How to Install Nosto – Personalization for WooCommerce Plugin, Manually
Before proceeding please make sure that you are running WordPress 3.5 or above and WooCommerce 2.0.0 or above.
Please refer to the WordPress documentation on how to get the plugin to appear in your installation admin section.
Once the plugin appears in your installation, you must activate it. Navigate to the “Plugins” section and locate the “WooCommerce Nosto Tagging” plugin. The activation is done simply by clicking the “Activate” link next to the plugin name in the list.
The activation procedure will create a new page called “Top Sellers”. This page can be found and edited under the “Pages” section in the backend. The page contains a single div element that is used to show product recommendations. A link to the page should appear in the shops main navigation menu.
Once you have activated the plugin and added the necessary actions, you need to configure the plugin. The plugins configuration page can be found under the “Woocommerce > Settings > Integration”.
The configuration page consists of three settings:
Account name
This is your Nosto marketing automation service account name that you got when registering for the service
Use default Nosto elements
This setting controls if the plugin should create and output the default Nosto elements for showing the product recommendations
You can disable the defaults if you want to use your own elements in your theme
All of the above settings are needed for the plugin to work. You do not need to add Nosto javascript manually to your store.
The plugin uses the WordPress Action API to add content to the shop. However, there are a few actions that will have to be added to the shops theme in order for the plugin to function to its full extent.
wcnt_before_search_result
This action should be called above the search result list on the on search pages
You need to add <?php do_action('wcnt_before_search_result'); ?> in your themes search page template at the appropriate location
Please note that this only applies to the WordPress search and not the WooCommerce search
If you are using the WooCommerce search, you do not need to add any actions to the templates
wcnt_after_search_result
This action should be called below the search result list on the on search pages
You need to add <?php do_action('wcnt_after_search_result'); ?> in your themes search page template at the appropriate location
Please note that this only applies to the WordPress search and not the WooCommerce search
If you are using the WooCommerce search, you do not need to add any actions to the templates
wcnt_before_main_content
This action should be called at the beginning of every page in the shop
You need to add <?php do_action('wcnt_before_main_content'); ?> in your themes header template, inside the main content section
wcnt_after_main_content
This action should be called at the end of every page in the shop
You need to add <?php do_action('wcnt_after_main_content'); ?> in your themes footer template, inside the main content section
The “Nosto Tagging” widget added by the plugin for showing Nosto elements in the shops sidebars, needs to be configured if you wish to use it. The widget can be found under the “Appearance->Widgets” section and it works like any other WordPress widget. After dropping the widget in the appropriate sidebar container, you need to configure its Nosto ID. This ID is used as the Nosto element div ID attribute and can be whatever you decide.
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