MyFeeds — Affiliate Product Feed Importer & Shoppable Product Cards

Changelog

1.0.48

• Fixed: the mapping editor shows a feed’s fields again. Loading them ended in a PHP error.
• Fixed: a feed in the format Tradedoubler documents for its Products API imported no products, and a Rakuten catalogue file opened as a feed without products.
• Fixed: an XML feed without line breaks between its products lost every second product, and a price with a thousands mark (“1,299.00”) was read wrong.
• Fixed: Ascend’s sale price and the column names of Impact’s catalogue format are read. In an AWIN feed, the link without tracking no longer replaces the link you mapped. The feed dialog no longer chooses AWIN for every feed.
• Improved: JSON feeds of any size are imported. A refused or timed-out download says what happened. After you change a feed’s address or upload a new file, the Feeds screen offers to import it right away.
• Improved: the folders for uploaded feed files and for the copy made during an import are closed to requests from the web. The check that refuses addresses inside your own server also recognises IPv6 notation.
• Improved: the background check of merchants’ image servers keeps one byte instead of a whole picture and no longer waits behind servers that cannot be measured. Grouping the sizes of a product after an update finishes by itself.
• Changed: the “External Services” section of this readme is corrected, and the note about Amazon on the Feeds screen describes the paid plans as they are now.

1.0.47

• Fixed: a product card could show its grey placeholder instead of the picture on sites where an image optimisation or CDN plugin rewrites the addresses of pictures. Some shops turn such services away, and the card then had no picture, although the same picture loads in any browser. A card now goes back to the picture’s own address at the shop, once, when the copy it was given does not load. Sites without such a plugin behave exactly as before, and Jetpack’s image CDN already left product cards alone.

1.0.46

• Fixed: activating the plugin skipped its own setup step. The product table, the default settings and the scheduled syncs only appeared with the first visit to the WordPress admin afterwards, so a site activated from the command line had no product table until then, and the daily housekeeping wrote “feed list unreadable” to the error log every day until the first feed was added. Activation now sets everything up right away, and running it again (deactivate, activate) keeps your feeds and products as they are.

1.0.45

• Improved: the product grid is as wide as your post’s text instead of a fixed 1,200 pixels, so cards line up with your writing in every theme. In the block toolbar you can now set it to Wide or Full width, like other blocks.
• Fixed: on narrow cards a sale price was cut off (“89,9…”) next to the struck-through old price. It now moves to its own line. Wider cards look exactly as before.

1.0.44

• Fixed: products of a feed you deleted came back into your posts. Deleting a feed takes the products your posts show off the page and keeps them in the database, but the clean-up that runs right after the delete marked them to stay visible again, with their last price and a link that may no longer lead anywhere. They now stay hidden, and products this already happened to are hidden again once, on the first page load after the update.
• Fixed: products of a removed feed that no post uses any more are now cleared out of the database instead of staying there forever.

1.0.43

• Improved: prices are written the way their currency is normally written: “£150.00”, “$150.00”, “150,00 €”. A site whose language uses that same currency keeps its own way of writing it. The card and the block editor always show the same price.
• Improved: the Feed Name field says what the name is for. Readers see it on your product cards, so the shop’s name works best.
• Fixed: the product picker no longer says “Free Shipping” when a feed has no shipping data. Only a real shipping cost of 0 counts as free shipping, and a delivery time is no longer shown as a shipping cost.
• Fixed: a product without a price says “Price on request” in the product picker too, the same as on the card.
• Fixed: one selected product reads “Use 1 Product”.
• Fixed: on the Feeds screen the feed dialogs no longer appear twice after a feed is added or removed, and a script error after an import is gone.

1.0.42

• Improved: product card images now come in the size the card is actually shown at. The browser measures the card and picks the smallest file that is still sharp on that screen, instead of one 800 px image for every device. Only for image hosts that can deliver smaller copies; cards set to fill their frame keep the one sharp image.

1.0.41

• Improved: the Analytics preview’s insight cards show every card the dashboard has today, including top earning posts and risers and fallers (example data).

1.0.40

• Improved: the Analytics preview shows the dashboard as it looks now, with unique visitors, earnings per click and the day-by-day comparison with the period before (example data).

1.0.39

• Fixed: undo and redo in the block editor now update a product block’s tiles. Before, the tiles kept showing the old selection, and the next change inside the block could save it back.

1.0.38

• Improved: the storefront picture on the E-commerce page shows the shop as it looks now.
• Improved: the changelog on WordPress.org was being cut off part way through. The recent releases are listed there in full again, and the complete history now ships with the plugin in changelog.txt.

1.0.37

• Fixed: a digit no longer starts a word in search. Looking for “tee” could match a sunglasses model number like 214050TEESPIBOR, and “slim” three eyeglass part numbers — the same kind of false match the whole-word rule exists to prevent. It also made search contradict itself: a long word was matched one way and a short one another.
• Improved: the size a merchant’s image CDN is asked for is now checked against that merchant instead of assumed. One widely documented parameter turned out to be ignored by a large retailer’s image server, and a wrong assumption could never correct itself before.

1.0.36

• Improved: product images are asked for at the size they are shown. Some merchants ship the print master — one feed averaged 2 MB per product image, with individual files past 25 MB — which makes a post crawl and can leave an image stuck on its alt text while the browser waits. MyFeeds now asks the merchant’s image CDN for a copy that fits the card. On a shop page with 72 product images that was 61.4 MB before and 5.8 MB after.
• Improved: for an image host MyFeeds has not seen before, it works out how to ask, once, in the background, and remembers the answer. Nothing is re-imported, no image is copied to your server, and a host that cannot make a smaller copy is left exactly as it was.
• Improved: one product, one card. Sizes of the same product are now grouped in the block picker and in the picker’s detail view, whichever way the feed writes the size — “Size 11.0 W”, “Size: Large”, “- S” or a separate size field. The card says how many sizes a product comes in, and the detail view lists each size and colour with its own link.
• Fixed: the detail view asked for a product’s sizes with an empty id and came back with nothing. The list of sizes stayed empty however the feed was written.
• Fixed: re-importing your feed now marks the products your merchant has withdrawn, instead of leaving them on sale with a link that goes nowhere. They are never deleted — a product already placed in a post turns into the “no longer available” card, so nothing disappears from your posts without warning. If more than half the feed would be marked at once, the import treats that as a truncated download and leaves everything alone.
• Fixed: “Showing whole-word matches only” no longer costs a row of empty space right above the products in the search window. It sits next to the result count.
• Improved: two redundant indexes have left the products table, making imports a little faster and the table a little smaller. Existing installations are cleaned up once, automatically.

1.0.35

• Improved: a search word of three letters or fewer now has to start a word, the way longer words always did. Searching “men” used to return every women’s product because the word sits inside “women”; on a real catalogue that was 58,176 matches where 27,358 were meant.
• Added: a line under the search toolbar says whether you are seeing whole-word matches, and offers the partial ones with one click. Nothing is dropped, so a Sweatshirt is still one click away from “shirt”.
• Fixed: when a search found nothing and the plugin fell back to a looser match, it did not say so. It does now.
• Fixed: a number in a search was silently ignored on MySQL 8 in that fallback, because it used a word-boundary syntax that only the older MySQL understands.
• Fixed: a search word of three letters or fewer also demanded every one of its synonyms. Searching “men” quietly meant “men and man” and found a fraction of what it should. A synonym is an alternative now, the way it always was for longer words.

1.0.34

• Fixed: product titles lost every dash, curly quote and ellipsis, and some accented letters, showing question marks instead. A pattern that strips trademark marks was matching single bytes rather than characters, so it deleted the first byte of those characters and left something that was no longer readable text. Titles now keep them, and a mis-declared encoding is repaired instead of being filled with question marks.
• Fixed: products from feeds that write a size as “Shirt – XL” with a long dash appeared once per size in the block picker. The rule that recognises a size suffix could not match that dash, so the sizes never collapsed into one product.
• Fixed: the mapping editor could sit on “Loading…” forever for a large feed. It pulled the whole file into memory to read a single row; it now streams from disk like the importer does, and unpacks gzip and zip on the way.

1.0.33

• Fixed: adding or re-importing one feed could turn into an update of every feed. The import of a single feed has no background worker to wait for, so ten seconds in it looked stuck, and the recovery step started a full update in its place. It now leaves single-feed imports alone.

1.0.32

• Fixed: on password-protected sites the import restarted itself from the status poll and marked real products unavailable. The fix applies to any site whose own server cannot reach it without a password, and to every feed on it.

1.0.31

• Filtering, sorting and paging inside a search are near-instant. The first search still asks the index once; from then on a filter chip reads from what that search found, instead of searching the whole catalogue again with the filter attached. A brand filter on a 90,000-row catalogue took 7.6 seconds and now takes a few hundredths.
• Every sort order gives one answer: two products that tie on price, discount or date come back in the same order every time.
• “Back to search” and “Add to selection” return you to where you were in the results, not to the top.
• The mapping editor reads XML and JSON feeds. It used to show an empty form for any feed that is not CSV, and no error.
• Feeds are listed alphabetically in the mapping editor.
• Card images are no longer routed through Jetpack’s image CDN. Shopify and other merchant CDNs need the exact address the feed delivered, and the CDN dropped part of it, so some cards showed no image while the editor showed the product.
• A feed without a currency column is priced in the currency of the market it names (a delivery-time column per country, or the country in the shop link). Partnerize feeds priced in pounds showed euros. A default currency set in the mapping editor still wins.

1.0.30

• A search that reports 245 results now shows all 245. Where a feed ships a row per size, a search matches many more rows than it has products – sixteen rows per product in one measured case – and the plugin only ever looked at the first few hundred rows. So a search could report hundreds of results and hand you twenty, with “Load more” unable to reach past them. It now looks far enough to fill the pages it promises, and it is about twice as fast at the same time.
• Product links saved in a post could lose the ampersands out of them, leaving an address that looks fine and leads nowhere: the affiliate id and the merchant id were swallowed into one long parameter. Existing cards repair themselves as they are read, so your links point where they should again.

1.0.29

• In the product detail view, clicking one of the smaller images now shows it in the large frame. They were there to look at and did nothing.
• Choosing a size now selects that size. Picking a colour already switched the product for real – link, price and all – but a size only changed what was highlighted, so adding the product to a post linked to whichever size the search had opened. Pick 42 and the card links to 42.

Older entries (1.0.28 and earlier) are in changelog.txt, which ships with the plugin.