product overview

  • Hi there!

    I’m looking for a way to show product information (just an image with description, nothing more). The prodcutinfo must be presented as a tile. By clicking on the image and/or description the user is taken to an external website. Because I’m building a free service, I prefer to use free plugins (or if there’s no other way, a cheap plugin).

    I’ve tried several catalog plugins like Ultimate Product Catalog, SpiderCatalog, even WooCommerce – although this plugins feels way too heavy for what I want. And I tried several Grid and Tile plugins, but those plugins lack the possibility to add a descirption or categories/tags.

    I want the products to be categorized OR able to tag them so the plugin must have a filter function on the webpage.

    I’m using Hestia (themeIsle) as theme. I don’t think this one has a solution. In the meantime I become a bit desperate, so any help would be appreciated.

    Anyone an idea?
    Much appreciated!!

    Kind regards,

    Rick

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  • If you need to redirect to external URL on clicking of either image or description, you can have below approach.

    1. Create a Custom Post Type where you will add title, featured image and description.
    2. If you don’t want to open that post / product on single page, add below parameters while creating custom post type.

    
'has_archive'        => false, // Set false to hide Archive page
'publicly_queryable' => false, // Set false to hide Single Page

    3. Add one custom field for that newly created custom post type, where that field will display whenever you are going to add new product which will use to redirect user to external url.
    4. In this field, place the external link where you want to redirect on click of image / description.
    5. Display the list of products using wp_query.
    6. Inside while loop, get product featured image and description and the value of custom field (which will be external link).
    7. If you want to get title, usually inside while loop, we get title as the_title(). but in your case, you need to get that using get_the_title( $post->ID ); . Make sure you define global $post so as to get post / product id.
    8. Place featured image and description in anchor tag and in that href, place the external link with target=’_blank’.

    This will allow you to fetch featured image, description and custom field which is required and no extra plugin required to achieve this.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter maestroenrique

    (@maestroenrique)

    Thanks a lot for your detailed instructions! I haven’t given it a try yet, but I’ll certain going to!

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