I've been Googling and searching around all over the web trying to find specific information on how to use Google Sheets as a data source in WordPress and manipulate that data into pre-existing ShortCode.
I have been asked to try and figure out how to store pricing information inside of a Google Sheet and plug that data into existing ShortCode for a site that uses a Cron to update the data at set intervals. The goal is to have a customer access the Google Sheet and update their prices when they want and then have the site update with those price changes and maintain the look of their site without using basic Google Sheets templates.
I've found a few various solutions that are close, but none of them go into manipulating the data how I want. They all are basically just default templates of what a Google table looks like. I essentially want to query the data from the sheet and plug it into the ShortCode.
I am not looking for anyone to write the code for me, but am merely looking to be pushed in the right direction for how to go about this.
I realize this is a pretty old post and you've probably found a solution already, but I was looking for something very similar just last week and came across Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer. It is amazingly robust and may take some research (if you're not familiar with JSON and datatables like I'm not) to get used to, but I think anyone looking to use a google spreadsheet as their "database" will find this plugin incredibly useful.
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The following Google Webmaster Central Blog entry suggests that you can manually correct translations by Google translate for your own website, which go live immediately and are also shown to your visitors: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/05/now-you-can-polish-up-googles.html
Unfortunately this feature seems to be not online anymore. Does anyone know a similar solution to achieve these results?
We want to translate a WordPress WooCommerce website with a lot of products from English to Chinese and therefore have to decide if we want to translate everything manually or use automatic translation via Google translate. Since the automatic Google translation is much quicker we prefer that way but we want to correct the many incorrect translated terms.
In case there is no way to make manual corrections to the Google Translations we also thought about downloading the translated version and re-importing it into WooCommerce again to make the edits there.
The feature looks like it's available at http://translate.google.com/manager/website/
I'm trying to figure out how to take live data from one site and have it displayed on my site. I would like to do so, where the data updates as it updates on the original site. My theme is sports gaming and my site is structured like ESPN. I would like to grab all the team standings and players stats.
Sorry if I am unclear.
So basically you want to scrape a website and display it in yours, possibly in a better way.
So I would recommend to use KIMONO, Its an web scraping service, which will provide you with the api to get the data in a proper Model.
Check it out, IT should get your job done.
If not you can create your own scraper in PHP (PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser) or Javascript, there are libraries in Javascript also.
Hope it helps!
Happy Coding !!!
I'm working on have a property listing asp.NET website and the current search function is pretty crappy. I want to know if I can use the Google Custom Search API to extract the results but still present them in the same way there are now (comprehensive listing items with pricing, images, etc. Here's the current look: http://temporadaplus.com/Aluguel-Por-Temporada.aspx?pais=Brasil ). Each listing item is created via a .NET itemtype. SO basically all I need is to know how to go about using Google's much better results without altering anything visually.
I came across this question here but I am not sure its exactly what I;m looking for. Any ideas or comments are appreciated.
I'm trying to come up with some easy methods to share data between two Drupal websites. Here's my situation: Two websites both want a Top X Music listing with images, audio and data. One website is already creating and updating this list, and since they both use the same list the other website wants to straight up "steal" the first list, content, style and all. They want to take advantage of the work done to create the list on the other website. Their websites are structurally similar, and we control both sites. Audio is made playable using SWF tools.
Domain isn't really an appropriate solution here as the two sites share nothing besides the Top X Music list. I am able to create a view on the original site to feed the data in any format I want.
Some solutions I've been considering are:
Feed the data from one site to the other, hard link back to the other
site for audio/images.
iFrame the data on the site that is "stealing"
the list. (easy but seems too crude!)
jQuery AJAX load the data on the "stealing" site.
Basically I'm looking for suggestions of how you might handle this if they were your Drupal websites. I am familiar with Feeds, but would need to write a parser specifically for this feed, which seems like overkill for something so simple. Thanks! :)
You don't mention what version of Drupal you're using on the two sites. Assuming it's Drupal 6, you may want to check out the Web Widgets module and/or the Embed widgets module.
If you're just after a list of content from SiteA you could add a display to a given view and get RSS output. The ViewsRSS module gives you more control over what is returned.
If you're looking for more of a widget approach then I'd start looking at the Web widgets or Embed widgets modules. They're ok for basic functionality, but if you're looking to want more functionality I'd consider either embedding the content in an iframe (quick and dirty) or reviewing the services module(s) - although this may be overkill for your needs.
HTH.
Does anyone know of any decent examples of using the royalty free yahoo maps functionality?
I can find lots of examples on google but in order to use google within an intranet they insist on your paying approximately £7k a year.
Any links greatly appreciated, ideally i'm thinking JQUERY plugin .js script and a sample ASP.NET page.
I'd like to display placeholders based on long and lat data in our database, on mouse-over the placeholders (or pins) i'd display additional information from the database, images, links etc
many thanks in advance
john
I found just the thing at -> http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/examples.html