12:12 am
Wednesday
Mar 7
After a bit of tinkering today Cody got the plugin working for me that reads the rss feed from my Etsy shop and displays what’s for sale on a sidebar on my page. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see the list on my sidebar on the right in the Noelle’s Noodles box. Pretty cool.
He didn’t think the What I’m knitting plugin he made for the site had clean enough code to really share with the public but he made sure that this one was because we thought some people would be interested in this one.
It’s really a neat setup for people who are used to editing their wordpress blogs: install, activate, edit, add to the code. In the Options section you can specify how many items from your shop you want to show and how they’ll be displayed in the sidebar.
Disclaimer: We’re going to assume that you know how to go upload a plugin to your server and are pretty used to going in and editing your presentation code. There are a lot of places on the web that are better at teaching people how to do that kind of thing. One major piece of advice for everyone of any skill level: BACKUP your files before you change anything!
This is for the 2.1.2 version of WordPress - today’s most current public version as far as I know.
So here are the instructions for installing and activating:
- Download and extract bEtsy files
- Upload file ‘betsy.php’ to www.yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins or wherever your wp installation is /wp-content/plugins
- Login to your wordpress dashboard and navigate to the “plugins page”
- Locate the bEtsy plugin in the list and click the “Activate” link
- Navigate to the “Options” menu and on to the “bEtsy” submenu
- Enter your Etsy shop feed URL (you should be able to find this link on your shop at the bottom of the right hand menu where the image “rss this shop” is.
- Specify any other html you want to come before and after the item lists.
- Navigate to “Presentation” and “Theme Editor” submenu.
- Place this link in your sidebar in whatever layout works for you.
- Check your links!
- Rss feed will update and change as items are sold!
In case you missed it, here’s the link to the plugin file again.
If you really like this plugin, please go tell Cody about it! He does a lot of cool stuff like this and I don’t think he realizes just how special his talents really are.
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I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time. I love it, thank you! The installation was a breeze too.
If there’s a future release for this plugin, I’d love love love to see an option to pick a featured item or two that also pulls in an image.
Thanks again!
Lily
xoxo
Hey there -
My NGMB friend Elizabeth has an Etsy shop, too, and just sold loads of necklaces because she posted them on a Saturday rather than a weekday, per usual (no idea why this makes a difference, just passing on the information).
-Jocelyn
Hi! I used the
in my sidebar and it’s not showing up, despite enabling the plugin and such. Any ideas? Am I missing something? Thanks!Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I searched for a while to find the right answer to my questions!