Custom URL for multiple WooCommerce product categories in one link

Hi updatediva,

I’m not sure that you want your link structure to look like ?cat=(id-spring)+(id-candles). Instead I’d look into writing a custom loop. You can see the basic loop here:

https://docs.woothemes.com/document/sample-products-loop/

What happens if you do https://example.com/product-category/term1+term2/ ?

Not sure if that resolves in WooCommerce or not. You may need to register a new rewrite rule if it won’t handle it out of the box.

WordPress does a good job of handling ‘,’ (or) and ‘+’ (and) operators when parsing query strings so that may work.

Thanks for replying.

It looks like I’m into creating a custom shortcode using a custom loop like you suggested. Does it make sense to change:

$args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'posts_per_page' => 12
);

to:

$args = array(
   'post_type' => 'product',
    'posts_per_page' => 12,
    'tax_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'AND',
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => 'category-slug1' /* first category I'm looking for
        ),
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => 'category-slug2' /* second category
        )
    ),
    'orderby' => 'title',
);

I’ve never created a shortcode before, but I’d copy class-wc-shorcodes.php to my child theme, add a new function called product_2categories (shortcode name), and regsiter it.

Am I on the right track?

Unfortunately /?cat=”something+somethingelse” resolves really well in straight WordPress but not WooCommerce using product_cat and product_tag. You can do /?product_cat=”something” or /?product_tag=”something” but it can’t seem to handle operators.