Product list update

Give a post an update keyword and Content Egg re-runs the search on a schedule, replacing its products with fresh results.

Content Egg can refresh more than prices. Give a post an update keyword and the plugin re-runs that search on a schedule, replacing the post's products with the current results. That's what you want for listings with a short lifespan — eBay auctions, rotating stock, seasonal offers.

Only need current prices and stock status for the products already attached? That's a different setting — see Price update.

Where to set the keyword

In the post editor, open the Content Egg panel (egg icon, top right), click Search & add products… or Manage products, and switch to the Settings tab.

There are two levels: global keywords for the whole post, and per-module overrides for the modules that need something different.

Global update keywords

Add one row per keyword: a search term, or an EAN for price comparison. Every keyword is searched in all active product modules on the post.

One row per product — each EAN feeds its own group, and so its own comparison block

Product group is optional, and it never changes which modules are searched. It tags the products a keyword finds, so a CE Products block filtered to that group shows only those — which is how a single post keeps several comparison blocks up to date from one update.

The magnifier tests a row: it searches your modules and reports where the product was found. Nothing is saved. It checks eight modules per run; Check more continues from there.

Per-module overrides

Pick a module under Add module override… and give it its own keyword. It replaces the global keyword for that module only — the field shows the global keyword as a placeholder, so you can always see what the module would otherwise search for.

Modules that support price filtering also accept Min price and Max price; the rest show –.

A per-module keyword wins over the global one — here Ebay updates on “espresso machine”

Click Save settings when you're done. Removing a row — or clearing its keyword — drops the override, and that module goes back to the global keyword.

Coupons, images and videos have no global keyword. For those families the section is called Per-module keywords, and each module updates on its own keyword only — so a product-topic keyword can't overwrite curated coupons or media.

Editing the keywords as text

Edit as text swaps the rows for the raw keyword string — the same value the classic metabox stores, and what older posts already contain. One search runs per comma-separated keyword, and -> assigns groups:

keyword1,keyword2,keyword3 -> group1,group2,group3

How many products, and how often

The keyword decides what is fetched. Each module's own settings decide how many and how often — open the module's settings page:

• Results for updates — how many products a single update pulls in.

• Update by Keyword — cache lifetime in seconds. Once it expires, the product list is fetched again with the keyword. 604800 is one week; 0 turns keyword updates off for that module.

• Update Mode — what triggers the update: Page View, Cron Job, or both. Cron runs in the background on WP-Cron, with nothing else to configure.

If no new products are found — an API error, or a search that returns nothing — the existing products stay in place. A failed update never empties a post.

An update replaces that module's products on the post. Manual changes to those items — an edited title, a hand-written or AI-generated description — are lost when fresh results arrive. Keep automatic updates for posts you let the plugin own.