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    • June 13, 2019 at 1:36 pm #67379
      CommunityCorals
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      Most vendors deal with out of stock products by deleting, setting as a draft or as private. This will result in 404 errors.

      The best way to help a website is to leave the product accessible only by its URL (so hiding it from search and listings) and adding a rel canonical to a similar product or a related category.

      Is there any chance to implement such a solution or to ensure that products deleted by vendors result at least in 301 ?

      Thanks & BR
      Dominique

    • June 14, 2019 at 5:53 am #67551
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      HI,

      The best way to help a website is to leave the product accessible only by its URL (so hiding it from search and listings) and adding a rel canonical to a similar product or a related category.

      – It’s pretty easy. They have to set “Catalog Visibility” -> Hidden – https://ibb.co/wg3s48n

      Thank You

    • June 14, 2019 at 8:15 am #67577
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      Hi, sounds good. But the issue with this is that the product would still be listed in vendor product view. As we sell lots of low value WYSIWYG (unique item) the view would get very crowded if vendor has no option to make the products also “disappear” in his product listing.

      Any chance to add a filter to include/exclude “hidden” products from product listing view?

      Thanks
      Dominique

    • June 15, 2019 at 4:28 pm #67849
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      Hi,

      Please check is there any setting related to this under theme setting? Possibly it’s overriding WooCommerce setting!

      Thank You

    • June 16, 2019 at 5:44 am #67928
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      HI,

      Products are hidden in Woocommerce shop but not in wcfm vendor view /store-manager/products/ – The theme has no influence on this view.

    • June 16, 2019 at 3:03 pm #67969
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      In /store-manager/products/

      Perfect would be if with a setting the delete button could be switched to a “hide” button + A filter option to toggle “show hidden products” in the vendor products list.

      Does this make sense?

      Thanks & BR
      Dominique

    • June 18, 2019 at 12:58 pm #68339
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      HI,

      Products are hidden in Woocommerce shop but not in wcfm vendor view /store-manager/products/ – The theme has no influence on this view.

      – Sorry, may be I understood this wrong!

      Catalog visibility decide whether product will be visible in site frontend or not! If catalog visibility “Hidden” then it will not visible in WooCommerce Shop and vendor’s store page.

      But it will be always visible under vendor dashboard product list (/store-manager/products/), same as you can see hidden products at wp-admin -> products list.

      Thank You

    • June 18, 2019 at 1:42 pm #68351
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      But it will be always visible under vendor dashboard product list (/store-manager/products/), same as you can see hidden products at wp-admin -> products list.

      –> Thanks, I am well aware of that. Still my “Feature request” is following:

      “Perfect would be if with a setting the delete button could be switched to a “hide” button + A filter option to toggle “show hidden products” in the vendor products list.”

      What do you think?

    • June 21, 2019 at 4:25 pm #68896
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      Hi,

      “Perfect would be if with a setting the delete button could be switched to a “hide” button + A filter option to toggle “show hidden products” in the vendor products list.”

      – OK, you want to have “archive” option, right?

      I will email you code for this.

      Thank You

    • June 21, 2019 at 7:53 pm #68954
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      Yes, I think so. Archived products shall not be visible in products manage view but shall be accessible via google / external link.

      That would be great – looking forward to the code.

      Dominique

    • June 22, 2019 at 6:54 pm #69056
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      Another remark – Would be great if archived products would not count into the # of products displayed on the store listing page.

    • June 22, 2019 at 7:50 pm #69058
      sdel_nevo
      Participant

      Hi Guys

      That sounds like a brilliant idea
      Is there any chance I could have a copy of that, would that be OK

      Steve

    • June 26, 2019 at 12:15 pm #69722
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      HI,

      Another remark – Would be great if archived products would not count into the # of products displayed on the store listing page.

      – As I remember, I gave you code for this.


      @sdel_nevo      , will send you product archive code as well.

      Thank You

    • June 26, 2019 at 12:23 pm #69727
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      Hi, haven´t received any code

    • June 26, 2019 at 12:25 pm #69730
      sdel_nevo
      Participant

      Hi

      that’s brilliant, many thanks

      Steve

    • July 13, 2019 at 6:51 am #72239
      CommunityCorals
      Participant

      Hello, I still haven´t received any code. 🙁

      My mail is Info@communitycorals.de

      Thanks
      Dominique

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