Working with custom product types

  • I’m currently in the process of creating a couple of new product types for our eCom store to help manage design, functionality, order processing etc etc.

    The feeds being generated are, for the most part, working fine but a couple of key bits of information are missing when using a custom product type.

    I understand the plugin is only intended to work with a number of pre-defined product types but my custom product types are including all the standard information of a simple product and the custom meta that is in simple product feed information is the same in the custom product type – but it’s not being pulled into the feed although all other meta data is.

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  • Hi,

    Thanks for using our plugin and reaching out to us.

    The plugin indeed is only capable of getting all data for the following product types:

    • simple
    • variable / variations
    • grouped
    • bundle
    • composite

    Unfortunately having to make it dynamical so it will also grap custom product types is too big of a change in the code of the plugin that will benefit too little of our users so unfortunately we will not be doing so.

    Thread Starter gtek_matt

    (@th3m8dh8tt3r)

    Hi,

    So, I thought I’d spend 10 minutes looking at this and, well, did it. Adding an array of default product types with a filter to add custom product types via a hook.

    Tested it, it’s reliable and will be so useful for developers like myself who want to utilise custom product types to better manage things and still be able to send the new product types to Google etc.

    Can I send you the updated file for inclusion in the plugin please?

    Many thanks,
    Matt.

    Hi Matt,

    There are many dependancies in the code that depend on the product type. Adding any custom product type can lead to a lot of unpredictable non-tested behaviour of the plugin, not just in the data that ends up in the feed but in other features of our plugin too. So, like mentioned, unless we get similar requests from lots of other users we will consider making changes to our plugin.

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