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`%%primary_category%%` template variable doesn't work for WooCommerce products
Please give us a description of what happened.
When using the %%primary_category%% template variable for the WooCommerce products, it doesn't output anything on the SEO title field.
Please describe what you expected to happen.
The %%primary_category%% template variable should output the primary category of WooCommerce products.
How can we reproduce this behavior?
- Use the
%%primary_category%%template variable on any WooCommerce products SEO title field
Technical info
- WordPress version: 4.8
- Yoast SEO version: 5.0.1
Woocommerce products use product categories and product tags. They are custom taxonomies (product_cat and product_tag) and they aren't default categories/tags.
Function retrieve_primary_category gets primary_category for category.
I already tried to make something similar, but it's better to introduce new variable %%primary_product_cat%% because it's related to different taxonomy, something like this:
private function retrieve_primary_product_cat() {
$primary_product_cat = null;
if ( ! empty( $this->args->ID ) ) {
$wpseo_primary_category = new WPSEO_Primary_Term( 'product_cat', $this->args->ID );
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I hope this will be followed through. A much needed feature to make this SEO plugin meaningful for an ecommerce site.
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Many people have products in more than one product category, it's impossible to use %%ct_product_cat%% as the Titles will be so long! When do you think can we get the primary Woocommerce category as part of the variables? I feel like this plugin addresses everything except this - it's a real shame! Any suggestions on how to get around this?
Same problem here! Is it not possible to select just the primary category?
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+1 for https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-ct_product_cat-and-primary_category/
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Is it safe to say that almost 4 years after this BUG was first opened that this issue is likely never going to be fixed?
It's a shame since this is a pretty basic expectation (especially for those of us that have paid for Yoast
Alright guys (& ladies), I created my own snippet variable and after hours banging my head on my desktop it works ! My code is probably ugly as I'm a noob... Here it is :
//define the custom replacement callback
function get_yoast_primary_category() {
// Show Yoast primary category OR YEAR
$category = get_the_terms( $post_id, 'product_cat' );
// If post has a category assigned.
if ($category) {
$category_display = '';
$taxonomy = 'product_cat';
$primary_cat_id = yoast_get_primary_term_id( 'product_cat', $product_id );
if ( $primary_cat_id ) {
$primary_cat = get_term($primary_cat_id, $taxonomy);
if(isset($primary_cat->name))
$category_display = $primary_cat->name;
}
if ( !empty($category_display) ) {
return $category_display;
} else {
return date("Y");
}
} else { return date("Y"); }
}
// define the action for register yoast_variable replacments
function register_custom_yoast_snippet_variable() {
wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%main_category_woocommerce%%', 'get_yoast_primary_category', 'advanced', 'woocommerce primary category' );
}
// Add action
add_action('wpseo_register_extra_replacements', 'register_custom_yoast_snippet_variable');
use %%main_category_woocommerce%%
it will not work in the Yoast preview of your product page, however it does if you look at your source code
Feel free to make it pretty ! Even though that works (for me at least...) Yoast still needs to correct this problem...
I'd like to thank my long-time sponsors : Google & Stack Overflow amazing community
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