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Should the actual /category/ directory be 404? Is that normal WP behaviour

Yes, it’s normal behavior. WordPress uses a set of rewrite rules to process requests. Here are the rules that will match requests related to categories: [category/(.+?)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2] [category/(.+?)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2] [category/(.+?)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2] [category/(.+?)/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1] As you can see, all of them require, that the request is longer than /category/. And it makes … Read more

?cat=-1 Indexed Versions Of Homepage

if (isset($_GET[‘cat’]) && $_GET[‘cat’] == -1) { header(‘Location: 404.php’); exit; Add this to your function.php file. I also faced the same issue on my website. Every time I published a new article, the URL was not getting indexed in search engine and instead of URL, this unknown category shows up: (?cat=-1)

Woocommerce category show subcategories only/omit posts for specific category

Maybe you want to try adding products to subcategory, but not showing them on main categories. Then when user filters and goes to subc, you show products. Link

Editing Category Pages

First, be sure to set up a child theme – don’t edit the current theme unless it’s a completely custom one. Otherwise, whenever you update your theme, your changes will be lost. To do: Check what folder your current theme is in. As an example, say you’re using Twenty Nineteen – it’s in a twentynineteen … Read more

How to remove “Category : …”

That title is coming from archive.php file of TwentySixteen theme. You can find a <header> code section in that file. What you can do, simply copy the archive.php file as category.php and then remove the following code section from category.php file: <header class=”page-header”> <?php the_archive_title( ‘<h1 class=”page-title”>’, ‘</h1>’ ); the_archive_description( ‘<div class=”taxonomy-description”>’, ‘</div>’ ); ?> … Read more

Linking products to categories

You can try using csv product import plugins like https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-xml-csv-product-import/ . The best way is to write a custom script as per your requirements.

WooCommerce IF statements not working

The solution to my problem was to use: has_term( ‘the-cat-I-want-to-display’, ‘product_cat’ ) || is_product_category( ‘the-cat-I-want-to-display’ ) This worked. Thanks everyone for your help!

Display Categories, Sub-categories, and Sub-sub-categories on separate pages

If I understand correctly, it certainly is possible. I would start with the function that determines if current category has parent or not. function category_has_parent($catid){ $category = get_category($catid); if ($category->category_parent > 0){ return $category->category_parent; } return false; } In the PHP template that displays your FAQ I would check if current category has parent (if … Read more

Group listed elements by category

The term you are looking for seems to be “Taxonomy”, category and post_tag are base taxonomies, but you can register more taxonomies, depending on the needs. Right now, you are in need of 2 taxonomies, “hero” and “franchise”, once registered, you can affect them to a range of post_type. I don’t know if your “movie” … Read more

Displaying multiple loops based off of category

You can use wp_get_post_terms() and in_array() to check if “investments” is in the term array or not: <?php $catquery = new WP_Query(array( ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ )); ?> <?php while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post(); ?> <?php $backgroundImg = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), ‘large’ );?> <?php // Gather all the post terms for the post. $post_term_objects = wp_get_post_terms( … Read more

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