Add Brands from existing Parent/Sub Categories

Hi there @derekg1023 ??

Welcome to WooCommerce Support. I’d be happy to help you with this.

Add Brands from existing Parent/Sub Categories

For starters, feel free to check out the documentation section linked here, on how the product feed sync between Woo ad Google works.

Google Listings & Ads attribute mapping functionality is designed to map existing WooCommerce product attributes to Google Merchant Center feed data. It allows merchants to?create attribute rules at the category level?and systematically apply them to Google Merchant Center product data that has no attribute values defined — thereby assigning Google product attributes to?all?products in the specified category. Linked here is the related documentation.

More specifically, I’d recommend taking a look at how to map brand section, linked here, if you didn’t have a chance to do so already.

I hope this is helpful! Please let us know if you have any further questions about this matter, or if we misinterpret your concern in any way. We will be happy to help you further.

Thanks! That actually helped a lot! I know this is outside of the original question, but I’m seeing the description takes in the raw output of the Descripion field. In our descriptions they contain an html block to display a table of info for our products with something like this:

 [raw]<code>[/raw] and then the description. 

Is there a way to filter the descripion slightly so certain aspects aren’t sent? Currently the Google Listings actually show with the [raw] shortcodes, etc. It would be nice to exclude that.

Another question, is it possible to not sync products with a category In-Store Only? We have in-store products and if there isn’t an easy way to exclude them I know based on the documentation I could technically exclude them if I just make sure they don’t have a description.

If I should create a new forum post, I can also do that too! Thanks!

Hi @derekg1023…

For excluding some products from syncing, this can only be done on a per-product basis – there’s no way to block a whole category from syncing. Each product would need to have its Google Listings & Ads visibility set to “don’t sync and show” in the sidebar on its product editing screen, under “Channel Visibility.”

For the issue of shortcodes / HTML code showing up in your description field, there is conflicting information online as to whether or not HTML code is allowed here. It seems that simple bold / italic markers will go through but also it’s important that all HTML tags be *closed*, and as Google will truncate a description at around 300 characters, this can result in half-open HTML tags which leads to errors.

There’s no way with the plugin to filter your descriptions that are fed to Google before submitting them, so your best bet here is to remove the HTML code from the description field to be extra sure it is submitted cleanly. One thing you could consider, if you wish to use an HTML table like this, is to either add it to the Short Description field instead (as this is not submitted to Google), or you could look into adding a plugin to the site that allows you to add additional product description information (that would also not be submitted to Google), such as Custom Product Tabs.

Please note that that is a third party plugin so would not be supported by WooCommerce support, but rather supported directly by the developer through their public forum page.