Hello,
I have a woocommernce shop – I would like to have the parent category pages show only the subcategories instead of the products and have the products only show in their corresponding subcategory pages.
I am unable to figure how to change that since it seems any edit on a parent category affects the subcategories as well (as its affecting all product category pages). The only work around I can think of is to create individual pages for each parent category which is extremely tedious and I feel like I’m likely missing something.
My site is new.phase3rentals.com/wp
Thank you
Hi,
I believe that you can do something like that using this structure for products categories -> https://i.imgur.com/HxNIBsw.png then use a cloud template for category shop (you can get it from the cloud), in those make sure that you have the Woo Attribute Filters and Woo Loop -> https://i.imgur.com/YdMpnHf.jpg
I hope this will help you!
Hi there,
thanks for those tips. I am currently doing/using both of those things.
I have the subcategories all set up and they work great like in your image above and the product category pages use the Woo Loop, but if I go into a parent category, for example, Audio, which has 0 products in it, it shows all the products within my subcategories ->
https://new.phase3rentals.com/wp/product-category/audio/
That makes sense that it does, however, I would like it show a list of my subcategories on the parent category page, like how I have this page ->
https://new.phase3rentals.com/wp/shop-catergories/
This is using the Woo Shortcodes element.
However, if I put that on the parent category page, it will also be on the subcategory pages as well since they use the same layout automatically.
Is there a way to only show the Woo Shortcodes element if its a parent category and only show the Woo Loop element if its a subcategory? Or a way for the parent categories to not use the Product category base (in the permalinks settings)?
I’ve seen this format on a number of websites that use Woocommerce, however I have no idea what theme they are using.
Thanks again!
Hi,
What you can do is to assign on parent product an individual cloud template where to have the subcategories set -> https://i.imgur.com/CpOv3kT.png (this need to be done manually on each parent product), in this way the parents products will display the elements you want and the subcategories will display the products,
I hope this will help you!
When I opened a parent product page and I did that, it changed all the category pages as well including the subcategories. I also erased everything I had and can’t see a way to get it back..
Hi,
If you erased everything from a page or cloud template, then you can use the revision to get the content back -> https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/complete-guide-to-wordpress-post-revisions/
I hope this helps you!
Thank you, I am aware of how to do it form a page or post, but since this was a “product category page”, it’s not an option for me to view or edit under the “pages” or “posts” area from what I can see. I see the “shop” page but that is separate from the “product category” page
Hi,
I believe that on https://new.phase3rentals.com/wp/product-category/audio/ the template that is sued is a cloud shop template, isn’t it? If is then, you can revert the theme plate using the revision -> https://i.imgur.com/tLphqjy.png
Thank you!
