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Product Categories issue - by jeffunik72

This topic has 10 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago ago by Eva Kemp

jeffunik72

Participant

April 6, 2015 at 20:36

Ok, so another issue im running into…

on my home page im trying to use the product categories feature… but when I input the category or sub-category id’s nothing appear… the only way I can get something to appear is to input only 1 ID but then again it shows me products inside of that category and not the category itself…

if I use the Woocommerce product category feature, this works great but does not appear in a slider. it can only appear in a grid.. which if like me you have 6 categories to show then it starts taking up alot of space….

any help

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jeffunik72

Participant

April 6, 2015 at 20:49

The only way to get it to work like I want to is to but the categories that I want as a child of a parent category, but then doing that screws up the way my categories are laid out…

see as of now I have to put the things like the following

Frangrance
>Women
>Men
>Rare Perfumes
>Celebrity Perfumes
etc…

but the Women and Men are supposed to be their own Parent Category…

I want to be able to display the categories or sub categories of which I use the id of…

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

April 6, 2015 at 20:50

Hello,

As I see categories are shown fine:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/fvd-data/notes/168674/1428349796-603HTq/screen.png

Please check.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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jeffunik72

Participant

April 6, 2015 at 21:10

yes but to get them to show properly I have to totally mess up how my product categories are listed… I cant write the specific category ids that I want ex. id’s: 656,123,55,72

the only way to do it is to put everything I want to show under 1 parent category… but I want to show sub categories as-well

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

April 6, 2015 at 21:38

Hello,

If you write id of a parent category in the settings child categories of the parent category will be also displayed. Unfortunately this is the only way to display child categories. Sorry.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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jeffunik72

Participant

April 6, 2015 at 21:47

is there a way to get the woocommerce product categories feature to show in a slider instead of a grid layout then? because this feature lets me show specifically the id’s i want

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jeffunik72

Participant

April 7, 2015 at 06:00

Well here is the temporary solution that I have created myself… although this is totally not the most practical way to get the result I was looking for…

I created a Random Parent Category and created all the children categories That I wanted to see in the slider.

I assigned their thumbnails etc…

Then in the home page layout I used the parent id that I had just created…

I created a fake product so that the sub-categories would appea.

so now the images would appear like they should but when you click on the image it brings you to the product category page wish has a bogus product…

So I installed a plugin that allows to enter URL Redirects… and I manually made each bogus category re-direct to the direct page…

this is very ineffecient way of doing things but it works for now…

Im not sure how much work it would be for you guys to make it so that we can enter individual category id’s instead of just the parent categories. This would allow way more customizabitily/filterability.

If anyone has another solution Im all ears because this temporary fix will only last so long before I start having issues…

I also had to go and add a whole bunch of .css to make the bogus category dissapear in the widgets etc…

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

April 7, 2015 at 08:24

Hello,

We’re sorry for inconveniences.
We’ll try to customize this feature in future update.

Please take our apologies.

Thank you.
Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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jeffunik72

Participant

April 7, 2015 at 16:17

thats great news… you can only make things better within time… 🙂 I will keep a lookout for the feature in a future up-date thank you very much..

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

April 8, 2015 at 08:53

Hello,

We appreciate your understanding.

Thank you very much.
Have a nice day.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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