Right now there are 1,600 items in 230 categories. None of these categories were in a hierarchy of subcategories on Shopify making filtering through them impossible. We want to trim it down to 50 or so categories and subcategories. We also want to trim down the tags too, but I think the category restructuring is currently the most important piece.
— I have never dealt with a store this large before, and I am wondering the best way to even approach this. Should I delete all the categories and start from scratch? Should I leave the old categories and create the new ones, then make only the new categories searchable, so there aren’t thousands of 404’s? I don’t want to break Google when it tries to crawl the site, and I want to keep their SEO at a high level which it currently is.
— I have WooCommerce Bulk Editor which would be a useful tool to change these products from one category to another, but I’m thinking it may be easier to use product import/export and edit it in a CSV file. If I do use product import/export do I have to create the categories through the admin panel beforehand, or will they create themselves once I import the CSV file? In either case would the bulk editor or product import/export plugin be the best way to approach this?
— When I used Cart2Cart to import their store from Shopify to WooCommerce I had to include a redirection plugin which created 1,700 redirections for the change in links. Once I change these categories though, all of those redirections are going to become useless. Is there an easier way to maybe wildcard these redirections through cPanel or the .htaccess file?
Anything I’m not thinking of that I need to consider would be much appreciated, and I welcome any and all input.
]]>But as of now, in my opinion, you should not use this service at all. In my view, the service can be extremely dangerous and tech support is not responsive at all.
Upon paying $70+ and doing a migration, our entire site went into smoke with 1,000 articles deleted. Cart2Cart tech support was not helpful so we had to rely to premium support from our hosting company to restore a 1-day old backup after 3 hours which had lot of consequences for us.
I reached out to their tech support again and they say things like “it is 3:42 am here and no one is here” and when I reach out 3 hours later, again they say “it is 3:42 am here” which is obviously a lie.
I am still dealing with them so we will see how it goes (12 hours and now luck so far)- I will update you. But as of now my opinion is “don’t buy this service at all.”
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Phill
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