers in our town, they all use Wordpres...Wordpress runs just about every small -= medium site in South Africa, so if I fall under a bus theres someone to pick up the (website) pieces
2. We had a very broad set of requirements - event ticketing with seating plans, accommodation booking with calendars, payment processing, members directory with subscription and free options. Since this was very much an 'after-hours' project we needed fairly plug-and-play functionality.
3. Low budget for hosting - this site needed to run on a shared server that already had PHP / MySQL
But thanks again for the tips, I will review them with the team and I'm sure we can get most sorted! (the broken links were Wordpress permalinks misbehaving...oops)
Regarding speed - we have done a fair bit of optimizing Litespeed cache and reducing the unnecessary scripts that get loaded but yea its still slower than we would like. Also since we are not using a CDN, if you are far from South Africa latency will be a big issue.
All the best & greetings from Greyton!