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Product feed/wordpress site integration help needed

by Val Kinsky
7 replies
Hello,

I am looking for someone to help me integrate a merchant product feed on my website. The product feed comes as xml feed, and I guess it needs to be coded to be displayed in a wordpress site. Maybe converted into a javascript, I am not sure.

Is there anyone who can help me with this or knows someone with experience in product feeds integration? I'd appreciate any help.
#feed or wordpress #integration #needed #product #site
  • Profile picture of the author Val Kinsky
    I should have mentioned I can't pm anyone yet.

    I got a reply from "unomateo," but unfortunately, I couldn't reply back.

    Below is my response:

    Answering your question, yes, it's a CJ merchant, so I get the feed thru CJ that sends me to the merchant's download portal. From there, I can specify how many deals I want to display, and then generate the feed, that comes in a form of a url.

    I need to be able to display the feed either in the post or in a sidebar. So, it has to be coded differently as the layout would be different.

    Mat, if you see this reply, please send me an e-mail to:

    esquired2 at gmail.com

    for further details.

    My apologies for the inconvenience. I hope you'll see it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Atef
    you should use any feed aggregator that posts to wordpress directly from feeds ,this will turn feeds to posts in your wordpress like feedwordpress or wp-o-matic
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    • Profile picture of the author Val Kinsky
      Hey Atef,

      Thanks for your suggestions. I'll definitely look into it. Greatly appreciated!

      Originally Posted by Atef View Post

      you should use any feed aggregator that posts to wordpress directly from feeds ,this will turn feeds to posts in your wordpress like feedwordpress or wp-o-matic
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      • Profile picture of the author peoplespaul
        heya,

        In reply to your question, feeds can be difficult to implement.

        A background to xml, xml is the data from the database of which you are gaining the feed from, xml is designed to allow users to stream data across platforms.

        Unless the website where the database feed is coming from is built in wordpress or the feed has been designed to be implemented into a wordpress database, you will need to match the xml nodes eg <productname></productname> to whatever the database field is called within your database. This may be time consuming, but can be semi understood as xml the tags are generally defined in a way which is easy to understand.

        The data from the xml feed needs to be converted into an sql query that matches your database, their may be software aviable that is suitable for your database. But personally I usually just generae the sql for purpose on each site.


        Once the feed is implemented I would recommend running a cron script at server level that automates the feed at every x amount of minutes. By doing this you will be able to match your stock to the levels from the database where the feed is coming from. Hopefully this helps :-)
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        • Profile picture of the author Val Kinsky
          Thanks for the insight, man. I know I need to get better versed in those things, just never seem to have the time. I normally use javascript feeds, but this merchant only provides xml feeds and zero affiliate support. Someone is already looking into this for me here, so hopefully I'll be all set soon. Thanks again.

          Originally Posted by peoplespaul View Post

          heya,

          In reply to your question, feeds can be difficult to implement.

          A background to xml, xml is the data from the database of which you are gaining the feed from, xml is designed to allow users to stream data across platforms.

          Unless the website where the database feed is coming from is built in wordpress or the feed has been designed to be implemented into a wordpress database, you will need to match the xml nodes eg <productname></productname> to whatever the database field is called within your database. This may be time consuming, but can be semi understood as xml the tags are generally defined in a way which is easy to understand.

          The data from the xml feed needs to be converted into an sql query that matches your database, their may be software aviable that is suitable for your database. But personally I usually just generae the sql for purpose on each site.


          Once the feed is implemented I would recommend running a cron script at server level that automates the feed at every x amount of minutes. By doing this you will be able to match your stock to the levels from the database where the feed is coming from. Hopefully this helps :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author gstiege
    Originally Posted by Val Kinsky View Post

    Hello,

    I am looking for someone to help me integrate a merchant product feed on my website. The product feed comes as xml feed, and I guess it needs to be coded to be displayed in a wordpress site. Maybe converted into a javascript, I am not sure.

    Is there anyone who can help me with this or knows someone with experience in product feeds integration? I'd appreciate any help.
    I'm seeing this question over and over and there is really a very simple solution in the form of the "WP XML Template" plugin. This thing is so powerful you can even convert xml to "pretty xml" (html) in just a few lines of template markup.
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  • Profile picture of the author wasabi20
    Post your question here and we will help you !
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