| What? | "Orderly Cat" is a Wordpress plug-in used to organize products within categories. |
| Why? | Organizing products within categories is done simply within Wordpress/Woocommerce by providing a "menu_order". When categories are shown the products are ordered from low to high by menu_order. In other words, the menu_order is attached to a product regardless of category. This method is good but power users want more. Power users want the ability to control the order of products within categories. For instance, if there is a product that is contained in multiple categories (happens all the time) then a power user would want the ability to choose where that product shows up in each category. Example use: A product such as "I love you Mom" pillow can be in 2 categories; "Mother's Day Gifts" category and "Birthday Gifts". This product can be shown first in the "Mother's Day Gifts" category and shown last in the "Birthday Gifts" category. How:Within the "Orderly Cat" admin page choose the "Mother's Day Gifts" category and set the "order" for the "I love you Mom" to a high value, say 100. Now choose the "Birthday Gifts" category and set the order for that same product to a low value, say -1. Save your work. The next time the page containing the categories are requested they will be shown in the order specified. |
| When? | Available as of 2021-05-08, please contact cat@6palms.com |
| History |
2021-05-04 V 1.0 Initial release
2021-05-07 V 1.1 -- removed short code handler and just use category pages 2021-05-07 V1.2 -- added link to categories page for quick test 2021-05-08 V1.3 -- Fixed issue with categories that contain a large number of products that require paging of products within a category. -- Fixed issue with admin page where moving to next category via keyboard wasn't updating list of products. -- Brought back short code to provide for situations where the current theme completely overrides the typical rendering of the category page. For instance, the Proto theme - if using a theme like this then the short code handler option can provide the ability to create a page that provides the product priorities within a category. -- Updated admin page to support quick tabbing to next line. Also added product # in table. 2021-05-09 V1.4 -- Fixed issue with older version of wordpress providing category name with preceding hierarchy within it. |
