How to correctly link to products?

On my web site, I need to link to products from other Joomla articles and also from other products.
If I simply insert a hyperlink with the address of my products in the shop, it will be something like below:
www.mywebsite.com/shop/product/755-mnogo...benassi-ms-4300ld-ae

However, if a shop manager will change the name of the product, the link will change automatically and therefore all other articles will keep incorrect link to the product.
I was surprised that it will be still accessible, whatever I put after "/755", even www.mywebsite.com/shop/product/755-blah-blah-blah is still Ok.

But is there a smarter way of referring to products from within other articles on my site?

Hello,

We are currently developping a solution to insert products in joomla articles so in few days you'll be able to use the Hikashop product insert solution.

Hope this will help you.

Hello,

I have upgarded to the new version with minor bugs (add to cart button option suddently went OFF).

Howeever, I can not find the Product Insert solution insede the new package. Is it a separate / standalone solution that must come separately from main HikaShop package?

There are two plugins called "HikaShop Product TAG insertion" and "HikaShop Product TAG translation" which have to be published for that.

Hello Nicolas,

I can see the plugins and they are published, but how can I use them? Sorry, but Google search for "Product TAG insertion" results in two pages only. An the two pages have absolutely nothing to do with Hikashop.
The search across this forum also does not result in anything useful.
I have checked documentation and could not find any description for that plugin as well.

Is there any special syntax I can use in my articles?

Thanx

Hi,

The documentation has not yet been written for that feature.

When you edit a joomla article, you will have a "product" button at the bottom of the editor where you can click to generate the special syntax for product tag.

Nicolas, thanks for pointing out that button, I dod not notice it.

However, the feature still has two significant issues for me:

1) When I try to display both price and image of the product, instead it shows "no image" picture. When I show image only (without price), image shows Ok.

2) It links to product, but the links are totally not SEO-friendly, such as:
/component/hikashop/product/674-Бензопила%20HITACHI%20%20CS33EB

and the correct link would be:
/shop/product/674-benzopila-hitachi-cs33eb
(that's how it is generated by the Hikashop's frontend)

Ok, it still brings me to the proper product page. But who wants to keep many different links pointing to the same product from various pages of a site.
Also, Cyrillic characters are not transliterated, thus even folder will be corrected, still the full link is not the same.
In my opinion, the above issue will sigbnificantly decrease the SEO power of internal links.

Thanks for reading my comment. :whistle:

Thank you for your feedback on that.

Regarding your second point, we fixed that on our end.
For the first point, Mohamed will look at it tomorrow.

Hi watashi,

Can you send me your TAG that you can find into your joomla article ?

Here is an example of TAG :

Hello Mohamed,

It is confusing.

The link seems to be ok:


However, when I set product ID 1 instead of ID 734, it works!
So, it seems something is wrong with product 734..


I will take a closer look and revert to you in this thread.

Does your product with the 734 ID have the good image ?

Yes, I have just checked again.
Also, when I press the link to product, image on product page is shown without any problems.

Ok, can you give me a temporary back-end access by PM ?

Have sent by PM.

I figured out where the problem was coming from so it should work for now.

Mohamed, that works perfectly!
Can you also advice which view is responsible for its output?
I want to correct alignment of price from left to center.
I have found this line in CSS:
If I center it, it works, but it will also center price on full product page.
Therefore, as far as I understand, I will need to override the view to correct styling in product TAG insertion plugin only.
But I can't find the responsible view...

Hi Watashi,

It's works fine for me when I set the css like this : But If you want to edit the view of the product insert plugin, you'll have to edit the file :
"./Hikashop/plugins/system/hikashopproductinsert/hikashopproductinsert_view.php"

Hi Mohamed,
Yes it works for me as well, but it will also center price on all other product pages. I do not want to affect product pages. I need to change price alignment on "product insert" block only.

Also, I do not want to hack it and edit php files directly as it will cause issues at the next Hikashop update. (the file will be overwritten, right?)

Is there any better idea?

Yes, you can add this css then your product page won't be changed :
ps : I already added this code to your CSS .

I could not understand why, but it really works!
Thanks again!