variable link in shop page

For the record, here’s what I have come up with in my search for a way to skip the product category page for a category with only 1 product:

This Woo function builds the url for the product category page inside the shop page loop:

function woocommerce_template_loop_category_link_open( $category ) {
    echo '<a href="' . esc_url( get_term_link( $category, 'product_cat' ) ) . '">';
}

It can be removed with the woocommerce_before_subcategory hook. As in:

remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_subcategory', 
    'woocommerce_template_loop_category_link_open', 10 );

Then I created my own function to build the url. I took a bit of a shortcut since I know the ‘Membership’ category has only one product named ‘Membership’. If I was wanting to generalize this behaviour I would check the number of products in each category and build the product page url for any category with 1 product instead of the product category page url. Put that in my rainy day job jar 🙂

Here’s my brute force url builder:

function arcc_template_loop_category_link_open( $category ) {
    $category_name = $category->name;
    if ( $category_name == 'Membership' ) {
        $product = get_page_by_title( 'Membership', OBJECT, 'product' );
        $product_id = $product->ID; 
        $arcclink = get_the_permalink( $product_id );
    } else {
        $arcclink = get_term_link( $category, 'product_cat' );
    }
    echo '<a href="' . esc_url( $arcclink ) . '">';
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_subcategory', 
    'arcc_template_loop_category_link_open', 10);

I’m not sure what this does to the breadcrumbs but that’s for another day.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by jwpalfa.