“IF they are there and you publish the site despite this warning, you should be fine.”
Yeah, except I need to be able to see the items as I’m building the page, not the “WIX Stores Undefined” notice. The cache dump restored the ones on the page I’m currently working on, but replaced ones on other pages with foreign, unwanted collections, which I’m going to have to rebuild.
All I want at this point is to get the site to a place where the client is ok with it, so I can begin rebuilding, coding from scratch. I chose WIX because the hype claimed it was a user-friendly environment, and my client wants to manage parts of the site himself. As a developer for the past 25 years, I can tell you this is NOT a user-friendly environment. What is is, is an abysmal mess. The interface is so slow, it takes anywhere from 5-30 seconds for a change to take effect, and that’s just for starters. Last week I needed a superscript “TM” after a product name, something we’d normally do with a superscript tag, but there’s no such option in WIX. For as many sites in WIX that have trademarked product names, there’s no ready way to insert a simple superscript TM. I was advised in the forum to cut-and-paste one from an outside site. That tells me everything I need to know: that this is an environment best suited for non-developers, those who have no reference point to know just how confined, limiting and inefficient it is, people whose ambitions are small enough to fit into its dismally meager constraints.
I have to go and rebuild now, bracing myself for the next costly bit of nonsense I’m sure is just around the corner.
At any rate, thanks for getting back to me on this. Can’t wait to be anywhere else.