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TOPIC: Manufacturer Show All Products Not working. SEO?

Manufacturer Show All Products Not working. SEO? 6 years 5 months ago #15300

I am having a problem with my store - I do not know when this began, or how to solve it. I have read many of the topics that sounded related on here - but never the exact same problem.

I cannot click a link on a manufacturer logo and get to view all products. It loads an empty page (the rest of the page loads, just no products) but a link using the manufacturer ID will load the products (this is only manual, as seo changes id to names)

For example:
This will show nothing: blackforestwood.com/index.php/online-catalog/manufacturer/ecopoxy
This will load all products: blackforestwood.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_manufacturer_id=35

So first for troubleshooting:
I have tried to disable any recently installed plugins, did not fix it
Tried turning off show manufacturer logo, did not fix it
Made sure every manufacturer had a photo and at least one item, did not fix it
Every parent product has a manufacturer set

Using firefox developer tools I did get a red error which did not come up when I went to copy it for this post, but it was something along the lines of "could not load (...com_virtuemart/assets/css...) jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css?vmver=838accc9" (I pieced this together from google search history - I didn't have the foresight to take a screenshot)

Any suggestions or solutions are appreciated. I don't know if it is related to joomla (3.7.5) virtuemart (3.2.4) or cleanmart (3.9.7)
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Manufacturer Show All Products Not working. SEO? 6 years 5 months ago #15310

Hi,

This problem can't be related to any CSS or JS, or what so ever. IT is definately something to do with the SEF URL (search engine friendly url)

blackforestwood.com/index.php/online-catalog/manufacturer/ecopoxy/ doesn't load any product,
but this link: blackforestwood.com/index.php/online-catalog/manufacturer/ecopoxy/adhesives

loads all products.
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Manufacturer Show All Products Not working. SEO? 6 years 5 months ago #15324

It seems that only if the manufacturer is then suffixed with a category it belongs to will it show any products. I don't know if this has to do with a recent Virtuemart update, but it used to be able to show all manufacturer products, so this was a great way for a manufacturer to link directly to their products on a dealer site.

I will continue looking into this, but if anyone has a suggestion, I currently have quite a few broken link backs to the site.

It is hard to find any information on this module, even on virtuemart.net, the module itself in the create new module menu says compatible with virtuemart 2.x
Last Edit: 6 years 5 months ago by Tricia Ingram. Reason: More information
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Manufacturer Show All Products Not working. SEO? 6 years 4 months ago #15329

Try creating menu-item for manufacturers, so you will have full control over manufacturers' URLs.. If you leave them as they are, Joomla will generate SEF URLs for them automatically and sometime it can be problematic.

FYI: Create a new Joomla menu group something like; "secret menu", and put the item-menus in that group, so those menu-items won't be visible anywhere on the website, but they will help you to control the SEF URLs.
Last Edit: 6 years 4 months ago by Support.
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