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Hi Thomas,

Thank you for the feedback! When it comes to special characters, they must be HTML compliant in order to upload a spreadsheet properly. The issue might stem from either the apostrophe itself or other special characters within your values.

1) We have tested a custom field named “Type d’événement” on our servers and it worked properly with the input “Bonjour”. We have noticed that toggling between the French and the English keyboard changes apostrophes to single quotes.

Apostrophe: Fish 'n' chips
Single Quote: Fish ’n’ chips

We may suggest you the following: Open your spreadsheet software and Ctrl + F to find all instances of single quotes and change them to the apostrophe.

If this still does not work, did you make sure it was not the value of the custom field itself that had a special character, rather than the custom field’s name? For example, if the custom field were still to be the same, but the value would only contain whitespaces and alphanumeric characters.

2) As for the Product search, you may find it under the Options > Labelling > Sidebar as Search Placeholder Label.

3 & 4) We will gladly take these suggestions into consideration. As of now, we may suggest you to change the tags label in order to display it more seamlessly into your website.

Best regards,

Thanks for your answer.

I’m gonna test 1) and get back to you.

Ok for 3) and 4)

For 2) I already changed it to “Rechercher” but it changes just the text inside the search box not the title of the box. Any advice on changing the title?

Best

Hi Thomas,

A small error on our end. The “Product Name Label” is the Product search label. So, if you write in “Rechercher” in it, it will display it as the title.

Sorry about the inconvenience! Let us know if you need additional information on the plugin. We’ll be glad to help you.

Best regards,

Hello mate,

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately even if I write in “Product Name Label” it doesn’t change the “Product Search” on the front end… Any other idea? Maybe I should go and change it in the code? Let me know

Best

Hi Thomas,

Would you be able to open the Javascript console and open your website to see if there are any JS errors being displayed?

Let us know if the label has been properly saved, and if the same behaviour is seen on other browsers : Chrome, Firefox, IE.

It is more tedious to keep a backup and fix the lines of a code when there are updates later on. So, we would not suggest you to change the source code as second solution.

If you could provide us with a link to your website, it would be great!

Thank you,

Best,

Hello mate,

Thanks for your reply. I found the error. It was a cache pb with W3 Total Cache… It’s all sorted for now. I’m presenting the plugin to a client tomorrow and will let you know if I need more support.

Other question : The 15$ per year is just for support isn’t it? I don’t need to pay every year if I’m ok with support, right?

Thanks again guys, great work on the plugin

Best

Hi Thomas,

You are correct. For future questions concerning pro or commercial product support, please e-mail us at [email protected].

Good luck with your client! ??

Best regards,

Hello mate,
After the presentation to my client I have few questions.
The most important one is this :
We have a catalogue in French but our website is in English and French. Now that the French catalogue is ready we need to do the same in English.
However we understand for now that your catalogue only support one language, is that correct?
I’ve translated the labels in “Labelling” but on the English version of the catalogue I want to display the labels in English. Is there a way around it?
Hope you understand what I mean.
Looking forward to hearing your answer.
Best regards

Hello,
Another question.

2) Can we have as default the “Details” version of the catalogue and not the “Thumbnails” one? I can’t find it in the options.

Cheers

Hello,
Some other questions.

3) Is it possible to remove the “read more” button from the “Details list” option?

4) In the “Detail” option on mobile version, the price disappears. Is there a way to show it?

5) Can we have a second price? We want to display a price per day and a price per week

6) The label “Price” is not translatable in the “labelling” option. Where can I change it ?

By the way our catalogue is here https://www.arthaudyachting.com/test-catalogue/ password : arthaud123

Cheers

Hi Thomas,

1) Your best bet for a multilingual site, is to create two separate catalogs, one for the English and one for the French. Then create a page on the English side of your site and put the shortcode for the English catalog on that page. And then do the same for the French. Then, instead of making use of the labelling options, you should let the included French translation files (“.mo” and “.po” files in the “lang” folder) do the translating of the labels for you. (You, of course, need to make sure you’re using a multilingual plugin that makes use of these translation files, like WPML.)

2) This is mentioned on our FAQ page:

Can I load my product catalog with a layout other than the default “Thumbnail” product catalog layout?
Add the attribute starting_layout=‘LAYOUT’ for your product catalog, where LAYOUT is replaced with the layout you would like to be the starting product catalog layout (List or Detail are the two options currently).

So, for you, it should look something like: [product-catalogue id=”X” starting_layout=”Detail”]

3) In the “Basic” area of the “Options” tab, there’s a setting called “Read More”.

4) It isn’t supposed to. Did you add any custom CSS? Which Catalogue Style (Premium area of the Options tab) are you using?

5) You could create a custom field for this.

6) Do you mean for the price slider in the sidebar? If so, we’ll look to add a labelling option for this in an upcoming update. If you need to change it in the meantime, you could either update the translation files or change it directly in the Shortcodes.php file in the Functions folder (this would be overwritten if you update the plugin).

Hello,

Thanks for your message

1) Right thats what I thought. I have now created two catalogues and removed the labels in “Labelling” option. I have now created a new page an english version of my french catalogue. However I’m gonna need your help for the *.mo and *.po files. Obviously I’m using WPML to translate my website but never used *.mo and *.po files. I always use the string translation.
I went to the “lang” folder in your plugin and opened the FR *.mo and *.po files, I’ve looked for the labels “Sort By:” and “Product Search:” but couldn’t find them. I’ve added the following lines
#: Translation by Thomas
msgid “Sort By”
msgstr “Trier par”

#: Translation by Thomas
msgid “Product Search”
msgstr “Rechercher un bateau”

I’ve saved the files and it doesn’t work! I’m sure I’m missing something! Could you please send me a step to step message for me to understand how *.mo and *.po files work.

2) Ok great sorry I didn’t see it.

3) Yes I saw that but when you switch it to “no” then you have the long description which is shown. I don’t want to have a description in “details” mode and I don’t want the read more. For now the only solution I found was to set to 0 for the “Characters in Details Description” but now I need to remove the “read more”… Any advice?

4) I’ve now added some custom CSS and managed to do what I wanted, thank you.

5) Yes thats what I thought but if I do this then the second price is underneath the categories. I wanted to have both price options one under the other one… Any advice on adding custom fields above the “Category”?

6) Yes I do. Ok I’ll be waiting for the update. Thanks for telling me where to find it in the code. I might do that in the mean time.

Thank you very much mate for your help, it is very much appreciated.

Still love your plugin though!!

Hi Thomas,

1) The French translation was provided by a user. Thus, it was not updated since then. However, if you open the .pot file frm the plugin .zip, you should be able to find all the missing Strings. We are using PoEdit to edit the Strings/Add new translations.

Once the .pot file is opened on PoEdit, create a new translation file, and add in the missing translations, such as “Sort By:” and “Product Search”. Then render as .mo and .po. You should then be able to merge the files. We have found a link which contains few ways of merging the files : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1561897/is-it-possible-to-combine-two-po-translation-files-together

3) You may set the elements’ CSS display property to “none”. This would ultimately, remove the element.

5) Perhaps creating two customs fields for prices would be easier. Changing the source files would be difficult simply for prices.

Let us know how it goes!

Best regards,

Hello mate,

1) Great! I managed to understand how to use *.mo and *.po files using PoEdit. So now I can translate the different labelling.
I was about to ask you how to translate the Custom Fields but I found the option “Hide Blank Custom Fields” which helped me having Custom Fields in French for the French catalogue and in English for the English catalogue. So that’s all good ??

One last thing! I set the “Currency Symbol” to €/week – is it possible to translate this field? My bet is that you gonna tell me to create a Custom Field called “Price per week” for English and another with “Prix par semaine” for French. And to hide the default price section with

.prod-cat-price-filter {
    display: none;
}

Is that correct? Or you have a better solution?

Thanks for your help!

Best

Hi Thomas,

Yes. It is correct.

Best,