WordPress eStore Product Categorization

Categories: Installation and Usage

You can categorize your products into groups to help your customers browse them easily.

Product Category Management Menu

Once you create a product category from the Category Management menu you can assign a product to that category when configuring the product details.

Assigning a Product to a Category

You can display all the product(s) from a particular category using the following shortcode:

wp_eStore_category_products:category_id:1:end]

“1″ is the category ID of the category (category IDs can be found on the category list screen).

There are many more shortcodes available to utilize product categories.

I have created a demo category called “Prod Cat A” and assigned two products to this category. The products are displayed as the following when using the above shortcode.

Demo Product for Category

This is a demo product that belongs to Category A for demonstration.

Price: $10.00

Digital Product With Variation

This product demonstrate how you can configure a digital product with variation control that delivers differnt file base on the user selection

Price: $50.00

George Serradinho Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

I have just tested this and it would also be nice if you could have the options for:

1. Display categories and maybe a certain number of items within or all products
2. Display products using a drop down of categories.

TJ Says:
September 7th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Is there anyway to sort the category list?

admin Says:
September 8th, 2009 at 12:03 am

Hi TJ, no the category list cannot be sorted.

Donna Says:
November 25th, 2009 at 11:50 pm

Can a product be added to more than one category? Or would you have to create multiple (duplicate) products to do that? I have a site with physical products that would have a limited number so it would be best if I could avoid duplicates so that the sold out function will work.

admin Says:
November 26th, 2009 at 6:59 am

Hi Donna, no this is not possible… I haven’t really made the product categorization that robust (something to work on in the future).

Donna Says:
November 26th, 2009 at 7:18 am

Okay, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I couldn’t find a way, but I thought there might be a trick to it. It just means well thought out decisions around the taxonomy for now. But I think different ways of categorizing each product in order to use the category display shortcodes would be a great feature.

Alexia Says:
December 4th, 2009 at 4:09 am

Hi there
Is there a way to have one product listed under multiple categories without having to add it singly each time?

admin Says:
December 4th, 2009 at 8:54 am

@Alexia, this question has been answered two threads above.

Cindi Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Easy implementation so far. I used the free Simple Paypal cart before so I think that helped.

I’ve gotten handy at customizing the loop in wordpress. Does this plugin create a similar loop? I want to add weight and have that feed to paypal, to show recommended related items using a custom code.

With some experimentation, I think I can do this, but I need a starting point. Is there a section of code that is central to displaying products the way the loop is in wordpress?

admin Says:
December 9th, 2009 at 8:30 am

Hi Cindi, eStore doesn’t use any loop… I am going to add an option for displaying related products later (this will be a while though cause my to do list is huge)

admin Says:
December 29th, 2009 at 6:29 am

Use the following shortcode to display a list of Categories:

[wp_eStore_list_categories_fancy]

Scott Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am

For “Quantity” how would one go about making it infinite? Or do I have to put a max number on the product?

Thanks

Ivy Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 6:31 am

Hi Scott, For an infinite quantity all you need to do is leave the field blank.

Ivy

Shina Says:
June 21st, 2010 at 7:19 pm

I want to use [wp_eStore_category_products:category_id:1:end], but i don´t like the design (which is shown above).
Can I modify the template for this trigger text. (For example I need pictures with 250x188px).
In which script I can find this template structure to change it?

I hope you know what i mean…

admin Says:
June 23rd, 2010 at 3:27 am

@Shina, you should be able to change the style by modifying the CSS. To change the thumbnail image size, look for the following CSS in the “wp_eStore_style.css” file:

.thumb-image{
width:125px;
height:125px;
}

Joe Says:
August 28th, 2010 at 7:20 pm

Hi, do you have a short code to display the products in a category in “fancy” mode. You have the double option for all other uses except this one. Any chance? Thanks Joe

Ivy Says:
August 29th, 2010 at 3:25 am

Hi Joe, Yes we do. You can find a list of all the shortcodes available in the eStore here:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-shortcodes-and-functions-reference-460

Make sure to checkout the extra shortcodes plugin for eStore (see the link above also for this).