Forcing Variants Issue

  • Hey guys,

    Doesn’t seem like forcing variants via url is working…

    I’m trying to force to display one block but not the other…

    https://www.flowpress.com/screenshots/screenshot%202020-03-24%20at%202.35.54%20PM.png

    You can see url is supposed to be ?test=A to display “Test Author A” block only but the 2nd block will not hide…

    Basically I’m trying to have more then just 2 variants… and 2nd block should not show because conditions for A & B are not met.

    And a follow up… is there anyway to add additional testing variants or is this hardcoded at 2?

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  • Anonymous User 16972068

    (@anonymized-16972068)

    Hi Bart,

    The force variant will only work for the first test block you created. As you can see on the right parts of the screenshot, it shows variant A. Forcing doesn’t mean that it will not show if conditions are not met, it just forces the visitor in the variant instead of picking a random one.

    The second test block (with variant C) is a different test block, which is not listening to the same conditions as the first test block.

    Currently there is no way for these two tests to interact with each other and I purposely limited the test variants to just A and B for now.

    I plan to support more variants per tests soon, and if this is something you’d like to see I’ll put more priority on it.

    Let me know if you have any other questions.

    Regards,
    Gaya

    Thread Starter raptor235

    (@raptor235)

    Hey Gaya,

    Lets take a simple example if I have one block and condition for A and condition for B are not met shouldn’t the block not show anything?

    I would expect that the condition should be respected for each variant even if the result is that nothing displays.

    Thread Starter raptor235

    (@raptor235)

    Also yes that would be very beneficial to have more variants ?? Any idea what type of time frame you might be looking at?

    Also really great job with this plugin, it’s by far the best implementation I’ve seen with Gutenberg support. Keep up the great work!

    Anonymous User 16972068

    (@anonymized-16972068)

    Thanks for the compliment, really appreciated!

    As for hiding variants when the force condition is not met:
    This plugin is aimed at creating A/B tests, so it will show either variant A or B. I didn’t plan on making is segment based, so putting content behind feature flag so to say. However, it is a great idea to support this too, so I am putting it on the backlog as an idea to look at. My goal here is not to make this plugin too complicated.

    As for time frame. I am thinking about two weeks. I want to limit the amount of variants to guard users from creating too complicated tests though.

    I’ll update this topic once it’s ready

    Thread Starter raptor235

    (@raptor235)

    Thanks Gaya,

    We were hoping to have 4 variations maximum to support a project we’re working on.

    Thread Starter raptor235

    (@raptor235)

    Hey @gayakessler any update on this?

    Plugin Contributor Gaya Kessler

    (@clevernode)

    Hey @raptor235,

    I haven’t had any free time to work on this yet.

    You’re more than welcome to contribute to the project on GitHub and open a PR.

    When I have the time I’ll try to get this feature in first.

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