Product XML Feed Manager for WooCommerce – Google Shopping, Social Sites, Skroutz & More

Changelog

2.7.4 – 31/03/2023

• Move to WPFactory.

2.7.3 – 23/03/2023

• Fixed a bug in variations handling
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 7.5

2.7.2 – 04/03/2023

• Added external & bundle products to “Filter by product type” section
• Added a shortcode to include category description
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 7.4

2.7.1 – 06/02/2023

• Fixed a bug in filtering type affecting variations
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 7.3

2.7 – 22/12/2022

• Added custom meta query without value parameter (_thumbnail_id, EXISTS)
• Allowed entering products in Include/Exclude by SKU number
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 7.2

2.6.4 – 29/11/2022

• Fixed issues in filtering variations & variable products
• New attributes added

2.6.3 – 13/11/2022

• New option to filter products by type (simple, variable, grouped)
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 7.1

2.6.2 – 04/11/2022

• Added new section for Custom meta filters
• New shortcode added alg_product_available_variations
• Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.1

2.6.1 – 15/10/2022

• Fixed Fatal Error messages appearing on multi-language feeds
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 7.0

2.6 – 20/09/2022

• Included new options to exclude categories by ID in Taxonomy shortcode
• Added a new option in interface to exclude tags if empty
• A new option to specify requirements for variations (Skroutz compatible)
• Compatibility with WooComemrce 6.9

2.5.4 – 06/09/2022

• Included new attributes (is_child, is_parent) for categories taxonomy to show each in separate row
• Included a new attribute (pick_order=N) for tag taxonomy to show multiple tags

2.5.3 – 10/08/2022

• Fixed a bug related to product tags
• Enhanced description shortcode to handle new lines properly
• Compatibility with WooComemrce 6.8

2.5.2 – 28/06/2022

• Added shortcode to include category IDs
• Added a shortcode to list attributes hierarchy
• Added a shortcode to list tags separately
• Verified compatibility with WooComemrce 6.6

2.5.1 – 12/06/2022

• Verified compatibily with WooCommerce 6.5 & WordPress 6.0

2.5 – 19/03/2022

• Verified compatibily with WooCommerce 6.3
• Added new attribute select=”min_price” to select the lowest price from variations

2.4.1 – 18/02/2022

• Added an attribute on_zero for shortcode [alg_product_sale_price] to handle sale price as fallback if price is zero

2.4 – 12/02/2022

• Fixed a bug that showed draft products in feed in particular cases
• Enhanced how feed should show products without stock
• Verified compatibily with WooCommerce 6.2

2.3 – 28/01/2022

• Verified compatibily with WordPress 5.9 & WooCommerce 6.1

2.2.6 – 11/10/2021

• Fixed a bug related to duplicating variations with pre-set filters
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 5.7

2.2.5 – 20/09/2021

• More WPML compatibilty with attribute exchange_rate for manual currency conversion when needed
• Added 2 attributes to [alg_product_stock_availability] to show specific values (Y,N) based on stock status

2.2.4 – 14/09/2021

• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 5.6
• Added parameters to work with Advanced Custom Fields plugin
• Fixed a notice message (Undefined index: sum_with)

2.2.3 – 16/08/2021

• Added parameter “strip tags” to [alg_product_description] shortcode
• Added a new shortcode [alg_product_publish_date] to include product publish date (date & time follow PHP date standards)

2.2.2 – 06/08/2021

• Allowed turning off schedule (useful when using cron jobs handling introduced in 2.2.1)
• Minor typo fix on showing stock

2.2.1 – 24/07/2021

• Added an option for manual cron job handling
• Fixed a bug that was duplicating products in feed
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 5.5 & WP 5.8

2.2 – 09/07/2021

• Added new shortcode to list variations based on stock status
• Added an attribute to show stock status without quantity
• Verified compatibility with WooCommerce 5.4

2.1.3 – 20/04/2021

• Tested compatibilty with WC 5.2 & WP 5.7

2.1.2 – 28/02/2021

• Tested compatibilty with WC 5.0

2.1.1 – 07/02/2021

• Added options to multiply/add flat prices to regular price shortcode

2.1 – 27/01/2021

• Added shortcodes for compatibiltity with multi language stores
• Enhanced on shortcodes for proper results
• Tested compatibility with WC 4.9

2.0 – 11/12/2020

• Fixed a warning message for query_post_type
• Tested compatibility with WC 4.8 & WP 5.6

1.9.6 – 15/11/2020

• Bug fix for fatal error that appears in some stores
• Tested compatibility with WC 4.7

1.9.5 – 22/09/2020

• Created a new option to export a .txt version for the output file
• Variations product will now read the parent long and short description by default

1.9.4 – 18/09/2020

• Added an option to remove plugin branding (XML footer) in Pro version

1.9.3 – 13/09/2020

• Added optional attributes to read from arrays
• [alg_product_sale_price] & [alg_product_regular_price] now show price ranges for variations of variable product
• Added a link to plugin homepage in XML footer
• Tested compatibility with WC 4.5

1.9.2 – 26/08/2020

• Bug fix: Plugin was showing instead of in shortcodes.
• Verified compatibility with WC 4.4 & WP 5.5

1.9.1 – 28/04/2020

• Fixed a bug that showed all attributes slugs in cases where it should show empty (no attributes value)

1.9 – 24/04/2020

• Feature: new shortcode added: [alg_product_categories_ids] to retrieve product category ids

1.8.2 – 15/04/2020

• Feature: Two new shortcodes added to show attribute slug & att. values slugs
• Tested compatibility with WC 4 & WP 5.4

1.8.1 – 01/03/2020

• Dev: Fixed a bug that showed variations twice in specific scenarios

1.8 – 08/02/2020

• Dev: Fixed filtering options bug for variation & variable products
• Overall code enhancement

1.7.6 – 29/01/2020

• Dev: Changed site_url to home_url in XML file path

1.7.4 – 02/01/2020

• Text updates over the plugin pages.
• Copyrights Update
• Added a section to review the plugin

1.7.3 – 20/11/2019

• Plugin author changed.

1.7.3 – 20/11/2019

• Plugin author changed.

1.7.2 – 17/11/2019

• Dev – General – Advanced Options – ‘”Raw” input’ option added.
• Tested up to: 5.3.

1.7.1 – 10/11/2019

• Fix – “Total XML files (feeds)” option fixed.

1.7.0 – 10/11/2019

• Dev – Feeds – Products Filtering Options – “Offset products” and “Total products” options added.
• Dev – Feeds – General Options – “Sorting” options added.
• Dev – Feeds – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 3.8.

1.6.0 – 01/11/2019

• Dev – Advanced Options – PHP time limit – Now applied to each block size in query loop. Default and min values are set to -1 now.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 3.7.

1.5.4 – 22/07/2019

• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_terms] – orderby – hierarchy value added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_terms] – orderby – term_id value added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_terms] – Code refactoring.

1.5.3 – 20/07/2019

• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_terms] – orderby attribute (and parent_id value) added.
• Dev – Feeds – Admin settings restyled (“Extra Products Filtering Options” section added).

1.5.2 – 19/07/2019

• Dev – Shortcodes – strip_shortcodes – yes-force – Pattern updated in preg_replace().

1.5.1 – 18/07/2019

• Dev – Feeds – Template Options – Default values for “XML header” and “XML item” updated.
• Dev – Feeds – Products Filtering Options – “Attribute to include” options added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – cdata attribute added to all shortcodes (defaults to no).
• Dev – Shortcodes – strip_shortcodes attribute added to all shortcodes (defaults to no) (other possible values: yes and yes-force).
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_variation_meta] shortcode added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_variation_data] shortcode added.

1.5.0 – 17/06/2019

• Dev – Shortcodes – on_empty_apply_shortcodes attribute added to all shortcodes (defaults to no).
• Dev – Shortcodes – variable_price_type attribute (defaults to range) added to alg_product_price, alg_product_price_excluding_tax and alg_product_price_including_tax shortcodes.

1.4.9 – 07/06/2019

• Fix – Feeds – Products Filtering Options – Stock status – Fixed for variations which have “Manage stock?” option enabled.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_terms] – Optional parent attribute added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_terms] – Code refactoring.

1.4.8 – 20/05/2019

• Fix – Shortcodes – [alg_product_stock_quantity] – Returning empty string instead of boolean false (fixes the issue with on_empty attribute).

1.4.7 – 15/05/2019

• Fix – Feeds – Template Options – Default templates are now correctly retrieved even if “Save changes” button was never clicked.
• Dev – Feeds – Template Options – XML item – Default template changed (CDATA added; less shortcodes included).
• Dev – Feeds – Advanced Options – “Query post type” option removed (now always set to “Products only”). This fixes the issue with “Products and variations” option and some “Products Filtering” section options.
• Dev – Shortcodes – custom_function global attribute added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – strip_tags global attribute added (defaults to yes).

1.4.6 – 09/05/2019

• Fix – Advanced Options – Set correct min values in settings.
• Dev – Feeds – Products Filtering Options – “Custom taxonomy to include” options added.
• Dev – Advanced Options – “PHP memory limit” option added.
• Dev – Tested up to: 5.2.

1.4.5 – 26/04/2019

• Dev – Shortcodes – General – [alg_format_date] shortcode added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – General – [alg_format_number] shortcode added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – General – [alg_to_timestamp] shortcode added.
• Dev – Settings – IDs added to product lists (in “Products Filtering Options > Products to include / exclude”).
• Dev – “WC tested up to” updated.

1.4.4 – 05/04/2019

• Dev – Advanced – “Query post type” option added.

1.4.3 – 27/03/2019

• Dev – Shortcodes – convert_currency_from, convert_currency_to and convert_currency_precision global shortcode attributes added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – find_replace_sep global shortcode attribute added. Now find and replace global shortcode attributes can find and replace multiple values.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_available_variations] – sep, sep2 and sep3 attributes added.
• Dev – Feeds – Products Filtering Options – “Catalog visibility” option added.
• Dev – Feeds – General Options – “WPML language” option added.

1.4.2 – 28/01/2019

• Dev – Variable products – “Variation products only” code rewritten (get_the_ID() added etc.).
• Dev – Feeds – Product “Min price” and “Max price” options added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled (subsections added).

1.4.1 – 24/01/2019

• Fix – Variable products – “Variation products only” option fixed.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_name] shortcode added.

1.4.0 – 26/11/2018

• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_description] shortcode added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_gallery_image_url] shortcode added.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_function] shortcode added.
• Dev – Feeds – Product “Stock status” options added.
• Dev – Feeds – “Admin title” option added (to set custom feed title (instead of “XML Feed #X”)).
• Dev – General – “PHP time limit” option added.
• Dev – General – Block size for products query default value changed to 512.
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Minor code refactoring.

1.3.1 – 18/10/2018

• Fix – Shortcodes – [alg_product_time_since_last_sale] – days_to_cover attribute fixed.
• Dev – Shortcodes – [alg_product_time_since_last_sale] – Code refactoring.

1.3.0 – 10/10/2018

• Fix – “Total XML files (feeds)” option fixed (new feeds settings are displayed at once now).
• Dev – use_parent_id attribute added to all “products” shortcodes.
• Dev – “Reset section settings” options added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled and descriptions updated.
• Dev – Plugin URI updated.

1.2.2 – 23/03/2018

• Dev – [alg_product_terms] shortcode added.
• Dev – General – Advanced – “Block Size for Products Query” option added.
• Dev – includes/shortcodes folder added.
• Dev – “WC tested up to” added to plugin header.

1.2.1 – 31/07/2017

• Dev – on_empty attribute added to all shortcodes.

1.2.0 – 27/07/2017

• Dev – WooCommerce v3 compatibility – Getting product ID and short description with functions (instead of accessing properties directly).
• Dev – WooCommerce v3 compatibility – get_price_including_tax() and get_price_excluding_tax() replaced with wc_get_price_including_tax() and wc_get_price_excluding_tax().
• Dev – WooCommerce v3 compatibility – get_tags() and get_categories() replaced with wc_get_product_tag_list() and wc_get_product_category_list().
• Dev – WooCommerce v3 compatibility – list_attributes() replaced with wc_display_product_attributes().
• Dev – WooCommerce v3 compatibility – $_product->get_dimensions( true ) replaced with wc_format_dimensions( $_product->get_dimensions( false ) ).
• Fix – [alg_product_available_variations] – “Glued” attributes bug fixed etc.
• Dev – [alg_product_id] shortcode added.
• Dev – [alg_product_time_since_last_sale] – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Link updated from http://coder.fm to https://wpcodefactory.com.
• Dev – Plugin header (“Text Domain” etc.) updated.
• Dev – Code cleanup and minor fixes.
• Dev – POT file added.

1.1.1 – 15/01/2017

• Fix – “If plugin is enabled” check fixed.

1.1.0 – 12/01/2017

• Fix – “Variable Products” option description and attributes fixed.
• Dev – Settings for each feed moved to separate section.
• Dev – [alg_current_datetime] shortcode added.
• Dev – Link to all available shortcodes added.

1.0.0 – 10/01/2017

• Initial Release.