avantm

Awesome! Have fun storming the castle! Heh.
You have been duly upgraded to admin supreme.
(and, no, I’ve never trusted someone so blindly with my site)

another option could be for me to pull in the etsy_products taxonomy as ‘category’ and ‘tag’ by editing the Etsy Importer files before it runs. That could be the lowest hurdle method.

I’m assuming there was a rationale for having a custom tag and category name for the etsy_products cpt. Are there any caveats I should be considering before heading down this route? Is editing the category and tag names in Etsy Importer a reasonable approach? It would likely resolve the pages and issues with themes compatibility. But wondering if doing that may not work with the import functions.

I only have a few pages of content so not too worried about restarting from scratch.

That code totally did the trick for getting the taxonomy on the pages! Thanks so much and thanks for going and beyond an issue not really tied to your theme.

I created a child theme per your recommendations and for best practice. So, that’s done and active.

I’m still having trouble with the permalinks requiring the post_type parameter to work. There were no similar catgories or tags in the Post catgory but I still removed them (only two).
Anything you can do to help is appreciated, I’m stumped. The code makes sense as I read it but I would not have had the skillset to write it. thanks again.

I’ll gladly give you administrator access. I’m not quite sure how to message via WordPress yet so the easiest method may be for you to you sign up on the site. Then I will promote your user to Administrator. Does that work?

Here’s the registration link: https://www.avantemod.com/wp-login.php?action=register

Will do! Are there any examples of the etsy_products etsy_categories Category pages working?
Be great to have a reference child theme to work from if you have one handy.

The dev for the Chromatic theme got back to me and confirmed I’m not crazy – Hooray!
The reason why is that Etsy Importer uses “etsy_category” instead of “category” and “etsy_tag” instead of “tag” for the etsy_products taxonomy. Both of the solutions above are assuming that “category” and “tag” are used for the cpt taxonomy.

They suggested some fixes which I’ll try tonight.
Here’s the forum topic:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-type-tags-and-categories

I inserted the snippet provided in the post and it works to insert the tag and categories for the product listings. But the category and tags pages aren’t working yet. I’ll futz around some more tonight but if you have suggestions I’ll gladly try them.

PS – the code snippet from the 2nd example is currently in the bottom of the functions.php of the Chromatic theme for https://www.avantemod.com

Category example:
https://www.avantemod.com/category/flatware/

Product listing example:
https://www.avantemod.com/products/art-deco-30s-bar-set-with-bakelite-shaker/

Both links are available in the “Featured Products” on the right-rail. “Flatware” is the only category link. As you can see it’s not adding in the etsy_category or etsy_tag taxonomy.

I’ve added it to the functions.php of three different themes (chromatic, espied, chaostheory) and and the categories and tags taxonomy for etsy_products have yet to be registered or referenced in the content. I tried adding the code snippet at the top as well as the bottom and it’s just not making any difference. The taxonomy for etsy_products just isn’t getting registered for etsy_category and etsy_tag. So, I’m thinking it may not be a theme issue it has to be something special with how the cpt taxonomy is being structured.

Is there an example of the etsy_products categories working anywhere? It’d be great to see a sample running with the categories and tags functionality working. Maybe this would be a good reference for what needs to be done.

I’ve tried the code snippet from here:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/add-custom-post-types-to-tags-and-categories-in-wordpress/

function add_custom_types_to_tax( $query ) {
if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {

// Get all your post types
$post_types = get_post_types();

$query->set( 'post_type', $post_types );
return $query;
}
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'add_custom_types_to_tax' );

As well as the code snippet from here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-post-type-tagscategories-archive-page?replies=40

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'query_post_type');
function query_post_type($query) {
  if(is_category() || is_tag()) {
    $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
	if($post_type)
	    $post_type = $post_type;
	else
	    $post_type = array('post','etsy_products'); // replace cpt to your custom post type
    $query->set('post_type',$post_type);
	return $query;
    }
}

Yes, I agree that’ the issue too. If we can get the custom type catgories and tags into the taxonomy that should resolve the issue.

Hrmm… tried the code from your link with the same result as the previous code. It looks like it should work but doesn’t seem to have any impact.

I’m gonna poke around a bit in the template files to see if I can locate where the taxonomy is built. Maybe adding in this snippet there will help if it’s being overwritten or using another function call.
I’ll also ping the theme developers in case they have ideas where the code should be placed or updated. If you have any further suggestions, I’ll give them a try.

Thanks!

I found this post, which seems to be on the same topic of custom type categories. I inserted the code on my functions.php and changed the type to ‘etsy_products’ but it didn’t appear to make any changes.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-post-type-tagscategories-archive-page?

The Quesion to Rule Over All Previous Questions:
Do you have a solution for the custom etsy_products that we can use in our theme codes to integrate the custom post type categories and tags?

I think that would do the trick.

If you go to https://www.avantemod.com the word cloud at the top is from the etsy_product categories. The “flatware” link in the upper right is too. They both return “Nothing Found” when clicked.

And when you look at an etsy_products page the category and tags are both empty. I think the above code to integrate with our themes will fix that. Here’s an example (the “In” should be followed by the category):
https://www.avantemod.com/products/culver-ltd-sun-scape-gold-black-and-copper-cocktail-rocks-glasses/

And, yes, as soon as this issue is resolved and I get the Etsy product links on the pages I’ll be removing “Etsy Store”. For SEO purposes it’s better to have the content on my site rather than straight to Etsy. I’ve been waiting for your Plug-in and glad to discover it. Thanks!

Sorry for all the posts, but it’s been an informative journey. Thanks for joining!

PSS – I figured out how to fix the /products/ issue which was to enable Permalinks by Post Name (Settings -> Permalinks -> Common Settings -> Post Name)

I’m still experiencing the issue of getting the categories and tags to work for the product types. It’s using the Post and Page categories, but not the Etsy Product post type categories. I need to update to also include the etsy_category when the post type is etsy_product. Where would I do this and what’s the general format?

I’d love to use the short code on a post or page to get it to display the content for [post-type=etsy_products] and [etsy_category=flatware]. I’ve tried these but they don’t work. It’s just a newbie issue, I know. Any help is appreciated.

The URL does though:
https://www.avantemod.com/?post_type=etsy_products&etsy_category=flatware

How do I get the above content into a post or page?

Not sure how relevant this is, but there’s no products/ sub-section to the site. Based on the previous thread I should have a https://www.avantemod.com/products/ sub-directory listing all my products but it returns a Page Not Found error.

Since this plugin creates a new post type, how do I merge and/or reference it via my standard posts, pages, categories, tags, etc… ? I love that (half) my listings made it in but some of the functionality appears to be missing.

I got exactly the same issue. It’s a type-o on the plug-in installer which seems to be using JS syntax instead of PHP syntax. An easy fix:

Click on “Edit” for the Etsy Importer plug-in, then

Change:
// Define the base plugin directory for use throughout the plugin

To:
/* Define the base plugin directory for use throughout the plugin
*/

and save. You can know activate the plug-in.