Woocommerce product categories – does not limit categories

Hi step8601,

In the settings, you check the categories to allow access to theses categories.

The plugin is used to allow some categories, if you want to prevent your sellers from posting to top categories, you should check all the categories that they are allowed to post in.

For the bug, could you provide a screenshot ?
Is there any errors displaying ?

hi, great, here are some screenshots:

Post Types and Taxonomy Settings:
https://grab.by/MdhE

Product Categories:
https://grab.by/MdhQ

1. also, i just upgraded to the latest version issued i believe today

2. btw, if you allow adding to a top-level category, does that also automatically allow adding to that top-level category’s subcats too? or is each cat and subcat completely independent?

thanks for looking into this

Hi,

Each cat and subcat are independant, so you will have to check all thoses which you want to allow for a role/user.

For the bug, I can’t reproduce it, here is the plugins I installed trying to reprocude the bug:

• WooCommerce 2.4.1
• Dokan Lite 2.4.8
• Restrict Taxonomies 1.2.7

Is there some notices or warnings related to restrict taxonomies in your php error.log ?

i think i’ll do a totally new install

start with just wp, then install Restrict Taxonomies, see what’s what, then add woocommerce, test RT again, install dokan, etc, then install other stuff and see what happens. i’ll also create a few “seller” users for dokan to see if that messes things up. i’ll report back

Hi,

Thanks helping me to improve this plugin !

Waiting for your report.

1. i did a fresh install of wp 4.3.1, woocommerce, dokan-lite, and Restrict Taxonomies (all latest versions)

2. i adjusted the permalinks per the dokan-lite instructions:

A) Common Settings should be set to Post Name
B) Product permalink base should be set to Product

3. i then created a few top categories and sub categories

Top Cat 1
– subcat 1
– subcat 2
Top Cat 2
– subcat 1
– subcat 2
Top Cat 3

4. i then went into Restrict Taxonomies and put check marks only in the subcats, not in any top cats, see two pics here to see RT settings:

https://www.screencast.com/users/step8601/folders/Restrict%20Taxonomies/media/c4d2a117-adcf-454a-8cdd-61e88a3632df

5. i then created a new user through admin as a “seller”, then i clicked to edit that new user to “enable” that user as a seller (slide down the edit screen, you gotta get the hang of how dokan works, first create the user as a seller and then edit that user to enable that user as a seller, try it you’ll see)

6. then i logged out of wp admin and logged in as the new seller

7. then i went to my seller dokan dashboard and clicked products and then clicked Add New Product

8. you should now see the fresh list of cats and subcats

9. i then entered a product title, uploaded a main product image, and then selected one of the top cats, and then clicked to submit the new product (you’ll see the submit button at the bottom of the add-product form)

10. it then allowed that new product to be submitted and was put into a pending status

11. i then logged out as that test seller and then logged in as admin

12. went into products, and there it was, the seller-submitted product awaiting approval, listed in a (restricted) top cat

so it looks like there is a way for sellers to submit products to restricted product cats

are you able to reproduce the issue at all given the above?

many thanks

btw, would be cool if the restricted cats/subcats are not even displayed to the seller

would help cut down on support requests (“hey, i’d like to add my stuff to Top Cat 1, thanks”)

hmmm, even better would be to “gray out” the restricted categories checkboxes but still display them

this way, the category architecture is still displayed to the seller (in case there are lots of cats/subcats) but they can still see the allowed cats with checkable checkboxes

hope this makes sense

thanks

Hi step8601,

I was able to reproduce your bug.

I issued a new version of the plugin this morning that works with dokan lite. Since i don’t own the dokan theme, I assume they used the same function.

Since the seller dashboard is not in the back office, you’ll have to enable the “Front end Restriction” checkbox.

For now I’ll just strip out the restricted categories so they don’t appear at all in the dropdown menu.

Hope your problem is fixed now.

nice!

yes, i had to enable Front End Restriction

….and it worked!

thanks so much, this is such a neat plugin, i can see this applying to lots of sites

really appreciate this plugin and your help tweaking it

thanks again ??

No problem !

Happy to know this plugin will help =)