display parent product category

Hi there,

This will be possible using the [product_categories] shortcode, and the parent attribute. The description of the attribute mentions you can set it to the ID of a category to show all the subcategories for that parent. However the description doesn’t mention that you can set it to 0 to show only the top-level categories. I am going to reach out to the documentation team internally to make sure we add that.

It is currently mentioned in the first example in that section — something like [product_categories parent="0"] should give just the parent categories:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#scenario-8-show-top-level-categories-only

I hope that helps!

Hey @kellymetal

Thanks for the quick response. It works for me.

but what if i want to display all the parent categories but want to hide one specific category? Is that possible with any shortcode?

Hi there,

Glad to hear that worked.

To hide one specific category, I think the easiest way would be to instead use the ids attribute and list out the ids of the categories that you want to display. For example: [product_categories ids="16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21"]

Cool! thanks a ton…:)

Hi there,

You’re welcome a ton! : )

I’m going to mark this thread as resolved. If you have any further questions, please start a new thread.

Have a wonderful day!