These two shortcodes will display your product categories on any page.

• [product_category] — Will display products in a specified product category.
• [product_categories] — Will display all your product categories.

Available Product Category attributes #

• ids — Specify product category IDs listed. Used with [product_categories]
• category — Can be either the category ID, name or slug. Used with [product_category]
• limit — The number of categories to display. Entering “0” or leaving undeclared shows all categories. (Interchangeable with number as shown in example)
• columns — The number of columns to display. Defaults to 4
• hide_empty —The default is “1” which will hide empty categories. Set to “0” to show empty categories.
• parent — Set to a specific category ID if you would like to display all the child categories. Alternatively, set to “0” (like in the example below) to show only the top level categories.
• orderby — The default is order by “name”, “id”, “slug”, or “menu_order” are additional options. If you want to order by the IDs you specified, then you can use orderby="include"
• order — States whether the category ordering is ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC), using the method set in orderby. Defaults to ASC.

Examples of Product Category Scenarios #

Show Top Level Categories Only #

Imagine you only wanted to show top level categories on a page and exclude the sub categories, well it’s possible with the following shortcode.

[product_categories number="0" parent="0"]

Questions and support #

Do you still have questions and need assistance? 

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