By going to ‘Checkout’ > ‘Product Content’ in your dashboard you will be taken to the product content management screen which you can manage all your current contents.

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1. Create new content

To start adding product content, click the ‘Add New’ button at the top to be taken to the ‘Save Content’ screen where you can create a product content.

2. Bulk Actions

This drop down select menu executes a bulk action on multiple product contents by ticking/checking them, then selecting the action to execute and then clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

Bulk actions include ‘Delete’ and ‘Assign to Product…’. The ‘Delete’ action will permanently remove the selected product contents from the table. The ‘Assign to Product…’ action – when selected – will display another select drop down with all your products to change the product of multiple product contents at the same time.

3. Search Contents

With the search function you can quickly find product content with a string matched in the title or description. Just type in a word/phrase and click ‘Search Contents’.

4. Product

The product to which the product content belongs. Each product belongs to a specific product and will be displayed in a tab on that product’s page.

5. Content Title

The title of the product content.

6. Last modified date

The date when the product content was last modified.

7. Contents Per Page

Change the number of product content records to display in the table per page. When the total number of product content records in the database exceeds this value you will notice paging numbers appearing above and below the table to the right to flip pages.

Product content is a way of dividing your product’s content/description into several, more understandable sections.

When you initially save a product, you type its description into the editor but you may want to add content/description sections to your product such as specifications, instructions, tutorials, features, etc. It is ideal for that!

In the ‘Product Content’ section, you can add product descriptions and manage your existing ones. Product content can be saved either through the ‘Product Content’ section or directly when you are on the ‘Save a Product’ screen, below the editor. They are the same thing.

Each product content or additional description will be displayed on the product page as a tab. So if you have multiple additional descriptions, a tab will be created for each one.

Start by adding product content and attach it to a product.

On the ‘Save a Product’ Screen

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When saving a product, you will see a box named ‘Additional Descriptions’ below the editor where the product description goes.

You can add unlimited additional descriptions here by clicking the ‘Add Another Description’ button and you can remove individual additional descriptions by clicking the ‘remove’ link above it.

You may use raw HTML code inside the text area of the additional descriptions. The HTML code will be correctly displayed when the product is viewed on the shop front.

All additional descriptions saved through the ‘Save a Product’ screen will end up in your ‘Product content’ section which is the global management section for product content.

We know that switching your current shop to our WordPress Shopping Cart plugin presents itself with the issue of having to re-enter all your categories and products so we built an import module into the plugin to help you get your shop up and running much quicker.

You can easily import your existing products into the plugin either from an existing osCommerce database or by uploading a CSV file with your products.

osCommerce Database

It’s very easy really. You just fill in the fields so that the plugin can make a database connection and the plugin will handle the rest of the work of importing your osCommerce products.

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1. Source

Choose ‘osCommerce Database’ as the source so that the plugin can provide you with the rest of the fields explained below in order to import directly from an existing osCommerce database.

2. URL to osCommerce Images

Fill in the absolute URL to the location of your osCommerce images. This will include http:// and the full URL including the domain name and folder(s).

This URL will be used to copy your osCommerce images over and save them to the plugin so all your images will remain intact on each of your products.

3. Database Host

Your database host name. This will most likely be “localhost” if it is on the same server but please consult your hosting provider. If it is on a different server, you could use the IP address or alternatively the MySQL host name registered on the server.

4. Database Name

The name of the osCommerce database. You can find this name in your osCommerce configuration file.

5. Database Username

The database username to connect with in conjunction with the password field explained below. This value can be found in your osCommerce configuration file.

6. Database Password

The database password to connect with in conjunction with the username field explained above. This value can be found in your osCommerce configuration file.

CSV File

Importing a CSV file filled with products is rather easy as well. The trick/catch in this case is just that you have to ensure that your CSV file is in the correct format. The plugin will show you the order of the fields and a sample CSV file is provided for your convenience.

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1. Source

Choose ‘CSV File’ for the ‘Source’ to reveal the fields available to do a CSV import.

2. Instructions & Sample

The plugin shows you here what fields you can put in the CSV file and in what order they should be. Each value represents a column in your CSV file. A sample is provided.

• Code – this is a unique product code or SKU which is used to identify whether a product should be added or whether it is already available and should be updated.
• Title – the title/name of your product. No longer than 100 characters.
• Description – the description of your product. You may use HTML code for this and there is no limit in length.
• Keywords – comma separated keywords related to your product.
• Image – the name of the image which belongs to the product eg. my-product.jpg . You can use full, absolute URLs in here as well eg. http://domain.com/images/my-product.jpg.
• Price – the price of your product as a float eg. 9.99 or 0.50
• Suggested Price – same as the price mentioned above but this will be the markdown or recommended retail price.
• Product Type – use the value “digital” or “tangible” in here based on what type your product is.
• Minimum Order – the minimum number of units allowed to be ordered. If there is none, just use “1″.
• Inventory – the available number of units in stock. If there is no stock limit, just use “-1″.
• Measurement - the measurement eg. Boxes, Licenses, Bags, Units, Sleeves, etc.
• Weight – the weight of this product per unit. You can set the weight measurement in the Configuration of the plugin.
• Categories – comma separated category names. If you want existing categories in your shop to be used, match their names. Categories not found by title will be created automatically.

3. CSV File

Browse for your CSV file here which should be uploaded. Ensure that it’s file extension is .csv

4. URL to prepend  images with

If necessary define an absolute URL here with which all values in the ‘Image’ column of the CSV file should be prepended. So if you only have file names in the ‘Image’ column, you may want to specify their global/universal location here.

5. Delimiter

How is your CSV file delimited? It could be a comma, semi-colon, pipe or any other value. The best way to find out is to open the file in Notepad or any other plain text editor to see the CSV source and determine the delimiter that way.

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1. Title

This title/name will be shown throughout the shop to both yourself as administrator and to the customers viewing the front of your shop. Choose this title carefully in order for it to be understandable by your customers viewing your products. Keep the title below 150 characters.

2. Category Image

This is set to “No” by default. You may choose to use an image with your category. In that case set this to “Yes”. The following Image Input box will appear, allowing you to browse and upload an image. The image size must be 250px x 250px (or larger).

3. Description

This is the description that the seen by both you as the administrator and the users of the front end. This is additional information information you may wish to tell your user about the category. Try to keep this to below 250 characters.

4. Keywords

Key words allow you to enter keywords that are associated with the product that a user may use when searching for an item. This is similar to tags in a post and you must separate keywords with commas.

5. Parent Category

Sets how you define the level of the Category. This is a drop down and allows you to define whether the type of category you are creating is a parent category or if it is a sub-category of another category. If you want to use sub-categories then remember to create all your parent categories first.

6. Page Template

This sets the style of the category when it is displayed on the front-end to the user. This is a drop down that lets you select one of the follow styles for the category that you are creating: Default Template, One column- no sidebar, Shop Categories, Shop Front, Shop Products, Shop Suppliers. You can create your own template of WordPress page which is saved.

7. Saving

When you are done filling in the Title, uploading and image (if you choose to), the Description, Keywords etc  and you are satisfied with the details you have entered, click the save button at the bottom of the screen. If you want to make changes or have made a mistake you can always come back later and make alterations

What’s next?

Once you have created your Shop Category, you may go to Checkout > Products and assign products to categories. This can be done when editing a product or with the bulk action ‘Set Parent…’ or selecting a category the Checkout > Products section.

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1. Add New Category

Clicking this button will take you to ‘Save a Category’ where you can create a new product category for your shop. New Categories added will show up on this ‘Manage Categories’ screen after they are added.

2. Bulk Actions

These bulk actions allow you to select multiple Category records from the table using the checkboxes and then apply a bulk action on the selected records. The bulk actions currently available are ‘Delete’ which will permanently remove the selected Category records in the table and ‘Set Parent..’ which will set a Category to as a parent. This is useful if you use sub-categories.

3. Per Page

This is a quick way of choosing how many Categories/records to show per page. The drop down has several values in it to choose from. When the total number of Categories in the database exceeds this per page number chosen, you will notice page numbers appearing above and below the table to the right.

4. Search Categories

Quickly search the database for Categories by typing a word or phrase and then clicking the ‘Search Categories’ button.

5. Category Row Actions

When you hover a Category row, action links will appear below it which are applicable to the row that you are hovering. The links include ‘Edit’ which allows you to edit the Category, ‘Delete’ which will remove the Category permanently and ‘View’ which will show you detailed information of the Category and ‘View on Front’ which will show you how the Category will be seen on the site by the user.