Custom Gtin Field and custom Brand & Color Attribute – What now?
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Hello,
As I’m dropshipping, my Gtin13 (EAN) sits in another custom field and the brands & color are sitting in their own custom attributes. Can I ever dream that there will be a way to map those within the plugin so they can be put through correctly to the Merchant center?
Just for the story concerning the schema.org pullthrough with Yoast:
In my paid version of Yoast SEO, I was able to set the Brand & Color to their custom attributes but for as far as the GTIN (EAN) is concerned, I was obliged to put a snippet in the php file of my template to force the schema.org code to include the GTIN code.I’m curious to discover the solution you propose ..
Kind regards!
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Hello @nicw,
For anyone reading this thread, searching for a solution, there’s a small typo in the snippet above:
return $gtin
}
Should be
return $gtin;
}
(just a small typo error ?? )
____________________________Thank you for the snippet! I put it right under the one I use to complete the schema.org from yoast seo in the functions.php of my child template. I know for shure that the one for yoast works.
The whole picture now looks like:
add_filter( 'wpseo_schema_product', 'custom_set_extra_schema' ); function custom_set_extra_schema( $data ) { global $product; $gtin = get_post_meta( $product->get_id(), '_maxyzla_ean_number', true ); $data['gtin13'] = $gtin; return $data; } add_filter( 'woocommerce_gla_product_attribute_value_GTIN' , 'my_custom_function', 10, 2 ); function my_custom_function( $gtin, $product ){ //make the magic happen here - something like? $my_new_gtin = get_post_meta( $product->get_id(), '_maxyzla_ean_number', true ); //please make sure your new gtin is valid before switching the values $gtin = $my_new_gtin; return $gtin; }Afterwards I republished 3 products on my site and some minutes later merchant center picked up the change. In the GTIN column of merchant center the gtin stayed empty though.
Is there something, I’m missing out?
Kind regards ??
Hello @nicw,
About half an hour after you responded I changed the ‘woocommerce_gla_product_attribute_value_GTIN’ to ‘woocommerce_gla_product_attribute_values’ as you suggested. In the process I changed some products which was picked up in the merchant center.
Now, one day later, the GTIN is still not showing up in the merchant center at all.
I’m not entirely sure how WP processes data which leaves me with the question whether functions.php really is the right place where I should place the filter.
To be honest, I still want to give GLA a fair chance but somehow I slowly am looking to install a pro version of a third party feed generator so that (I suppose) I potentially will have full control of an array of places I can push my fully fledged feed through.
On a young site it would be an additional expense over and above Yoast and it’s schema.org + XML feed and yet …
Kind regards,
Bernard
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