Need to Create a clickable ‘Novelties’ Subcategory

  • Resolved rayzen1

    (@rayzen1)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    I hope that I can explain this clearly, but here goes: I have a ‘Shop Page’ which displays the various sports from which a shopper can purchase products; e.g., ‘Football,’ ‘Basketball,’ etc. These are my product categories, and there are 29 categories/sports, all the way from Archery to Yoga. When a customer clicks on a category, such as ‘Football,’ it, of course, takes them to the page which displays all of the football products.

    However, I have a problem/need to deal with at this level: There are too many novelty items which are cluttering up the product pages, items such as (using football as an example) football key rings, football wallets, etc. These many novelty items are cluttering up the Football product page, making it an annoying task to search through all of the novelties, in order to find more the basic football sports equipment. So, it order to clean up the product page for each sport, I would like to place a ‘clickable’ subcategory labeled ‘Novelties” for each of the 29 sports product pages.

    I have searched the net for how to do this, but have not been able to make it happen. I have followed the following path:

    Dashboard > Products > Categories > Add New Category > Name > Novelties > Slug > novelties > Parent Category > football > Uploaded an image > Display Type > Subcategories > Update.

    Then I went to a couple of the football novelty products which I want to place into my new football ‘Novelties’ subcategory and chose ‘Edit product.’ In the ‘Product Categories’ section, my newly-formed ‘Novelties’ did, indeed, show up, so I selected it, as well as ‘Football.’

    However, when I finally went to the page of football products, nothing looked differently than before. There is no ‘clickable’ Novelties button appearing. What am I doing wrong? Do I need a plugin of some sort? I’m sure that the normal Woocommerce plugn would allow for this capability, but I sure don’t know how to do it.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated as I’m a total non-techie.

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  • Hi rayzen1

    If I’ve understood your problem correctly have you considered a sidebar where it will show each of the sub/child categories.

    This way one or more child categories can be selected to filter against.

    Another option would be to consider adding a tag to each novelty and then you could add some custom code to show/hide each novelty.

    I hope this helps

    Regards
    SteveB

    Thread Starter rayzen1

    (@rayzen1)

    Hi Steve. Thanks for your time & effort in answering my question.

    Unfortunately, I’m not computer-savvy enough to know how to do what you suggested. I think that my theme, Shopkeeper, allows me to have menus in only three places (top bar, header, and footer), and I am already using them. Am I correct in thinking that, when you buy a theme, you are stuck with only the number of menus that it allows?; not sure about that, really.

    Does a sidebar count as a menu?

    What about widgets? Am I now able to add a widget? I don’t know the difference between a menu, a sidebar, and a widget.

    The last thing you mentioned (adding a tag to each novelty, then adding some code) sounds like it might be something that would work, but, again, I’m not sure that what I’m visualizing is correct. Wish that I knew how to program.

    What about a plugin? Given how user-friendly Woocommerce is, I can’t imagine that it doesn’t already have the capability to do what I need to do.

    Hi rayzen1,

    I’m not aware of any plugins that would provide you with a solution out of the box.

    Adding the tags – You would add the relevant tag(s) to each individual product and you could then use a widget to display the tags.
    I’m not sure about the Shopkeeper theme in respect to adding widgets as we custom code our themes.

    I hope this helps
    Regards
    SteveB

    Here’s your problem: “so I selected it, as well as ‘Football.’”

    What you just did was, put the product into the Novelties category AND the Football category. If you’re trying to keep the novelty products separate from the “main” products, don’t check the parent category, only “Novelty”.

    Also, depending on your theme & settings, keep in mind that your site may display the products in the category AND subcategories. If this is the case, there should be a setting to disable that (i.e. show ONLY the products on this exact category level).

    Thread Starter rayzen1

    (@rayzen1)

    Hi Anton.

    Thanks for your help. No, I had already tried un-checking the category box and leaving just the subcategory (Novelties) checked, but that didn’t do it. The product would still remain being displayed in the main category products page, anyway. I think you must be right about the theme being set up to display a product in both the categories and the subcategories. It seems crazy to have a product displayed in the main category product page, after you have deselected the category. Thanks again for your time & trouble, however. I appreciate it.

    Zandy Ring

    (@zandyring)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi rayzen1,

    You also may want to create a page using shortcodes to display your Football products. You would want to add an attribute to all of your Football products (but not to any of the Football Novelties), and then follow the directions here:

    https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#scenario-6-attribute-display

    So, if you added an attribute like “game” to all your Football products, you could use a shortcode like this:
    [products columns="3" category="football" attribute="game" ]
    And on that page, you’d have three columns of all your football category products with the attribute “game”.

    Cheers!

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