Big Games Shop Product Redirect
Adds a metabox to the product sidebar to select a product redirect from an external API and includes a settings page for managing the API URL, cache and global redirection options. Also supports Git‑based updates.
by Dom Kapelewski · github.com/dompl/petshop-product-redirect
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Install
No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:
wp plugin install https://github.com/dompl/petshop-product-redirect/archive/refs/heads/master.zipFrom the readme
Big Games Shop Product Redirect
A WooCommerce extension that allows you to assign redirect URLs to individual products, pulled directly from an external API such as https://big-games.shop.
Includes a smart dropdown UI in the product edit screen and inline in the admin product list (with AJAX saving).
🧩 Features
- ✅ Redirect dropdown in each WooCommerce product edit screen (from external API)
- ✅ AJAX-powered dropdown in the product list table (for quick inline updates)
- ✅ Automatic frontend redirection when a URL is set
- ✅ WooCommerce submenu with:
- Editable API URL field
- Cache duration setting (in hours)
- Button to flush the cached API data
- ✅ GitHub-based plugin updates using Plugin Update Checker
⚙️ Admin Settings Page
Navigate to:
WooCommerce → Redirect Settings
There you can:
- Set the remote API endpoint
- Define how long data should be cached (in hours)
- Clear the transient cache immediately
🔄 Git-Based Auto Updates
This plugin uses Plugin Update Checker for automatic updates.
Once your plugin is installed from a public GitHub repository:
- Push a new tagged release (e.g. v1.1.6)
- WordPress will detect and prompt for an update automatically 🎉