Shortcode for parent categories?

these should help I have put text in between the “” which is where you specify the category,

[product_category category=”enter slug of category you want to show” per_page=”12″ columns=”4″ orderby=”date” order=”desc”]

there is also a shortcode button when you edit pages for the woocommerce, it is purple coloured button along top bar in the visual edit for the page

hope this helps you

I wanted just the parent categories as the default on the shop page and figured this out after some hunt and peck/trial and error in the WooCommerce Settings->Catalog

Check the first 3 boxes under Show subcategories:
Show on category pages
Show on the shop page
hide products

That second one is completely non-intuitive and sounds like a bug, but it did what I wanted.

Thank god someone has had similar troubles. Do any of you know how to show certain categories on the home page,

I tried this https://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/

but it only shows products in the categories rather than the category itself.

Is there a shortcode for this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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[product_category category=”category slug”]

Is this work?