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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Products page & search pagePerfect, @mikeyc71, thank you for the feedback!
I will go ahead and mark this thread as resolved, but please don’t hesitate to open a new topic if you have any more questions.
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Products page & search pageHello @mikeyc71,
Can you please share the link to the page in question? What insertion method do you use? Depending on the insertion method, please check the relevant sidebars or other pages element for the presence of filters’ widgets, shortcodes etc. Here is the link to the section of our Getting Started tutorial that deals with the insertion methods.
Another idea off the top of my head would be to go to the settings of the relevant preset, check the Display on section to make sure that it includes the needed pages, and then re-save the preset forcing the CSS regeneration.
I am glad to hear that you have found a quick solution, @thietbiquayphim! Please don’t hesitate to write back if you have any follow-up questions.
Hello @thietbiquayphim,
Thank you for reporting your issue! Can you please confirm that we are talking about the AJAX archive description update of the annasta Filters > Product Lists >Archive pages settings > Archive pages support setting?
Also, please let me know if you feel comfortable about the possibility of editing one of the plugin’s PHP files (via FTP / hosting-provided File Manager, or the built-in WP Plugin Editor)?
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Adding a noindex attribute to filter linksDear Moutai,
I will go ahead and close this inactive thread, please open a new topic if you ever need to ask additional questions about the work and functions of our filters!
Hello Moutai,
I am marking this thread as resolved, but please don’t hesitate to open a new topic if you have any further questions about the work of our filtering plugin!
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Products not visible on shop pageDear Malvveli,
I will go ahead and mark this inactive thread as resolved, you are very welcome to create a new topic if you have any further questions!
Hello again Moutai,
You are probably talking about 2 different types of pages. When you are on a WooCommerce shop page the categories filter is added as simple URL query parameter. Here is an example of such link from our demo site:
https://annasta.net/demos/annasta-woocommerce-product-filters/?product-categories=fruit,vegetables
The second kind of page is the product category taxonomy archive. For example, here is the “Fruit” category archive page of our demo site:
https://annasta.net/demos/annasta-woocommerce-product-filters/product-category/fruit/
You can also make it a multi-category archive, like so:
https://annasta.net/demos/annasta-woocommerce-product-filters/product-category/fruit,vegetables/
Notice the comma between the fruit and vegetables parameter in the link above. This is a built-in WooCommerce feature, the filters simply support it when you are using them on a product archive page.
- IF you don’t want to use the archive pages and only want to filter the shop, there is a site-wide Redirect archives to shop option to help you accomplish that. It is located in the annasta Filters > Plugin Settings admin tab.
- If you wish to preserve the hierarchical categories links (yoursite.com/product-categories/shoes/sneakers/), try the Hierarchical archive links option of the same tab. Warning: this will disable any multi-select category filters, because you can’t use multiple categories in combination with hierarchical links.
- And finally, one more way to get rid of the commas would be to force all your product category filters into the single select mode.
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Adding a noindex attribute to filter linksHello again Moutai,
Unfortunately, there is no universal robots.txt file that I could share with all our users! A robots.txt file disallowing the Google crawling of your site’s faceted navigation will list the filtering parameters that are specific to the pages of your site, so if you have decided to go with this SEO strategy, you will need to implement it yourself.
As for the URL filtering style versus AJAX, if you wish to limit the exposure of your filtering parameters to search engine crawlers, then yes, AJAX filtering style should be a better fit!
Hello Mgrotton,
I am closing this inactive topic, but please don’t hesitate to open a new one if you ever have other questions about our plugin!
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Adding a noindex attribute to filter linksHello again Moutai,
Thank you for further elaborating on your issue. Your problem is discussed in the Managing crawling of faceted navigation URLs article of Google Search documentation. It describes multiple ways of addressing the overcrawling and excessive indexing issues, and while some of them are outside of the scope of a filtering plugin, you can currently use 2 options of the annasta Filters > SEO Settings tab to implement the solutions recommended by the above article:
- Enable the auto-insertion of canonical annotations with the help of the Add canonical annotations option.
- Enable the Add rel=”nofollow” attribute option in case you use presets with URL Filtering style. I would like to clear up that the “nofollow” attribute of the Add rel=”nofollow” attribute option is added to the links (<a> tags) generated by the filtering presets with the URL Filtering style, and not as page meta!
As for the “noindex” meta tag auto-insertion into the <head> section of filterable pages (I presume that’s what your initial question was about, wasn’t it?), we have decided against adding this as plugin option because it’s currently not the recommended way of dealing with multiple near-identical pages indexing issue. Besides, there always exists a relatively easy way to completely disallow the crawling of filtered URLs with the help of the robots.txt file.
Hello Moutai,
Thank you for your interest in our WooCommerce products filtering plugin!
Unfortunately, there is no way to replace the comma separator in values lists of URL parameters. It has been “inherited” by the filters as the preferred parameter values separator of WooCommerce. For what it’s worth, comma is also among the Google’s recommended values lists separators.
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Products not visible on shop pageHello Malvveli,
I have checked your shop page, it is interesting that the same issue doesn’t occur in product category archives. Can you please clarify which cache you clean up for the products to get displayed again? Is it the filters’ own cache (annasta Filters > Plugin Settings > Product counts cache lifespan > Clear filters cache button), or the transients of the WooCommerce > Status > Tools page, or is it some other cache?
Hello Mgrotton,
The filters will always attach active filtering parameters to the filtered URL. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to share the filtered URLs. Parameters are the URL part that makes them visible to WP loop query on fresh page loads.
In case you are asking this because you are worried about multiple near-identical pages getting indexed by search engines, there are a few ways to combat that. You are also welcome to read about the new Add canonical annotations and Add rel=”nofollow” attribute options of our plugin.
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In reply to: [annasta Filters for WooCommerce] Hide empty filter options after filteringHello Moutai,
It’s been some weeks since we’ve last heard from you, so I will close this inactive thread. You are welcome to open a new topic if you have any further questions about our filters!