When upgrading to WooCommerce 2.3 or higher, you may notice that any use of custom attribute archives such as /style/vintage (an archive of all products with the “vintage” attribute) no longer work and instead force you to use /pa_style/vintage.
Strangely, this wasn’t addressed in the changelog or release notes, and WooThemes staff only has to say “I believe it could have been that the error was fixed“, referring to a potential URL conflict.
We’re using the cleaner URL style on Nomad Rugs, creating archives for pages such as 6×9 rugs (nomadrugs.com/size/6×9/) and contemporary styles (nomadrugs.com/style/contemporary/). We needed to keep these links functioning while upgrading to the latest WooCommerce release, so we put together the below functions.
If you’re mindful of your slugs and categories and want to keep using this cleaner URL style, add this to your child theme’s functions.php or your functionality plugin.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | // Change attribute rewrite rules add_action('woocommerce_register_taxonomy', 'razorfrog_woo_register_taxonomy'); function razorfrog_woo_register_taxonomy() { global $razorfrog_woo_attribute_labels; $razorfrog_woo_attributes_labels = array(); if ( $attribute_taxonomies = wc_get_attribute_taxonomies() ) { foreach ( $attribute_taxonomies as $tax ) { if ( $name = wc_attribute_taxonomy_name( $tax->attribute_name ) ) { $razorfrog_woo_attribute_labels[ $tax->attribute_label ] = $tax->attribute_name; add_filter('woocommerce_taxonomy_args_'.$name, 'razorfrog_woo_taxonomy_args'); } } } } function razorfrog_woo_taxonomy_args($taxonomy_data) { global $razorfrog_woo_attribute_labels; if (isset($taxonomy_data['rewrite']) && is_array($taxonomy_data['rewrite']) && empty($taxonomy_data['rewrite']['slug'])) { $taxonomy_data['rewrite']['slug'] = $razorfrog_woo_attribute_labels[ $taxonomy_data['labels']['name'] ]; } return $taxonomy_data; } |
Once added, be sure to re-save your Permalink structure to apply these changes.
Bloody Brilliant. No mess, no fuss. Just works.
Great solution, and it works with WPML as well. Thanks a lot! My guess is WooCommerce did this change in order to be prepared for WordPress 4.2, which has a huge taxonomy change coming up. I haven’t found a confirmation on this however, so it’s just a guess. Needless to say; your fix might cause some trouble when updating to WordPress 4.2 (expected in April).
THANKS!
Worked perfectly. I’m surprised they didn’t mention this in the release notes.
I want to have your baby.
Simple, brilliant, magnificus…. Worked great. Razorfrog for President!
Sell this bug solution to Woocommerce for $1,000,000
This appears to be broken now unfortunately after the latest WooCommerce and WordPress updates. Is this working for anyone else right now/does anyone have a fix?
It’s still working fine – this was due to a 301 redirection issue. Glad you got it resolved!
Just wanted to say awesome! This worked like a charm, I was pulling out my hair as I couldn’t find any reason for this change. No trace of this change other then this page showing up in the search results. Thank you guys
Hi, I tried putting in your code…didn’t work for me. Did I miss out anything?
my site eg. is http://www.gameon.co, with the shop at http://www.gameon.co/shop. I’m trying to show “Style” attribute with “Crystal” term. So I guess it should be http://www.gameon.co/style/crystal ?
1) Change ur razorfrog in the code to gameon
2) Paste in functions.php
3) Tried http://www.gameon.co/style/crystal and http://www.gameon.co/shop/style/crystal
Didn’t work 🙁
Please help!
Did you save / refresh Permalinks under settings?
This doesn’t seem to be working for me, please help. I’ve re-saved the permalinks but nothing has changed 🙁
The code is still working on our sites. Have you tried disabling all plugins other than WooCommerce and using a core theme to test for conflicts?
Still works perfectly. Many thanks!
Mixed results w/ Woo 3.0. pa_ is still present. The archive page however only appears while this code is active. So it doesn’t have an archive page without this code, but the whole pa_ prepended is still there.
Hey Brandon – we’ll be finishing up our testing soon and will post updated code when ready. Thanks for checking in!