Tue 10-15-2019 – Mercy-loyal

It appears that the facebook for woocommerce is not adding the correct ID meta tags to update the products.

Its strange it doesn’t work because it’s written by facebook themselves. It could be that facebook does not care about this plugin now.

The easiest solution is to modify the existing plugin.

12:43am

The facebook for woocommerce plugin may have issues with custom themes. It didn’t appear to inject any meta tags into the HTML. But there are already some meta tags in the theme files. Specifically on woocommerce/single-product/price.php

So I need to look into the code and see how it does this and add support for it on the theme.

10-16-2019 @ 2:46am

It took some time but I made the necessary code updates to the custom ml theme. I just added a meta tag:

<meta itemprop="productID" content="<?php echo ( $sku = $product->get_sku() ) ? $sku : esc_html__( '', 'woocommerce' ); ?>">

Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/catalog-setup/update-options#microdata-tags

Then I tested a product page using the Microdata debugger tool: https://business.facebook.com/ads/microdata/debug

I just edited 4 lines of code! Keep solutions simple. Hunt for the most efficient solution not the quickest! It took 2 hours of digging and finding.

Here is my thought process. [explain the routes you took to solve the problem. Place emphasis on the just playing around with the code.]

4:41am

To be good at troubleshooting code, you have to dive into the code and swim in it. Just keep searching and looking and even though everything gets messy, you have to keep swiming.