{"id":509,"date":"2012-01-24T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:04:22","slug":"wp-e-commerce-google-product-feed-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-e-commerce-google-product-feed-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"WP E-Commerce Google Product Feed errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

WP E-Commerce is full-featured enough that it provides us with a Google Product feed "out of the box". But, at no fault of the WP E-Commerce developers, the feed found in older versions of the product no longer fulfills Google's requirements.<\/p>\n

Namely, we're missing the unique product identifier.<\/p>\n

If you're somewhat savvy with a code editor, you can modify the source of this file to include the information we need:<\/p>\n

\/plugins\/wp-e-commerce\/wpsc-includes\/productfeed.php<\/tt><\/p>\n

Keep track of your changes – if you upgrade WP E-Commerce you may need to apply them again.<\/p>\n

Around line 174, insert the following, which will satisfy Google's unique product identifier requirement:<\/p>\n

$output .= "      <g:mpn>" . $product_meta['_wpsc_sku'][0] . "<\/g:mpn>\\n\\r";<\/code><\/p>\n

Obviously, this will only work if you have actually specified a SKU for all of your products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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