Variation image or parent image?
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Hello,
We have a lot of variable products like this one:
Chair 1 with images of the chair itself.
This chair has 80 different fabric options.
These fabric options are set as 80 product variations.
Each fabric variation has its own fabric image.On Facebook via your plugin the image of this chair is 1 of the fabric variation images and not the chair image itself set as the product image in Woocommerce.
When I go to Woocommerce and to this chair and to a variation, I can set in the Facebook Product sync settings form your plugin:
Facebook product image:
use variation image
use parent image
use custom image
https://docs.woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/facebook-for-woocommerce-variable-product-settings.pngIt is not clear to me what these options mean…
use variation image = the fabric image?
use parent image = chair image?
But when I select to use the parent image, does this mean the fabric image of that variation on Facebook, is replaced with the chair image?
Or the product image that is a fabric image that is wrongly displayed as the product image is now the chair image?
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Hello,
Thanks for your reply.The problem:
Variable Product: Chair 1
I go in Woocommerce to ‘Variations’
There are 80 variations of this 1 product
I click on a variation and I see at the ‘Facebook variant image ?’ section:
– Use variant image
– Use parent image
– Use custom image
By default, the setting is: Use variant image and this is right.But on Facebook this image of this whole variable product is set to one of the variant images.
So Facebook randomly picked one of the variant images.
If I go to that variant that Facebook picked, in Woocommerce and set that specific variant image to:
– Use parent image
Facebook just picks another variant image.Facebook does not pic the main ‘Product image’ set in Woocommerce:
Product imageSo where can I set this, so Facebook picks the ‘Product image’?
Hi @dwnl,
FaceBook will only use a single image for the product and would choose one of the variant images. It’s possibly best to set the image you’d like to display for the product as the main image in WooCommerce. Then set FaceBook to use the parent image of that product.
As a test, you could try deleting the synced Facebook product from the WooCommerce product admin in the Facebook metabox – then save the product to see if it syncs and the parent image then displays:
Image Link: https://cloudup.com/cinvVOhk3q6
Hello thanks for your reply.
You say:
It’s possibly best to set the image you’d like to display for the product as the main image in WooCommerce.
I haveThen set Facebook to use the parent image of that product.
I have more than 700 products… and a lot of them have 80 variations…
I have to open them all, one by one, and set the Facebook images to parent…
This is way too time-consuming and just not an option.Meanwhile, I uninstalled your plugin because of this and installed/bought the plugin:
WooCommerce Product Feed Manager PROWith the free version you can make a feed of 50 products for multiple merchant shops, and it has the solution to my problem:
You can configure the feed attributes and their values.So I can set:
– Add a variable parent product: Include/exclude an older variable product (YES)
– Include product variations: Include/exclude variants of products (NO)
– Main image (image link) to the main image of the product
– Product URL link to the parent product URL
– And add up to 10 additional imagesWith this feed I do get only the main images and not some random variation image
Maybe this is something you can add to your plugin.
But thanks for your help.
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