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How to import Prestashop Products into WordPress via RSS Feed

WordPress and Prestashop can be an ideal combination. Wouldn’t it be a nice function to import products from Prestashop to promote them through your WordPress site? The following article shows you how to automatically publish new prestashop products in your WordPress site.

First you need to activate the prestshop module “RSS products feed”


Now let’s test if the product feed is working. The products feed url is called as follows: your-shop-url/modules/feeder/rss.php
For example the feed for my shop is http://killerthemes.de/modules/feeder/rss.php

If your shop is multilingual you will have a rss feed for each language:
http://killerthemes.de/de/modules/feeder/rss.php (German feed)
http://killerthemes.de/en/modules/feeder/rss.php (English feed)

Now we switch over to the backend of WordPress. Here you will have to install the plugin “wp-o-matic”

Before we configure the plugin settings it is necessary to create a new category for the products. This category will be used for importing the products from prestashop.

Now we are ready to configure the plugin “wp-o-matic”. Click on Settings => wp-o-matic
First we are asked to make a simple test to check if simplepie works correcty. The simplepie function is necessary to read the products feed.

When you have passed the test there are a few more steps such as checking the time zone. Then you have the option to either establish a cron job if your hoster is allowing cron jobs. If your hoster doesn’t offer this option and if you don’t want to use a web based cronservice you can also use the built-in wordpress cron function by deactivating the box “I’ll be using a cron job (for Unix-like cron or WebCron, uncheck if you want pseudo-cron functionality)”.

Now it is necessary to create a new “campaign” to import prestashop products. Click on “Add Campaign” and give the campaign a name (for example prestashop)

Now switch over to the tab “Feed”. This is the place to copy your prestashop products feed (see above). The products feed is your-shop-URL/modules/feeder/rss.php

After entering this feed link go ahead to the tab “Categories“.

Here you need to check the category where the products should be published. In my example I have created a category ‘products’.

Finally the last important setting is the tab “Options”. Here you can define how many products should be imported (maximum). Furthermore you can decide whether the products should link to your shop or if they should link to the wordpress post. If you click that the products should link to your shop visitors will be directed to your shop once the click on the title of the product.

When all settings are done click on ‘submit’ and save the campaign. Now you should see a success message and if you click on “Fetch it now” you don’t need to wait for the first cron run but the first articles will be imported immediately.

When the import is completed you will get a success message

This is how the result looks like: