maxington26

Ok, thanks. I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the help

Hi again, I just had a thought about this.

I’m not a woocommerce expert – can variation children be flagged up for inclusion in search results or not?

And if not, is it possible to set up a boolean custom variable per variation within woo, to eliminate the ‘false’ variation search results at sql query level?

So I could go through each product and manually set the boolean variable to ‘true’ for the best variations, and then they would be the only ones with ability to appear in the search results. It does slightly defeat the colour-choice aim, but I could find a balance I reckon.

Any thoughts would be great to hear

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Yes, I have considered only displaying parent products, but as we use so many products with lots of colour variations, it’s preferable that the results for e.g. “green chair” or “black desk” actually show the individual variation images rather than just the parents.

If there’s no way to limit the number of variations per product, I’ll just have to accept sometimes the results will be flooded out by one variable product, unless there is another solution?

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Agree with your list, especially 1 & 3.

The option of using the short description would solve our problems with the sync currently rejecting most products/variations because of the “blank” description (we don’t use the main description at all).

Also, it seems the products which have been successfully synced are variable products which have an entry in each variation description (which we only use for extra variation-specific information in addition to the product’s overall short description). Ideally it’d be great to have a setting when syncing variable products, to combine the short description with the variation description.`

Also the (x) doesn’t work to dismiss the ad, at least for me. It just redirects back to the same admin page, with the ad still displaying. So I can’t actually get rid of it.

I’ll give the woo filter another test though, to see whether it does reproduce this same issue.

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I have tested with the woo native price filter, but for some reason the max price on the slider doesn’t respond to the current category, so is always set to the most expensive item in the entire shop (a data safe at ￡7,830) which throws the scale off for all other categories. So I need an alternative and WOOF is a good fit, just with the slight issue about min/max variation prices outlined above.

Never mind – figured it out. Syntax error in the preceding css was preventing my new media query from working. All good now.