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I have this same issue: When using the code above, the products no longer display in WooCommerce categories.

Since the regular categories still work, this must be something within the WooCommerce plugin?

Anyone have any ideas? If you don’t have time to post coding, where would I begin to troubleshoot? (Beginner coder level)

~ thanks

Exactly what I need to know ~ thank you for posting the answer

I don’t know how to delete my prior post, but I moved on. I went with something else so you don’t need to spend time on this, at least until someone else has a similar issue.

This looked really user friendly, but it’s just too new for me to use. I’ll take another look when the bugs, theme issues, etc. are solved.

~ 24 hours later…. and it’s not working.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Tracy

Thank you for trying to help Christine.

I reloaded all WP files (not reinstallation but just new files; same database), set permalinks to default, then loaded a blank htaccess file, then changed permalinks to custom (included the closing end slash); then FTP’d the new .htaccess that WP provided when I chose custom permalinks.

– I’ve done some clicking and it seems to be working. I’m wondering if the backslash was the issue, especially since it was a browser display problem. (Remember my site was fine in Google Chrome)

As of now, I have permalinks set to: /idea/%postname%-%post_id%/
based on this article:
https://docs.appthemes.com/tutorials/wordpress-permalink-structure/

-which I’m trusting since it was a follow-up to this WP Codex article:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

I chose the word ‘idea’ because I assume no one will ever type in ‘post’ so that word has no SEO value and many of my posts for this blog could use variations with the word idea. On my other blogs, I will choose a different keyword for that location. My understanding is that it can be any word.

If anyone should ever have a similar browser display / permalink problem, or if you visit my site and experience text that doesn’t match the page, please post here.

~thanks again for your comments and time,
Tracy