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Hi Karen,
I’d definitely be up for helping to contribute towards the relevant development costs if they’re not *too* onerous, so do keep me in mind 🙂
Alex
alexstanhopeParticipantWell done, Karen!
Do keep us posted of any developments on that front; like you, I’d hugely welcome some kind of multi-currency functionality which would combine well with WCV Pro! Would be an enormously beneficial addition I reckon!
Alex
June 8, 2016 at 4:35 am in reply to: Thoughts, Woo Attrbutes or ACF? What should a marketplace do? #34260alexstanhopeParticipantHi Ben,
No worries! Don’t worry as I know the plug-in we’re talking about here wasn’t developed by you guys!
I must admit, ACF has totally rocked my WordPress world for the last 3 years (used to be a big proponent of the awesome WP Alchemy too before I found out about it), and if you haven’t tried it, do give it a go at some stage if you have the inclination to do so; to say it streamlines any kind of custom data-entry is pure understatement 🙂
Alex
June 7, 2016 at 10:01 am in reply to: Thoughts, Woo Attrbutes or ACF? What should a marketplace do? #34137alexstanhopeParticipantHi Ben and Derek,
Thanks so much for taking the time to put the plug-in together, and as a long-standing fan of ACF and having a need to add custom fields to the WCV Pro product entry form, I thought I’d give this a whirl once Ben very kindly sent me the files!
I’m running ACF Pro v5.3.8.1 (latest) and the latest versions of WCV and WCV Pro, but sadly, even though I’ve created a Filed Group for WooCommerce products, the fields aren’t appearing in the “Product Edit” form on the front-end, so vendors cannot add the information. I can see the div with the id of “poststuff” that the plug-in adds, but it’s empty!
Any idea what I’m doing wrong, or is the plug-in not compatible with ACF Pro?
I will very much look forward to hearing from you with any thoughts you might have!
Alex
alexstanhopeParticipantHi Ben,
I’ve worked out why this is happening!
In my Theme, I’ve got Featured Images enabled on Pages (as well as Posts), and on the page where the [wcv_pro_dashboard] shortcode is located, I had indeed added a Featured Image. For some reason though, this gets picked up by the WC Vendors product-edit form! If I remove the page’s Featured Image, the “problem” goes away!
Based on this, I was wondering if you guys might have any clever tricks up your sleeves to allow me to have a Featured Image on the page, but for this to not get inserted in the “Add Product” form?
As always, if you’ve got any ideas on this, that’d be great!
Alex
alexstanhopeParticipantAhhhh …
What a shame about the Excerpt variable not working …hopefully the folk over at Yoast fix it soon 🙁
In the meantime, the only (really hacky) things I could think of were either creating a custom field, populating it with the Excerpt and then using the %%cf_<custom-field-name>%% Yoast variable instead, or alternatively, writing your own custom RSS Feed. I’ve done this in the past for Custom Post Types that needed “special handling” when being auto-posted to social networks through services like IFTTT and dlvr.it – can give you some code as a starting point if you liked?
alexstanhopeParticipantHi Karen,
I reckon IFTTT should definitely work as you’d like it to, but there are a couple of minor gotchas (ain’t that always the case!):
1: With the “Recipe” you created, the “yoursite.com” bit needs to be replaced with your site’s actual domain name – I’m sure you probably realised that anyway, but just wanted to double-check!
2: If you’ve not already installed it on your site, I’d recommend adding the Yoast SEO Plug-in; what you can then do is create a “template” for WooCommerce products under Titles & Metas > Post Types. I’d start by putting something similar to the following in the “Meta description template:” box underneath “Products”: %%title%% for sale on Conscious Crafties.
Effectively, what that’d do is take the product title as added by the vendor, and insert it into the relevant page’s Meta description. The good news here is that Facebook will pick this up (and the Featured Image if added) and then add it to the link that is posted through IFTTT, resulting in the type of thing you’re looking for!
Also, I wouldn’t worry too much about “RSS Links” – visitors to your Facebook page will never see this; all they’ll get is the link to the product page on your site!
Hope that makes some kind of sense!
Alex
alexstanhopeParticipantHi all,
In the absence of Jetpack being able to “publicize” new vendor-created products, there might be a deliciously simple solution to all this for the time being!
I might suggest using the really rather lovely ifttt.com (a.k.a If This Then That) to automate the whole thing.
What you’d need to do once registered there is create a new “Recipe” to take WooCommerce’s inbuilt RSS feed for products and then publish any new items to social networks of your choice.
The “formula” for the product feed is: yoursite.com/feed/?post_type=product
Hope that might help!
alexstanhopeParticipantHi Ben,
Thanks as always for such a prompt and efficient response!
Your Gist was a brilliant “jumping-off” point, and I only had to tweak one thing to get it so that the relevant fields were required on the Vendor registration page, and that was to add wcv-formvalidator to the class on the form (wc-vendors-pro/templates/front/vendor-signup-form.php).
Based on this, do you have any plans to add the validation class to the form in the next release, or should I copy the template file to my Theme’s directory?
Please do have a think and let me know, and in the meantime, rock on, WC Vendors team!
Alex
alexstanhopeParticipantYou, sir, are truly a gentleman and a scholar!
Thanks so much for that incredibly handy snippet …WC Vendors really is the best!
Thanks again,
Alex
alexstanhopeParticipantHi all,
The forthcoming changes to the Product editor in the next version sound fantastic!
Can’t wait to see how it all comes together 🙂
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