Has this been resolved yet?

Can @ben state what this shortcode really does. Does it create a link list of the current vendor’s? categories.

– Or –

it is suppose to show the current vendor’s products in a specified category?

I have not been able to see what this new shortcode outputs, even when I hardcode the vendor username and the product category. So, like tafmakura above, I am asking what, exactly, does this shortcode do?

I already have written a lot of custom code for the shop headers to extract additional information from the vendor profile for things like business address, a map to their location, and social media connections. On registration, this is gathered through a lengthy Gravity Form and, when on product archives (default template) or single product pages, this vendor header shows.

My goal is to add a list of product categories in which this vendor has listed products for sale, with counts, similar to a shop page at Etsy. I want this information in the shop header.

That code is:
$vendor_shop = urldecode( get_query_var( ‘vendor_shop’ ) );
$vendor_id = WCV_Vendors::get_vendor_id( $vendor_shop );
$key1 = ‘pv_shop_name’;
$key2 = ‘pv_shop_description’;
$single = true;
$shop_name = get_user_meta( $vendor_id, $key1, $single );
$shop_description = get_user_meta( $vendor_id, $key2, $single );
$products = get_posts( array(‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘author’ => $vendor_id) );
if ( $vendor_id ) {
echo ‘<div class=”wcv-wrap”>’;
echo ‘<div class=”vm-max-1160″>’;
echo ‘<h1>’ . $shop_name . ‘</h1>’;
echo ‘</div><!–end vm-max-1160–>’;
echo ‘<hr>’;
echo ‘<div class=”clear”>’;
echo ‘</div><!–end clear–>’;
echo ‘<div class=”vm-max-1160″>’;
echo ‘<div class=”wcv-shop-description one-third first”>’;
echo wpautop( $shop_description );
echo ‘</div><!– end wcv-shop-description one-third first–>’;
echo ‘<div class=”one-third”>’;
get_sidebar( ‘VendorShop’ );
echo ‘</div><!–end one-third–>’;
echo ‘<div class=”one-third last”>’;
get_sidebar( ‘VendorBlock’ );
echo ‘</div><!–end one-third–>’;
echo ‘<div class=”clear”>’;
echo ‘</div><!– end clear –>’;

/* Experimental Code to List WooCommerce Categories*/
echo ‘<h4>All categories in our shop:</h4>’;
get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘product-vendor-cat-list’ );
echo ‘</div><!–end vm-max-1160–>’;
echo ‘</div><!–End wcv-wrap–>’;

My code is working perfectly in product archives and on single products.

This code is what is in the content-product-vendor-cat-list and it does produce a list of categories with item counts where I’ve placed it in the vendor header, albeit not yet styled for final release:
/* List WooCommerce product Categories
Ref links:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms
*/
$args = array(
‘number’ => $number,
‘orderby’ => $orderby,
‘order’ => $order,
‘hide_empty’ => 1,
‘include’ => $ids,
‘fields’ => ‘all’,
‘exclude’ => array (’26’)
);

$product_categories = get_terms( ‘product_cat’, $args );

$count = count($product_categories);
if ( $count > 0 ){
echo “

“;
foreach ( $product_categories as $product_category ) {
$product_category_count = $product_category->count;
$product_category_name = $product_category->id;
//if ( ( !$product_category_count == 0 ) )
echo ‘
• ‘ . $product_category->name . ‘ (‘ . $product_category_count . ‘)

‘;

}
echo “

“;
}

I quickly realized that, when a visitor/shopper clicked one of those links, they would be taken to a category archive listing ALL products in that category and not be held captive them at the Vendor’s shop. So, as it stands, it will not do what is desired by my client.

After that realization, I hit the search engines and found this thread. In hopes that it would save me some head banging, I implemented the new shortcode in your plugin by replacing the existing code in classes/includes/class-wcv-shortcodes.php with the raw code at Github.

Your new shortcode seems to call for a Vendor Name and seems to require the shop category. When I could not see any output from it in the vendor header, I took this code onto a page and pasted the shortcode there, and published.

[wcv_vendorslist vendor=”ScooterGuy” category=”home-goods”]

The resulting page is blank …

This function is declared in your plugin’s classes/class-vendor.php and it seems like it would assist me in accomplishing the desired goal but it looks like it would only work once a single product is identified in the loop.

public static function get_vendor_from_product( $product_id )
{
// Make sure we are returning an author for products or product variations only
if ( ‘product’ === get_post_type( $product_id ) || ‘product_variation’ === get_post_type( $product_id ) ) {
$parent = get_post_ancestors( $product_id );
if ( $parent ) $product_id = $parent[ 0 ];
$post = get_post( $product_id );
$author = $post ? $post->post_author : 1;
$author = apply_filters( ‘pv_product_author’, $author, $product_id );
} else {
$author = -1;
}
return $author;
}

Perhaps, I’ve gone overboard in my write-up here but I wanted you to see every part of the puzzle so I could get a qualified response.

Thanks, in advance, for your attention.

Hey Ben,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I’ll lose the extra 2 lines of code, per your suggestion. Part of what is in my code now is from a subcontractor who threw their development over the wall on August 23, 2015, unfinished, and supplied no documentation about your plugin other than a reference to the fact that it was required. I was relieved to see that you folks supply good documentation for your plugin. Thank you for that. 🙂

I’ll try the method you’ve recommended just now in your reply and get back to you. I’ll return to let you know how that goes.

Please do tell me, does your new shortcode have to be within the loop to work? The archive-product.php template is already displaying only the products offered by the vendor whose shop is in the header.

Since my vendor header code executes above the loop, I’m not sure if I have to pre_get_posts and isolate the products posted by the shop vendor before I go after the terms and counts for items within those terms, which is all I want to display with the active link. I got this idea from looking at an Etsy shop.

Perhaps, I’m over-complicating this.

I just got a look at what this shortcode does.

http://screencast.com/t/tEBPAkal

That is not what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to list product categories for a specific vendor in the header of their shop archives and/or on their single products pages.

If your shortcode does not do this, I’ll quit messing around with it and focus on another way.

My preference, actually, would be to not use a shortcode to do this and that was the tack that I was on when I found this thread.

The idea is to keep visitors/shoppers inside a vendor shop when they get there, like this shop at etsy
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyBOWtique?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=&ref=sc_gallery_1

I do see a discussion topic in your form regarding WC Vendors Pro. It’s probably a big development and a good move for you folks.

I also see that there is no firm release date for your pro version. Is the functionality there yet? Do you want beta testers? 🙂

Hey Ben,

You sound excited and, while I don’t know you well and haven’t been here long, it seems that you should be. It is good to know that the Pro version is so near at hand.

Of course, with the level of coding effort that I’ve invested in creating a vendor header that displays in a 3-column layout including many custom user meta fields collected via a Gravity Form, switching over to a premium version of your plugin may present more problems than it solves so I would want to preview functionality on Xampp before rolling it into this development. If my client decides to buy the Pro version, I hope the fees associated with your new software allows usage for unlimited sites.

One thing I wanted to offer with regard to the topic of this thread is that the shortcode we’ve been discussing should offer an option to upload a profile image/logo for their shop rather than forcing the use of an Avatar from WordPress. At least this is my opinion.

So, will I need to have a separate license to use it on Xampp locally?