Has potential – but missing basic functionality

  • These blocks have potential to be great for custom pages listing products, but the functionality and features seem incomplete.

    It’s very difficult to use add in a product block within a column block – it brings the text down to one or two letters per line and makes searching through products and selecting options impossible. My only work around was to make the product block outside of the column block and then drag it in.

    The search functionality itself is pretty bad, not all products show up. I can type the exact name of a product in the search bar, yet other ones show up instead.

    As for adding individual products, why can’t they be displayed in the order I put them? Sometimes it makes sense to have specific placement of a product in a row – it shouldn’t have to be limited to having them sorted by Price or Average Rating or newness.

    A necessary feature that’s missing is a category block, showing the category image and linking to the WooCommerce category (not just dumping all the products from that category onto your page).

    The concept for this plugin is great, but the limitations of it made me decide to scrap my page and this plugin and revert back to a page builder that can do this for me.

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  • Plugin Contributor levinmedia

    (@levinmedia)

    Hi @kkrajniak My apologies for the slow response, but thank you for the candid feedback.

    It’s very difficult to use add in a product block within a column block – it brings the text down to one or two letters per line and makes searching through products and selecting options impossible. My only work around was to make the product block outside of the column block and then drag it in.

    That’s a great point – admittedly, the grid based blocks are aren’t going to perform as well when placed into columns, in particular if it’s a very narrow column, as you’ve noted. We’re still looking for a better solution to this problem, but it’s going to take some coordination with the core team to get it sorted out.

    The search functionality itself is pretty bad, not all products show up. I can type the exact name of a product in the search bar, yet other ones show up instead.

    In the latest release we’ve added a number of new blocks, and hidden the legacy block, which a number of folks pointed out, had challenges with searching. The new blocks should perform much better now.

    As for adding individual products, why can’t they be displayed in the order I put them?

    The latest release included a new “Hand Picked Products” block, and while this first release doesn’t include custom ordering, we’ve got an issue open to add the functionality in a future release.

    https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gutenberg-products-block/issues/324

    A necessary feature that’s missing is a category block, showing the category image and linking to the WooCommerce category

    This latest release included a “Featured Product” block, which lays the ground work for adding a Featured Category block that functions as you’ve described. We’ve got it on our road map, and will be adding it in a future release.

    This is a feature plugin in rapid development. While stable and safe to use, it should not be considered a finished product. I hope that upcoming releases will meet your approval. Thanks again for your review!

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