Hey guys,

A client of mine has asked me to implement a 'Product of the Week' feature for her website. Doesn't really need much explaination, she wants to feature a product each week, and when you hover on the product, it shows you a price and where it's from. She also want's a page of all past product of the weeks on her site, to be laid out like this website: http://ilovelof.tumblr.com/

 

Can this be done? Does anyone know of a plugin that might do this? Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers

 

Conor

I think to give you a proper answer people might need a bit more information.

 

I'm guessing she already has a shop set up? If so, what is she running that on?

Hi Jack,

 

There is no shop setup, and no ecommerce functions are required here. She will not be selling on her website. She just wants a page where she can feature products that she feels her followers would be interested in. I'm thinking it might be an idea to create a custom post type in Wordpress, and treat the product of the week almost like a portfolio. What I'm not sure how to replicate is getting the posts on the front end to be laid out like this: http://ilovelof.tumblr.com/

Are you using a custom post type for the products?

 

If so, add a category to that post type, call it 'product of the week'. Now, simply put in to that category any products you want to feature, making sure that the latest one is shown wherever you want to display the product of the week.

 

Then just loop through the entire category to output all products categorised with the product of the week

Hey guys,

 

thanks a lot for your input. In the end, I found a portfolio plugin which has automated the process of creating a custom post type, taxonomies, CSS etc for me. I've made a bunch of my own modifications to it and it's now doing exactly what my client has asked for. Really do appreciate your help though.