sandcastl3s

Hey, yeah it’s confusing to me to. The case:

Site uses Mailchimp for Woocommerce. Mailchimp allows automated email workflows to trigger upon sale of a product assigned to a specific category. But the Woocommerce product categories are not showing inside Mailchimp, preventing an automation from triggering.

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Products show up just fine: https://prntscr.com/s82w8q

As mentioned in OP I was told by their support that Woocommerce product categories are only recognized by Mailchimp if they’re sent through a ‘Vendor’ field. What that means and how I can use it is the nature of the inquiry.

I pressed them for more info during the chat and I suppose I’ll just quote the entire conversation.

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Me: I’m setting up woocommerce automations, trying to target a purchases in a specific product category to trigger an automation and my categories aren’t loading into mailchimp.

Them: Ah, taking a look at your screenshots there Atira it looks like there is some confusion here. WooCommerce can pass those categories to Mailchimp, but they need to be in the “Vendor” field for you to be able to use them here in Mailchimp and “see” them. It looks like they’ve started using the “Vendors” extension for that- https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/

Me: Vendor field…is what, a custom field? A product attribute? Do you have any insight on what exactly that means?

Them: I believe it would be an extra field for your product information in WooCommerce, but I would recommend reaching out to their support for further guidance on that note too.

Me: OK I’ll do that but I’d appreciate you sharing any documentation you have on your side so I don’t play tag with their support telling me that I need to check with you about this or that, which is what usually happens in these situations.
So please tell me or link me to something that explains how you know that mailchimp needs a ‘Vendor’ field passed from woocommerce to recognize categories

Them: I hear you – but that link I shared above is the most I can share in this case. The documentation I have internally on this end has categories needing to be passed via the vendor field to work, and it looks like that vendor field itself is needing that extension I shared above to work.
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That’s all I can offer here. Any ideas?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by sandcastl3s.

Yep yep that makes sense. Thanks Thomas.

Hi Thomas,

The transactions are there. But now I’m confused..I thought the point of using GTM to deploy ecommerce analytics was to leverage the data layer and pull out granular data to analyse.

I feel like I’m missing a part of the big picture here :/

Thanks guys.

Popping in to report the same thing.

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Edit: and while I’m here, my compliments and thanks. This plugin is awesome. It has reduced my interactions with high-maintenance clients on several occasions.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by sandcastl3s.

After a good deal of htaccess voodoo I managed to get it done without the hook.

Still not sure what the problem was in the first place…the likes came back after a strange combination of removing/adding/changing rewrite rules, changing site addresses, activating and deactivating aioseo, and scraping the url with the facebook debugger.

Thank you Michael for your replies in this thread. I really appreciate your time.

Marking thread resolved.

I am ?? I double checked .htaccess and it’s in place. I guess I can try a different 301 redirect.

I haven’t been able to work out the php to target the homepage with the hook (php makes me want to cause damage to my monitor).

But I did verify that the likes are still there. I turned off aioseo, changed the wordpress and site addresses to http, cleared the cache, and the like button on the homepage shows the likes that I’m trying to recover.

Michael, I was thinking..the issue is only present on the homepage as that’s the only place I had a like/share button active. I think maybe your hook suggestion is the way to go then..I would just check for the post id of the homepage as described in the hook comment?

I’m awful with PHP, maybe you can point me in the right direction? If my homepage is set to post #1249, how would I check this in the hook?

add_filter('aiosp_opengraph_meta','aioseop_change_my_og_url', 10, 3);
function aioseop_change_my_og_url ( $value, $type, $field ){
/**this will allow allow you to change your OG URL
 *this is only an example, in real life you'd likely want to check for
 *more things, such as the post id to only run the code where you want it
 **/
if( $field == 'url' && something to check post id here?) $value = 'https://mynewurl.com';
return $value;
}

Thanks for your help, I hope this works out.

Also if it matters to anyone for future reference, the only things I did in the transition were changing the home and canonical URLs in wordpress itself from http to https://sitename.com, and I’m using a plugin to clean up insecure content which affects the following:

scripts registered using wp_register_script() or wp_enqueue_script()
stylesheets registered using wp_register_style() or wp_enqueue_style()
images and other media loaded by calling wp_get_attachment_image(), wp_get_attachment_image_src(), etc.
data returned from wp_upload_dir() (e.g. for some CAPTCHA images)
images loaded by the plugin Image Widget

Thanks Michael, I’ll look into it and see what I can figure out. I agree, I don’t want the canonical urls pointing to http if possible.

Nice one Clifford, thanks for your reply. is_archive did the trick.

Bump, still can’t figure this out.

Popping in with another question: is there IP blocking in this plugin? I’ve read that this can be a problem with social referral launches and a good practice is to limit the number of referrals by IP, usually one or two. Harry’s writeup on their app that this plugin is based on mentions this as well.

Thanks!