Customer option to display only in-stock product

Anonymous

#192335

I just heard back from the developer of WDR who asked me something that reminded me what the issue was. Their plug-in doesn’t handle custom taxonomies. They have no direct means of category exclusion. To exclude 1 category, I have to include all the others. That would be easy enough if there was a way to put everything else into the uncategorized category. I kind of don’t understand why WooCommerce doesn’t do that automatically. If I try to set up a new product page, it won’t allow me to publish until a category is chosen. I just can’t see spending the time involved to drill down into each product page to place them into the uncategorized category. I have right around 1,000 product pages. I think it’s time to find another solution altogether. My employees will be here momentarily. I think the first order of business today will be to find another strategy for discounting, or to find another plug-in that will handle custom taxonomies, or at least have the ability to exclude one. If you know of anything, that’d help, but I’ll keep you in the loop until this is resolved.

Trevor

#192411

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Anonymous

#192413

The developer of WDR has been back in touch. He thinks he has some code that will allow these custom taxonomies, and is working on a version change. Let’s see where that goes first. I’ll be in touch when I know more.

Trevor

#192417

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Anonymous

#192475

Hi, Trevor;

It’s not going to work with that plugin. I need to find something else. The problem, according to that developer, is that the majority of my products aren’t in categories at all. He said that WooCommerce requires categories. When I create a new product page, that’s been my experience also.

I don’t know how to assign all those unassigned products to categories except manually, one at a time, and that makes me crazy to consider how big a pain it is to do that for even just one. It appears, though, that until this has been resolved so that every product is assigned a category, there’s a strong possibility that I’m going to run into this situation again and again.

I know that the data on the website can be downloaded as a text file, manipulated in a database or spreadsheet, and uploaded again. Is this a possibility to resolve this situation?

Peace,

Dave

Trevor

#192485

You may be able to do this more easily than you think. Have a look at some of these Google search results:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=woocommerce+bulk+assign+a+product+category+to+products+without+category

Anonymous

#192818

No such luck. I’d need the categories to filter the product. I don’t have to drill down as far as I thought I would, though. I can do it in the quick edit window.

I wanted to thank you again for your help in this and to let you know that if I haven’t already figured out how to do it, this topic can be closed.

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