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Jun
2011

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By Andy

Add related products to wp e-commerce (getshopped) store

On 05, Jun 2011 | 25 Comments | In getshopped, hack, php, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, wp e-commerce | By Andy

Here is a nice and simple way to enable related products on a single product page when using wp e-commerce. There’s only four steps!

Step one: Download the “Related Posts” plugin from http://www.microkid.net/wordpress/related-posts/ and install it.

Step two: Set up the plugin and familiarise yourself with the admin panel. Here is a great place to start.

Step three: Insert the following where you want your related products to display (for me this is in the imported wpsc-single_product.php file in my theme folder)-

MRP_show_related_posts()

Step four: Change line 450 in microkids-related-posts.php (now in your wp-content/plugins/microkids-related-posts folder)

FROM

$output .= "<li><a href="".get_permalink( $related_post->ID )."">".$related_post->post_title."</a></li>n";

TO

$output .= "<li><a href="".get_permalink( $related_post->ID ).""><img src="".wpsc_the_product_thumbnail(get_option('product_image_width'),get_option('product_image_height'),$related_post->ID,'single')."" ><br>".$related_post->post_title."</a></li>n";

And you’re done.
:-)

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  1. June 10, 2012

    Reply
    foamex board printers

    Nice post really usefull for wp-ecommerce plugin thx

  2. May 25, 2012

    Reply
    claudia

    Hi… I did it all…and I get a

    Error de HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error) any clue???

    • August 7, 2012

      Reply
      Andy

      Hey Claudia,

      Im afraid I cant help much more without logging in to your site and having a poke around. :-)

  3. April 6, 2012

    Reply
    fkrx

    FYI, they updated the plugin. Instead of changing line 450, now it’s line 658

    • April 11, 2012

      Reply
      fish

      thnx :-)

  4. February 22, 2012

    Reply
    saad

    i try it in my site but always give none….means no related posts why?
    m using shortcode in single-post [related-posts posttype=products] but result none.. :(

    • March 22, 2012

      Reply
      fish

      I would double check the syntax for the shortcode. That doesn’t look quite right to me.

  5. February 9, 2012

    Reply
    James

    How can I set the thumbnails to automatically go to 180 x 180?

    • February 9, 2012

      Reply
      fish

      You should be able to set the thumbnail width and height in your settings panel for getshopped. :-)

  6. February 9, 2012

    Reply
    Glennyboy

    Hi
    Can’t seem to get this to output image + product link without php error.

    I think it’s because of new WP E-Commecce ver 3.8.7.5 .

    Anyone able to update the code as such?

    Cheers

    Glennyboy

    • February 9, 2012

      Reply
      fish

      Sorry, i havent had a chance to look at this… did you find a solution?

  7. February 9, 2012

    Reply
    Raphael Essoo-Snowdon

    I’m getting a parse error when changing that line on 450. Any ideas?

    • February 9, 2012

      Reply
      fish

      Afraid not mate.. Are you still getting it?

  8. February 9, 2012

    Reply
    Rys

    Thanks for this great information and plugin but unfortunately it does not seems to work , I’ve followed your instruction and use Advance implementation but still no luck.

    btw one question what the product refer to show as related a “tag”, “category” or what? I didn’t find it in the tutorial above.

    Thanks,

    • February 9, 2012

      Reply
      fish

      Sorry for the late response…. are you still having problems with this?

  9. August 10, 2011

    Reply
    Jon

    Excellent, was looking at how to add related products, the only problem I have now is it seems to put a massive load on my server (admittedly a shared server) should I get a dedicated server?

    • August 12, 2011

      Reply
      FCW

      Hi Jon

      I would not imagine that you need a dedicated server. But it depends on the size of the site and the amount of traffic it gets. Do you have visitor stats?

      Andy

  10. July 25, 2011

    Reply
    Omer

    Hi,

    I have follow the steps you mentioned but my Single Product Page still showing no related products … Am i missing something?

    Thnx Heaps

    • July 25, 2011

      Reply
      FCW

      Hi Omer,

      Have you got this code in your wpsc-single_product.php file MRP_show_related_posts()?

  11. July 21, 2011

    Reply
    Stephen

    Thanks for this. Was just what I was looking for my product pages.

    Would never have manage this without your help!

  12. July 5, 2011

    Reply
    Noel Christmas

    HI!

    Where in the wpsc-single_product.php should I put this MRP_show_related_posts() code?

    When I copy it to the end of the code it just displays that code(as a text) on my single product pages. Any ideas=)? Thanks

    • July 7, 2011

      Reply
      FCW

      Hello

      You need to ensure the code is wrapped in php tags -

      < ?php ...code here... ?>

  13. June 20, 2011

    Reply
    Linda

    Thanks for the great step-by-step tutorial, it worked great. I was wondering if there’s a way to do the same thing for the widget so that the related product thumbnails also appear in the sidebar and not just the links?

    • July 7, 2011

      Reply
      FCW

      Hi

      You should be able to do the same thing. Essentially you need to find the code that outputs the text and replace it with

      ID,’single’).”" >

      I’m not at my computer right now but will confirm that when I’m back at it. :-)

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