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It looks like Product Categories are not one of the post types allowed. How would you add Discuz to product categories and/or sub-categories in Woocommerce? I see how to do it with Product paqes, but not category pages.

Hey Tracy, how would you set up a form to open in a popup after a specified number of seconds? Or, one that pops up on the lower edge of the screen on scroll? Does that require a plugin?

Can I increase the memory via htaccess to prevent duplicator from erroring out?

Any suggestions on the best way to move a large installation to a shared server using Duplicator? An installation with a ton of media images, resulting in a 2.85GB file archive size with these specs:
Size: 2.85GB | File Count: 24,461 | Directory Count: 415

I need to get this done pretty quickly and would like to find the best way to approach it.

Thanks,
Chris

Installed the plugin – looks like I might need the premium version. I’ve got a 2.85GB installation to transfer (really heavy on images). Is there a better way to transfer media over to a shared server?

Are you able to create different thank you pages for different forms you have set up?

Also, I added the shortcode to a text widget to display a form in the side column and it’s just displaying the shortcode as text. Did I do something wrong?

In any event, thanks for all the replies. I may just use a service like Virb.com or Craftlaunch.com. I’d rather use WP to have more flexibility and power over everything, but I also have to keep it somewhat simple to manage for the client.

Thanks Michael, I’m not sure this is going to work after all. I think it has a lot of potential but for stores with hundreds of products and custom sections there needs to be more options once the products are imported. I can’t justify building out 300 product pages and putting them in static categories.

There has been some frustrated Etsy store owners lately, as Etsy just changed their search algorithm and it’s hurting a lot of stores. A plugin like this would allow a lot of those owners to populate a WP installation with their products and still use the Etsy checkout process, but then they could take advantage of all the great plugins for WP for SEO, merchandising and building their content and audience. I think this plugin, or a plugin like it would do pretty well if it made the process easier, even if it was a paid version. I know I’d push clients to use it and build them a site.

So there is no way to mimic the way the store is organized? The Etsy store I’m importing has 6 categories/sections created for it – not base Etsy categories, but custom categories created by the store owner. Ideally, I’d like to replicate that structure and display those custom created categories in a navigation bar, pointing to pages that list products associated with those categories.

I still don’t quite understand why the product pages were created without a link pointing to the product page on Etsy to allow for purchasing. Is there a setting that needs to be changed to give the user a path to purchase the product? It’s not being displayed by default after the import.

Also, it’s unclear how to actually display the store on the site after the products are imported. There is no navigation added to the site on the front end after import and when I try and view the category pages they’re displaying 404 errors. The only thing that displays are the product pages, but I have no way of navigating to them.

Alright, so I’m trying to figure out how to import the store-specific categories, which from what I gather might be making use of this code in the readme file:

= etsy_importer_category_key =
The custom post type’s Category key.

Usage:

function your_project_modify_etsy_importer_category_key() {

	return 'my_category';
}
add_filter( 'etsy_importer_category_key', 'your_project_modify_etsy_importer_category_key' );

The problem is I’m not sure where to add that to make it work. There are no instructions for us novices on how to implement that code or where. I don’t even know for sure that this will achieve what I’m after.

Also, after my second import, I’m noticing that all the products are imported on the back-end. But there is no links to the products on the front end. What needs to be done to display the Etsy store on the front end? Do I need to create a blank page and plug in some short code to display the store?

And lastly, when I view a product page there is no link for the user to click over to view and buy the product on Etsy. Isn’t that supposed to be displayed automatically on all products?

Sorry, just found the Readme file. Will go through that and report back.

Nevermind, I see what’s happening. It’s pulling in the Etsy categories, not the “sections” that the store has created to organize the products. Can you pull in those store-specific sections in addition to the Etsy categories?

It looks like I have all the products imported – I just had to keep clicking Save on the importer page, as it looked like it was timing out.

Now that I have them all imported, how would I structure the site to display them as a catalog? Are there short codes to display entire categories?

Actually, the product images I just deleted look right. But the categories don’t match and the product counts are incorrect. I’ll try again.

That’s what I meant to say – a copy of the product page is hosted on WP, based on data from the Etsy product page. I think this is what I’m looking for. Thanks for the replies Michael. Much appreciated.