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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Google Merchant Product Feed] 5 products you can’t chooseHi there,
thanks for your comment.
The Free version is meant as a ‘taster’ and offers limited functionality. The paid for version allows you to select any product from your inventory. Also, the banner is removed in the paid for version 😉
Cheers
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Merchant Product Feed] Can’t view feedCool, glad that’s now working.
Let me know if you have any other issues.
Cheers,
Nick
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Merchant Product Feed] Two errors breaking pluginHi there,
sorry for the (long) delay in replying to your post.
I’ve made an update to the plugin which should fix those 2 bugs.
I’ll be making more regular updates so if you spot anything else let me know.
Cheers,
Nick
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: query_posts() helpThere can be a few posts with the same packageID (so 4 posts with packageID = 1, 6 posts with packageID = 2 and 8 posts with packageID = 3)
No, I don’t think pagination is necessary.
Is there a way to get the SQL statement that the query_posts() function generates? I could then use this and amend it to create my own
Thanks for your help 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: query_posts() helpHi there,
thanks for the suggestion but no luck unfortunately.
Yep, packageID is a meta_key with a value of 1,2 or 3.
I need the posts to display with packageID’s 3 first, followed by 2 and finally 1. Within these groups of 3,2 and 1 I need the posts to be random.
It nearly works but is showing them in the wrong order (packageID 1, 2 and then 3) and the order=DESC doesn’t have any affect
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to use slug within a plugin?If I were to use Custom Post Types then could I store the additional data in it’s own table rather than use wp_postmeta?
For example a product might have the following attributes associated with it: size, brand, weight etc,
With custom post types it’s normal to store this additional data in the wp_postmeta table with a reference to the wp_post id. I would rather keep this data separate from the wp_postmeta. Is this possible? How would I add the additional fields to the admin panel and save them in a table other than wp_postmeta?
Thanks for your help
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to use slug within a plugin?I was planning on storing the url as a slug in the database so each product would have a unique slug.
I was then going to check the URL to see if this matched with a slug from the products table and if so load the associated product.
eg http://www.mysite.com/products/small-box-of-chocolates
this would then match with a slug in the products table small-box-of-chocolates.
At this point I could load a template within the theme directory which would contain code to look up the relevant product (with slug small-box-of-chocolates) and display it’s data.
Can I use pre_get_posts() to do this? If there’s a match between URL and a product slug then I need to to load the product.php template file located in the theme directory
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to use slug within a plugin?Hi there,
yeah, products.php would be a theme template that is loaded if the url/slug refers to a product type (rather than a post). Within this product template I could then pull the specific product information from the product table.
Cheers,
Nick
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to use slug within a plugin?I basically want it to store products in a database. There will be a table for products, one for categories and one to associate products with one or more categories.
There will be a function within the plugin to list categories. Clicking a category will list it’s products and clicking a product will show it’s details.
The only thing I’m struggling with is, when a product is clicked, getting the url and comparing it with the slug of a product. It will then load a product template and load the product details.
I guess I’m asking, at what point does wordpress get the url and determine whether it’s a page, post or whatever or whether to load 404.php. It’s at this point I can say ‘also check my table to see whether the url (slug part) belongs to a product. If so, load template product.php’
Cheers
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: How to use slug within a plugin?The main thing is the ability to read the url and use this to search the products table. If it finds a matching slug in the products table it will load a template. Within that template I could then display the product details based on the slug
Thanks 🙂