I am trying to re-order my categories from the default alphabetical order.
My admin backend my categories look like this:
And on the frontend they they look like this:
Is it possible to have them displayed in the way I have sorted them in the backend?
The Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order plugin will allow you to do this. It'll add a drag-and-drop sortable interface to the backend where the changes you make will take effect both on the backend and the frontend.
And if you display your categories with the Woocommerce shortcode there is even simpler way to do it - add orderby="menu_order" to the shortcode. So for me it looks like this:
echo do_shortcode( '[product_categories orderby="menu_order"]' )
add this to your args list
$args = array(
'orderby'=>"menu_order",
);
Within the array used for the loop's arguments uses native Wordpress functionality to accomplish the OP's goals... rather than installing yet another plugin where it's not needed. "Thank you :#aronmoshe_m"
While the approved answer works, there is another way using default woo functionality with no additional plugins.
First look into:
get_woocommerce_term_meta( $sub_category->term_id, 'order', true )
Then get all your categories and sort the array using this order.
$sortedMenu = array(); // new array
// menu var should be get_categories or taxonomy function return
// I also added order key/val in my category/term array item (along with other terms name, id etc)
// Then I sorted them like bellow
foreach( $menu as $key => $item ) $sortedMenu[$key] = $item['order'];
array_multisort( $sortedMenu, SORT_ASC, $menu );
I do believe you might need an additional plugin to further customize sorting options for categories.
Try looking up Woocommerce Product Archive Customizer or similiar plugins if you do not have any similar functionality in the theme you're using.
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we do a plugin and in this plugin we create some pages in the code. We would like to mark those pages to remove them in the future but not the others. Put a tag or something to find them. In our pages we just have one or several shortcode. We also want to identify the menus that we created in the plugin. We use "wp_insert_post($page);" to create the pages and "wp_delete_post" to remove them.
Pages and menus are equivalent post items in WordPress system. So I suggest you treat them the same way.
One solution I’d consider would be to add a custom meta on those posts, using add_post_meta($post_id, '_to_be_removed', true, true).
To retreive and delete these, you’d use something like this:
global $wpdb;
// get the post ids
$post_ids = $wpdb->get_col( "SELECT post_id FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = '_to_be_removed'");
// delete the retrieved posts
foreach ($post_ids as $post_id) {
wp_delete_post($post_id);
}
You could also add a unique identifier in your meta_key name to prevent any colision with other plugins or theme, like simply prepending it with your plugin’s name.
I would like to modify the products sorting on the shop page to product categories filter where the user can select the browse the products of categories from there.
I am a rookie in programming. I checked the WooCommerce directory to find the .php file I should work on. I got some clue it is in archive-product.php but I don't see the code which display the sorting dropdown.
Can anyone give me some clue to achieve this ? Or is there any workaround ? Thanks.
I added this in functions.php :
// remove default sorting dropdown
remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 30 );
// now add the new dropdown
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'add_product_category_dropdown' );
function add_product_category_dropdown(){
print '<span class="woocommerce-ordering">'; // So it takes the same position as the default dropdown
the_widget( 'WC_Widget_Product_Categories', 'dropdown=1' );
print '</span>';
}
The reason you wouldn't see the code is that majority of what is generated by Woocommerce is handled by actions and hooks. In easier terms this means Woocommerce creates functions that spits out content and assigns them to different areas of the website.(For more information on Woocommerce actions and hooks, read here - https://docs.woothemes.com/document/introduction-to-hooks-actions-and-filters/ )
I'd recommend using the plugin below. It does exactly what you seem to be asking for and you can avoid having to play in parts you might not be comfortable with yet.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-ajax-navigation/
Most awesome thing is that it's not one of those plugins that force you to get premium to actually get the desired effect.
I just found the solution few days ago. I use the function of WooCommerce product categories widget on the shop page.
This line of code will output the dropdown of product categories:
<?php the_widget( 'WC_Widget_Product_Categories', 'dropdown=1' ); ?>
The Wordpress site I'm working on has a section for "News" (which is the regular blog/posts) which will be used for any news the company has to write about. Then I have a custom post type for Promotions, which has it's own page.
I want the client to be able to add his promotion content through the custom post type, which is going on the Promotions page, however I'd like this content to also be "cross posted" into the blog/news without forcing the client to write it up twice.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
Just a note: The reason I have the promotions as a custom type on it's own instead of just having them do it all from the blog is because I needed custom fields that would be unnecessary for any other kind of blog post.
Two options:
1) Use the Shortcode API
And in your cross-post you'd add the shortcode [crosspost id="POST-ID"]. Where POST-ID corresponds to the numeric ID of the other post (post type). Instead of ID, the title could be used, see the function get_page_by_title.
Create your own plugin for this. Add a sample shortcode from the Codex and use the function get_post to get the contents of the cross-post.
2) Use Advanced Custom Fields plugin
With it, adding meta boxes with custom fields is a breeze. And it has a Post Object field that's basically a Cross Post functionality.
You could do it a lot more simply by adding a filter to wp_insert_data(). For example, in your theme's functions.php file add the following:
add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', 'post_to_other', 99, 2);
That filter will then run anytime you add a new post. In the function post_to_other(), you look to see what type of post is being submitted. If it's a promotion, then insert a second copy as a News item.
function post_to_other($post_id, $post){
/** check $post to see what type it is, if it's a promotion */
if($post->post_type == 'promotion'){
$second_post = array(
'post_type'=> 'post',
'post_title'=> $post->post_title,
'post_name' =>$post->post_name,
'post_content'=> $post->post_content,
'post_author'=> $post->post_author,
'post_status'=> 'publish',
'tax_input'=> array('taxonomy_name'=>array('news'))
);
wp_insert_post($second_post);
}
}
I'm running out the door so I don't have time to double check the exact code but that's the basic structure of it. The tax_input bit is optional, lets you specify a category if you want. You'll probably need to tweak it a bit but that's the basics.
I'm trying to create a Wordpress plugin that redirects visitors of example.com/redirect/XXX to a different page based on the value of XXX. I think I know how to do the redirect logic, but I don't know how to make sure that my Wordpress plugin function will be called when a visitor goes to example.com/redirect. Right now I just get a 404. There are other solutions that involved changing the .htaccess file, but I want this to function as a standalone plugin. Thanks!
When I need this kind of things i just create a common page with template as the "plugin", a page with all the functions that I need.
For example, if i need a shopping cart, I just create a cart.php as:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Cart
*/
// functions here
?>
And I go to my wp-admin and create a page with Cart as its template.
Depending on what exactly you want to do which is quite vague ( when you say page you actually mean page ? post ? cpt ? and when you say plugin functions - what are they ? and do you use permalinks ?)
.. but under some conditions you could use wp conditionals .
example ( from codex )
is_singular( 'foo' )
// Returns true if the post_type is "foo". execute plugin hook
is_singular( array( 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ) )
// Returns true if the post_type is "foo", "bar", or "baz".
// See also the Custom Post Types book.
or if you aim at filtering you can always hook to pre_get_post with is_main_query() or any other conditional //
I'm creating a Wordpress plugin and, being a newbie in the development on this platform, I'm stuck on this problem.
I'd like to have posts in the loop filtered by categories, defined by the user through an admin page. I would actually like to be able to modify query_post() parameters in the plugin, but the only trick I found is to re-run the query_post() with my user-defined criteria, thing that I would like to avoid.
Also, due to the plugin nature, I think it make no sense to modify the theme's template.
I'm sure the solution is evident, but can't find it!
I thought there was a nicer solution, but this is how I finally solved it:
add_filter ( 'query_vars', 'myplugin_filter_posts');
function myplugin_filter_posts( $content )
{
//WP's query handler
global $wp_query;
//The id of the category whose posts I'd like to show
$catId = 1;
$result = $wp_query->query( 'cat='.$catId );
return $content;
}
If you tips for a better solution, please share :)