[WooCommerce] Categories and subcategories list clutter the shop page

[andreiungurianu]

Right now, the default behaviour on the shop page is to display all the Categories and Subcategories (all on the same level, no distiction/hierarchy between them).

The problem is that, as the no. of categories & subcategories grows, the shop page starts to feel cluttered and visitors have a hard time filtering throught the products.

Here's a feedback from Andra from Flair Scent:

Mă așteptam să apară doar categoriile iar la click să apară subcategoriile. Dar acum apar și subcategoriile și categoriile. Mulți mi-au scris că se blochează acolo fiindcă sunt prea multe.

Here's a screenshot from her website.

@georgeolaru it would be helpful if you could analyse this issue and, if you believe we should do something about it, provide some guidelines on how we could solve this.

[georgeolaru]

@andreiungurianu I checked Flairscent's site and it seems that it's showing first-level categories on the archive page, and the subcategories on the parent category page.

I think that's a good solution – have we done something custom for this site?

[andreiungurianu]

@georgeolaru Thanks for pitching it. Yes, in fact @madalingorbanescu helped out with some custom code to edit the default functionality and make it work as you saw. We gave our best to help Andra launch the spring catalog and make it more visible on the shop.

If you think this is also a better default behaviour for Rosa2, then I'm sure @madalingorbanescu can bring these changes in the theme.

[georgeolaru]

@andreiungurianu Yes! I think that's the way to go for sub-categories.

We will be able to extend the browsing experience with filters, but for now, the solution above seems to just work.

[madalingorbanescu]

Closed in https://github.com/pixelgrade/rosa2/pull/235