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
        



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- 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
        



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- 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...