Index Page – How to Make one for Available Products and One of Unavailable

  • jenked

    (@jenked)


    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I can use some help or advice, I have literally put some 15 hours into researching how I might do this. I have a couple of websites that will sell unique, one of a kind products (like art pieces, there is only 1 of each). I want to have a Shop/Index page/Archive page that only shows Available products, and ANOTHER Shop or Index page that only shows SOLD products, so others can see what has been available in the past.

    As I’ve said, I’ve put a lot of research into this. I know I can use Woocommerce settings to filter out all SOLD products, but I want to be able to show them in a different area. I would appreciate any advice in how I might get this done – plugins or themes or what have you.

    The only thing I have seen that comes close is the WooCommerce Product Table plugin by Barn2, which will do that, but it will only show the products in a listing product table. The products are very visual, and I want the pictures to be very prominent, preferable in a grid. As far as I can tell the Barn2 plugin will only do a table sort of format.

    Crocoblock has confirmed that their plugins wouldn’t be able to do this (I was REALLY hopeful).

    Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a forum/thread discussion I missed that might be help? Either a plugin or some custom snippet code I could maybe figure out how to manipulate? I’m not a developer but I’m trying my best.

    Thank you for any assistance or advice!

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Why not just a tag or category (or new taxonomy) with two values?

    Thread Starter jenked

    (@jenked)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Ah – that is a good idea and makes sense for a small number of products. One of the sites I’m trying to do will be selling historical and valuable knives, mostly collectors trading between them. The main inventory system will be managed by an outside system, and while it’s not going to be hundreds and hundreds of products sold per month – it’s still enough that I will want it automated.

    The Point of Sale isn’t through the WordPress website, I’m just showing the products. I’m using WP All Import (importer plugin) to upload the products in batches and update product availability. I suppose when the plugins schedule a CSV upload to check on product availability, and it tells the WordPress site which ones have been sold… I could do an If/Else statement if the inventory is zero? I’m not quite sure how to make that work, but it’s an approach I hadn’t considered. Thanks Joy!

    Any other ideas and advice are welcome!

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