Plugin Author
Brecht
(@brechtvds)
Hi Patrick,
It’s possible to link to any external site.
I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to achieve specifically. Can you give me an example?
Hi,
I would like to show a preview from the product link from my supplier into my own webshop.
Supplier doesnt give me all the info from his products, except a SKU and the price.
I’s easy to get get the product url from my supplier, so I can use that to show my customers more info related to the product itself my previewing the suppliers product link. Customers cannot order at my supplier, only dealers can. By showing their product with the perview link, customer can see an click the link for additional productinfo, but they can still order in my webshop.
Hope it clarifies things a bit. Thanks,
Regards,
Patrick.
Plugin Author
Brecht
(@brechtvds)
What our plugin does is basically show an image, title and description for a link, instead of having just a regular text link.
You have full control over that image, title and description and what you want to link to.
It’s still not clear to me what you’re trying to do exactly. But if you test Visual Link Preview you should see what it does and if that works for you.
Hi Brecht,
I’m getting there, I’m able to preview product links in the way like I want.
I’m using .csv files to import mu products. In these files the product url are available, is there a way to use them an import them? If we can work with a shortcode it should work I’ll guess?
Please let me know,
Thanks.
Patrick
Plugin Author
Brecht
(@brechtvds)
We do not have an import like that built into the plugin. If you’re able to manually generate the shortcode, you could do that: http://help.bootstrapped.ventures/article/262-manually-construct-the-vlp-shortcode
Hi,
Tried the shortcodes, I got an example URL: https://nl.sparex.com/kruisstuk-30-2-x-92mm-standaard-uitvoering-2449.html
Any suggestions on how to generate shortcode for this?
Plugin Author
Brecht
(@brechtvds)
Is it not working as in the documentation? What example did you try?
Take note that you need to manually fill in the title and summary. It’s not possible to automatically retrieve the details when manually constructing the shortcode.
So something like this should work:
[visual-link-preview type="external" url="https://nl.sparex.com/kruisstuk-30-2-x-92mm-standaard-uitvoering-2449.html" title="Kruisstuk - 30.2 x 92mm" summary="Series: AW22/W220, AB6/A6" image_id="-1" image_url="https://75025d40dd58ab042ef4-3509ef0b9210fbf84c18b36ced24de7a.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/imagelibrary_lrg/2449_pic1.jpg"]
Hi,
That one works, thanks. is there a possibility to change the lauout/template to the spotlight one. Through coding?
Please let me know,
Thanks,
Patrick
Plugin Author
Brecht
(@brechtvds)
Adding template="spotlight" or any other template slug should work.
