Pre Sale Questions Regarding Food Menus & WordPress Multisite

  • Resolved Lyndon Roeller

    (@lyndonr)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Dear Yext Engineering team. 2 questions:

    – Can you pull menu data from Yext for Food via this plugin?

    – Has this plugin been tested with WordPress multisite and verified to work?

    Fingers crossed, the answer to both is yes.

    Thanks in advance!

    Lyndon

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  • Plugin Author yext-wordpress

    (@thundersnow)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello, Lyndon!

    – Our plugin is fully compatible with menus; if you have created a Menu Widget in your Yext account, it should be usable out-of-the-box with the wordpress plugin.

    – I’m afraid we have not explicitly tested our plugin against a Multi-Site installation. The plugin operates on a page-by-page basis, so in theory there would not be any issues, but I can’t say for sure. If you do encounter any issues with using the plugin on a multisite, please let us know and we can look into it ASAP.

    Thread Starter Lyndon Roeller

    (@lyndonr)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    @thundersnow Thank you so much for the quick reply!

    Do you have the ability to test with a dev copy of Multisite now? I’d love to get a definitive answer before purchase instead of being in a situation where we spend $2k+ and be testing it for you 😁.

    My big red flags would be…

    – That there are no initial install problems on multisite

    – That the plugin can pull a menu from at least two separate locations in Yext into at least two separate WordPress child sites.

    – That there are no console errors on the front end.

    Sorry, making you work for this one but trust me, the client will be worth it.

    Lyndon

    Plugin Author yext-wordpress

    (@thundersnow)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Lyndon,

    I was able to spin up a multi-site instance locally and test the plugin against it. I made the following verifications:

    1) I was able to install the Yext plugin through the “Network Admin” view, and activate it without issue. This caused it to be “Network Active” and available on each individual site.

    2) Once I connected a Yext account to the plugin, the shortcodes for that account were usable on each individual site. I do not believe it is possible to connect multiple Yext accounts at once, so I would expect that all relevant locations/menus will need to be in the same Yext account. The prior statement seems to be untrue, as each individual site prompted me to enter an account token for the plugin. However, to minimize the chance of confusion I would recommend keeping things on the same account.

    3) I was able to place a unique shortcode on each site’s homepage, and verified that the rendered pages correctly loaded unique menus.

    4) I verified that there were no console errors caused on any of the rendered pages.

    In short, it seems to work without any problems. If you do run into any issues, please let us know!

    Thread Starter Lyndon Roeller

    (@lyndonr)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    @thundersnow. Well done! You very much just helped seal the deal on a sale. I’ll be sure to let our account rep know.

    Hopefully this helps someone else in the future as well.

    Lyndon

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