Woocommerce Online Store Management by LocalHost

Woo sync guide v0.1

Contents

Installation

Installation .................................................................................................................... 1

Settings

Plugin Settings Page ....................................................................................................... 4

woo sync target ...................................................................................................... 7

FTP Settings .................................................................................................................... 8

Internal Server Error On Wamp ............................................................................................ 9

Download Products

Download Tab ............................................................................................................... 10

Publish List

Publish Tab .................................................................................................................. 12

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Installation:

In order to set up this plugin, first, set up a localhost on your personal computer and install the

WordPress on it. Use one of the WAMP or XAMPP software and consequently, install the

WordPress on it. The complete installation tutorial of both software is provided below:

XAMPP and WordPress Installation Tutorial

WAMP and WordPress Installation Tutorial

After installing the localhost completely and performing the necessary settings, enter into the

WordPress Dashboard(LocalHost) and install the Woocommerce Plugin from the Plugins section.

Read this tutorial if you are not familiar with how to install the WordPress Plugin.

Then, install the woo sync plugin in 1-Plugins folder that you have already purchased.

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After installing and activating the plugin, a new menu is added to the menus in the WordPress

Dashboard.

Now, click on the new menu (woo Synchronizer) to access the plugin setting.

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Settings :

1. Target Store URL: Enter your store address in this section. Make sure to enter the store address

as the following example and avoid placing / at the end of the address:

https://example.com

2. Target Store Consumer Key; and

3. Target Store Consumer Secret: go to the following path in your online store to get a consumer

key and Secret:

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WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > REST API

Click on Create API Key or Add Key:

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A. Description: Choose an optional name for API

B. User: Select the site admin as an API user.

C. Permissions: Set this section on reading and writing mode.

D. Click on Generate API Key option.

As you can see, the consumer key and secret are created in this section. Now, just copy the

consumer key in the “Target Store Consumer Key” field in the woo sync settings and the consumer

secret in the “Target Store Consumer Secret” field in the plugin settings. Then, click on the “Test

REST API Connection” option.

If all the settings are entered correctly, after clicking on the test connection, the message of “The

connection to the target store is established.” will be displayed. Otherwise, if the connection is not

established, the description related to resolving possible problems in the program will be displayed

to fix the problem.

6. *Woo Sync Target* Access Code: The "woo sync target" is a complementary plugin installed

on the target site. However, what is the use of this plugin and does it need to be installed?

Woo sync target

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Woo Sync Target

If you have only one admin who edits or adds products to the site and you want to apply all changes

to the products, categories, attributes, and tags by the localhost hereafter, there is no need to install

the woo sync target plugin. However, if you are working on your site products by a few admins,

make sure to install this plugin to save time.

Why?

When you download the products in your store into the localhost, it is very important that you

receive the latest changes to your store after complete downloading; in fact, any change occurred

in your online store will also apply to the local host. For this purpose, after the products have been

downloaded completely, an update option appears in the product download section and you can

always update the store’s information by clicking this option. Nevertheless, the problem is that

this update will be very time-consuming because the program must request to receive all data from

your site and check which data is available and which is unavailable. This issue will take times for

stores with a product number of over 1000 products. As a result, if you install the woo sync target

plugin on your online store, the last changes on your store are saved and you can update your local

products in a few minutes in the "Update before Publish" section in the localhost Publish list.

Woo sync target has no specific settings, the installing of which on your online store gives you an

access code; you just need to enter your access code in the “*woo sync target* access code” field

available in the “woo sync” setting page.

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immediate change options :

7. Products : If you enable this option, any changes to the product or the creation and removal of

the product will be applied immediately to your target store.

8. Categories : If you enable this option, any changes to the categories or the creation and removal

of categories will be applied immediately to your target store.

9. Tags : If you enable this option, any changes to the Tags or the creation and removal of Tags

will be applied immediately to your target store.

10. Attributes : If you enable this option, any changes to the attributes or the creation and removal

of attributes will be applied immediately to your target store.

11. Local Host: This plugin can be used on both the localhost and the server. Enable this option if

you are working on localhost. If this option is enabled, the following options will appear:

ftp

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FTP Settings

A. FTP Port: In most cases, this port is equal to 21; if the hosting or server administrator of

your store changes your server setting, enter the new value in this field. Otherwise, put the

value of 21 in this field.

B. FTP Username: The username of your server ftp account.

C. FTP Password: The password of your server ftp account.

D. Then, click on the “test FTP connection”. If the settings are correct, the message of

“connection was successful” will be displayed. Otherwise, the FTP information is

undoubtedly incorrect; ask your hosting or server administrator to provide FTP

information.

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Internal server error

Note: In the case of using WAMP, if you click on the Connection Test option and encountered an

Internal Server Error, the FTP settings in php.ini are unlikely not set.

To this end, go to the WAMP path (for example, if WAMP is installed on drive C):

C:\wamp64\bin\php\php7.2.10\php.ini

and search extension=ftp. As you can see, there is a semicolon at the beginning of the expression:

;extension=ftp → extension=ftp

Delete the semicolon and save the file.

Now you have to go to another path where a shortcut of the php.ini file is available and edit that

file like this one.

Go to the path:

c:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.35\bin\php.ini

and repeat changes you made in the previous step at this point. Then, save the file

Close the WAMP program once and run it again.

Then, log into the plugin and retry the FTP connection test.

Click on the Save Changes button after entering the above values. The plugin is now fully enabled

and you can start downloading your store products.

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Download products

This section enables you to download all your store products. Just click the “Download Products

of target store” button.

All program reactions to download and creation functions will be shown visually and when the

download finishes, the message of “All Down!” will be displayed. Please wait until the download

is completed.

Important points:

Depending on the speed of the Internet, as well as the power and speed of your system, the

download time may be fast or slow. In the download process, if the Internet connection is

disconnected, the app automatically checks your network status every 5 seconds, and if the

connection is reconnected, the download process continues.

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If you have to shut down your system in the middle of the Create Products process, you can close

the download page without any problems. The download process stops with the page closing or

refreshing, but when you re-enter this section, a new option called “Continue” appears that you

can continue to process from where you stopped Creating.

After downloading all the products, instead of the *Download Products of target store* button, the

following options will appear:

Option 1. Clear download history: By pressing this key, all downloaded data will be deleted and

the download process will start from begining. Using this option will empty the download history

of plugin and will not delete products. Use this option only when you have cleared all the products

and you want to re-download your site products.

Option 2. Update: To update the latest changes to the target store products

Option 3. Continue: If some database information is not created in the local host due to an error,

or if you stopped the creation process, this option will appear and is responsible for continuing the

process of Create Product.

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Publish list

If you are working offline on localhost products, all changes to products, categories, tags, and

attributes will be listed in this section. Obviously, if you enable the option related to the immediate

changes of products, categories, tags, and attributes, each of which with the immediate changes

checkmark will not be listed in the release list in the case of any change on that section and will

be immediately applied to the target store.

All changes are saved in your Publish list and you can apply the new changes to the target site by

clicking the cancel option of products in the list.

If you enable the woo sync target plugin on the target site and put the access code in the woo sync

settings, two options of “update latest changes” and “Clear latest changes log” appear above the

release list. Previously, the function of the Update option was explained in the Settings section.

However, what is the “Clear latest changes log” option?

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When the number of changes made to the target site is too high, the update will be long. Thus,

whenever you click on the update and get the latest changes to your online store, click on the

“Clear latest changes log” option to empty the last changes list, in order to accelerate the update

process in the next times.

Note: If you have installed the woo sync target, make sure to click on the update option whenever

you want to Punlish the items in the list, in order to avoid interrupting the order of the store changes

with the localhost.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is highly recommended that you check the list before clicking the option

of release items in the list so that you do not delete or add a product by mistake.