Hello All

sounds pretty interesting. Can you give a demo link to have a closer look please?

Thanks

Hi, How I can show only the contents of a catalog or a category? There is the option of creating multiple catalogs and display them separately on different pages?

Thanks for everything

empireoffaith: Here’s a quick example on the twentyfourteen theme until I get something more official up https://evwill.com/poker/?page_id=2 Sorry for the delayed response.

Tamarino: I wish I could have gotten those into 1.0, but those two things are the highest on my priority list and won’t take long to implement, I expect to upload a new version before 2/12 with those features. Thanks for the questions.

Hello EvWill.

Your effort has helped me tremendously in my last web page. I edited your code a bit to suit my needs (https://www.alnort.es/catalogo/) as desired please contact me by [email protected] and I can send you the variant I’ve generated.

Greetings.

I am very glad to hear it Tamarino, just sent you an email.

I had a book store for 27 years. And I need to work again, and it is hard at my age to get a job. I want to learn how to create an easy online catalog of items – both books I want to sell and craft items I make. Okay, so I am a senior citizen with a desire to learn! I was hoping to use the Patchwork Theme.

I took the short code and inserted it on a page called Catalog. And that pulls in all the categories I made up to test on one page.
https://countrystore.dx.am/catalog-2

Yippee, so, I guess I can still learn. silly grin

So if I created a page for each category or sub category, how would I call that category? Is there someplace I can go to learn how to do this as I read and viewed Tamarino’s posts and site and EvWill’s posts. Thanks for any advice and direction!

Hi Sculptgal, I am glad you got it working. I am going to release an update to this plugin on Wednesday 2/12, this will allow you to put different categories and subcategories on different pages.

You will be able to control what category shows with the short tag.

So instead of [catalog-8]

it will be [catalog-8 cat=’yourcategory’]

This hasn’t been implemented yet but I will update the plugin tomorrow and post here with more details.

Bless you! ?? I was reading some tutorials on WordPress. I learned a baby step creating a child page and then went wild creating sub child pages of child pages… for the catalog.

Then I changed the name of the original catalog and was happy to learn I had not deleted all the categories and sub cats I had created. I was ready to kick myself. Phew.

I can’t wait for the new code or plugin or whatever it’s called. Is there any chance you can email me the existing code and then the changes so I can learn? I had tried experimenting the short code on a sub sub category but then realized when I read another tutorial that some code had to be added…. and there I stopped. lol back to a new tutorial!

Okay everyone, version 1.1 was out for 3 hours and it was broken! So I’m sorry to anyone who downloaded that. I should have caught the bug, the shortcode was not working if no attributes were added.

Version 1.1.1 is now out, which fixes the bug.

With version 1.1.1 you can now put different categories or subcategories on different pages.

From FAQ:
For example, lets say you have a category named “Laptops” you would simple use the shortcode [catalog-8 cat=”Laptops”]. If your “Laptops” category has a subcategory named “Lenovo”, you could output those products with [catalog-8 cat=”Laptops” sub=”Lenovo]. If you are using the ‘sub’ attribute (subcategory) you MUST have a ‘cat’ attribute. But the ‘sub’ attribute is not mandatory if you are using the ‘cat’ attribute. I will add more documentation and screenshots at the PC8 site later today. https://pc8.evwill.com/documentation.php

Next wednesday, the 19th, 1.2 will be released, which will allow multiple catalogs.

EvWill THANK YOU!!! it’s working!!!! You might want to change for the documentation for the copy and paste people (like me) on the line :
could output those products with [catalog-8 cat=”Laptops” sub=”Lenovo].
Change to :
could output those products with [catalog-8 cat=”Laptops” sub=”Lenovo”]. It just adds the quote after Lenova:

Looking forward to the multiple catalogs next week.

I was able to get sub sub sub child pages of WordPress to work –
catalog – books – nonfiction – hobby – woodworking
using Catalog 8’s Product Add for a test woodworking book –
Books Category and Woodworking Sub Category
Here is the Url:
https://countrystore.dx.am/catalog-2/sample-page/books-non-fiction/books-non-fiction-hobby-2/woodworking-2

I’m very happy it’s working, good catch on the missing quote, unfortunately it looks like I can’t edit it.

The multiple catalog update is going well, and I should be able to upload it Thursday night (eastern usa time). Sorry for the delay for those who are waiting!

Seems to be finished but a lot of code was changed and I don’t want to rush this one out with bugs, I will have some time to do some further bug testing tomorrow, and if I don’t find any I’ll push this out around 7PM Friday.

EvWill, I appreciate all your work and don’t mind waiting – caught a bad cold and have little energy. I would love to KILL some bugs… let alone test them… lol