We recently started getting emails “Error on Feed Generation”
We have 6 feeds and we get error for 2 of them.

The issues are:

1. Even though only 2 feed seem to have the error, in the wp dashboard 4 feed are stuck to “processing” with the update button unavailable. If I open them there are no warnings. I do Purge Cache, then update and their status turn to “Completed”
   
2. I have turned the logs on in the plugin and WP. Checking the plugins logs, they are both (for the problematic feeds) ok. They mention no errors, only INFO message and they end with an info msg about completed job of creating feed (message is show in our local language).
   
3. In the WP log, the only issues related with are the following notice and warning (appearing multiple times):

PHP Notice:  Uninitialized string offset: 0 in ..../wp-content/plugins/best-woocommerce-feed/admin/feed/abstract-rex-product-feed-generator.php on line 556

PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'if' in ..../wp-content/plugins/best-woocommerce-feed/admin/feed/abstract-rex-product-feed-generator.php on line 556

4. The only filters that are used in these feed are the Category Filters

5. Yes, we use the strip tag filter for the description.

The strangest thing is that when we check the temp-feed (link provided in the email), all the products are there!
The only things that appear to be missing are the these closing tags:

</channel>
</rss>

Just spent 30 minutes to add Google product mapping to my 151 categories and discovered that everything is lost after saving. Most of the mapped categories just disappeared and what is left is completely random and not related to my selection at all.

E.g:
Accessories > Socks changed to 464 – Furniture > Shelving
Accessories > Jewelry changed to 328 – Electronics > Computers > Laptops
Accessories > Wallets & cardholders changed to 150 – Cameras & Optics > Camera & Optic Accessories > Tripods & Monopods

I can assure that these are not the categories I mapped.

With this plugin there are a lot of errors with saving. E.g. when I generate a new feed I have to save the the feed 5-10 times since every time some sections are lost from the feed.

I am using the premium version of the plugin. Is there something wrong with my settings?

The problem that shows me in the merchant center is: The product data you submitted in your feed does not meet the product data specification, so your products were not approved. Fix and update your feed to display products to customers. To see all issues, go to Diagnostics.

This how i field map:

Also, it was showing all the Variations even though they were turned off because I want only the Variables to be shown.

There are 7500 products and error is there on 2500 products.

The product feed manager pro feed is showing duplicate product IDs(Variable & Variation IDs).

Woocommerce product feed isn’t showing any duplicate product IDs(Variable & Variation IDs).

line 27, column 123

Please add tool to view the product feed, or to reset the generation, verify the feed status,…. etc.

Error message: “There was an error loading your merchant center product statistics.”

The debug log can be found at: https://www.akkin.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/woo-product-feed-pro/logs/debug.log

Can anyone provide any assistance, as this is now preventing us from advertising via Google Ads?

Many thanks,
Karl.

Thomas, can you please update the code to remove this portion of code that seems unnecessary?

Here is the PHP error being generated from Soliloquy:

PHP Notice: A feed could not be found at https://thomasgriffin.io/feed/planet/. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed.

Here is a portion of the PHP code from includes/utils.php:

// Return early if not on the right feed.
if ( strpos( $url, ‘planet.www.ads-software.com’ ) === false ) {
return;
}

// Only move forward if this action hasn’t been done already.
if ( ! $GLOBALS[‘tgm_utils’] ) {
$GLOBALS[‘tgm_utils’] = true;
$urls = array( ‘https://thomasgriffin.io/feed/planet/’, $url );
$feed->set_feed_url( $urls );
}