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iamdharmesh / featured-image-by-url

This plugin allows to use an external URL Images as Featured Image for your post, page & custom post types like WooCommerce Product. Includes support for Product Gallery (WooCommerce).
https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-by-url/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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variation images? #5

Closed wyatt121 closed 6 years ago

wyatt121 commented 6 years ago

Hi

Any plans to add functionality to allow external images for variations?

Any help is much appreciated.

Wyatt

iamdharmesh commented 6 years ago

Hello @wyatt121,

Yes, we already added functionality to allow external images for variations. and we will release it in upcoming version soon. So, for now please use master of this repository.

Thanks.

iamdharmesh commented 6 years ago

Hello @wyatt121,

We have released latest version of this plugin with functionality to allow external images for variations. So, now you can directly upload it from your website.

Also, Feel free to report if you have any issue with this plugin.

Thanks, Dharmesh Patel

wyatt121 commented 6 years ago

Hi Dharmesh,

This is great news! One more question if you don't mind. Can I add external image urls to both the featured image and variation image fields via the WooCommerce REST API? This is my goal... I have thousands of products to add w/ variations, and all my products have their images on an external image server.

Any help is much appreciated.

Wyatt

iamdharmesh commented 6 years ago

Hello Wyatt,

Yes you can add external images to featured image and variation image via WC REST API.

You can pass Image URL to meta data for set it as a Featured image or variation image please find meta_key for meta data below.

Product Featured Image: _knawatfibu_url Product Gallery Images: _knawatfibu_wcgallary (comma separate image Urls for multiple images) Product Variation Image: _knawatfibu_url

Hope this will help you.

Thanks, Dharmesh

wyatt121 commented 6 years ago

Hi Dharmesh,

You rock! I installed the plugin on my website. And it works perfectly. You are a lifesaver! I'm now testing the API functionality. Will report back soon. I can't thank you enough.

Wyatt

wyatt121 commented 6 years ago

Hi Dharmesh,

I was able to get your plugin to work on the API perfectly! No issues.

I think I may have found a bug... It does not appear that the ALT tag for the featured image is being displayed on the front end. It saves just fine but does not show on the product image.

Also, do you plan on including an ALT tag for the variation images?

Keep up the great work!

Thanks Again!

Wyatt

iamdharmesh commented 6 years ago

Hello @wyatt121,

Glad to know that plugin worked fine for you.

Thanks for report issue on ALT tag for featured image and new feature request (ALT tag for variation), I am adding this to my TO DO list for fix this in future release.

Let me know if I can help you in any other difficulties.

Also, I would appreciate if you can post review about plugin here. It will help people to find out more about this plugin.

Warm Regards, Dharmesh

wyatt121 commented 6 years ago

Hi Dharmesh,

I'm very happy to leave a great review. I have found 2 new bugs. I'm unsure if it's your plugin or I need to make a change in my theme. I use the popular Flatsome. Here are the issues.

  1. When I add a product to the cart, the external featured image does not load.

  2. When I add a product to the cart, the external image within the cart does not load.

See attached screenshots.

Any help is much appreciated.

Wyatt after_adding_to_cart before_add_to_cart

iamdharmesh commented 6 years ago

Hello Wyatt,

Thanks for your kind review.

Please find comments on your issue below.

1.) When I add a product to the cart, the external featured image does not load. ==> Its working fine here also it should work file at your end, as per your setup add-to-cart is reloading page so image is also re-load please wait some time for check image will load.. implement browser cache will help in this case. (if you check in your screenshot upper part of image loaded)

2.) When I add a product to the cart, the external image within the cart does not load. ==> Its issue of your image CDN its doesn't deliver images over https://. cart product image url is '//img2.hometownapparel.com/images/TS-P002-M-GR-D001-LT002-BL.jpg' and your site is over https:// so image will load over https:// but you CDN network doesn't deliver images over https:// so issue has been happen.. please add SSL on your CDN server.

Thanks, Dharmesh