No one? Crickets?
Here's another perspective:
Kids and 20's don't use facebook or twitter. They use Instagram. Only old people use facebook or twitter, and the only reason these two companies stayed relevant was new users who "discovered" or "finally joined", then wasted the required year of their life on the app, then dropped out. Well, the supply of new users is drying up. Facebook and twitter stats are dwindling.
No one ever used linked-in to sell anything except a job.
Instagram and Pinterest are 'it' for the foreseeable future.
AbanteCart doesn't include the two pre-eminent social media platforms in the default social media setup. Ouch.
AbanteCart uses a powerful easyzoom image viewer that allows PC users to view closeup product images via hover. Yay!
Pinterest uses a powerful script to add "Pin It" or "Save" buttons to website images. Cool!
The scripts don't work together. Ouch.
The way Pinterest works: Web User A can visit your site and click the Pinterest Save button that you installed on your images, which adds your image to their own fluid Pinterest bulletin board. People do this as a sort of online status currency of "look what I found!", or as a reminder of "something I want", or as part of a Xmax List gigt board where they assemble 100 gift ideas and then choose from them.
Other pinterest users can and will see Web User A's "Pin" of your image while cruising around in pinterest looking for items in that general category. Many of them will re-pin it if your item is catchy. The pin always links back to your site.
Or Web User B, who is famous, can pin an image from your site, and everyone who follows User B will visit your site because User B said it's cool. Web User B can be famous because they are a movie star, or famous as being a finder of cool stuff on the web, etc.
These two features described above are the "free" and original features that made Pinterest the most important social media platform for ecommerce today. Because people actually do that stuff, and it works, and Pinterest is now huge.
You can also buy exposure on Pinterest, and there are a few other planks in it's marketing platform, but you get the idea.
In Abantecart, if you implement the Pinterest "Save" script in footer.tpl, it works!
It is so easy! Just copy a single line of code as the last line of footer.tpl.
Then all your mobile customers will see the Pinterest button when they tap your images.
And all your desktop customers will see your pinterest button when they hover over your images on your Category or Product List pages.
BUT, when they get to a Product page with the easyzoom window, they will see that your site is broken because easyzoom doesn't work with the Pinterest script.
This is not a huge surprise. Easyzoom is a script. The Pinterest button is a script. There are bound to be conflicts when 2 scripts are trying to run on the same element.
The purpose of my post is to point out that Abantecart does not work with the most important social media platform of the day.
That's a big sentence. It's powerful. Searchable.
Maybe someone with coding skills could evaluate the Pinterest script for potential inclusion into or coexistence with the easyzoom script.
Maybe an AC developer could evaluate AbanteCart compatibility with Pinterest, and then publish a formal position paper on the subject so that the Pinterest capabilities and techniques are know up front. If the solution is to disable easyzoom, then publish that fact so that AC users know how to proceed. Instead of sitting around here listening to crickets.
If the scripts can be combined or made compatible, then the AC platform would gain the distinction of being an e-commerce app that is able to operate with Pinterest [insert superman emoji here],
as opposed to its current status of "Yah, our software doesn't work with Pinterest. [doo doo face emoji here].
Thanks!