QWeb Merchant Feed

Changelog

1.2.1

• Changed: price rounding for a market uses a site price function only when you name it on the market (or add it with the qweb_mf_price_snap_functions filter). There is no built-in default function any more.
• Changed: a “Price function” field on each market in Settings.
• Changed: code comments and the changelog no longer refer to any particular store.

1.2.0

• New: per-profile item exclusion, per-language title and description overrides, and a public link address for staging copies.
• Includes everything listed under 1.1.0, which was not released on its own.

1.1.0

• New: markets. One extra feed file per country, currency and language, each for its own Merchant Center data source. Prices are converted with CURCY (rates, fees, fixed per-product prices) or WooCommerce Multilingual, links carry the language path (Weglot, WPML, Polylang) and the currency parameter, and every variation link preselects its variation.
• New: excluded and included destinations, shopping ads excluded countries, multipack, bundle, unit pricing (also derived from a pack-size attribute), shipping rows, shipping label, handling times, product dimensions, size type, certification, lifestyle images, mobile link, expiration date, pause, return policy label, US tax and product details. Each one works as a product override, a rule target and a CSV/TSV column.
• New: an MPN field on products and variations. The SKU is only sent as MPN when Settings say so (on for sites updated from 1.0, so nothing changes for them).
• New: rules can match on price (ranges for price bands), on any product or variation attribute, on stock and on brand, and can write the matched value into a custom label.
• New: Google’s disclosure for AI-written text. A title or description written by the AI rewriter is also sent as structured_title or structured_description with the trained_algorithmic_media source type.
• New: landing-page price check. Loads a sample of product pages and compares the price in their product schema with the feed.
• Fixed: a scheduled sale was sent as a live sale before it started. It now goes out only while it runs, or with a sale_price_effective_date.
• Fixed: with SKUs as offer ids, Apply wrote fixes onto the wrong product.
• Fixed: the settings for variations, out-of-stock and external products were saved but never used.
• Fixed: grouped products sent their children twice.
• Fixed: CSV and TSV feeds left out custom labels and promotion ids.
• Fixed: a rule on a list attribute wrote the word “Array” into the feed.
• Fixed: password-protected and hidden products were in the feed.
• Fixed: shipping weight in pounds was written as “lbs”, a unit Google does not accept.
• Fixed: the AI claims filter now checks every AI text, titles included, and catches “#1” and claim verbs.
• Changed: the audit score weighs each problem by the share of products it affects; a missing Google category is a warning; gender and age group are only checked on apparel; variations of one product sharing a description are no longer duplicates.

1.0.4

• Changed: an order no longer rebuilds the feed. WooCommerce saves a product when an order lowers its stock, and every such save started a full feed generation, although the feed only carries in stock or out of stock, never a quantity. Saves that only change the stock count are now ignored. A stock change that makes an item go out of stock (or back in stock) still rebuilds, as does any other product edit.

1.0.3

• Fixed: on a site with a persistent object cache (Redis, Memcached) feed generation no longer flushes cache groups there. With the Redis Object Cache plugin each group flush scans the whole Redis store, which on a shared Redis server froze every site on it for about two minutes per feed run. Memory is now released inside the feed process only.

1.0.2

• New: duplicate variations (same product, same attributes, usually the same SKU from a repeated import) are sent to Google only once. The one that has sold is kept, the rest are listed as excluded with the reason “duplicate variation” and shown in the audit, so they can be deleted in WooCommerce.
• New: text pasted from Word or an old system often carries invisible Windows characters (a dash stored as U+0096). They are now turned into the character that was meant before the feed is written. Google reports the raw characters as “encoding problem”.
• New: additional images also come from variation-gallery plugins, and when a product has no gallery at all the parent’s main photo is added to variations whose own photo differs.
• New: optional Google attributes material (from a material or fabric attribute, or an explicit “Fabric type:” line or a percentage blend in the description), product_highlight (up to six bullet points from the description) and size_system (US automatically for US stores). Each is only written when the product states it, and each can be turned off.
• New: the feed dashboard and wp qweb-feed status show how much of the catalogue the feed covers (“Feed covers 24 of 90 published products”) and which categories are outside the scope, plus why items were excluded.
• Changed: the local audit now covers the whole feed instead of stopping at 2,000 items, and it refreshes itself in the background after every successful generation.

1.0.1

• Fixed: a fatal error on the front end. The plugin registered a request handler for a component that is not part of the free edition, so every page load ended in a blank page. The handler is now only registered when that component is present.
• New: Variation titles setting. Keep WooCommerce’s own name (Base – Colour, Size) or match the dashes format most feed plugins emit (Base – Colour – Size), so a migration keeps titles identical and Google keeps their history.
• Security: the log file name now carries per-site entropy (like WooCommerce logs), so servers that ignore .htaccess (nginx, OpenLiteSpeed) cannot serve it at a guessable URL. Existing logs are renamed automatically.
• The logs folder .htaccess now uses both Apache 2.4 and 2.2 deny syntax.
• Doctor reports it when it repairs feed directory ownership instead of fixing it silently, and explains that a feed URL timeout can be the server failing to reach its own public URL (containers, NAT).
• Uninstall removes the logs folder completely (the .htaccess used to survive and keep the folder behind).

1.0.0

• First public wordpress.org release.
• Product Data Optimizer for Google Merchant Center.
• Create optimized product data as XML, TSV or CSV with a stable scheduled-fetch URL.
• Choose which shop categories go into the feed, or exclude some.
• Detect product data problems: missing fields, shared barcodes, title issues and apparel gaps.
• Mechanical Apply and Undo. Shop pages are not edited.
• Rules to standardize product information, plus a per-product Google Feed tab.