WooCommerce SEO & Categories

Improve WooCommerce SEO and Styling

Do it like the great shops out there: improve your SEO by adding Category related texts, add a nice header image to your categories and give your Subcategories more style! With this Plugin you are the full boss of your WooCommerce Categories and their layout. So buy it and create a great customer experience to increase your sales.

Features of the Advanced Categories Plugin

Category Layout

Enable: Modify the Category page
Show Category Description
Show Category Short Description
Show Category Footer Text
Background color
Default Category Background image: Set a default category image. This will be overwritten if a custom category image is set.
Category Title Tag: Define your category title tag
Category Padding: Choose the spacing or padding you want.
Category Title Font
Category Short Description Font

Subcategories Layout

Enable: Modify the Subcategories.
Show Subcategory Short Description
Subcategory Columns
How many categories in one row?
Subcategory Style: Choose your subcategory style (Demos available).
Subcategory Title Tag: Define your subcategory title tag.
Background color
Subcategory Title Font
Subcategory Short Description Font

Sidebar Texts

Enable: Enable Sidebar.
Sidebar Title: Define your sidebar title
- Category Title
- Custom Title (You can use %s to dynamically show the category title.)

Shop Page

As by default the WooCommerce Shop page is just a page that can not really be configured. That is why we have this extra Section

Shop Description
Shop Footer

This plugin requires the free Redux Framework Plugin to give you an easy to manage settings panel.

Tested

Tested with WordPress 3.8+
Tested with WooCommerce 2.0+
Themes, it works with:
- Blaszok Shopping Theme
- Bridge Theme
- Dante
- Storefront
- Enfold
- Total Theme
- Universal
- Nuvo Restaurant
Themes, it DOEST NOT work with:
- THE7 (THESEVEN) as they really messed up with the WooCommerce standards

Compatibility

WooCommerce 2.0+
WordPress 3.8.1+
PHP 5.2+

Changelog

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1.2.18
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- NEW:    Added support for our new multi inventory & product retailers plugins
        https://www.welaunch.io/en/product/woocommerce-multi-inventory/
        https://www.welaunch.io/en/product/woocommerce-product-retailers/
- NEW:    Added support for WooCommerce Brands plugin 
        Perfect Brands for WooCommerce by QuadLayers
- FIX:    Shop footer not working

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1.2.17
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- NEW:    Added Shortcode support for better pagebuilder integration
        Docs: https://www.welaunch.io/en/knowledge-base/faq/seo-categories-shortcodes/
- FIX:    Images in backend oversized

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1.2.16
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- NEW:    Added a read more link option to the category description,
        that links to the footer text when existing
        View post on imgur.com

- NEW:    Added German, French, Spanish & Italian Translations
- NEW:    Cleaned up the plugin settings

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1.2.15
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- NEW:    Performance option in advanced settings
- FIX:    Switched wpautop before do_shortcode in footer
- FIX:    Added  wpautop to sidebar text

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1.2.14
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- NEW:    Dropped Redux Framework support and added our own framework 
        Read more here: https://www.welaunch.io/en/2021/01/switching-from-redux-to-our-own-framework
        This ensure auto updates & removes all gutenberg stuff
        You can delete Redux (if not used somewhere else) afterwards
        https://www.welaunch.io/updates/welaunch-framework.zip
        View post on imgur.com

- FIX:    Flex CSS (Flatsome) support

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1.2.13
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- FIX:  Attribute options missing

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1.2.12
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- NEW:  On mobile landingpages slider now shows dots as slide indication
- FIX:  Options not working

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1.2.11
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- FIX:  Term meta deprecated
- FIX:  Adding attributes not working

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1.2.10
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- NEW:  Display type both on category page check now for nested category layout
- FIX:  Nested category layout not working when subcategories not enabled in plugin settings

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1.2.9
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- NEW:  Advanced Settings > Enable / disable Yoast Integration
        SEO title changes will reflect in the Yoast SEO Meta title.
- FIX:  Yoast Meta title not respecting appendix set in Yoast plugin

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1.2.8
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- NEW:  Added footer hook & positon option for landingpages in settings panel
- FIX:  Switched wpautop & do_shortcode for footer texts

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1.2.7
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- NEW:  Added an option for footer hook & footer hook position
- NEW:  Added an option to hide the sidebar title

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1.2.6
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- NEW:  Added support for Terms Archive pages
- NEW:  Added H1 SEO title for attribute terms

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1.2.5
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- NEW:  Added support for attribute term description
        E.g. when you add a description for color "black" it will show when filtered in frontend
- NEW:  Readded support for attribute terms

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1.2.4
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- NEW:  Added an option to set a custom product category SEO title
- NEW:  Added support for "Product Filter for WooCommerce" Plugin
        https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-product-filter/8514038
- NEW:  Restructured the options panel

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1.2.3
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- NEW:  Attributes (filter) can now have a custom Sidebar / Footer text
        Example: https://demos.welaunch.io/woocommerce-advanced-categories/product-category/clothing/t-shirts/?filter_color=black
        See sidebar or footer

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1.2.2
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- NEW:    Added WPML Config
- NEW:    SEO Title also gets put into meta title (YOAST SEO)
- FIX:    SEO titles showed "in" when no attributes were filterd
- FIX:    Updated POT File
- FIX:    Performance Increase
- FIX:    Updated Docs

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1.2.1
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- NEW:    SEO Titles by Filter Attributes
        Example: Title "T-Shirts" gets changed to "T-Shirts in Color Black" 
        Example URL: https://demos.welaunch.io/woocommerce-advanced-categories/product-category/clothing/t-shirts/?filter_color=black&filter_size=s
        See Settings > SEO Titles

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1.2.0
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- NEW:    Landingpages on Product Categories
        You can now link any pages from a product category 
        Demo: https://demos.welaunch.io/woocommerce-advanced-categories/product-category/posters/

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1.1.5
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- FIX:    Order / Sorting not working in nested Categories

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1.1.4
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- NEW:    Filter for Footer Hook Position:
        woocommerce_advanced_categories_footer_hook_position
        For Enfold theme for example is has to be changed to 5
- FIX:    Removed TGM

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1.1.3
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- NEW:  Added option to limit products for nested categories
- NEW:  Added option to remove visibility filter

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1.1.2
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- FIX:  Tax Meta Class Updated

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1.1.1
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- FIX:  When you deactivate category & subcategory styles, the footer
        text will still be shown

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1.1.0
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- NEW:  Nested categories 
        (display categories + products before new category starts)
DEMO: https://youtu.be/xUuQdASpWSM

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1.0.7
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- FIX:  get_category_link stopped working in WP 4.9
        replaced with get_term_link

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1.0.6
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- FIX: various PHP notice

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1.0.5
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- FIX: Custom style settings were not applied correctly

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1.0.4
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- NEW: Updated Documentation & Demos
- FIX: various PHP notices

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1.0.3
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- NEW: Shortcode Support [advanced_categories style="2" category="hoodies"]
- NEW: Visual Composer Support – see module > WooCommerce -> Adavanced Category

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1.0.2
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- FIX: Plugin activation check

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1.0.1
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- NEW: Better plugin activation
- FIX: Better advanced settings page (ACE Editor for CSS and JS )
- FIX: array key exists

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1.0.0
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- Inital release

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WooCommerce SEO & Categories

Improve WooCommerce SEO and Styling