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EvWill,

Good to hear from you! Been busy reshingling the roof so we can move. My husband is onboard to starting an online business. Yay. We are coming up with new products as well as my books for the country store during our breaks of roofing in Florida. lol We just took a class in Soapmaking as well as one with Lotions and Salves. So that is all going to be added to the Product 8 Catalog within the next few days, even if it is just the main categories.

If you need a test subject site, let me know as I am setting things up, and nothing can be ruined. Again, good to hear from you!

EvWill, I have two words to say – BLESS YOU! lol@myself
Problem solved and so quickly and beautifully.

EvWill, I am glad you liked the idea for the newest items function. I think it would be a feature that would cause people to return more often to your web site.

The Multi Catalog function is working well

As I wrote before I am learning WordPress and what it can and stubbornly can’t do. lol or maybe it’s just me who is being stubborn. When I create a WordPress Page, the form requests a Title and a Description. When I create a Catalog 8 Category, the form requests a Title and a Description.

Okay, so now when the script is called – ie:
[catalog-8 id=”0″ cat=”Trading Cards”]
there is a redundancy – when the page loads, there are 2 “Trading Cards” titles showing up (one for the WordPress page created and one for the Catalog 8 Category created). I deleted the first description on the WordPress page, so now only the Catalog 8 Category description appears.

If I don’t give the newly created WordPress Page a Title, then the page won’t appear on the main page. So, for the WordPress page to appear it HAS to have a Title. It doesn’t have to have a description.

So then I tried changing the Title of the Catalog 8 Category to it’s description and leave the Catalog 8 Category description blank. I hoped that there would be one Title and one Description to the page when it loaded. . Nope that didn’t work. When I removed the description from the Catalog 8 Category, that category and product doesn’t work at all. Nothing is seen.

So for the Catalog 8 Category to work, BOTH the Title AND the Description must be in existence. So, how to get rid of one of the Titles on a page….? Hmm, maybe if a Title has two words, I could use the first word for the WordPress Page, and the second word of the Title for the Catalog 8 Category? But that won’t help when a Category title is only one word. Dilemma time.

Thank you, EvWill for the cool multi catalog update and the get well wishes. Nyquil is keeping me awake. And the updated program was way to tempting and I had to play with it. The multi catalogs work! Yippee. ??
What I have noticed so far –
1) I was not able to move an existing category or subcategory from the old catalog to the newly created catalog. I had to delete the old category and recreate the category under the new catalog. This is not a bad thing, it will cause me to be super organized from the start.
2) I thought I would have to add the tag or short code id=”1″ for the new catalog when I called it from the existing page. But it doesn’t seem to matter whether the id=”1″ is added or not. It works either way. Thus, for example –
[catalog-8 id=”1″ cat=”Dolls” sub=”Madame Alexander”]
works the same as
[catalog-8 cat=”Dolls” sub=”Madame Alexander”]
Okay back to playing! THANK YOU, EvWill!!! A future modification that might be useful is a way to call up the newest items added to either one or all catalogs on a page. I don’t know if it would be set/arranged by a certain date, or by the newest products added…. heck I don’t even know if it is possible. Blame it on the Nyquil, lol

EvWill, I appreciate all your work and don’t mind waiting – caught a bad cold and have little energy. I would love to KILL some bugs… let alone test them… lol

I was able to get sub sub sub child pages of WordPress to work –
catalog – books – nonfiction – hobby – woodworking
using Catalog 8’s Product Add for a test woodworking book –
Books Category and Woodworking Sub Category
Here is the Url:
https://countrystore.dx.am/catalog-2/sample-page/books-non-fiction/books-non-fiction-hobby-2/woodworking-2

EvWill THANK YOU!!! it’s working!!!! You might want to change for the documentation for the copy and paste people (like me) on the line :
could output those products with [catalog-8 cat=”Laptops” sub=”Lenovo].
Change to :
could output those products with [catalog-8 cat=”Laptops” sub=”Lenovo”]. It just adds the quote after Lenova:

Looking forward to the multiple catalogs next week.

Bless you! ?? I was reading some tutorials on WordPress. I learned a baby step creating a child page and then went wild creating sub child pages of child pages… for the catalog.

Then I changed the name of the original catalog and was happy to learn I had not deleted all the categories and sub cats I had created. I was ready to kick myself. Phew.

I can’t wait for the new code or plugin or whatever it’s called. Is there any chance you can email me the existing code and then the changes so I can learn? I had tried experimenting the short code on a sub sub category but then realized when I read another tutorial that some code had to be added…. and there I stopped. lol back to a new tutorial!

I had a book store for 27 years. And I need to work again, and it is hard at my age to get a job. I want to learn how to create an easy online catalog of items – both books I want to sell and craft items I make. Okay, so I am a senior citizen with a desire to learn! I was hoping to use the Patchwork Theme.

I took the short code and inserted it on a page called Catalog. And that pulls in all the categories I made up to test on one page.
https://countrystore.dx.am/catalog-2

Yippee, so, I guess I can still learn. silly grin

So if I created a page for each category or sub category, how would I call that category? Is there someplace I can go to learn how to do this as I read and viewed Tamarino’s posts and site and EvWill’s posts. Thanks for any advice and direction!