Add Search option to the Categories Selection in the product editor

+ Add a new category. Can this be turned off for the user? in woocommerce

Yes this can be turned off. I just can’t remember where/how…but you can.

This page may help:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/259647/how-to-remove-the-add-category-button-from-the-category-metabox

Hopefully the WC Lovers support can chime in as they may have a better suggestion.

In addition to adding the search function to the categories tree.
Are you able to make the collapsing arrow function work on all the sub-categories as well. The arrow only seems to be applied to the top parent.

In my case it is “Products” or “Services”

Right now when I click on the arrow pointing to the “Products” or “Services” parent category it expands every sub category and children category under it. This makes it very difficult to scroll through the sub categories when there are many.

Is something like this possible?

Thanks so much

Thanks for this suggestion. I like the functionality of the alternate category selector you suggest by “disable this option from WCFM Admin Setting -> Dashboard”

BUT can you confirm if a child category is only selected through this type of category selection does the parent categories automatically get selected as well?

For example if I type in “shirts” and select that category will it also include the item when it’s parent (women’s clothing) is filtered? or does the vendor also need to type and select the parent category as well?

I’m assuming that the parent categories need to be selected as well and so this is where the display of the hierarchy is helpful so the vendor can see what the related categories are.

WC Lovers do you see this as an future feature that can be implemented or is it too closely tied to woocommerce/wordrpress that it needs to be an enhancement that they have to do? Or is it possible that your plugin can do this eventually?

The main issue is the navigation of the category list and make the collapsing arrow function work on all the sub-categories as well. The arrow only seems to be applied to the top parent.

In my case it is “Products” or “Services”

Right now when I click on the arrow pointing to the “Products” or “Services” parent category it expands every sub category and every children category under it. This makes it very difficult to scroll through the sub categories when there are so many sub categories.

It would be so very helpful to have the ability to collapse/expand the children categories

We will try this out. Thanks for this suggestion.