I set her up with WooCommerce and she started putting up card designs.  Like most card folks, she wanted to show the design then give people an option to buy multiple cards at a varying per-card price.  WooCommerce has a built-in way to do this using their variable product feature.  It’s really quite simple.  You can set up attributes on a per-product or global basis, tie those attributes to the “variable product” type, assign different prices to each product, and you’re done.

Except it didn’t work.

She got a global “quantity” attribute set up, created a product and pricing using that attribute, saved a draft, and clicked Preview.  What came up was a box with “Select Option” where the quantity selection was supposed to go, but no actual quantities.  After some frustration with it, she asked me to help.

Google searches suggested all sorts of helpful things.  Maybe the variations didn’t have a price (they did).  Maybe they were out of stock (they weren’t).  Maybe a custom filter needed to be added to make it work.  I tried that, set up a per-product attribute, and success!  However, global attributes still didn’t work.

Now I’m frustrated (and slightly cursing WooCommerce and WordPress).  Into Firebug I go.  I don’t know Javascript that well, so it’s a pretty entertaining thing.  Let’s just say I spend enough time to respect the code they wrote but not enough time to understand it.

One last Google search.  Someone mentions that publishing the product will show the global attribute.  No…  it couldn’t be…  but it is.  Publish the product, and there are all the options.

Sigh.

There’s always a tension when I get to this part of my training cycle.  On one hand, I want to be sure I’m well rested for my weekly long run.  On the other, I still want to make some progress on speed.  Since I was still a little tired from my half marathon trial a couple weeks ago, I kept most of my paces on the slow side and focused on mileage.

It’s still very hot and humid in Austin, which I’m sure is affecting my pace.  It also means I start my long runs early to avoid the sun beating down on me as much as I can.

Next week is a down week, and I’ll take 12 miles out of my schedule.  I’m looking forward to it!

Stats for this week:

Total mileage – 53.6 miles

Avg. pace – 9:38

Longest run – 20 mi.

Weeks until marathon – 7