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Understanding Basic Feed Configuration For Required Attributes

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How To Exclude Draft Products From The Feed

Last Updated: August 19, 2024

When generating a product feed, it is important to exclude draft products from the feed to ensure accuracy. In WooCommerce, setting a parent product to draft status does not automatically change the status of its associated variations, which remain in a published state in the database. This inconsistency can cause logical conflicts when the Product...

Understanding The Use of Different Price Attributes

Last Updated: October 6, 2023

In your feed, you might have some products that are on sale. So, you need to assign sale prices for those products and regular prices for the rest of the products at the same time. It’s pretty easy to do so. Let’s see how will you configure the price attribute in different cases: For the...

How To Use RankMath Primary Category In The Feed

Last Updated: October 5, 2023

With the Product Feed Manager to WooCommerce plugin, you can easily set RankMath Primary Category in the feed as a feed attribute value. Follow the easy steps to learn how you can set Yoast Primary Category value to your feed attributes. 1. At first create a new feed >> select a merchant or open your existing...

How To Use Yoast Primary Category In The Feed

Last Updated: September 29, 2023

With the Product Feed Manager to WooCommerce plugin, you can easily set the Yoast Primary Category in the feed as a feed attribute value. Follow the easy steps to learn how you can set Yoast Primary Category value to your feed attributes. *** At first make sure that Yoast is installed on your site. 1. At...

How To Add Currency To Your Product Price

Last Updated: September 29, 2023

When you are using price attributes in your feed, most of the time you will need to add currency to your product price attribute. Depending on your location, this currency symbol might go before or after the price, like $109.99 or 100.99 GBP. With the Product Feed Manager plugin, it’s simple to do either. You...

How To Use A Custom Field Value In The Product Feed

Last Updated: September 28, 2023

When you’re using a special field in WooCommerce to add extra product info and you want to display it as an attribute in your product feed, our Product Feed Manager for the WooCommerce plugin makes it easy. In this guide, I will show you how you can use a custom field value in the product...

How To Replace Space With Hyphen In A Feed Attribute Data

Last Updated: September 26, 2023

At times, you might find the need to replace spaces with hyphens in an attribute field, and accomplishing this task is made simple with the Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce plugin. In this guide, I will demonstrate the straightforward process of replacing spaces with hyphens (-) using this plugin. Follow the easy steps: 1. At first...

How To Remove Decimal From Price For Marktplaats Feed

Last Updated: September 26, 2023

In this guide, I will show you how you can remove decimals from the price attributes for Marktplaats merchants. Follow the easy steps to include CDATA in your XML feed attribute tag: 1. At first create a new feed >> select a merchant or open your existing feed. 2. Scroll down to the Feed Configuration section,...

How To Include CDATA In An XML Feed Attribute Tag

Last Updated: June 21, 2024

To prevent issues when fetching data from XML, it’s important to note that certain reserved characters in CDATA are not allowed in the XML document, which can lead to errors in the browser. To address this problem, CDATA sections are employed. Here’s the syntax of CDATA: In this guide, I will demonstrate how you can...

How To Convert Symbols To HTMLEntities In A Feed Attribute Value

Last Updated: September 24, 2023

In this guide, I will demonstrate how you can effortlessly convert symbols into HTML Entities. 1. To begin, create a new feed or open your existing feed and select a merchant. 2. Scroll down to the Feed Configuration section, where you’ll find all the attributes specific to your selected merchant. 3. Click on the Output Filter...

How To Use UTF-8 Encode To Convert HTMLEntities To Symbols In A Feed Attribute Value

Last Updated: September 24, 2023

When generating a WooCommerce feed for your preferred merchant, you might encounter feed attributes with HTML entities that you’d like to convert into symbols. When working with the Product Feed Manager for the WooCommerce plugin, you can effortlessly achieve this by utilizing the UTF-8 Output Sanitization feature within the plugin. In this guide, I will...

How To Remove HTML Tags Or Shortcodes From A Feed

Last Updated: September 24, 2023

When you are generating a feed for your preferred merchant with the Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce plugin, sometimes you may find that your product description contains HTML Tags or Shortcodes. In this case, when you submit the feed to your merchant, these HTML Tags or Shortcodes will be added to your product description and...

Understanding And Configuring Feed Attributes and Their Values

Last Updated: September 22, 2023

When you want to generate a WooCommerce feed for your preferred merchant, you need to configure the feed according to your merchant’s requirements. If you don’t meet their requirements, they won’t accept the feed. In this doc, I will show you why and how to configure your feed attributes and their values with the Product...

Optimize Product Feed Data With Effective Output Filters

Last Updated: September 16, 2023

When you are creating a Product Feed of your WooCommerce store for your preferred merchant, sometimes you may find some attribute values are showing the correct data but with the wrong format. Or perhaps you may need to modify the current attribute value to meet your merchant’s feed specification. The “Output Filter” option can help...

Learning About Feed File Types And How To Download Or View Feed

Last Updated: September 15, 2023

A product feed is a file that contains a list of data and attributes from an online store. A product feed usually includes title, description, price, category, image, etc. fields, and the file containing these fields can be made of different feed file types. Such as XML, CSV, TEXT, etc. Different merchants require different file...

How To Add Or Remove An Additional Product Attribute In The Feed

Last Updated: September 15, 2023

When you are creating a feed for your preferred merchant with the Product Feed Manager, you will see that the required attributes are already included in the feed. However, you will find only the required attributes in the feed template. And there are other recommended/ optional attributes that you may need to add to your...

How To Add A Custom Attribute To The Feed

Last Updated: September 15, 2023

When you are creating a feed, sometimes you may need to add a custom attribute that is missing from your attribute dropdown list. Or even you may need to use the same attribute with a different name or you might want to change the name of your attribute. In this case, you can create a...

How To Add A Static Prefix or Suffix To An Attribute In The Feed

Last Updated: September 11, 2023

Sometimes you need to add a prefix or suffix value to your feed attribute. It could be a currency, weight, size, etc. For example, you may want to add the measurement unit to your product weight. and with the Product Feed Manager plugin, you can easily add this measurement unit to your product. You will...

Product Feed Optimization with Yoast SEO Product Title, Meta Description and Primary Category

Last Updated: September 5, 2023

If you’re using Yoast SEO, you can set Yoast Product Title, Yoast Product Meta Description, and Yoast Primary Category on your products to optimize these ranking factors of search results. With these Yoast attributes, your products will rank higher on the marketplaces too, and will bring more sales. Now you can create a product feed...