Hi David,
Please can I check with you how to use the featured products properly in these wordpress installations?
As a test, I can successfully use a shortcode such as:
[pto product="Sony Bravia XYZ"]
However, when I use:
[pto featured=""]
This does not work. Infact, the entire page does not render at all - it is completely blank (no 404).
I have set the featured products in the PT backend (content mgmt -> featured products).
I'm sure its me just not using it correctly, but I cannot figure this one out.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jamie
That's great, works perfectly now, thanks very much David.
Please could I ask you how the 'sections' work in featured products? I've read the manual but Im still not quite sure - is it a way to only show a couple of the many featured products I have?
Cheers,
Jamie
Hi Jamie,
Sections enable you to use the [pto featured="SectionName"] shortcode to show specific products in the Featured Products layout without posts / pages. To specify products, simply prefix product names with SectionName on the Featured Products page of the associated Price Tapestry installation's /admin/ area. For example, if you have:
section1/Product 1
section1/Product 2
section2/Product 3
section2/Product 4
And then you use
[pto featured="section1"]
...then Product 1 and Product 2 will be displayed. Similarly,
[pto featured="section2"]
...will display Product 3 and Product 4.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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Just to tell that I had same issue and this solve it.
Hello Jamie,
This will be corrected in the next distribution of PriceTapestry.org for WordPress - currently there are two instances of a direct call to mysql_real_escape_string() in the Featured Products code - whether or not this causes Featured Products not to render depends on underlying PHP / MySQL version. To correct this, edit the plugin file pto_featured.php and look for the following code beginning at line 56:
$sqlNames[] = "'".mysql_real_escape_string($row->name)."'";$sqlCase .= " WHEN '".mysql_real_escape_string($row->name)."' THEN ".$row->sequence;
...and REPLACE with;
$sqlNames[] = "'".$wpdb->escape($row->name)."'";$sqlCase .= " WHEN '".$wpdb->escape($row->name)."' THEN ".$row->sequence;
Cheers,
David.
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