WooCommerce Compare Products extension for WooCommerce gives a you a product comparison feature that you’d only expect to find on the big corporate e-commerce sites.
Free Lite Version.
If you have not done so already we recommend you download and install WooCommerce Compare Products Lite from wordpress.org . Like 1,000′s of others you might find the Lite version features are all you need for your site search.
Got the Lite now want the Pro Version
If you are here because you have the Lite version and want the all the Pro Version Features that make WooCommerce Compare Products Pro a must have feature on your store, then you don’t need to read any further. Go right ahead and add it to your cart, complete the transaction and you will be just moments away from having WooCommerce Compare Products Pro on your site.
In case you need it here is a recap of the Pro Version features you will be unlocking with the Pro Version:
WooCommerce Compare Products Pro Features
- Upgrading to the Pro Version activates every feature that you see on the Lite version dashboard.
- Create the perfect layout and look for your compare features without touching the theme or plugin code.
Compare Express Products Manager
The Express Products Manager will save you so much time in setting up and editing the Compare feature across your entire product range that this feature alone is worth many times the price of the Pro Version upgrade.
- Manage the Compare feature on your entire Catalog from the Express Products manager admin panel.
- All Products and Product variations are auto loaded to the dashboard.
- On Click edit.
- Never have to leave the admin panel to add or edit the Compare feature on a product.
- See at a glance which products and variations have the compare feature activated.
- Save hours / days or weeks a year in time with Compare Express Product Manager
Watch this 84 second demonstration video to see why the Express Products Manager in the Pro Version is a must have feature.
Compare Widget Layout and Style
Use the Pro Version WYSIWYG feature to completely customize the look and layout of the Compare Widget.
- Thumbnails – Activate or deactivate the items thumbnails showing in the widget
- Thumbnails – set a custom size and position for the thumbnails.
- Thumbnails – create a custom thumbnails border
- Widget View Comparison table – Choose button or text link, custom button / text design and position.
- Clear All – Choose button or text link, custom button / text design and position relative to Compare feature.
- Customize the widget title and item counter. Use the themes widget title or create your own.
- Upload a custom remove from widget icon.
- Customize the Empty Widget message and font.
Grid View Style
WooCommerce Compare Products Pro Version enables you to customize how the Compare Feature shows on the shop, Product category and Product Tag pages on the Grid View extract.
- Choose to display as Button or Link text and customize the style of both.
- Activate the ‘View Compare’ feature that shows when the user adds a product to compare.
- ‘View Compare’ link shows under the compare button and is a link to the Comparison page.
- ‘View Compare’ saves the user having to go to the Compare widget to activate the comparison window.
- Customize the ‘View compare’ text and font styling.
Comparison Table styling
WooCommerce Compare Products Pro Version unlocks a full compliment of layout and styling features that enables you to fully customize the Comparison table. Features Include:
- Product Prices – Show or hide product prices on the table.
- Product Prices – if activated set the position of the product prices show and customize the font.
- ‘Add to Cart’ – Show or hide the Add to Cart function on the Comparison table.
- “Add to Cart’ – Choose to show as a Button or Linked text and style with full custom settings.
- Upload a Custom successfully added to Cart icon.
- ‘View Cart’ linked text that shows after item is added to cart. Full custom style settings.
- Custom Table style settings. Create a unique look by styling the background colour for table header and alternate rows.
- Custom table border style settings and row sizing options.
- Customize the Compare Feature Titles (Left Fixed Column), font and font style.
- Customize the font and font style for the table rows.
- Empty table row Cells text – set Default Font to show (or set as empty). Select font and font styling.
- Empty table row Cells custom background colour.
- Product name, set font, font size, font style and font colour.
- Print This Page message. Customize the text and text font.
- Choose to display Print This Page as a Button or Text Link. Full custom styling options for both.
- Choose to display Print This Page as a Button or Text Link. Full custom styling options for both.
Translations
We are always looking for language translations to add to the plugin’s language folder.
- English (default) – always included.
.po file (wo0_cp.po) in languages folder for translations.
If you do a translation for your site please send it to us for inclusion in the plugin language folder. We’ll acknowledge your work here. Use the Contact Us form to send your translation to us for inclusion in the plugins language files.
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Try the Free version first. You can download it from the plugins WordPress repository. Upgrading to the Pro version is a simple and seamless exercise. You will see all of the Pro Version features on the Lite Version. Upgrading to the Pro Version activates those features.
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Is it possible to add a custom link to the compare products page. We use the plugin more as a catalog where users have to request a quote. Can I possible add a button linking to the Contact page at the top. Maybe between the logo and print options? Thanks!
Any help would be great! I am stuck needing this very badly!
Hello Will,
Sorry have not responded to you before now – as luck would have it and believe it or not we are crazily building a WooCommerce Add to Quote , add to Order plugin where you activate ‘Quote Mode’ and the user adds items to there Quote cart just like a normal order.
We are only a couple of days away from finishing after 3 weeks of full on dev. You can see it here
http://compare.a3rev.com/shop
If you had that plugin with the compare products plugin it would show the Add to Quote button on each product –
Another thing we have been working on and just launched today is our new a3rev support forums – As you can see at the top of this page these forums are being shut down. No new topic can or should be posted here. here is a link to the WooCommerce forums http://a3rev.com/forums/forum/woocommerce-plugins/. Please post future support requests to the new forum – Thank you.
I need a pre-setup selection of products to be able for comparison. Example: compare all products in one category. How do I do that?
Hello Stefan,
That is very easy to do
On install the plugin auto creates all of your Product categories as Compare categories.
It auto Creates all of your Product attributes as Un-Assigned Compare Features.
If as you say you Only want 1 category – then only assign the Features to 1 category – that can be any one of the Compare categories that are auto created or a Custom category you create.
If you do not want any of the categories that are auto created – just delete them.
You can see that here on the plugins wiki docs
http://docs.a3rev.com/user-guides/woocommerce/compare-products/
Thank you.
I think you misunderstood my question. I have already done what you said. all categories that should be able for compareison are already setup.
But now i want my users to be able to compare all products under one category with only 1 click.
Lets say I have 3 products in category A.
When visitor is visiting category A on my homepage i want him to “compare all products in this cateogory”
sorry for my english
There’s an error in templates/product-compare.php on line.
Refine selections is spelt wrong.
Sorry, on line 32.
Thank Nicola,
Will correct that in the next update – did you say at one stage you have done a translation or am I mistaken? If by chance you have done one could we include it in the plugins language folder and credit you for it?
Hi Steve,
no i did not. It was an error reported by one of our customers and i found that it was an error of the plugin.
Hi,
If I activate Woocommerce Tab Manager, I lose my Compare Product PRO compare tab in product page. Is there anything that can be done to use both plugins?
Hello isopomo,
Sorry about your email address showing – have fixed that now. I cannot associate your email address with a Pro Version License. Please post again using the email address (It isn’t shown if you post as a non logged in user) that you used in the License purchase transaction so I can give you support here on the a3rev Pro License Support forums. Thank you.
It is still bought from woothemes like says few messages below
Should I buy it from you directly second time, Woothemes support is so slow that I have lost my hope with them to solve any issues.
Hello isopomo,
Yes sorry I had forgot that we had discussed that before down the forum. Purchasing any a3rev plugin Pro Version License gives you same day priority support and lifetime free updates. If you purchase a Woothemes license for this plugin (it is the only plugin we have on the Woothemes market place) then you must use their support. It is entirely up to you.
How can I setup a default comparison list?
Hello Micheal,
With Compare Products that is exactly what you do – Create Feature Comparison Sets. You do this by
1. Create Compare categories (call the category anything you like eg ‘default’)
2. Create the Compare Features list for that category
3. Assign products that share that feature list to the category and you have created a meaningful comparison table.
Use the IN-PLUGIN Style features to style the Compare feature output to match you theme design and you end us with a fantastic Compare feature on your site just like this compare products user.
There are extensive pictorial plugin docs to walk you through the process – see here.
Thank you
How do I get the Compare button to show in this page? Like the example you just presented above?
https://shop.360heros.com/product-category/360-plug-n-play-holders/
In your example they even show read more and I can’t seem to get this to show either. Very frustrating.
Hi Micheal,
The Compare Button does not show on any Product until you have assigned a product to a Compare category. When you do that the Feature is activated – to see if you have the Compare Feature Activated on any Product go to the ‘Products’ tab – and use the Express Products manager. If you would like me to log in and check your setting please set me up a temp wp-admin account and email me the creds – maybe that will help you get it all together? Please use the Contact Us form to send the creds.
Hi Michael,
Thank you for the access – have found the issue and will post it here so others can see. The button would not show on the Product page https://shop.360heros.com/product/h3pro7hd/ because you had the Product set as ‘Out of Stock’ –
Doing that removes the hooks that Compare Products needs to show the Compare Button. That is why the Pre-Order plugin could not show either. I just changed that setting from ‘out of Stock’ to ‘In Stock’ and it shows fine. Have sent you a detailed explanation of why that is so. Thank you.
Hi,
Thousands of product data, one by one, to compare configuration is too much trouble! Will the bulk import data comparison data with bulk import?
Look forward to a reply!
Thank you!
I use the import plug-ins: http://www.woothemes.com/products/product-csv-import-suite/
http://a3rev.com/shop/woocommerce-compare-products/
Hello Live Li,
Yes it is something that is on the plugins development roadmap. It involves building it as an extension – similar to the one your are using – will work like import variations.
Give me a bulk import the sample table of comparative data. Csv
Thank you!
I bought it from woothemes site, but anyway it is your plugin, isn´t it? Can I send some confirmation of the purchase to you via mail etc?
Hello Isopomo,
Yes it certainly is – But you purchased the license through WooThemes – Their License covers support and lifetime upgrades. An a3rev Pro License does the same. The issue you are having is easily solved – just deactivate the Lite version (you can’t have the Pro and lite activated at the same time). Once you have deactivated the lite the install and activate the Pro version.
As you have the Woothemes License for the plugin in future please post your support requests on the Woothemes support forum. If they cannot help you they will refer the issue to us anyway. Thank you.
Thank You! You made my day with this simple and correct answer
Woothemes support could not give me any answer to this in 3 days, only lists of things to go through in my WP-install and other plugins. I wish I bought that plugin directly from you but in the first place…
Your support is like it should be. Fast and accurate
Hi Isopomo
No problem – You will notice a big difference in the lite Version (if you have the latest version) and the WooThemes Pro version. We have sent them the updated version 8 days ago.
But they have not released it yet – see the Woo Version Changelog.
Might be an idea to politely ask Woo support to update the plugin so you can have all the new features.
I can not activate Compare Products Pro? It says Fatal Error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare woocp_install() (previously declared in /var/www/fs1/4/fanatica/fanaticaudiose/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products/admin/compare_init.php:7) in /var/www/fs1/4/fanatica/fanaticaudiose/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products-pro/compare_products.php on line 86
Hello,
Sorry I cannot find where you have purchased a WooCommerce Compare Products Pro Version license with the email address you used to post this support request.
Please post again using the email address you used in the transaction so I can confirm your Pro License and give you support. Thank you.
Hi, i think there’s a bug in IE9.
You use this code to open the popup in IE
window.open(compare_url, “‘.__(‘Product Comparison’, ‘woo_cp’).’”, “scrollbars=1, width=980, height=650″);
but IE9 does not support spaces in the second argument.
If i change it to
window.open(compare_url, “‘.__(‘ProductComparison’, ‘woo_cp’).’”, “scrollbars=1, width=980, height=650″);
it works fine. Please advise.
Hello Nicola,
Thank you – you are a champion. Have updated the plugin and sent out a new version update hot on the heels of yesterdays Massive feature upgrade – see the changelog here where we credited you with today’s Fix.
Thanks for the update and the credit
Happy to help!
i purchased your plugin from woothemes.com and needless to say it is a giant time suck. my only gripe is the lack of mass editing. i have over 38 products with 5-7 variations each. 250-266 total products. I have imported them using the CSV file import and variations import very fast. but your plugin is not picking up on the attributes that are assigned? do i need to go into every single product and make changes? please advise a workaround using a CSV file import
Hello James,
You bought the plugin from Woothemes – please go to there support forms for assistance. Thank you.
Hi, i think i found a bug.
I would like to translate “Technical details” in my po files, but i’m not able to find it.
I searched it in the code and found 2 instances:
in class-wc-compare-settings.php
$comparable_settings['compare_featured_tab'] = ‘Technical Details’;
and in class-wc-compare-filter.php
if ($compare_featured_tab == ”) $compare_featured_tab = ‘Technical Details’;
Those strings are untranslateable.
Found it, ty anyway…
I bought the pro version of the plugin and have only just started working with it, however I have an issue that I haven’t been able to resolve. The “Add to Cart” link in the comparison window does add the product to the cart, but it also opens a new comparison window in a new tab. This happens no matter whether I have it open on screen or in a new window. I added numerous products before I realized they were showing up in the cart, as the new tabs were so distracting. What is the proper behavior after adding a product to the cart, and how can I make that happen?
Hi David,
Can you give me a link so i can try it out to see what you are saying. If it is a dev site – please use screen to do a screencast of it and post that here. http://www.screenr.com/ Thank you
Hi Steve–
Thanks for your fast reply! Yes, the site is under development but free to access in its subfolder. Here is the shopping page:
http://fifieldseednfeed.com/web/shop/
Just two products entered with a few attributes each for testing purposes.
Many thanks–
Dave
Hi Steve–
Any recommendations regarding this link’s behavior? We’re launching this weekend, and I’ll have to remove the “Buy Now” links otherwise.
Thanks–
Dave
Hello David,
Sorry I have not replied – we have fixed that issue on the Major Version upgrade we have been working on now for 2 weeks. Was hoping to have it finished and out today – but it won’t be until Monday now. From the changelog here are the features we have added that resolve that issue
You can check those out and the many more new features here on this demo / testing site. I’d post the other 27 New features, 3 Fixes and 2 Tweaks that we have done so far – but it would take up to much room. Thank you.
Is the 2.06 Pro version of the “Compare Products” plugin compatible with WooCommerce 2.0 ?
Hello Anthony,
Yes and has been since the 25th of February see the changelog
All of our WooCommerce plugins are 100% compatible with WooCommerce V2.0 including backward version compatibility. – See this Blog post
Plus all plugins and themes have been tested for each ensuing WooCommerce upgrade since v2.0 – right up to the current v2.0.5
Hello,
I’ve got a little problem with your – apart from that – brilliant plugin (PRO version): the comparison window doesn’t show the “add to cart” button for affiliate products (only for ‘normal’ products).
Is there a way to add that button for such products? I guess and hope that’s just a minor issue which can be solved by a little tweak.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Matt
Hello Matt,
Thank you. I have checked and cannot find an a3rev Pro License record under the email address that you have used to post your support request?
If you used a different email address in the a3rev purchase transaction (it will be the same email address that your a3rev My Account is registered with) please reply using that address so I can identify the License and help you here. If you are using the Free lite version please post your request to the plugins WordPress support forum and we will deal with it there when we can. These forums are for our a3rev Pro License holders priority same day support. Thank you.
Hello Steve,
I’ve purchased your plugin at WooThemes so I don’t have an account here (unfortunately).
But I can send you my product key via email as a proof for having purchased the PRO version if you want?
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt,
Yes please use the Contact Us Form to email that to me. Thank you.
Hi Matt,
Thank you – got that – I am not sure what you mean by Affiliate Products? Can you please do a screencast of the issue and what the Affiliate Product is and how it is showing in your Compare Screen please. Please use screenr to make the screencast and post the link here. Thank you.
Hello Steve,
here’s the screencast: http://screenr.com/Mef7
For some reason screenr didn’t work properly and it extremely slowed down my browser, so the final “compare procucts” screen was displayed 1 second after the 5 minutes were up -.-
However, here’s a screenshot: http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/3206/zu5chbpf_png.htm
As you can see, product 2 (which I added as a “normal” product) shows the ‘add to cart’ button – but product 1 (which I added as an “external/affiliate product”) doesn’t show that button.
So I expected that such affiliate products would also show the ‘add to cart’ button but after clicking on it the user will be forwarded to the affiliate website, of course (i.e. to “http://heregoesmy-affiliate-link.com), instead of this product being placed in his shopping cart.
Now the question is: how can I make the ‘add to cart’ button show up for these affiliate products, too?
Thanks,
Matt
Hello Matt,
Good work on the screencast – know exactly what you are saying now. Compare Products does not show the Link for Affiliate Products in the Compare table – because we have not coded it to do so (missed that) and believe it or not with almost 15,000 users – no one else has ever brought that to our attention.
We are currently doing another major feature upgrade of the plugin and will add support for affiliate link for you to that upgrade. Will push that upgrade V2.0.8 to WooCommerce at this stage on Thursday and you will see it come through when they process that – Not sure how long that will take them. It can take them a while (longest we have ever seen is 2 weeks). I’ll let you know on here when we have sent them the pull request so you can request it through the Woo support forums – thank you.
Thank you very much for your help, Steve!
I’m glad that issue can be solved and maybe 1-2 more users will profit from that additional feature in the future.
Hi Matt,
Yes I think very few people must compare Affiliate products – maybe only you? That is a marketing edge you have. Thank you.
Dear,
Since v2.0.7 the Compare plugin results in a 404 error, both in popup as in new window mode. And in both languages in use on the site. Woo support cant seem to help me.
I’m running all the latest from wp, wpml, woo.
If you wish, i can provide login info to the site to look at it first hand.
Already thank you for the support.
Kind regards,
Didier
Hello Didier,
Welcome to a3rev – Yes sure – can you do 2 things for us – First please use screenr to do a screencast to show me the issues.
Then use the Contact us form to email wp-admin and ftp access account details and creds and we’ll take a look at the issues for you. Thank you.
Hello Didier,
Thank you for the creencast and the wp-admin and ftp access – Have checked it all and first thing we found is that the Product Comparison page that is auto created on install was missing. This page has the shortcode [product_comparison_page] and is required to show the results. Have created it and that page is now found http://www.cardioservice.eu/product-comparison/
But something is blocking the shortcode from working. Will investigate further and let you know when we find what is causing that. Thank you.
Dear Sir,
After checking the website it seems to be working fine.
Only problem is that the when on the french site the result of the comparison remains dutch.
Kind regards
Dear Steve,
I guess there’s maybe something residual in the sql concerning the intially installed lite version, followed by the succesive pro versions … ( i can see some traces of the lite version in the wpml string translations). But maybe this all has nothing to do.
Anyway, here’s what happening:
We also created a /fr product comparison page for the french part of the site
We upgraded to 2.0.8
The pages (which i guess were created manually by you) showed the [product_comparison_page] tag, but no products showed.
We deactivated/reactivated the plugin, and the site litteraly went blank. Nothing worked anymore.
-
Via ftp, we removed the plugin and deleted manually the [product_comparison_page] pages (in both languages)
We reactivated the plugin, hoping the [product_comparison_page] would be created automatically, as it should. It did not and again the site went blank.
For the time, It’s now removed again.
-
Help!
Looking forward to your support and solution.
Feel free to intervene on the site. Beware however, when ‘just’ activating now, the site will freeze and the plugin will have to be reloved via ftp.
Kind regards,
Didier
Hello Didier,
Just sent you an email – will look at it for you – but not till Monday – Fabulous new version out Monday as well – Take a look at the features here on this testing site. This upgrade sees the launch of this feature we have been working on for ages now – compare products is the first plugin we are rolling it out on.
Every feature you can see on that demo site – Product page, Grid View page , Widget and the Compare Window where styled within the plugin without writing a line of code.
Dear Steve,
Have you received our emails? We are still waiting on the update you proposed.
Kind regards,
Dear Steve,
After testing the new version we still have some problems that need resolving:
1. Product Page Compare Buttons
Button or text: -> how to translate this? (It’s not to be found in the wpml string translation, while all other texts are)
2. Widget
The widget does not always switch to the right one, after selecting another language
3. Fly out window
- header: print this page does not follow translation
- product column:
– [add to cart] panel not displayed into the correct language
– [add to cart] should say [select options] if the product has variations, and point to the products detail page
– the text price [from] is not displayed into the correct language
Kind regards,
Hello Didier,
It is a big plugin – we have have missed some strings – but we don’t do translations so we cannot know and no one has sent a .po file. Please send yours with a list of strings that can’t be translated.
Re:
Unless we see this on a site we cannot fix it – please send through the creds – wp-admin and ftp – I know you sent before but for security reasons we never keep them.
Re:
Actually not the case – the variations are added to compare not the parent and the add to cart links you back to the products to select the variations as WooCommerce does not create links for Variations.
Thank you.
Hi,
i’m from YIThemes team and i’m writing here to report a bug.
We bundled your WooCommerce Product Comparison plugin in one of our themes and before the update of WooCommerce 2, all was working fine.
Now with the latest version of your plugin, you removed the lightbox replaceing it with the popup.
A lot of our customers are complaining because the popup get blocked by the browser and does not allow people to compare their products.
Please, can you consider to add again the lightbox like it was before?
Thanks
Hello Nicola,
I’m not sure that you could accurately call a users browser settings a bug in our extension? When we built the new feature we where aware that unlike a ‘Lightbox pop-up’ a new window could be blocked if the user had ‘block pop-ups’ activated in their browsers. That was one of the reasons that we included the option to open Compare in a new window.
Please advise your customers who are complaining that the simple solution to their problem is already built into the plugin. They should change the ‘Open Compare in’ setting to “New Window’. Opening the Comparison table in a new window is actually a superior display to the window pop-up and the other big advantage is that the comparison table is, for the first time viewable in a mobile devise – right down to mobile phones. Thank you.
Ok, many thanks for the suggestion, i’ll try with this option!
Hi Steve,
Just bought the product, I’m hoping that it can be a good tool for our store. I find myself having to put in all the custom attributes again manually, if there’s no way around it, that is fine. The real problem is when the front end displays the original technical details and the new technical details.
Here’s an example:
http://tinyurl.com/bcdzyt7
Notice the additional information tab and the new technical details tab.
Putting all the attributes in again manually is a pain in the but, but it can be done. However, the repeating attributes on the front end neeeds to go. Is there a way to remove the technical details tab?
Hi Daniel,
Turn the Compare Products product page tab off on your setting dashboard. See item number 4 in the screen shot on the plugins wiki docs.
Daniel we have looked at the the attributes thing over and over – To create a meaningful Comparison we have to have Compare Categories that have set Compare Features. The issue is that WooCommerce Attributes are not assigned to WooCommerce Product Categories.
We have done all that we can to make the process as easy as possible.
1. The plugin auto Creates all Woo Product Categories as Compare categories.
2. The plugin auto creates all Woo Variations as Compare Features and the Variations Terms as Compare Feature Input Fields. If there is more than 1 term they are auto created as Mutli Select options, if there is only 1 term it is auto created as a single text input field.
But from there, because there is not link between Product categories an variations, you must manually assign each Compare Feature to a Compare category to create the comparable feature set.
Then a compare category must be assigned to each product and the Compare features values for that product added. If it is a size for example and you have created a sizes Compare feature with the input values as multi select – you can add the sizer by just checking a box.
Then to speed up the whole process of assigning the compare products to your catalog we built in the Compare Product Express Manager which allows you once you’ve set up all of your Compare feature sets (Cats and Features) to add Compare features to your entire catalog from the Products tab on the admin panel.
Which is actually 10 times faster than configuring the attributes / variations for each product. But yes I hear you – its another task in setting up your store. But Compare products is a wonderfully helpful feature when you are are buyer trying to decide on which product to purchase. I know because i just bought an iPad from retailer because they had compare products and it really helped me firstly decide which iPad was right for me and secondly where I would buy it. So I can say from first hand experience that Compare products got that store my $899 purchase and soon to be another for my mum.
Hi, I would like to check when the plugin will be made compatible with WooCommerce v2.0 (currently has issues instantiating the abstract class WC_Product). Love the plugin otherwise thanks
Hello Ryan – yes v2.0 and backwards – along with some great new features for Pro version license holders.
Thanks for the quick reply. I have the Pro version (bought from WooThemes) and am using it with the Scrollider theme (on a WAMP testing server). When I press the compare button I’m getting the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate abstract class WC_Product in D:\wamp\www\Barev2\wp-content\plugins\woocommerce-compare-products-pro\classes\class-wc-compare-functions.php on line 325
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0002 708184 {main}( ) ..\admin-ajax.php:0
2 1.3490 57227608 do_action( ) ..\admin-ajax.php:72
3 1.3490 57229072 call_user_func_array ( ) ..\plugin.php:406
4 1.3490 57229104 WC_Compare_Hook_Filter::woocp_get_popup( ) ..\plugin.php:406
5 1.3493 57232656 WC_Compare_Functions::get_compare_list_html_popup( ) ..\class-wc-compare-filter.php:442
Seems to be trying to instantiate the now changed abstract class WC_Product. Thanks in advance
The Compare Products seems to be working now with the second RC for WC2.0, however the tabs are not. When the Compare product page navigation tab is enabled (in any of the positions) I get this error code;
Warning: uasort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in http://www.yoursite.com.au\wp-content\plugins\woocommerce\woocommerce-template.php
Any ideas? Thanks
Hello Ryan,
What theme are you using? Here is the plugin installed on an a3rev Responsi theme which is Woo V2.0 compatible and has W2.0RC2 installed
and here is the plugin installed on Canvass with Woo V1.6.6
It is backward compatible – so I don’t know why when the Tabs are working fine on new and old why you are getting that – If you look at the message – it is a warning – not an error and it is coming from the WooCommerce plugin – not our plugin.
Warning: uasort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in http://www.yoursite.com.au\wp-content\plugins\woocommerce\woocommerce-template.php
It is installed on a Woo Themes Scrollider template. I have disabled all other plugins to see if it was an incompatibility, however I still only get the warning once I enable the compare tab to be shown (in any of the 4 positions). Setting it to do not show gets rid of the warning. I have attached an image of the warning, the name of the Compare tab that is meant to show is the “Product Information” link that’s above the warning.
Sorry the image is at http://tinypic.com/r/faq64n/6
Hi Ryan,
As I said that Warning Message message is coming from the WooCommerce plugin – not our Plugin – Have Woo updated that theme Scrollider for V2.0 yet? If not then you should wait until they do before testing V2.0RC2 and our plugin with it.
You can test what I mean for yourself – roll back to Woo version 1.6.6 on that site and then try it – you’ll see that our plugin is backward compatible. If you still have trouble after doing that – then let me know.
My apologies for the split up comments, just thought I would also note that the price is showing up as Free! in the compare product fly-out, when price has been defined. Thanks
The plugin can only show what WooCommerce outputs – which when you don’t put a price is the Word ‘Free’ – add a price and WooCommerce Compare products will show the price.
Ryan while you auditing our plug – Why don’t you give some feedback about the new window pop-up Compare Product display feature – its is a magnificent display with the option to show on screen or in a new window – If you add enough products you will see how the products scroll under the Features – Try it here on the demo site – there are 2 products with lots of variations – add them to Compare and try the window horizontal scroll to see all the results.
See how the Compare table is not a inner container – but instead the table is full screen and scroll is via the Window scroller – there is no open source script ever been created for that feature although many have tried – it took us a week to write it – but it makes for an awesome display of the Compare products table. Well we think so – we are very excited to have been able to create that.
Also try the completely rewritten Print function – added styling to the Print and now prints the entire tall of the compare table of 3 products.
Love the new window script, makes it much easier to compare lots of products at once, and very attractive too, awesome work. I will give the print function a go when I get home to a printer.
After trying it across 8 WooThemes (many of which are apparently WC2.0 compatible) and the Twenty eleven/twelve themes and getting the exact same warning and not displaying a price (which had been entered into WooCommerce, despite it saying Free) I have reverted to WC1.6.6, which is working perfectly (getting the price correctly and loading the tabs.) Looking forward to using Compare Products Pro with WC2.0 soon. Thanks again for your help
Love this plugin. Got the pro version and I’m happy with it’s functionality. Only having one issue currently. When I compare some products and click the print link, the image is cut off in the middle.
Like I said, if I’m viewing it online it works find, but I’d like to be able to print these off to PDF’s to email to customers requesting them.
Any suggestions?
Hi Steve,
Thank you. Can you please send me a link to the site and I’ll check it out for you.
Hi Steve,
I have emailed you several times to no response. Can you please reply back?
Sorry, I emailed you from my work account, please check for this address.
I want to use the compare plugin for affiliate sites – is it possible to create a fixed compare charts – so that the user needs not to click “add to compare” on ever product?
for example..a shortcut to display all smartphones.
.
Hello zambanini,
WooCommerce Compare Products allows users to create their own dynamic – ‘on the fly’ product comparisons.
What you are after is an entirely different funtion – Admin created static comparison tables. You could take a look at this premium plugin WP Comparison Charts.
I’m not recommending that plugin – don’t know anymore than watching a bit of the video – but its a Premium $29 plugin so that should mean the support is good.
no, a static compare table is stupid, since I’m talking about 300 products.
so, your plugin is NOT able to display a compare table with a short code like [compare table 1,3,5) for example?
if not, I will use the gpl plugin and extend it with a freelancer. (and post the gpl updates..maybe on wordpress, will see)
Does the compare products support comparison of custom product attributes? It doesn’t seem to list the custom product attributes I have added.
Additionally, the free plugin shows hundreds of deleted categories and attributes that all have been deleted..
I want to purchase this but I want to verify these things are working properly.
Hello Andreas,
Let me look – 7,400+ downloads of the free lite version and 13 support requests – all resolved – The extension has been for sale on the WooCommerce Extension market place since June and we have had 2 support requests from there both resolved – and you can read the support forum here for yourself – every issue resolved.
Does the plugin work? What do you think?
Hi Steve,
I actually read through every support request and was happy with the support level that I read.
But specifically I asked two simple questions..
The reason why I am asking, the last two products I purchased from Woocommerce took over 1 month of support emails (seriously, more than 40 emails back and forth) to get it working.
I don’t want to do that again.
Hi Andreas,
Good if you have read through the forums and the Pro Version owners reviews on all of our plugins you would by now realize that if there is a problem we fix it – usually with a day.
The answer to your questions are:
The plugin cannot auto create custom attributes because there is nothing to create them from – they are meta data on a single product. It does auto create Attributes that are created in WooCommerce > Attributes
It is impossible for the plugin to auto create Product categories and attributes that have been deleted – simply because they no longer exist. It is interesting that you say that the free light version has done that – how is that possible – can’t create something that dose not exist – unless on your install they are not deleted from your database -when you delete them from the Woo cat and attribute dashboard.
Anyway – if you do end up purchasing a pro license and that problem exists – just let me know and we will take a look at it for you. Thank you.
I am actually trying to purchase it now.. I would like to send you a screenshot of the strange situation I am having with the free version.. maybe it will disappear after I purchase the pro.
Hi,
Is it possible to make the add to cart button to checkbox?
Hello Purads,
No the Plugin does not support that.
Hello,
I just bought the pro version of woocommerce-compare-products.
After installation when I try to insert the activation key (i double checked it) I get a HTTP 500 error.
I tried the installation procedure 3 times (I am sure I followed the suggested steps) and always I get the same error.
Could you please help me?
Andrea
I also found this in my web server log:
[Mon Nov 26 16:32:28 2012] [error] [client 194.183.83.192] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /var/www/mysecrettoys.it/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products-pro/admin/compare_init.php(36) : eval()’d code on line 1, referer: http://www.mysecrettoys.it/wp-admin/admin.php?page=woo-compare-settings
maybe this can help you.
Also I’ve installed the predictive-search and activate succesfully …..
OK, I had to update and install the php5-curl library for my debian.
Everything fine !
I was surprised because the predictive search plugin did activate properly
Tnx anyway
Andrea
Hello Andrea,
Yes we are in the process of completely moving away from cURL plugin activation to using wp_remote_request for Activation and auto updates. We are trialling it in the Predictive Search Pro plugin and others – hence why it activated for you – The WooCommerce Compare Products Pro plugin only have cURL call to the API – so thanks for the feedback and pleased you sorted it out.
Hello Andrea,
Our API is showing that you have WooCommerce Compare products Pro installed and activated on your site? Is it OK?
How can i retrieve my auth. key. I transfered my website from demo url to original url.
(from “http://rekartadesign.com/ofsis” to “ofsis.net”)
Now plugin is not working.. it asks for authorization key.
Thanks,
Gökçin
Hello Gökçin,
The Pro Version Licenses are Single Domain Licenses – that means you can have the Pro version installed on any number of locals, sub domains, dev sites, live domains – but only active on one at any time.
Our API is showing that you have the Pro Version installed and activated on rekartadesign.com
All you have to do is deactivate the plugin on http://rekartadesign.com/ofsis and use your Authorization Key to then activate it on ofsis.net
Thank you.
If a product contained sound clips, would it be possible to compare those sound clips with WooCommerce Compare Sound Clips?
BTW, really impressed with the way you deal with questions, even pointing to other similar plugins e.g. the chart comparison. Above and beyond!
Hi David,
Thanks – You’ll know if its possible when you try the Lite Version – If the sound clip audio File is attached to the Shopping cart – it may well work right out of the Box. If it does not – I would not think it would take much of a tweak on the Pro Version of the plugin and perhaps on your theme so that it did.
Hello Steve,
We REALLY need your help concerning the “Compare Products” variations not displaying correctly in our WooCommerce front end AND in the admin backend.
Have two more clients that want this plugin for their shop.
Just RE-sent you and email through your website and to your email address concerning this.
Please reply.
——————————-
As courtesy, we would also like to let you know that there are two websites that are boot legging your “Compare” version 2.0.1 script.
We sent these bootleg links to your email.
Hi,
Anyway that features can be searchable on frontend.
Hi Mike,
Sorry I have no idea what that comment is in relation to as it is not posted as a reply? So I not being ignorant – I just don’t know what it means.
Hello,
I am trying to compare competitor products with Compare Products Pro.
Competitor Products are not supposed to show up in the Search nor in the Catalog.
This is what I did:
I set up the competitor product as a product in WooCommerce.
Then I played around with the Visibility and Catalog Visibility so the competitor’s product shows in the Compare product feature, but not in the catalog; which, however, does not work. I’d have to make competitor products fully visible in order to make them show up in the compare product feature.
How can I solve this little conundrum?
Thank you for your time!
Hello Poyel,
Yes single products must be visible or how else do you add them to the compare basket to compare them.
The only way you might achieve it is have a play around creating the competitors products as a variation of your product – you can create the competitors products as an Attribute and make it variable but not visible on the product page. Then activate the compare feature on each variable , assign it to the same Compare Category as the parent product and add the feature field data which will give you side by side comparison.
But its not the ideal solution because the competitors products show as variations of your product. Plus you’d have to create you own product as an attribute so it was included in the comparison. On variable products the variations are compared not the parent. See more about Compare variations here on the docs.
It is a work around but not the ideal solution to what you want which is to be able to compare competitor products – but compare products is build for comparing products that are available for sale or sale by inquiry on a WooCommerce site – not comparing products from competitors.
—– Original Message —–
Thanks, Steve.
I am aware that the purpose of compare products is to make the decision process easier for customers.
I guess a nice feature would be (and that would solve my issue too) to allow for pre-populated (or suggested) comparison baskets which then can also include products not visible in the catalog.
For the meantime, do you know of any other plugin being capable of achieving what I am looking for?
Hi Poyel,
What you are describing is what is called a Feature Comparison Chart – I just googled that for you and found this Premium WP plugin WP Comparison Charts – Watch the video and it will show you how it works – the Feature Comparison tables are created from posts on products – in other words products not in your store.
It looks to me to be what you are after – I did not see enough to see if the plugin supports adding the feature via a shortcode to a product page. Even nicer if it was a button that triggered a pop-up with the static comparison table in it. That would seem to enable you to have both Compare Products and a static Comparison table with any number of competitor products in it.
I’m not recommending that plugin – don’t know anymore than watching a bit of the video – but its a Premium $29 plugin so that should mean the support is good.
Hope that helps you.
Thanks, Steven, this does help!
Hope you enjoy the tip posted earlier below.
1) Is it possible to get the ( “Compare Basket” ) to show up in a NON-widgeted area by extracting a snippet of PHP code or with a WP shortcode?
2) Can the lightbox be made “responsive” for mobile devices. Presently, you have to scroll about 2 inches right before you see a product. Or is it possible to EMBED the lightbox result into a page?
Great product, by the way.
Plan to purchase more.
Look forward to your reply.
Hi Anthony,
1) Is it possible to get the ( “Compare Basket” ) to show up in a NON-widgeted area by extracting a snippet of PHP code or with a WP shortcode?
It maybe – but its a lot of work and yours is the only e-commerce theme i have ever seen that does not have a sidebar – so I would not be keen to put the hours in because I think it is just a customization for your theme – in other words, its not a feature add that would justify the time required to build it. You probably can because its your theme.
2) Can the lightbox be made “responsive” for mobile devices. Presently, you have to scroll about 2 inches right before you see a product.
Yes we are currently developing this feature in our lab.
Or is it possible to EMBED the lightbox result into a page?
No
Why don’t you just add a Widget area to you theme where you have the related products showing at the bottom – you could put it over to the right and it would work with your responsive design and then you can just add the Compare Widget there.
Hello Steve,
I figured a code hack for what I posted earlier;
Open up the class-wc-compare-filter.php file and go to line 148.
Change:
‘.WC_Compare_Functions::get_variation_name($variation_id).’
To Say:
‘.WC_Compare_Functions::get_variation_name($product_id).’
This will get rid of the variables like “color” and “size” from showing up next to the product titles that are under the “Technical Details”
EXAMPLE: instead of “Gucci – Size Colors”, it would now say “Gucci”
Hi Anthony,
Very nice site btw.
Can you post me a link where you have done this?
You will notice that the titles under the “Options” (formerly “Technical Details”) tab display the products’ variables right next to them.
For example at http://www.pigomultimedia.com/mobile_shopcart_1.0/shop/black-serious-2/
Under the “Options” tab it will say, “Black & Serious – Size Colors” instead of just “Black & Serious”
Is there a code hack to get the product variables to not display within the product’s title?
Hi Anthony,
You can hack the code all you want – or you could just turn that feature off in the Settings tab – see the docs
http://docs.a3rev.com/user-guides/woocommerce/compare-products/#section-8
Item number 4 on the image – Compare product page navigation tab.
and here – Product Page Compare navigation tab
http://docs.a3rev.com/user-guides/woocommerce/compare-products/#section-12
If you go to http://www.pigomultimedia.com/mobile_shopcart_1.0/shop/prada-brown/?variation_selected=1889
You will notice that after you hit the “Compare This” button that there is no where that a “Compare” ( to see the results) can be seen.
The only way to accomplish this would be to use a side bar with a widget (which we are not using on this particular single-product page)
Is there a way that we can place a link or button next to the “Compare This” button so that the lightbox window will open up?
Hi Anthony,
The key to a compare products feature is being able to …….
‘Compare Products’
To do that first you must be able to select the products that you want to be able to compare and add them to a ‘basket’ where you can compare them from – see the docs
Sidebar Widget (Compare Basket)
http://docs.a3rev.com/user-guides/woocommerce/compare-products/#section-6
The Basket can be used in any widget ready area of your side – not just the sidebar – see that same docs link – you can put it in the header / footer – anywhere you have a widgeted area.
Then people can activated the compare pop-up window from the basket – again see docs – Compare pop-up window.
http://docs.a3rev.com/user-guides/woocommerce/compare-products/#section-7
Will there ever be a shortcode created for this so that we do not need a PHP snippet?
Hi Anthony,
Compare cannot be inserted with a shortcode – Its attached the the product – the products add to cart button in fact.
What is does do is work with WooCommerce product shortcodes. If you place a product by shortcode on a post or page and that product has the Compare Feature activated – then it shows the Compare button/feature as well as the add to cart button for that product.
Thanks!
We see the reversal came through.
One question is, how do we get updates to this plugin?
Hi Anthony,
It all automated – You get an email as soon as an update is released and you can download and install via the WP uploader or ftp. Plus you get an auto update notice on your wp-plugins dashboard and you click the update now link and let WordPress do the rest for you.
Hi Anthony,
Relax please – its just after 8am – The refund has been done – you should have confirmation from PayPay anytime soon.
OK. Now we know what happened.
We purchased the wrong plugin for our platform.
We were supposed to have purchased the one for WOO COMMERCE.
Which we are going to do right now.
PLEASE REVERSE the charges for the “WP e-Commerce Compare Products” plugin.
You will see that *** WE ARE NOW PURCHASING THE ONE FOR WOOCOMMERCE***
Sorry for the mix-up.
How can we update the compare pro to version 2?
Hi Steve Truman,
We already buy compare pro last month but there’s no update notification from 2.0. Please help how to update to 2.0.
Hi ken,
Sorry did not respond yesterday – WooCommerce just updated Compare Products to version 2.0 a few hours ago. You purchased the extension through them so the update will come from them – Check your sites plugins admin panel again – the auto update might be showing there now.
If you don’t see it there soon you can go to the WooCommerce members forum and post it as support topic. http://www.woothemes.com/support-forum/#member_forums
Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reply there’s still no updates now but I’ll wait for another day if there still no notification I’ll just post on the forum.
Thanks again!
Ken
Hi ken,
Yes I can only guess that Woo’s updates run on a cron like ours do and don’t show as an auto update until 24hours after release – I know that it has been updated because i see the changlog has been updated on the extensions page http://www.woothemes.com/changelogs/extensions/compareproductspro/changelog.txt
Anyway – sorry i can’t be more help – but i think you are going to really like v2.0.0 major upgrade features.
Hi Steve,
I already updated compare products pro to 2.0 but I don’t see any settings that includes the product’s attribute in comparing products. This is the only thing that I expecting from 2.0 update as you’ve said on Andrea’s post.
Hi Ken,
on the Features Tab – what you should be seeing after upgrading to v2.0 is that the extension has auto create all of your Product Categories as Compare categories like this http://cl.ly/image/182q3f1K3E1N/o
Then down under the Compare categories you will see that all of your Parent attributes have been added as ‘un-assigned’ Compare Features like this – http://cl.ly/image/3b230Y3X3R2z
Please confirm with me that is what you can see on your site after upgrading?
Hi Steve,
Yes, I’ve seen that but what I was expecting is the attribute for what we assigned on the products is automatically assigned also in compare pro feature. Cause for now the process is we need attribute to be set on the products because we want it to be filtered then we need to map again the attributes on the products as features in compare pro to only display it when comparing it to the other products. This is also the problem by Andrea’s post below.
Hi Ken,
Yes, I’ve seen that but what I was expecting is the attribute for what we assigned on the products is automatically assigned also in compare pro feature.
Ken that is not the way Compare products works – Compare Features (those created from Product Attributes and those custom created) are assigned to Compare Categories not products – Compare categories are assigned to Products. That is the only way you can Compare Products Feature by Feature. The common denominator is the Compare Category. Each category has a group of features for comparison. The extension Creates Compare categories from your product categories and sub categories and allows you to create your own custom categories independent of the Product categories.
Firstly the Attributes when Created are created as ‘UN-Assigned’ attributes because you must assign them to a Compare category. The extension cannot auto know which Compare Category it is supposed to be assigned to. That is because Product Attributes are not assigned to Product Categories. So you must edit each – which is a very quick and simple process and you are able to delete unwanted Compare Features (Attributes) and assign a single attribute to Multiple Compare categories.
The next reason why they are created as ‘Un-assigned’ Compare features is because while editing you can Create Units of measurement and Feature Input types – The extension cannot auto know any of this – see here a screenshot of edit Compare Feature http://cl.ly/image/0A3e3f0D0B34
Creating Input types such as check boxes and dropdowns is a huge advantage for the time if saves in adding features input data. http://cl.ly/image/1h0p3r12022G/o
If you are updating from Version 1.0.0 or version the Free version 1.5.0 all of the Products you have set up are unaffected by the upgrade.
If you are creating from scratch the Products express updater makes adding the Compare Category and then that categories Feature Field data input very quick. http://cl.ly/image/2F1E1w1E0H3I
This is also the problem by Andrea’s post below.
Ken go back and re-read what Andrea was asking for – She actually wanted the extension to auto create her Attributes as Compare features so she did not have to create each one manually as a Compare feature – which is exactly what v2.0.0 does. But it does more than that in that it also creates all Product categories as compare Categories and listens to Product categories and attributes and auto creates them when they are created.
Hi Steve,
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Andrea
May 31, 2012 12:28 am
Steve, first of all thanks for your fast response!!
I have lot of attributes, approx 30 of type Select, like
- type
- producer
- diameter
- energy dissipation
- height
- strenght
- certification class
- etc etc
Customers choose these attributes in the shop sidebar using the “layered nav” widgets to filter available products.
I think the same product attributes should be available on the compare window, so that the customer can see the difference between selected products.
Now I have to maually replicate all the attributes as features inside Compare.”
My point is:
• I have a attribute value in woocommerce in every product.
• I manually set this because to use the layered nav filter of woocommerce you must set a attribute value for a products.
Ex. (attribute) Color = (value) Blue
• These attributes and it’s value will be shown on the product info (but I’ll just make it not visible because if I have this at compare pro feature it is also displayed).
• I know you can set a attributes per category so you’ll just select a value or input it.
• My problem is if only the product attribute value that I set on product to be applied on the compare pro feature attribute let’s say I already make a set of attributes to be used on this category or product.
• What we do now is we just add again the (attribute) Color (Value) Blue in compare pro just to show it on the product comparison data.
“Now I have to maually replicate all the attributes as features inside Compare.” – Andrea
Hi ken
You have a lot of attributes approx 30.
Now I have to maually replicate all the attributes as features inside Compare.
No you don’t – All parent attributes are auto created as compare features by the extension.
I see what you are asking for is the Attributes values that you have manually set on your sites attributes to be auto created by compares as data values for the Compare features Fields
What we do now is we just add again the (attribute) Color (Value) Blue in compare pro just to show it on the product comparison data.
No you don’t
Use your example Attribute Colour – Which is auto created as a Compare Feature.
The data values with all the possible choices for colour of anything on your site are Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, Black, Brown, bitsa, ornage, pink, purple, sea green, white, crimson, maroon, black with pink spots.. whatever
On the edit Colour Compare Feature Create an input Field once that is a Check list or radio Buttons. Use radio Buttons and creatae multiple choice selection. It takes no time at all – then assign that feature Field Colour to every Compare category on your site. – done.
Then when you are adding the Compare Features for any products its tick and flick. Just click on the colours that apply to that category of products. Like this example of Number of people a hot water system will service – You don’t have to write it over and over again – just tick and flick
Or create it as a dropdown if the are more characters in the value
That is why it has been created that way to give users the ultimate flexibility.
No sorry the extension does not copy your Attributes data value – it can’t because it does not know what Input type that the data should be created in.
We could have just created it all as single line input text – but them that would not have suited everyone – so we have given you the flexibility to create the input data anyway you want. Yes its a bit of work sure, but we have made it very easy with the structure and the Products express editor. The Products express manager feature alone speeds the process up by at least 50 times – unlike when you created the Product Attributes data and had to go to each page individually and edit with the products express manager you do it all right there on you Compare admin page.
Hi Steve,
Can you make this on your next update that the product attribute and it’s value can be included on the compare data when comparing?
As you can see my problem is we create products through csv spreadsheet then we upload it to woocommerce and the product attribute value is set also.
We use the product attribute in woocommerce for layer nav filter widget based on it’s value (that’s why setting a value in in woocommerce product attribute is important so we can filter the products based on attribute value).
Now for instance we uploaded 100 products then after that we need to set it on “WooCommerce Compare Products Manager” one by one again just to set the values on compare pro features (I already create compare category and it’s features and it’s field same as my attributes in woocommerce product) that we put same on the product attribute value in woocommerce just to make it viewable when comparing products.
as you can see if only the compare pro feature gets the value in product attribute value if they have same name so we will not set a feature value again after we upload just to make the attributes/features be viewable on compare and also if we change the value on our attribute in woocommerce we need also to change it in compare pro feature value.
I think for me this is also their problem:
“Now I have to manually replicate all the attributes as features inside Compare.” – Andrea
“I am trying to do this also.
I want my Attributes or Categories for each product, to be the items that are on the compare.” – jamie
Is it possible?
WooCommerce Compare Products Manager “Feature Field” == WooCommerce product “Attribute Field”
Hi Ken,
OK, I’ve been away and had a think about all of this and this is what I think we can do. Please give me any feedback you think is appropriate.
Existing Features
This is what Compare Products Pro V2.0.0 does now when it is installed and activated. It auto
Creates all Product Categories as => Compare categories
Creates all Product Sub categories as => Compare categories
Creates all Product Attributes as => ‘Un-Assigned’ Compare features (Features must be assigned to at least 1 Compare category to activate)
This is what the extension does after the initial activation:
Compare Listens to the Product Categories and Sub categories and whenever a new Product categories or Product sub categories is created, then Compare auto creates a => Compare category of the same name.
Compare listens to the Product Attributes and whenever a new Product attribute is created, then Compare auto creates an => ‘Un-assigned’ Compare feature of the same name.
Possible upgrade feature:
While auto creating Product Attributes as => ‘Un-assigned’ Compare features the extension will.
Create all of an Attributes ‘Terms’ as Input data type => [ ] Check box (which is multiple choice)
The ‘Un-assigned’ features are added to a table on the FEATURES tab under the Compare categories.
Lets use an example – a site has an Attribute ‘Colour’ which has terms
Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Black
This attribute would be created as an ‘Un-assigned’ Compare Feature called ‘Colour’
Compare Feature Colour would have input vales – Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Black created as Check Box multiple choice data.
Then all a user has to do after installing the extension is.
1. Edit feature and assign if to Compare categories.
2. Go to Products page click Edit – assign the Product to a compare category and tick the appropriate colour check boxes for that product.
The extension would auto create Product Attributes as Compare Features and auto add all of Product Attributes terms as the Input data for that Compare feature.
Ken from what you have outlined – I think that is the extra feature you are requesting?
After updating to v2.0 product compare no longer works,
after click on compare product checkmark will appear at will be gone in a few seconds at it says “Compare Products (null)” on the widget
Hi maxserv,
It looks like something in your theme is blocking the sidebar widget ajax load, but can’t be sure – have sent you an email requesting wp_admin access to you site so I can log in and take a closer look for you.
My compare button in the widget has stopped working in Firefox and IE 9. It still works in Chrome.
Could you please help me.
Regards
Bob
Hi Bob,
Have you tried it on a different machine – Just looked at your site in Firefox and the compare button Button and pop up are working fine for me. I’ll ask some of the team to check on their machines tomorrow.
By the way – wow – the Compare feature the way you have set it is awesome – best I’ve seen – well done.
After seeing this entry and the comment, I wanted to look at the mentioned site. As Steve states, the presentations for the “Quick Glance” section was unusual and that makes the Compare feature unique; in a good way. Congratulations bob, nice job.
But there seems to be a fitting problem, and as a result a second vertical scroll-bar on the right-side occurs; the horizontal scroll-bar at the bottom is nearly getting out of visible area, difficult to controll. maybe some css-retouching is needed.
Later on I decided to test my own configuration. then I noticed that I have another “strange” behaviour about the “Compare” Button:
It stopped working on shop-base page and category/subcategory pages even does not working in any other page or blog-post, it ONLY works in single-product page!
BTW, what is the problem with this page?
On top; it says there are (94) comments; and I know there were more; but now, I ONLY see the latest 2 (bob and steve’s) comments above!
No other comments, no pagination, nothing!
From the links on the above comment’s dates, I can see that there is a slug as “comment-page-2″ in the permalink structure:
http://a3rev.com/products-page/woocommerce/woocommerce-compare-products/comment-page-2/#comment-4788
so where is comment-page-1 ?
Hi ManusH,
Can you give me a link to the site you mentioned where the Compare Button does not work in your sidebars and I’ll take a look for you.
BTW the comments where not showing here because the allowable limit to show had been reached. That’s all.
I will for 99% certainty buy this IF I decide to go for Woocommerce,
I do wonder however if you “do requests” or/and are willing to add function/s for payment.
It’s not a big thing (I think). When you click [compare] and the products of choice popsup you can also print this out. I would like a [share] or [link] option. aka
You click [link] and then you can post this link into email, any socialmedia, forum, etc. to show others.
If you look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GaxfUUCwqE [share] function you get what I am after. A tad more advanced than only a [link], but very user friendly.
Is this possible to solve by you (aka would you be willing
)
Hi johanlm,
On the face of it that sounds simple enough – any share facility would of have to work via a 3rd party plugin as it is never a good idea to have 2 different social sharing plugins active on your site – there are many i.e – Sharedaddy, Share This, WordPress Facebook, Add this are the main ones I can think of offhand – but for example do a Facebook search on WordPress and you’ll find 1,000+ plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=Facebook – search social sharing and there are over 500 plugins –
Would not be a problem if the Compare page was a WordPress standard post or page – but it isn’t – and hence I don’t know how that would or could work?
Anyway as I said its a worthy idea and one that I’ll add the list or enhancements to be considered in future upgrades. Thanks for the suggestion – appreciated.
How about “downgrading it” then and skip the social part for now.
“Just” make it;
A) re/link people can re/post.
B) A copy/paste friendly version that they can post.
Allthough …
A “social” would be the best. It’s easy to use and the site would get alot of SEOpoints due to links would be put out all over on other sites as trackbacks. Not to mention an increase in customers since the customers themselves would spread the websites adress.
Well aware of the various systems that exists today, I use AddThis and ShareThis on various projects (good statistics), but … I’m a techfreak regarding digitalcameras and computers, and very often product X vs Y comes up and there is never an easy way besides to type everything out yourself. Atleast I have never seen it done (yet).
Won’t hassle you about it, just glad you liked the idea and I cross my fingers it may be done in the future.
Hi johanlm,
Thanks for your input – appreciated! We will look at that in the next code upgrade which is scheduled for next week.
Hi Steve,
I have purchased the Pro version and installed correctly. And it is working fine, however, I am noticing that the “Product” tab under settings page “WooCommerce Compare Products Manager” is not showing anything. Also, I don’t want to compare the products with the other Compare Categories e.g. I have created category “A” and “B” and assigned their features. Now I don’t want to compare the products of category “A” with category “B”.
But unfortunately my website is comparing the products within all the categories. Please help me out.
Hello Amit,
You purchased the WooCommerce Compare products extension from WooThemes – unfortunately they are still distributing v1.0. The current version which fixes the problems you has is version 1.1.1 – I’ll send it to you by email.
I replied to Amit by email but worth recapping here.
The extension does not compare products – users do. We purposely designed the extension so that it ‘followed’ users around a site, with the sidebar compare widget holding a users compare products until they deleted items or Cleared them or left the site. We did identify a way to achieve what he was after. Looking at the site that had a feature where you could only compare products in a single category Compare India the answer was clear – Create a sidebar for each category (like that site has – btw – its not WordPress) and assign a compare widget to each sidebar. That way users can only use that widget to compare products in that category – not all.
Hi , considering buying the pro version withou a doubt how hard is to modify your extension if I need to compare existing custom fields ? is it possible to compare specific custom fields via code modification ? currently it seems you can olny compare custom fields defined in the compare extension admin ?
thanks
Hi Erwan,
I really must get some docs done. The brilliance of the extension is that you can create custom fields any way you want and in any format – we are in the process of updating the WooCommerce version so that it ALSO auto creates all of your Product categories as Compare categories and all of your Variations as Compare Features – have done that with the WP e-Commerce version and it is brilliant.
So buy with confidence – if it does not do what you want it to do I’ll give you your money back – no questions asked.
Steve
thanks for your answer. I am really confident that you’re round to replace the doc you’re writing. Any free updates when we buy ? I will also contribute to the code if I need somthing specific
Hi Erwan,
Yes its a once only fee and includes lifetime Free updates and support.
As I mentioned before, after my tests with the Lite/Demo/Free version, deciding that it will be a good feature to provide in the site, I purchased the Pro version…
Now; I have a few questions for the Pro version, as it seems to be a little bit different from the Free version
1) First of all, is there a guide explaining settings and how to configure just a few features and then make it work? Maybe a walkthrough guide, a little tutorial will be more useful then trying to figure it out by trial-and-error method.
2) The little tool-tip question-marks are not working as the other Woocommerce tooltips works as the mouse hover the mark! so it is not easy to understand what the selected area is about! Ofcourse I can see the tip-info in the source but the tip does not display on screen!
3) For the Pro version, the most important part seems to be the Compare Products Manager; but it is empty! I created a few features and configured a few products; and manage to compare them in the front-end. But there is nothing displayed in the backend for the Manager. It seems to have a table, it has nothing inside and has a css-rule as (display:none).
Is there anything that I missed to acitvate the manager?
I am trying to play with the settings and change all those configurations in order to see the effects, but it will be good to have those answers from the developer.
It is a well-considered extension that I would recommend to anyone who needs such a comparison feature.
Thanks in advance…
Hello Manush,
Thank you for purchasing the Pro version.
Its is actually a little annoying that we have updated the plugin to fix all of those issues – but Woo is still distributing the initial release. I’ll email you a link to download the latest version that works fine.
That was what I thought…
I knew I saw somewhere that there was a mention of a version update even remember a 1.0.5 mentioned in a thread but the one I got is the first 1.0 release…
Now I’ll look at the email;
Thanks for the fast reply…
Hi, just saw the demo and what I found that it compares any product to anything, which is simply weird. In the demo I had compared a generator to a chain saw. I mean how can this be possible both are different product they both have got all different features. This comparison should be limited to products of same category, neither its good for nothing
Hi Pranjal,
Thanks for your feedback.
Yes of course – The Pro version does exactly that – sort products by category – try your comparison here and you will see compare products http://gympiemowercentre.com/product-category/chain-saws/ shows beautiful and meaningful results that greatly assist customers in making a buying decision.
My question is why are you comparing a chain saw to a generator – who looking to buy a chain saw would do that? But the important thing is that if they want to they can. The results are meaningless – of course, how could they be anything else? But we have no frustrated or disappointing our customer – because we let him do what he wants and delivered the result as well as it could be delivered.
Restricting what customers and clients can do is something in our Premium software that we hate to do. We don’t want to restrict the comparison to a categories – catagories are created by store owners – and they decide what goes into the category – the store owner may have similar products in different categories – if we restricted like you suggest then a customer could not compare. We are about giving plugin owners and users the greatest flexibility and choice.
How can I add a add to cart button on every product on the compare products popup window?
Hi Ken,
You need to upgrade to the The PRO version of the WooCommerce Compare Products for that great feature and much more. The Free light version does not support that functionality.
but why the wp e-commerce compare product has add to cart button even if it is a free version?
Hi Ken,
Sorry Woo is a different kettle of fish and that feature is not supported on the WooCommerce Lite version.
Being able to have the ‘add to cart’ button in the pop up window is a very important feature – because chances are that is where the buyer will make the decision and you want them to be able to bang the add to cart button there and then.
But so to is being able to Create Compare categories and assign all similar products to that Compare category. That feature alone I think makes the user experience so much better – which means more sales.
Having Compare categories means that you can deliver just the feature fields that are relevant to the products being compared. This means the users when they add products to the compare widget and view them in the pop up window don’t have a great long scroll through every feature Compare feature field that has ever been created as they do on the Lite version.
That is not to mention that with the PRO version you have the awesome Products manager which makes activating, editing and deactivating the compare feature on your entire product catalog a breeze. It is not an exaggeration to say that it speeds up managing the Compare products feature on your site by a factor of x50
Hi,
I’ve just purchased the plugin . It works pretty well for simple products. I’m having trouble with variable products. All the category data is coming up nicely.
2 problems.
1) within the product manager, when I click on “Show Variations” check box the names of variations are not available , so when i’m activating the variations . I have no way of knowing which variation I’m editing.
2) By trial and error i’ve managed to configure a few products. And i’m able to compare one variation of a product with another variation of the same product. But again names are not visible.
Can you please advice me on how to set this up.
Or better yet show us an example of setting up a variation product .
thanks and regards.
excellent work.
Hi nishant,
Thanks for purchasing WooCommerce Compare Products PRO
This is the way it should work – on the products manager page you click the Show Variants check box at the top – see screenshot
When selected any Products variants that you have set up auto show under the parent products and you can edit them via the edit icon at the right hand end of that row.
If none of the products on the page you are on have variants – you won’t see any – but when you scroll through to a page that has products with variants you’ll see it then – see screenshot.
Yes you can compare a products variants. As you see from the Screen shot above – you should be able to do that right from the Products manager interface. You can also do it from each parent products edit page – Under the Variations tab – See screenshot.
Please let me know if the “Show Variants’ feature is not working on your install and I’ll take a look at it for you.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I did what you’ve described. My problem is little different. Model Names are not visible.
Step1: Parent Page = http://bit.ly/KUDbsx , notice my variable products have two variation variables.
Step2: bit.ly/MYpk5O , onclick of show variations checkbox , correct number of variations show up. Names of those variations are missing.
I’m expecting to see something like.
Blog — Starter — Light .
instead of Blog- Maintenance Package Type–Package Type
Step3: then on the website every thing is correct except names of the variations are missing. bit.ly/KkHRZc
Step4: same behaviour is visible in the compare flyout
Hi Nishant,
First re this:
Step1: Parent Page = http://bit.ly/KUDbsx , notice my variable products have two variation variables
It does not matter if you have two variation variables – screenshot – what I cannot see in your screenshot is the WooCommerce Expand All link – I’m assuming it is there on yours – - when you click it can you see the section where you select a Compare category to assign the Variation to and add values for the Comapre Features you have assigned to that Compare category? – Screenshot
Nishant this will be much quicker for both of us if you set me up an temp admin access on your site and I’ll log in and see what the problem is – - please email the creds to a3revsoftware@gmail.com
Steve
Thank you Steve for the one on one help. The plugin works as advertized, worth every penny. You were right in suspecting ,i must think about the order in which i wanted to display the products.
Thank you for the detailed instructions,could not have done it without your help.
Amazing product , Awesome support from Super Awesome Steve.
I just bought the plugin and so far I don’t see any change over the free version.
It is still broken with “catalogue” and it doesn’t allow for features or categories to be the compare fields.
Am I missing something? Or is maybe something broken in the DB from the free version?
I deleted free before installing pro.
the website is http://www.dayzon.ca
Hi Jamie,
As far as I can see WooCommerce is still distributing the initial release version of the extension v1.0. We submitted a couple of patch’s and updates 20 days ago – but I still don’t think it has been rolled out.
You should be seeing changes over the free version and we can fix the ‘catalogue’ issue for you. I’ll email you to get access creds to fix all of this for you.
I appreciate the quick response. I can see the update is from May.
I noticed they also put it down to $30. Should I be asking for a refund and waiting?
I want to launch this on 2 sites. I am just trying it out on this site, but want to run it for real on a separate site.
Getting access creds and fixing it here, while I REALLY appreciate that, (seriously, that is rather awesome of you) may just be wasting your time.
I want to play around with this first, before I use it and customize it where I need it.
Hi Jamie,
No you are not wasting my time – We believe our software should work first time every time and we want to know anytime its not and check why – besides if its not working as it should be you cannot play around with it. Sent you an email.
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the access – updated to the current version for you – working fine now – please check.
http://www.dayzon.ca
Thanks Steve!! That is awesome!!
Hey Jamie – no problem. Your site is looking good – looking at your site there is another of our extensions that I think would be a winning feature – WooCommerce Predictive Product Search For a once off $20 investment this feature adds another wow factor for the stores customers. See it in action here.
No worry
it is already on my radar!
I won’t be using it on Dayzon (not needed) but I plan on getting it for another site I am doing. It will be quite helpful and I should be ready to get it going this weekend.
I sent you an email about the license and if it is multisite for compare. I need to get it going on another site, and originally wasn’t going to keep it on Dayzon but have changed my mind.
I may have sent the email to the wrong address, so let me know if you got it or not.
Thanks!
Hi Jamie,
All our extension are single domain licensed. It does not matter what that domain is. All you have to do to move it is deactivate it on the original site and reactivate it using your authorization code on the site where you want to use it.
Hoping to have the docs done and posted for WooCommerce Compare over the weekend which will make getting the hang of it a bit easier. Hope you don’t mind me quoting from your email but been getting this feedback from others as well.
“It really takes over for the woo commerce attributes with how i am utilizing it, and the edit screen is a breeze!!”
The automatic creation of the sites attributes as Compare features strangely enough really clarifies for people what how they should be using product attributes.
Dear Steve,
for testing purposes I’ve installed Compare Products Free, it’s really useful and pretty simple to use, but I saw that standard Product’s Attributes cannot be used as comparable Features. I have to configure and insert my data twice, one as standard Product’s Attribute and one as Features in the Compare Products Plugin.
In Compare Products Pro version is it the same?
How can I compare standard attributes?
Can I change your code to achieve this result?
Thank you in advance for your kind response
Hello Andrea,
What sort of attributes are you trying to compare? I’m interested because in designing the extension I’d assumed a products attributes are different to a products features. Can you give me an example of the attributes you are using with your products, that you want to use as comparable product features.
Thanks
Steve, first of all thanks for your fast response!!
I have lot of attributes, approx 30 of type Select, like
- type
- producer
- diameter
- energy dissipation
- height
- strenght
- certification class
- etc etc
Customers choose these attributes in the shop sidebar using the “layered nav” widgets to filter available products.
I think the same product attributes should be available on the compare window, so that the customer can see the difference between selected products.
Now I have to maually replicate all the attributes as features inside Compare.
Hello Andrea,
We have had a good look at your suggestion today and think it doable. Here is how – When upgrade from the Free version all of the Features that you created on the Free are automatically added to the Pro version as Un-Assigned Features -
The FREE version does not have Categories so the PRO has nothing to assign them to. So first on the features page you Create Some Compare Categories
Once those Compare categories are Created you then edit each Un-asigned feature and assigned the feature to one or more categories.
The New Category and all of its assigned features show on the features tab – like this
I show you all of that because we think we could add the feature where the PRO extension, when activated would create all of a sites First level Attributes as Compare Categories and any second level (terms) attributes as Compare Features assigned to that category.
Once you have Compare Categories with Features set up adding them to all of your products is really quick and easy with the Products Compare feature updater – see screenshot http://f.cl.ly/items/241k2v2r1X3P2j1n272Q/Product%20Bulk%20Update.png
Andrea – before we go ahead and add this functionality I will go through it with the WooCommerce devs – as we are looking at the way we handle the Add to Cart Button when comparing product variations.
I’ll keep you updated about this on here.
I am trying to do this also.
I want my Attributes or Categories for each product, to be the items that are on the compare. This way the features are searchable, and comparable. No other plugin of this type allows this functionality.
I am actually using this to compare properties that are available, and want the compare function to be utilized for this. If I can use the attributes created, or use the product categories for this, it will be ideal.
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for your feedback. Currently building this feature into the PRO version. Should be available as an update next week. Will keep you informed or progress on here.
Wow, seriously?
If you can make that happen, I will buy the plugin immediately.
I am using the free version and currently I update the attributes separate from the compare options. Would be wild to have this available.
I set up this plug and woocommerce for a property search site.
Also, not sure if you are aware but the WooCommerce “Catalogue” plugin breaks your plugin. By removing the “Add to Cart” button it also removed the “Compare” buttons so I had to add it manually with a hook filter. Not a big deal, but for those that don’t know coding at all it can be a large pain. Heck, just finding the right hook was a pain for me
Hi Jamie,
Yes I’m aware that the Catalog plugin removes the compare feature with the free version- the Catalog plugin is a Premium plugin and the PRO version of compare works seamlessly with it. Also you’ll find the PRO version gives you a much cleaner features comparison in the pop-up window as you can sort your properties into Categories and compare them feature by feature.
Talking about search you might like our next WooCommerce extension – WooCommerce Predictive Search – we should be finished it today – you can see a preview of it here on this clients site – WooCommerce extensions used on this site are Compare Products PRO – Catalog Visibility and Email Inquiry.
We followed the issue from Andrea and bought the pro version but in your june 19 update you said this function will be available in one week but up till now we do not see it.
Please help us this functionality is very important for us.
Thanks,
Paul
Hi Paul,
Good news. We have already built this feature into the WP e-Commerce Compare Products plugin and have had some great feedback. That upgrade to WooCommerce Compare is scheduled for the week after next.
Hi Steve,
I have put this into my style sheet but cannot get it to work…..
input.compare_button_go {
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 0.5em;
position: relative;
background-color: #001A6F;
border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
}
What am I doing wrong? My button just looks the same. Maybe I cant see the Woo for the trees!
Hi Bob,
Can’t tell from that why the styling is not applying. Post a link to your site and we’ll have a look at the code and tell you what the problem is.
This is my website: http://www.buyadrugtest.com
Hi Bob,
First activate the BUTTON instead of link on your dashboard.
instead of input.compare_button_go{ } in your code put input.woo_bt_compare_this{ }
If you want to apply style to your sidebar Widget button use input.woo_compare_button_go{ }
Thank you for your help. It worked a treat. Great plugin!
Nice plugin, and wish good luck for the development processes.
As it takes some time for the PRO version to be audited by Woo and to be accepted as a premium extension, is it possible to make the free/LITE version to be listed in their Extension page seperated for 3rd party plugins: http://bit.ly/Jim1oU
As you may know, they have some server issues, and hack attacks; and in that period they had to pause the development processes in order to survive the attacks.
After that period, for the last update, they included more than 10 free extensions for Woocommerce which were already submitted via WordPress Plugin Repository (as your plugins free/lite version is also displayed). Their download stats increased after that input clearly.
(For example: http://goo.gl/vhPsG or http://goo.gl/W9a2Z , the increases in the May is an effect of them being listed in that extension page)
It will take more attention to your extension; and before the PRO version is available, more users could be aware of such an extension. For now, it is just by luck to learn such a great plugin is available if a user try to search in the WordPress Repository!
And by testing the free version, more users will return feedbacks for your development; and of course more will be willing to have the PRO version.
Hey ManusH,
Thanks for taking the time to post this. Sorry it did not publish auto – (more than 2 links).
Great suggestion – I’ll talk to the Woo people and see if they will list the FREE version on their extension page. I’ll let you know how I go.
Thanks again.
Hello again,
In the WooCommerce support forums, there is a topic (http://bit.ly/JMx2Pg) about a conflict between your plugin and another plugin: WooCommerce Catalog Visibility Options.
It is a useful extension to disable/re-enable the e-commerce functionality.
In the forum replies, Woo-staff mentioned some technical details about the problem. I am not sure if you are informed about the subject, so I want to inform you over here.
I don’t get that plugin yet, but it is one of the functionalities I want to have in my shop; besides product comparison. So the mentioned conflict is a future problem for me, I would like to see it is solved before I finished my shop setup
Thanks.
Hi ManusH,
Thanks for letting me know about this – had no idea
I don’t know why Coen says
“The way the Compare Products plugin is adding the button is not in line with how the WooCommerce template files are set up … WooCommerce has plenty of actions and filters available for the Compare Products plugin to add its functionality so it will be easier to remove for other plugins. I’d be happy to help the plugin author in providing the right actions and filters for the job, but it isn’t going to help you right now, I’m afraid.
That was 3 days ago – not heard anything until about this until you contacted us – thanks.
Our Plugin uses WooCommerce Hooks and actions to add the button
// Add Compare Button on Shop page
add_action(‘woocommerce_before_template_part’, array(‘WOO_Compare_Hook_Filter’,'woocp_shop_add_compare_button’), 10, 3);
// Add Compare Button on Product Details page
add_action(‘woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button’, array(‘WOO_Compare_Hook_Filter’,'woocp_details_add_compare_button’));
WooCommerce define woocommerce_before_template_part and woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button on their plugin
Will test the Catalog Visibility plugin with the Compare Plugin and see what we can do.
I think catalog-visibility-options plugin have add function before 2 functions woocommerce_before_template_part and woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button so our plugin can’t hook function to show the compare button.
Or catalog-visibility-options plugin may removed the actions woocommerce_before_template_part and woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button which means our plugin can’t Hook.
Will let you know what we find.
Thanks again.
Hi Manush,
Found the problem:
The Catalog extension uses this code to remove the hook that we use to add compare button
remove_action(‘woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item’, ‘woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart’, 10);
We have tested the 2 plugins on a clean wp/woocommerce install and come up with a workaround. Have update the Free WooCommerce Compare Products plugin on wordpress – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products/changelog/
Added the functionality to show Compare above or below the Add to cart Button. If you have Catalog extension activated select to show Compare Below the add to cart button.
Tested with Cat extension and works a treat.
Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.
thanks for the tip.
I couldn’t finished my arrangements for the site, so I haven’t tested the extensions yet. But I will inform you if any conflict occurs!
I also noticed that your extension is now listed in the 3rd party extentions recommended list in the Woo-website, congragulations.
I think, from now on, it is the time for your extension to get the attention you deserve. I noticed a little up-rising in the download stats, hope it will be better in the near future…
btw, any info on the PRO version? release date! ETA !
Nice plug-in, keep up the good work.
And wish you success …
Hi ManusH,
Thank you for all of your help.
PRO version launched just now on WooCommerce extensions market places – Yippee!
http://www.woothemes.com/extension/compare-products-pro/
Hey Manush,
Now listed on the WooCommerce Recommended 3rd party extensions http://www.woothemes.com/extensions/third-party/
Thanks to you
And at last; the PRO version is announced in today’s Thursday releases alongside a few other:
http://www.woothemes.com/2012/05/7-more-woocommerce-extensions/
http://www.woothemes.com/extension/compare-products-pro/
Although it was a bit expensive than I expect with a price of $50 (I thought it would be priced in the interval near $35 pricing of the WooCommerce extensions), it will be a great add-on for shops that have detailed product features and comparison bettween those features are important for customer decisions…
for now; after I finished the arrangments and setting-up the website, I will go on testing the FREE version. For the next step, I hope; I would like to buy the PRO version, after the shop reaches a product variety…
Good job!
Thanks for the usefull extension.
Hi ManusH,
Thanks for the links – yes we are very happy that at last we are through what has turned out to be over 250 hours of work in the development of the Compare Products extension. The Woo guys have incredibly high dev standards and we have learned a lot from the process.
Woo suggested we price the extension somewhere between $50 and $79 – and we chose the bottom end of the scale.
And yes if you do not have many and a variety of products on your store the FREE version is all you will ever need.
Cheers mate.
Hi, i have problem displaying special characters like ? (č). I have my page in utf-8. How can i solve this?
Hi Peter,
This is not a problem that I have been able to reproduce in testing – see the screen shot of the test results.
http://f.cl.ly/items/0e032r091m0D3p0A2P12/special%20characters%20test.png
If you email me your sites wp-admin login creds and the wp-admin login url I’ll take a look at it for you.
Use the Contact form to do that http://a3rev.com/contact/
Hello, i have waiting the pro version from a month and you told me only a week, can you tell me when will be released??
Hi Mojeer,
Yes I know, but it is up to the WooCommerce Auditors not us.
The plugin now has passed 1,000 downloads http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products/ and we are very keen for the PRO version to be released.
At the last audit 10 days ago they requested that we
1. Change the word Add to edit on the edit features page – http://cl.ly/0F1B3b3W0f1h1I1m1S34
2. Change the colour of the reset button from blue to white http://cl.ly/400t0X383N0d2c3H3V1T
3. When they edited a product from the products page the fancybox pop-up screen did not work – but it is an error that we have not been able to reproduce in windows or mac on pc, laptop in Mozilla, FF or IE http://cl.ly/1O0z1u3O3x0Q3M010b3O
We have done items 1 and 2 and resubmitted – waiting for it to be reviewed – hopefully this will be soon. It is actually now 2 months and 10 audits since we first submitted the plugin
Hello Mojeer,
Thanks for your understanding and interest.
Compare Products PRO just launched on the WooCommerce Extensions marketplace.
http://www.woothemes.com/extension/compare-products-pro/
How can I remove the bullets against each comparison in the widget. Currently I have removed all references to bullets in my CSS but want to put them back in so my product categories look better.
Hi Bob,
To remove the bullets just add this style into style.css on your theme
li.compare_widget_item{
list-style:none outside none;
}
Let me know if there is anything I can help with.
Thank you for that little snippet, it works a treat!.
As you asked, there is one more thing, Can I take out the duplicate price? And substitute it with the Product short description.
BTW this is great little plugin. Thank you!
Hi Bob,
Thanks I’m pleased you like it – wait to you see the PRO version – it is awesome.
The Product price shows at the top and under the list of features for easy reference for users – after comparing all the features they can see the comparable Price also at the bottom of the list instead of having to scroll back up to the top. – only looks like a duplicate when you don’t have many features –
Can’t remove remove the bottom Price and replace it with the short description unless you edit the core plugin and each time it is updated it would just over-write that edit.
Hello Steve, is there any updates about the release of pro version ?
Hello Mojeer,
This weeks Pro Version development update. Goes up for WooCommerce Audit again tonight.
Fixed – Feature input drop down – overflow:hidden http://f.cl.ly/items/3Q3Q2q1H0s0P321L3P2A/Feature-input500.jpg
Fixed – Show Variations on Products bulk update page – endlessly loading http://f.cl.ly/items/3l1p3a0I182l0b3x1t0Z/product%20default.png
Fixed – Column Headers Wrapping text in smaller screens http://f.cl.ly/items/2b3a2j2W1r3i2s342o1l/screen-capture-2.png
Added Feature – Combined CATEGORIES and FEATURES tab into one tab. Allows users to Create Compare Categories and Features all on the one page. Use drag and drop to sort categories and features within each category. Makes management much easier. http://cl.ly/0Q0L2I3K413O330t1A2g/o
Added Feature – Edit Categories and Features from the table. Features show as a dropdown list for each Category table. edit the category or any feature. Changed the -+ dropdown controller to WordPress arrow, re-aligned Categories tables in a single column http://cl.ly/1B141m3Y41251K370u42
Added Feature – Replaced edit pop-up screen with page onload when editing Features or categories – When you click an edit icon it opens a page on the features tab – to edit – makes it much clearer what is being edited – Click save and you land back at full features page – very nice http://cl.ly/1l2C2J2Z1v0l213X190A
Tweak – Feature key auto generated – not longer required to enter on Create New Features
Tweak – Feature description removed from Create New Features form as the new layout makes it obsolete.
Tweak – Re worked un-assigned featured layout from this http://cl.ly/310F1D0C3x1s1n17412J to work in with the new single column Features page layout http://cl.ly/342H45431Q3o293F0802
Looking good.
Dear,
how put widget plugin manually script?
Hi aRai,
When you say put? do you mean “position” the widget in the sidebar?
If that is the case on your Widgets admin page you just drag the Compare Widget and drop it into the widget section that you want it to show on your sidebar.
Hello, When The pro verion for Woo Commerce Compare Products will release?
Hello Mojeer,
The PRO version is ready to go – but we have an agreement with WooCommerce where it will be exclusively marketed through them from their WooCommerce extensions site.
Part of the process for that is that the plugin has to be audited by WooCommerce and approved. Auditing happens once a week. We have submitted it each week for the last week 5 weeks. Each week they request more tweaks / changes, each week it is something different – They have very exacting standards – which is fine – For example we built the plugin to use lightbox as the tool that handles the Fly-Out window. Woo requested we change that to Fancybox (because that is what they use), so we had to build that function in as the default while retaining the lightbox option.
The delay has not been a bad thing though. It has allowed me to look at the functionality of the plugin and realize that we needed to enable easy one page management of the Compare Products feature on all the sites products – rather than having to do each Product individually on the Products editing screen. We have built that functionality into the PRO version, its a great feature. See links to screenshots below.
The plugin draws all Products that are on your site into the Compare Products Dashboard management panel
http://cl.ly/3a0T1n2t3o1C442W002r
Including Product Variants when you choose to display them
http://cl.ly/2N3I3D1i45050H122t0x
You can see at a glance which Products have the Compare feature Activated and which ones don’t. Click on the paper and pen icon on each product and you can Activate / Deactivate – and add / edit the Features right from that page. We built this feature in because it makes the whole feature much easier and quicker to manage across any site – no matter how many products it has.
http://cl.ly/3O0v0q3J1I163e0B3p29
Will email you as soon as it is ready for purchase from the WooCommerce Extension site – hopefully towards the end of this week.
Hello Steve, How are you?
is there any new updates about the release date of the pro version?
Hi Mojeer,
Thanks for your interest. We got knocked back again at last weeks Audit on Friday. We were asked to address the issues below and then re-submit again this week.
1. Requested 2 minor back end user interface fixes. The way the text feature names displayed on the fly-out screen when editing a feature and the way the feature name displayed on the product edit pages.
2. Requested the products names that show in the front end sidebar widegt be clickable links to the products page.
3. Requested drag and drop feature for sorting Categories and Features to apply to the table row instead of the contents of the table.
4. Requested we go through the language file and remove Capital letters and improve the English grammar for back end instructions
We have done those things plus reworked the admin pages layout resulting in combining the Categories admin page with the Features admin page which I think is another great improvement.The admin panel now only has 3 pages SETTINGS | FEATURES | PRODUCTS
Setting screenshot http://f.cl.ly/items/1r353I0q3i3H2S3a0u3w/Settings.png
Features screenshot http://f.cl.ly/items/1r353I0q3i3H2S3a0u3w/FEATURES.png
Products screenshot http://f.cl.ly/items/1r353I0q3i3H2S3a0u3w/PRODUCTS.png
This weeks audit will be audit #8 on the plugin – I’m hopeful that we may get through this time. I’ll keep you informed.
Wanted within the table Have submitted it to WooCommerce for another Audit.
Hi
The plugin uploaded successfully and shows up in the side bar.
Other than that, there is no sign of the plugin in my WP dashboard and so I have no idea how to use it.
Would you tell me the first couple of steps as I can`t even get started with it
Thank you
Colin
Hi Colin,
“The plugin uploaded successfully and shows up in the side bar. Other than that, there is no sign of the plugin in my WP dashboard and so I have no idea how to use it.”
Hmm this is really curious? Is this how the plugin is showing in your sidebar?
When you click on the ‘Compare Settings’ link it should open the Compare admin panel (see image below) Are you saying when you click on the link nothing happens?
Colin what happens when you click the WooCommerce settings link.? Does the WooCommerce admin page open? If The ‘Compare Settings’ link won’t open the WooCommerce settings link should not either as they both are build on the WC API.
Colin please let me know ?
Hey,nice plugin but i cannot get it to work at present, set up the config, features and updated a few products with the categories to compare with but when testing the ‘compare button’ appears to do nothing and the ‘compare widget’ says i’ve no products to compare??
hope you can help
Hi Andy,
I know the plugin is working perfectly out of the box – see it here on our test site http://plugins.a3dev.net/
I’m happy to take a look at your install for you if you’d like to post a link.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the wp_admin access to your site – take a look – Compare Products and a number of other features are working fine now. Found and fixed 2 conflicts.
1. Products not adding to Compare sidebar widget.
You have a plugin activated called ‘In Twitter’ that badly conflicts with WooCommerce Plugin and WooCommerce Compare Plugin – It breaks these features on your site
A. WooCommerce Compare (displaying in sidebar – but not working)
B. WooCommerce recent reviews (not showing in sidebar)
C. WooCommerce Price Comparison Widget (not displaying or working properly)
D. WooCommerce default Nav Tab layout not displaying and working properly
E. WooCommerce + Number of Products – feature nor showing
F. Your My Cart widget in the top nav bar was not showing or working properly.
Have deactivated the plugin for you and it is all working fine now.
2. Compare Fly-Out screen not working.
The theme you are using Abundance auto removes the default WooCommerce fancybox php code as it uses lightbox.
Fortunately WooCommerce Compare Products comes with Compare Popup Type fancybox or lightbox options. I changed the Compare Popup Type option on the settings Panel to Lightbox and it is working fine for you now.
Your site and our plugin is working just fine now. You can delete the admin account you set up for me.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. Thanks again for installing WooCommerce Compare Products.
Steve, thanks very much for your assistance and the timely manner you provided, dont often see the support you’ve offered on the internet these days so thats very much appreciated
All is working ok now.
Thanks
Andy
My Pleasure Andy and good luck with your site.
Would greatly appreciate it if you would give us a star rating and mark the plugin as working on the wordpress site – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products/
I cant Create New Compare Feature Field.
Create New Compare Feature Field
Field Name – warranty
Field Key – 1
Field Type – input text
Field Unit -
Field Description -
After I press Create
and got this message every time “Create Compare field error.”
Hi sashaleben,
Can’t tell why your getting that error from the information you have provided. Have tested the plugin and the only time you should get an error message is if you have duplicated the Field Key. In which case you will see this error message.
‘This Field Key is existed, please enter other Field Key.’
You can create as many ‘warranty’ Features as you like, in other words duplicate ‘Field Name’ but not duplicate ‘Field key’ – nothing else you do should create an error message.
I’ll send you a private email and we can have a look at your instillation to see what the problem is for you.
Hi sashaleben,
Thanks for the admin access – It would appear that the reason the Plugin is not working is because your store is on a BuddyPress install. We have not tested our plugin for BuddyPress compatibility. Hoping to work with you to edit so it works with your BuddyPress install, then we can update the Plugin code so that it is BuddyPress compatible for the benefit of all users.
I downloaded the Woocommerce Compare Products plug in and activated it in my wordpress 3.3.1 version, but cannot find the settings for it. I can’t see the settings to configure this plugin anywhere. I tried uninstalling and installing again, but same problem. Can youplease assist?
Hi Rodger,
On your admin panel Under the Woocommerce title > in the dropdown you should see > Comparable Settings – it looks like this
You can see a visual guide on how to set up the FREE version of the extension on the screenshots page
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products/screenshots/
Please let me know if you have any other questions
Steve
Thanks Steve, but I can’t see the WooCommerce in the admin panel, even after activating it.
Hi Rodger,
If you have the Woocommerce plugin installed and activated
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/
This is what you should be seeing on your wp-admin dashboard.
When you put your mouse over the WooCommerce in the dashboard sidebar you’ll see the list shown in my previous comment. Woo Compare Products plugin adds the ‘Comparable Settings’ as the last link on that pop out list. You click on it to get to the 1 page Woo Compare Products admin panel.
If you have WooCommerce installed and activated but it is not showing in your 3.3.1 WordPress install – Its a problem with the WooCommerce plugin – You can try the WooCommerce Support forums for help.
http://www.woothemes.com/support-forum/?viewforum=131
Our Woo Compare Products requires the WooCommerce plugin to be installed and working for it to work.
Hope I’m helping here
Steve
Yes, thank you. I was missing the Woocommerce plugin before. Since downloading it and activating this I was able to view the product comparioson plugin. Thank you once again for your quick and excellent support
regards,
Rodger
My Pleasure Rodger,
Enjoy the Compare Products plugin. Appreciate it if you would give us a star rating on the plugin site – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-compare-products/
Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have other questions.
Steve