markh28

Just an FYI, I found out a way to do this without an extra plugin. All I needed to do was set up my attributes as global attributes, then import each category separately, and build an import file with the attributes and import that.

The stock widget “WooCommerce Layered Nav” actually behaves the way I want it to, as far as only filtering on the shown products as opposed to every product in the database. It also is not visible if the attribute is not being used. in other words, if I searched for “rangefinders” the “Caliber” attribute filter does not even show in the sidebar.

I was hoping to avoid all this extra work, but at least I have a solution.

WOOF doesnt seem to do what I want. I must not be explaining this correctly so I will show an example. When I go to basspro.com and search for rangefinders, I get a list of rangefinders they sell. On the left sidebar it shows some filters I can use to narrow down. These filters only pertain to rangefinders, not fishing lures or trolling motors which they also sell. See how there is a “Magnification” filter? that is specific to rangefinders and will not appear when I am searching for fishing lures. Here is the link for the search:

https://www.basspro.com/shop/SearchDisplay?categoryId=&storeId=715838534&catalogId=3074457345616676768&langId=-1&sType=SimpleSearch&resultCatEntryType=2&showResultsPage=true&searchSource=Q&pageView=&beginIndex=0&pageSize=15&searchTerm=rangefinder#facet:&productBeginIndex:0&facetLimit:&orderBy:&pageView:grid&minPrice:&maxPrice:&pageSize:&

My attributes are “custom attributes” not global, there are different attributes for different categories. It seems all these plugins I look at are built for stores with 50 items, all sharing global attributes. I have thousands of products, across 20-40 different categories, and each category has its own (different) attributes.

Any suggestions? Might have to write my own.

I am currently playing with that one and it has some promise. Just curious if there were any others.

OK, yes you are correct. The problem I am struggling with is importing all these attribute values. In the csv file, each attribute needs 3 columns. So 80 x 3 = 240 columns, times 17000 records makes a file that is 35MB and too large to upload.

I also want a way to filter these on the shop page. But all the filter widgets I have seen, you need to specify a specific attribute to filter on. So in theory I would need 80 widgets on the shop page, one for each attribute, and any given item only has 3 attributes usually. It really seems like I am going about this all wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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