[Richard]

I have a collection with only 45 items in it but the page is taking ages to load, even timing out, as I can’t make collections have pages so it limits the amount of products on one page is there any other way of fixing this as it is a major issue for me.

[Timo]

Hi Richard,
the paging option is already a feature request and a good idea for displaying many items of a collection. 45 are quite a few and if they are not cached it’s a lot of work to do to display all of them (one request to Amazon for each).
At this time it is not a good practice to put 45 item in a collection if you want to display the whole collection on one page. The rendering load is just to much. Future versions will definitly focus on this issue. But for now I would recommend to split it into to several collections and several posts / pages and of course to use the cache.

[Richard]

Thanks for you reply timo, would it be possible to then consider pagetation in future versions for large collections.

Also when is the next update due out?

[Timo]

Pagetation will surely be a part of the future development of ASA. But at this time I can not say when this feature will be ready.

[Richard]

Are we talking weeks or months, I would happily pay if I knew it would help speed up development?

[Timo]

I guess months unfortunately. Some other developement are planned before that feature. Keep the money untill a Pro version will be available 😉

[Richard]

I will do, can I ask what is planned before then?

[Timo]

Sure. Next will come a minor bugfix release. I have fixed some minor bugs over the last weeks which should be available to the public.
Then I will start with redesigning the plugin code to make it fit for all the features to come (including pagination). I am already working on the new structure right now and very happy with it!