Sub Cats in more than 1 Main Cat

Hi there,

With WordPress taxonomies, a sub-category is a secondary category or child category of the Main or Parent Category. There is a specific hierarchy that has to be followed Because of this, there’s no way to assign a sub category to multiple categories as that goes against the core structure of:

Category
-Sub Category

Thanks Kenin, i was guessing that from what i have been read, shame theres no logical way as in real life there plenty of times the same sub_cat could do with being under/in a main_cat, like for us we need sub cat ‘note pads’ under both main categories ‘paper & pads’ and ‘office’ etc.

Only way i can think we can achieve what we need is create a new category say for example, ‘note pads 2’ under the second Main_Cat. Then put all same products in both sub cats in bulk via. Just looks a bit daft on breadcrumbs Main-Cat > Note Pads > Note Pads 2 > ProductName.

We have 2 parents, id love my sub cats to have 2 also.

Hi there,

The other alternative would be to use different taxonomies for these items. For example, you could use tags to label all your notepads, or use attributes and then use filters for navigation.

* https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/managing-product-taxonomies/

It’s been a while since we heard from you, so I’m marking this thread resolved. Hopefully, you’ve been able to resolve this, but if you haven’t, please open up a new topic and we’ll be happy to help out.