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What part is unclear ? The Google Merchant part or the Webmaster Tools part ?

Finished coding the plugin, it now has support for english, german and french taxonomy.

Cheers !

?? unless you are able to adapt the file product-feed.php (found in the plugin directory) to the German taxonomy needs, i would disable the plugin and use the one detailed on my site, yes. The one in my site already has german taxonomy in it. (it’s not a plugin thou and requires minimum php knowledge!)

I will start working on a German version of the plugin (with the right taxonomy for the German google merchant) tonight.
Sorry about this, all my customers for the implementation were US/UK/AUS so the plugin was aimed at helping them (also to show gratitude for their support) ;
You are the first person from DE that manifests interest into this ??
I’ll start coding now…
Zum Wohl

I just remembered for a german shop aimed at a german market you need to use “german google category taxonomy” you can find that specific taxonomy here https://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=de&answer=1705911

so, don’t use Health & amp; Beauty & gt; Personal Care ! use the German equivalent of that !

i would go for Health & amp; Beauty & gt; Personal Care , however your feed is missing some key elements for example mpn (taken from sku) and shipping weight (used in google merchant to calculate the shipping costs).
I can see that you are German, if you need to sell your products to the German market you need to change some variable around. Google merchant is different for Germany (I did a shop for a German company that retails led lights). For example you can’t use “new” , you need to use “neu” and also you need to change the stock variables (found in products-feed.php) from ‘in stock’ : ‘out of stock’ to ‘auf lager’ : ‘vorbestellt’
Use this article as a reference (it describes my German shop experience https://www.victorciobanu.com/woocommerce-free-google-product-feed/

hope this helps a bit…

It takes about 4 days to get your products approved and listed.

the back end of the plugin only shows you 3 products the full product feed found here https://www.komili.eu/feed/products shows you all of your products (just right click and view source).

also, there’s a skype button in the plugin, use that ??

Your feed gets generated but as i can see you get an error :
xmlParseEntityRef: no name

the error is caused by :
There is a stray ‘&’ (ampersand character) somewhere in the XML text eg. some text & some more text

You need to use HTML numbers so & should be ‘& amp;’ > should be ‘& gt;’ in your product category and google category.
In your particular case
Health & amp; Beauty & gt; Personal Care & gt; Hair Care & gt; Shampoo & amp; Conditioner

eliminate the space between & and gt; and & and amp;

Hey, I finally had the time to write a “proper” plugin, it need a lot of improvements, but keep in mind, it’s free and it works.
You can get the plugin from here https://www.victorciobanu.com/free-woocommerce-product-feed-plugin/

Cheers

ps. your issues are related to the fact that you did not remove the <!–?php the proper syntax is <?php

Finally had the time to make a “proper” plugin for this .
You may download it freely from here
https://www.victorciobanu.com/free-woocommerce-product-feed-plugin/

I need some know-how into how to upload it to wordpress plugin repository.

Hey sisqonrw,
you need to upload product-feed.php in the folder of your theme.
you need to add the code from 2a. in functions.php (found on your theme folder)
you don’t need to export anything, if properly set-up your feed will be generated automatically, and you will find it at https://www.yourdomain.tld/feed/products/

I know it’s a long and boring read, but take while and read the whole article and the updates (found on the bottom of the article).

I’ve set up the feed for 10 clients so far (paying and non-paying), all of them were pleased. I can help you too, just leave me a message ??

take a closer look. it’s all free. Under “3. Further support” I’m asking for 25$ to set it up remotely or customize it for clients or people that do not have any knowledge of php. (or are just lazy)
I find it fair, don’t you ?

no i do not; i did not use the paid plugin (not keen on asking the client for more money without being able to predict the outcome), however i implemented this for my client, and it works flawlessly (their products are shown in google.de products, and there are no submission errors).
this is what the plugin (code, since it’s not a real plugin yet, but i’m working on that) achieves https://dealershop24.de/feed/products/
and this is how it looks in google merchant
https://i.imgur.com/WOau1.png

Hope this helps you make the right choice ??

Or you could ditch the hole thing and start fresh with a free solution that gets the job done. (rss2 xml product feed)
I tested it, improved it myself. (it’s based on a simple rss feed)
Give it a try https://www.victorciobanu.com/woocommerce-free-google-product-feed/

(keep in mind it’s not a plugin and some knowledge of php is required)

Found a way to use “Category designated thumbnails” with this plugin .
Lets say you want to use a specific category thumbnail for a post instead of “no_thumb.jpg”, heres what you have to do :

1. create a sub folder in the root of your wp installation (in this example the folder is “img” )

2. name the images the same as the category name (if the category name is “30 Rock”, use “30 Rock.jpg”

3. if you wanna use the category thumbnail somewhere else in the site use this code
<img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/img/<?php $category = get_the_category(); echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?>.jpg" width="120" height="120" alt="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" /></a> <?php }

4. if you want to use the category thumbnail instead of no_thumb.jpg with this specific plugin edit “wordpress-popular-posts.php” ; look for this line

// default image
$thumb = "<a href=\"".get_permalink($wppost->ID)."\" class=\"wppnothumb\" title=\"". $title_attr ."\"><img src=\"". $this->pluginDir . "/no_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"".$title_attr."\" border=\"0\" class=\"wpp-thumbnail\" width=\"".$tbWidth."\" height=\"".$tbHeight."\" "."/></a>";

and replace it with this

// default image
$category = get_the_category($wppost->ID) ;
$thumb = "<a href=\"".get_permalink($wppost->ID)."\" class=\"wppnothumb\" title=\"". $title_attr ."\"><img src=\"". get_option('home') ."/img/". $category[0]->cat_name .".jpg\" alt=\"".$title_attr."\" border=\"0\" class=\"wpp-thumbnail\" width=\"".$tbWidth."\" height=\"".$tbHeight."\" "."/></a>";

5. if all went well, when a post does not have a ‘featured image’ of a thumbnail cannot be generated, it will show the category picture instead

** if a post is in more the one category it will show the first one; there is a way to make this work better just check this https://new2wp.com/rookie/2-5-ways-to-show-category-thumbnails/

Hope this helps… i would really like to see this integrated in the widget somehow