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What I’m trying to accomplish is present the user with the option to select canvas without having to figure out they need to click the ‘Clear’ link. (see above)

No – you do not mat anything but a paper print – has nothing to do with ‘stock’.

Well, that is supposed to be what happens. – What browser are you using?
I’ve tried Firefox & Safari and canvas does not show as an option til I hit the ‘Clear’ link ??

cannot figure out how to embed the images in this post, so provided links ??

Sure Mirko P. ??

Here is the initial product screen with the default print size selected:
https://www.jamierood.art/images/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-31%20at%2010.54.01%20AM.png

Let’s say we want to select a canvas instead:
https://www.jamierood.art/images/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-31%20at%2010.54.13%20AM.png
….
Customer – ‘ oh, so only paper is available – I’m gone..’

Oh, but wait – if you select ‘Clear….’ then try again! – Oh, too confusing..
https://www.jamierood.art/images/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-31%20at%2010.54.43%20AM.png

You can see I added a message to Medium to select ‘Clear’ – but still confusing…

OK, found one problem:
Storefronts theme had overwritten the code I had added to raise the threshold – gotta figure out how to keep that from happening. Replaced, but kinda worse now cause I cannot select a different medium without pressing the clear button (visitors may think there are no other options ??

This is the code I had added to the theme’s functions.php –

/* Increase Woocommerce Variation Threshold */
function wc_ajax_variation_threshold_modify( $threshold, $product ){
  $threshold = '1111';
  return  $threshold;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_ajax_variation_threshold', 'wc_ajax_variation_threshold_modify', 10, 2 );

// see all my variations when editing without pagination
function custom_wc_admin_variations_per_page( $qty ) {
	return 40;
}

add_filter( 'woocommerce_admin_meta_boxes_variations_per_page', 'custom_wc_admin_variations_per_page' );

Thanks for the reply abwaita ??
I don’t think this is related to price like the post you referenced.
Yes, the default paper side works fine and can be added to the cart. As stated above however, if you change the ‘medium’ from paper to canvas you will see the error as the default paper size is not available in canvas. I would expect the options to reset to those available for canvas as it does in my old shop.

I will try you suggestion above though and post to the github and here afterwards ??

PS. seems like there would be a plugin that makes this all work better?

thanks again for the attentive reply ??
Cannot seem to find WP-Admin Appearance, but have the Product Images page before somewhere.

The problem with cropping is it renders the image not-representitive of what the customer is purchasing and just does not look good/right. I spend days & weeks creating these works of art and am trying to present to the viewer to entice them to purchase, so they need to see the whole image.

I used to be and work with programmers & techies, so I understand there is often a disconnect in what the artist needs & a techie may think works for everyone. Now that being said, I DO make them into square coasters, but usually not a simple crop will suffice – the image is ‘different’ ??

Hi Niall – thanks!
Although quite a lot of extra work creating a square format for all my images as I port over, wouldn’t mind, but on the product page, that would be a lot of wasted space and I like the way they are displayed there currently – especially the vertical ones.
And, yes, 200×300 – 600 square pixels – 300×200 = 600 square pixels – ie. ‘same size ?? Right now they are displaying ‘same width’, but horizontal about ‘half size’.
Every online store I’ve done has taken care of this automatically – Woo Commerce is the first I’ve run into that doesn’t handle this well, but love the idea of integrating with my blog/website and SEO benefits..