We are considering using Google's 620 Content Categories to organize some knowledge by category. We would like to stay in sync with Google's categories, but we don't want to reorganize the knowledge should Google change these categories.
How stable are these categories? Certainly, more subcategories and perhaps even more major categories could be added. Does Google add to these? Does Google ever remove a category, which seems less likely?
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I have made my website on Shopify, and have linked it with Facebook, but it is pulling in the wrong thumbnails for the products when viewing on mobile. Desktop seems to be fine, but it seems to select either image number 2, 3 or 4, rather than the primary image. 90% of my audience are on mobile devices so this is big problem for me.
This isn't when I try and share my product on Facebook, this is the initial set up when I connect my website/Shopify to my Facebook business page.
Link to website | Link Facebook
I have attached some example images:
Overview of Products
Overview of Collections
List of Products
I'm not a coder, so I'm not able to identify a problem with the code. There has been a few articles floating around whereby the same error occurs when people share their products to Facebook, but this seems to be blanket problem across all of my products.
Is anybody able to offer any advice as it is quite a big problem as it looks like I am selling a load of envelopes!
Thanks for any suggestions.
I have had gone through plugins which could do a cloud based categories tag asides: refer:https://github.com/ctdk/octopress-category-list and also the good known working Top Categories: refer: http://time.to.pullthepl.ug/blog/2012/8/20/octopress-top-categories-plugin/ but both of these do not serve my purpose.
My purpose would be to use the categories aside like the default way which Google Blogger ships, how do I achieve this and customize this to the requirements?
A screenshot of concept (like year-wise with drop down):
I want to sell downloadable product like: video files, pdf files, word documents, text documents etc.
And also my storefront should have filtering feature.
I have option for following cart in my hosting control panel:
Abantecart, Opencart 1.5, PrestaShop etc. Actually I am accessing mochahost cPanel.
To make a storefront of downloadable products with filtering feature, Which free cart product should I choose?
Big, proven, free, plus easy customization: WooCommerce. It's a classic for a reason.
The real issue is: how is the rest of your website managed? What software languages are you intending? Server? # of hits projected / day? You definitely want tools that easily integrate, and have an active feedback and improvement system. (Open source on Github?)
PHP or Java Content Management system? (Symphony, Laravel, Wordpress? dotCMS, Magnolia, Hippo, Jahia, OpenCMS?) I'd pick one of those first, then choose a storefront that integrates nicely. If you are just starting out, and don't expect more than 5K to 10K hits a day, Wordpress / WooCommerce is way easy. If bigger growth than that, I'd think I'd be looking at Java implementation.
Reference your comment on Uploading API costing money.
So download a free version, and write an upload tool yourself. Shouldn't be a big deal.
And hey, how much are these guys charging, anyway? What is your time worth?
I thought you were selling downloaded items.. why would your customers be uploading anything anyway? In fact, why is an upload tied to the shopping cart in the first place? (I can see letting folks upload quality content, then earning credit, but that doesn't have to be directly tied to the shopping cart...)
You will certainly be able to find sample code to safely allow users to upload content.
I am wondering how to manage my product catalog for Magento efficiently. I keep one stock of products and sell them through multiple websites, those websites are in turn all in multiple languages.
The most common advice is to create a store for each website and a different store view per language, in which you can translate the product description. This doesn't seem very efficient to me. For example, if you have 4 different websites, each offering products in English and in Spanish, you have to do the same translation 4 times for each website. This becomes very cumbersome for multiple websites in multiple languages and a lot of products.
What I ideally would do, is maintain one translation per language and keep track of my product stock centrally (ie. still be able to manage the product globally). How can this be achieved in Magento?
Update: after digging around some more, asking in IRC channels, posting on forums, and searching the heck out of Google and the Magento Connect extension repository, I am starting to realise this is one of Magento's short comings. I am going to develop my own solution for this. Please leave a message here if you are interested in the same functionality, if there is enough response I will see if I can make it available for others.
Unfortunately there is no good answer to this question. Product texts are typically entered on the store view level, like you already discovered. Having multiple store views in the same language (but under different websites) will create a burden and overhead to configure.
If this was my store, I would pick one of these routes:
Load data from an external source, where product data is already nicely managed. Managing product data in Magento can be a pain.
Or, if you MUST do it in Magento, create a custom module to update all the relevant fields across multiple websites. You could create an event listener "on product save", that updates all texts for store views with the same language.
or, you can override the product resource model, so product names, descriptions and some other texts are loaded differently from the database (but this would definately be the most complicated route).
In App/Locale/ Directory this is Global locale directory you can read it in all your websites managed from one back-end !
And you can set the local directory for each storeview from
system->configuration->design->Translations
so basically you can use the same locale for different themes as long as you maintain the files updated with all the variables !
I was running 9 websites with different store views from one backend i never had issues with translations !
I recently found the following add-on: http://innoexts.com/store-view-pricing/
And while it is great that I’m able to separate prices by store view, I also want to keep track of stock on a store view basis.
Here’s the scenario.
I’m currently selling collectible cards on my site for different games. (Magic: The Gathering, Universal Fighting System, etc.)
What I would like to do is have the same inventory appear on two different websites:
Buy (where customers can BUY the cards from me)
Sell (where customers will SELL their cards to me)
I know that I will need to set up either a separate website/store view under Magento’s backend. That’s fine. I also know that I will need to configure special payment modules in the backend (because people shouldn’t be paying me to sell their cards). But what I’m mostly looking for is guidance on how to set these two up.
The inventory (for the most part) will be shared between the two sites (with the exceptions of products I’m only interested in selling).
Can anyone help? I've tried to research inventory and the separate stores bit but to no avail.
I think possibly what you're looking for is a "Marketplace" type extension, maybe similar to the Unirgy Dropship extension, which allows you to have sellers add their products to the site (and fulfill them as well).
This would probably be a better model than having a seller go through a modified "checkout" flow with a customized payment gateway module in order for them to add their catalog to the site.