Multiple categories

  • Resolved Zyggmunt

    (@zyggmunt)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’d like to do something like this:

    BMW

    1. Tires
    1. Michelin
    2. Continental
    • Wheels
    1. BBS
    2. ATS

    Audi

    1. Tires
    1. Michelin
    2. Continental
    • Wheels
    1. BBS
    2. ATS

    so as you can see the same categories (tires / wheels etc.) fit to the other brands. I wouldn’t like to have duplicated subcategories, because it should work using ‘+’ like:
    /product-category/bmw+tires. Then it displays only tires for BMW cars etc.

    I’m not sure how to create categories tree for something like this. Maybe I should also use tags or something? Any ideas?

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Zyggmunt.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Zyggmunt.
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  • Robin

    (@robinrsa)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @zyggmunt

    You can ahieve that result using the standard WooCommerce categories : https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/managing-product-taxonomies/#section-1

    Thread Starter Zyggmunt

    (@zyggmunt)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    I’m thinking about it, because it looks that I need to do something like this:
    1. Go to Products > Categories.
    2. Create BMW category.
    3. Create Tires category and set parent as BMW.
    4. Create Audi category.
    5. Create Tires category and set parent as Audi.

    Do you know what I mean? I need to create two “Tires” categories then.

    In fact I need a possibility to have all my categories in the left sidebar:
    Tires
    Engines
    Wheels
    …

    and when somebody clicks on Tires it displays all Tires in my shop that fits to any brand (BMW, Audi etc).

    However when somebody clicks “BMW” on the right sidebar and then “Tires” – it displays only Tires that fits to BMW.

    Please let me know if I explained it correctly. 🙂

    Robin

    (@robinrsa)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    I would suggest creating the first two major categories and see if that works best for you.

    I think you need to determine what would people be looking for first: “BMW” parts or “Tyres” and then figure out the heirachy from there.

    Another option is to have a parent category of “Brand” and then all the brands within that category. and then tyres and so fourth.

    Thread Starter Zyggmunt

    (@zyggmunt)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    So in fact I would need separate “Tires” subcategory for each brand like “BMW”?

    And have:
    BMW -> Tires
    Audi -> (another) Tires
    Mercedes -> (another) Tires

    Is there any way to have one “Tires” to any brand?

    I’m looking for any algorithmic ideas. Maybe I could code it in PHP but have no idea how to resolve this problem.

    Plugin Support slash1andy

    (@slash1andy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hey there!

    You don’t need to use subcategories for this. You can set up each one as a standalone category, for instance “Tires” and “BMW”. You would put BMW Tires in both categories, but Audi ones would only go in the Tires (and the separate Audi) one.

    You’d want to look for a filtering plugin to make this a bit more elegant for you, something like https://woocommerce.com/products/product-filters/?aff=10486&cid=1131038

    Hopefully that helps! Have a great one!

    Thread Starter Zyggmunt

    (@zyggmunt)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks Andrew. How can I display only products that are in both categories i.e. BMW and Tires?

    I was thinking about something like this: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/edit-product-categories-widget/.

    Any ideas?

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