Using Shortcde to Create Products on the fly (like simple shopping cart)

[atombob]

I just bought the eStore plugin after using the simple version because I wanted the advanced coupon features. However, I see now that I can’t swap out the simple plugin with the pro one because everything is different.

Specifically, I was using shortcodes to create products Add to Cart buttons but now I have to manually add thousands of products using the Add Products page in the admin. Is there anyway around this? I want to be able to have a format similar to what I was using:

[wp_cart_button name=”” price=”” thumbnail=”” var1=””]

Thank you,

Tom Hartman

[wzp]

eStore uses a database to store product information (it is required to offer all the extra features estore has). You cannot create products “on the fly” using buttons.

Conceivably, you can take a brute force approach, to importing your “thousands of products” into the eStore database…

1. Save all the pages that have your old shortcodes, as text files.

2. Use a BASIC interpreter, such as Excel’s VBA, to parse out the product information from the saved text files; into a CSV format that has the essential product details, such as description and price.

3. Bulk upload the resulting CSV file into eStore.

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-bulk-upload-estore-products-from-a-csv-file-775

[atombob]

I was afraid of that. My products are dynamically generated with some substantial custom programming involved and integration with other plugins. It’ll be more efficient for me to edit the free version of the plugin since I don’t need all the bells and whistles of the pro version.

Thank you for replying

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