Hello, I have been reading through this whole topic history and I am having the same request as many people already had. I am talking about the "apply free product to the whole category, not only one product".
I see many people have already asked for this and they haven't found any solution. I am really very much interested if anyone has done it? I am pretty sure, someone already hired programmer to do this. What about making it as a new contribution?
Or do you know about other contribution that could be easier to modify to get this "get 1 free for whole category" result?
Or kymation, could you please provide quick instructions of what would be needed to change in the code, when someone would like to go this way?
I don't mean exact code changes.. but in general, what would be the biggest issues and what to look for when doing these changes into the code.. just to describe very quickly in your words, what to look for?
Thank you very much all for any tips.
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