WCATS Setting Up

Admin Settings Page 

You can access the admin settings page under the WooCommerce Product menu > WCATS Filter menu as shown on the image below:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

How to Enable Shortcode

Under the general settings, there are buttons to enable the shortcode for the category, subcategories, and for the Shop page and filter.

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

You should enable each of these shortcodes especially the shop page shortcode needs to be enabled or disabled for it to display the filter in the shop page as shown on the image below:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

You should enable each of these shortcodes especially the shop page shortcode needs to be enabled or disabled for it to display the filter in the shop page as shown on the image below:

Filter Display Settings 

You can use the settings page options to control the way the filter results are displayed, you can enable and disable the features you wish to create a custom outlook as explained in detail below.

Disable Filter Category Counter

By default, the filter comes with a counter added to the navigation button that counts the number of posts in each category. You can disable this counter using the button shown below:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

The following is the image of when the counter is displayed in the frontend:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

The following is the image of when the button Disable Counter Badge is turned on:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

Disable Page Title, Description, Product Image, and Add to Cart Button

You can also disable the display of the add to cart button, product description, and product image or the title using the buttons shown below:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

Each of these buttons when disabled you will control the display in the frontend.

For example, the following is the layout when only the title and the image are enabled and in this case, the add to cart is disabled and the product description:

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

NOTE: This only works in the shortcode layout and does not work for the shop and archive pages’ filter content!

Add to Cart Redirect to Checkout 

On the products add to cart button you can use the button shown below to automatically redirect the users to checkout when they click any add to cart button on the filter results.

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

Remove Default Sorting Shop Page 

When you add the filter on the shop page, you should consider using the button shown below to remove the default WooCommerce sorting form.

WooCommerce Category & Subcategories Filter

If you wish to show both the filter and the select sorting form, you should leave this setting off.

 

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