Nesting pages

Am I right that you would like to get “breadcrumbs”?
Or you would like to get links to the filtered products (with checked checkboxes)?
Or something else?

It’s more about organizing product info in a way that does not immediately appear to be possible with the basic UPC plug-in.
Rather than having all the products listed on one page, and then filtering the list down using categories, tags, etc, I would like to have hierarchical pages. It would be analogous to have a page showing only Product Categories, (with no product detail) linking to child pages showing Sub-categories, linking to Product pages, which would have the product detail info.

Hi jharasym,

It’s possible to get something similar set up if you link directly to the catalogue with a category pre-filtered.

For example, you can create a list of category names or images, then link directly to the catalogue page pre-filtered for that category (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpRuukkqLw). It would look something like:

Categories:
<ul>
<li><a href='catalogue_page/?categories=1,'>Category 1</a></li>
<li><a href='catalogue_page/?categories=2'>Category 2</a></li>
<li><a href='catalogue_page/?categories=3'>Category 3</a></li>
</ul>

That looks like a solution for the child pages I have in mind, on which only selected products would appear.
Is there a way to put pages in front on which only Categories would appear (with no product detail)?

Perhaps it’s my own weak understanding of WP leading me to ask a dumb question.

Could I create multiple child pages from the “Products” page on my site https://www.tuffee.ca, and have a different product catalog on each?
Is it straightforward to insert links to each child in the “Products” page, which would serve as the front page for all the various catalog pages?

Is there a limit to the number of catalogs?

Or perhaps, rather than having multiple catalogs, each child page would link to the sole catalog, but only display selected products?

Hi jharasym,

You can have an unlimited number of catalogues, so that’s one possible path towards what you’re looking to do.

If you don’t mind creating additional pages, you could create a page for all of the categories, then for each category you’d have a page that lists all of the sub-categories which are then links along the lines of:

Sub-Categories:
<ul>
<li><a href='catalogue_page/?subcategories=1,'>Sub-Category 1</a></li>
<li><a href='catalogue_page/?subcategories=2'>Sub-Category 2</a></li>
<li><a href='catalogue_page/?subcategories=3'>Sub-Category 3</a></li>
</ul>

Yeah, that looks like it would get me where I want to go.
Just have to learn more about the coding.
Thanks for your help.
John

Can we use a special slugs of filtered products for a human?
I mean “example.com/cars” instead “example.com/?category=1” like in standart WP posts or categories?
Is it real to combine that links?

If it’s real I suggest you to add a “Slug” field into the each tab of a plugin settings (cats, subcats, etc.)

Hi Tesl,

Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll add it to our list. The biggest problem I can see with it is that it would restrict filtering to a single category. We’ll see if we can come up with a way to make it work though.

Hi!

I think that the first thing is should to be done in this case is a validation of a unique name/slug of a current category/sub-category, etc. to prevent problems in navigarion (if there will be two links with the same url) and Search indexation.

This field (slug) is not important. User may leave this field an empty.

I don’t know is it correct: example.com/?categories=cars,flowers,houses? Or it must be with only IDs. If that’s correct, this task is not so hard I think. If it’s not, maybe we can use slugs for a single queries (1 cat, 1 sub-cat) and if we want to show more then 1 category, we should use IDs in links.