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DEMO Templates not work.

I registered yesterday. Today I wanted to watch the demos. May I ask why none of the provided template demos work? Instead, I'm always redirected to the homepage in an endless loop and asked to log in again. At the beginning of my experience with your group, things don't look very good...

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Sunday, February 25 2024, 06:42 PM - #Permalink
Hello Riccardo,

Thank you for respecting our decision.

I have never said that the problem does not exist.
It clearly exists but in my opinion it is not a problem but a false positive.
Since we do not collect any user data (passwords, credit cards, addresses, whatever) we do not think that there is a need for an additional SSL certificate on the demo website.
In comparison, since we collect user data on our main website, we do have an SSL certificate.

Anyway, we might add an SSL certificate on the demo website as well.
But please do not consider this as a promise. It might happen in a couple of weeks but it might also never happen.
The tone of your comments is triggering and both sides (we as a company and you as a customer) can have a much better relationship without such comments:

May I ask why none of the provided template demos work?

At the beginning of my experience with your group, things don't look very good...


And your last comment pretty much says - "I'm pissed off, it's been a month and you still have not added an SSL certificate." (even though we have never said that we will).

I will tell this - we care about and respect each and every one of our customers and we do expect the same in return.

Thank you for the understanding and have a great evening.
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    Friday, January 26 2024, 11:24 AM - #Permalink
    Hello Riccardo,

    No other user has reported a similar issue recently.
    I checked our template demos and they seems to be working fine.

    It would be great if you could provide some more details (a short video uploaded on Youtube would be very helpful) so I can better understand the issue you experience.
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    Friday, January 26 2024, 11:49 AM - #Permalink
    Replace the absolute URL pointing to a third-level domain without a certificate with an internal link like you did in the following two links below and you'll see it works.
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    Friday, January 26 2024, 11:59 AM - #Permalink
    Replace the absolute URL pointing to a third-level domain without a certificate with an internal link like you did in the following two links below and you'll see it works.


    Not sure what internal links you are referring to and what are the "two links" that you mentioned, but I'm glad that it works.
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    Friday, January 26 2024, 12:53 PM - #Permalink
    Not sure what internal links you are referring to and what are the "two links" that you mentioned,

    Third level domain names without a certificate are blocked by most AVs such as BitDefender (in my case). They should be avoided.
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    Friday, January 26 2024, 06:06 PM - #Permalink
    Thank you for the details, Riccardo.
    This is the very first time that somebody brings this to our attention.
    We will see how we can improve this in the future.
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    Sunday, February 25 2024, 09:36 AM - #Permalink
    I wanted to take another look (after a month from my previous report!) at some demos of your templates (since I'm planning on installing one!) but I can't get any of them to work yet! I tried with all browsers but I can't open any of them and study it in function.

    Can you please provide me with an alternative link?
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    Sunday, February 25 2024, 05:44 PM - #Permalink
    Hello Riccardo,

    We evaluated the issue you reported, but since no other user has brought this to our attention, and since we really do not consider this to be any pain or a showstopper, we decided not to take any action.
    I am saying this so you do know that we have looked at the issue and so you know not to expect any change in the near future.
    If you check our demos in 6 months, I guess everything will be the same.

    Anyway, these are our demo sites, I hope they work for you:

    Template Demos
    Particle Demos

    If the above links are still being blocked by BitDefender, then please use Method 3 in this article to add an exception and whitelist the URLs.
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    Sunday, February 25 2024, 06:23 PM - #Permalink
    The problem you think doesn't exist is solved by disabling BitDefender web protection (like I imagine any other reputable antivirus that considers links to domain names as safe and navigable without a certificate and without https decryption).
    The fact that no one has reported this is not a good sign and the fact that this is not a problem for you raises further doubts in my mind.
    Of course, I respect your decision, which I personally disagree with (also from an SEO perspective), and will evaluate the templates in the next few days.
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    Wednesday, February 28 2024, 08:14 PM - #Permalink
    Hi Riccardo,

    We added an SSL certificate on the demo website as well.
    Please give it a try and let us know if you experience any issues. You might need to hard refresh the pages (CTRL + F5 on Windows).

    Thank you for this suggestion. It does improve the visitor experience.
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    Thursday, February 29 2024, 08:28 AM - #Permalink
    Windows 10 Home x64
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz 3.30 GHz

    Tested on IPv4 only!

    Chrome
    V.122.0.6261.95 (official build 64 bit)
    ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED

    Microsoft Edge
    V. 122.0.2365.59 (official build 64 bit)
    ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED

    Firefox
    V. 123.0 (64 bit)
    OK; WORKS!

    IPv6 does not work in Italy! Italy is at the bottom and the new standard was reached by only 13% of devices in 2023.
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    Saturday, March 02 2024, 03:11 PM - #Permalink
    Hi Riccardo,

    Thank you for the details.

    We had to revert all the work that we had done.
    After purchasing and installing two different certificates and after spending 2 days in constant contact with our Hosting provider it turned out that adding an SSL certificate to the "demo" subdomain will be a much trickier and time consuming task.
    I don't want to go into details, but long story short - if we want to add an SSL certificate to the subdomain as well, we would need to move to a completely new server, set all the things up again (there are some specifics for the PayPal payments), we would need to install and configure all our demo, etc.

    Anyway, the path we choose is to move our demos from demo.inspiretheme.com to inspiretheme.com/demo.
    That's how we can rely on our main domain/ssl only.

    I really cannot tell you when the migration will be completed.
    As you can see we do have the desire and we are willing to improve, but it turned out to be a much bigger task.

    Thank you for the understanding and stay tuned!
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    Saturday, March 02 2024, 05:32 PM - #Permalink
    Thanks for the update! I'm happy to read this and wish your team all the best in this work. I am sure that the SSL improvements you will get after this upgrade will significantly help you develop connections with customers and traffic from search engines. Happy weekend!
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    Sunday, March 03 2024, 10:55 AM - #Permalink
    Thank you very much, Riccardo!
    Have a great weekend :)
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