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Option to select “google_product_category” and edit Content API feed
Currently the feed that gets synced using Content API to the Google Merchant Center is showing up the product descriptions with all the WordPress shortcodes, for example:
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etc
It would be great if we could edit or override the product data that gets synced over to the Merchant Center so that product details show accurately.
Also, it automatically selects a product category because I can’t provide the correct product category.
I contacted Google about this, and they said I’d need to provide a category for “google _ product _ category” which I can’t find anywhere in the Plugin settings.
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Last updated: June 24, 2021
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This is very dissapointing. 3 years later and still no update.
I’ve made do with a workaround:
1. Add a list of google product categories to a product attribute on my site
2. Assign the attributes to the products accordingly
3. Go to the Attribute Mapping section for this plugin and set Target Attribute to “Material” and the Data source to: taxonomy:pa_(your_slug_here). so in my case it is taxonomy:pa_google-product-category
4. In google merchant, open your data source -> Content API.
5. Set Attribute rules: Replace google product category with “Content API.material”
6. Then to avoid the actual material attribute which we’ve hijacked for google product category from being applied, set another attribute rule for Material, where If Content API.material has a value -> Set to: ‘ ‘. If material has no value yet › Leave material blank.
Things to Note: eventhough the Material target attribute has a 200 character limit, most of the current google product categories fall under this limit. Also this way you can still manually add the material in google merchant without the woocommerce synce from overriding it
This is crucial. Please fix in coming updates!
This can be mapped using the attributes mapping, but its clunky as hell …
“google_product_category” is crucial. Please fix this urgently. Can´t be that complicated, as the option is available in Facebook plugin already.
Thans in advance. Please don’t wait another year….
Someting changed? Is seems it’s still impossibile to set up google_product_category and other google shopping fileds
Being able to correct google and set the google_product_category is crucial. At the moment quite a lot of products are put into incorrect categories
Has this been fixed, yet? All of my products are being put into the wrong categories!
I do currently use this plugin but without the ability to edit the “google_product_category” it does not work and my products continually get rejected by Google. I do also use the “Facebook for Woo Commerce” plugin and that does have the ability to add the “google_product_category”. Hopefully this will get fixed.