[Support request] GP simple mega menu with dynamic woo subcategories?

hi david,

thanks for the hint (link) – although it looks somewhat similar to an already tested approach…
i’ll try to dig into it.

yes – theres a few plugins that are eighter seemingly outdatet, dont work very well or are bloating the code awfully.
surprised anyway that theres no proper buildt in way to accomplish this.

thanks – i’ll be back on occasion 🙂

… o.k. drives me nuts, sadly.

davids link above seems to be not bad at all. replacing category with product_cat gives back “no categories” in the expected places within the menu – so it basically works …

but cant bypass this. eighter it gives the “no categories” text or nothing at all.
assuming theres a call for the wrong woo terms somewhere. but my php is far too limited to get over it.

anybody out there who has more ideas than me? or solved this problem somehow?

this is the actual code that gives the “no categories” line:

add_filter( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', 'xx_add_subcategories_under_parent_category', 10, 4 );
function xx_add_subcategories_under_parent_category( $item_output, $item, $depth, $args ) {
	if( $args->theme_location == 'primary' && $item->object === 'product_cat' && $item->type === 'taxonomy' ) {
		$sub_cats = wp_list_categories( [ 'echo' => 0, 'hide_empty' => 1, 'child_of' => $item->object_id, 'title_li' => '' ] );
		if( ! empty( $sub_cats ) ) {
			$class = "menu-item menu-item-object-{$item->object} menu-item-type-{$item->type}";
			$sub_cats = preg_replace( '#<ul\sclass=([^>]*)>#', '<ul class="sub-menu">', $sub_cats );
			$sub_cats = preg_replace( '#<li\sclass="([^>]*)">#', '<li class="' . $class . ' $1">', $sub_cats );
			$item_output .= '<ul class="sub-menu">' . "\n";
			$item_output .= $sub_cats;
			$item_output .= '</ul>' . "\n";
		}
	}

	return $item_output;
}