Create a "View All" link with product count

Hi there,

I'm not aware of a plugin that offers this option unfortunately.

Can you link me to the example site in question?

I can try to see if they are using a plugin or not.

Let me know :)

I can't find an option to make the link private, so hoping it would be okay to post it like this.

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Hi there,

couldn't find any specific plugin to do that or a way of making the existing Woo shortcodes do it either. But did cobble this PHP Snippet together:

add_shortcode( 'products-counter', 'products_counter' );
function products_counter( $atts ) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts( [
        'category' => '',
    ], $atts );

    $taxonomy = 'product_cat';
    if ( is_numeric( $atts['category'] ) ) {
        $cat = get_term( $atts['category'], $taxonomy );
    } else {
        $cat = get_term_by( 'slug', $atts['category'], $taxonomy );
    }

    $catName = $cat->name;
    $catLink = get_term_link( $cat , $taxonomy );
    $catCount = $cat->count;

    if ( $cat && ! is_wp_error( $cat ) ) {
        return '<a class="category-counter" href="' . $catLink . '">' . $catName . '<span class"count">(' . $catCount . ')<span></a>';
    }
    return '';
}

Now you have a shortcode for displaying Category name, link and counter eg.

[products-counter category="albums"]

Thank you so much for the snippet.

I was using WooCommerce shortcode [product_categories ids="xyz"] to output category links with product count and then hiding the “category image” with CSS. Your nice snippet saved me the CSS step.

Just a little more help will make things almost perfect for me.

I use the shortcode [products ids="835,836,838,839,1231,(my-dummy-product-id)" columns="1" orderby="popularity" ] to get a list of handpicked products from a category where the last product id (my-dummy-product-id) is a dummy product that only mimics a product card and lets me use the shortcode you coded in its “short description” .

I enabled the short product description, and rendering of shortcodes in it, on my homepage using this:

add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'frontpage_shortcodes_short_description', 6 );
function frontpage_shortcodes_short_description() {
    global $product;
    if ( is_home() || is_page('my-frontpage-products') ) {
        $wc_product = wc_get_product( $product );
        if ( ! $wc_product ) {
            return false;
    }
        $short_description = $wc_product->get_short_description();
        if ( '' !== $short_description ) {
        echo '<div itemprop="description">' . do_shortcode( wpautop( wptexturize( $short_description ) ) ) . '</div>';
        }
    }
}

Problem is it enabled the short product description for all the products when I only need it for specific ids (dummy products). How to get it to do that?

Thanksss

Novel idea using a dummy product - in that case you could scrap the shortcode altogether and do something like this.
Give all your Dummy products a Tag of dummy for example.
Then in your hook you can get the category links if the term exists like so:

if ( has_term( 'dummy', 'product_tag' ) ) {
    $cat = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'product_cat' )[0];

    printf(
        '<a class="category-counter" href="%1$s">%2$s <span class="counter">(%3$s)<span></a>',
	$catLink = get_term_link( $cat , $taxonomy ),
        $catName = $cat->name,
        $catCount = $cat->count
    );
    
}

Now this method is much simpler except the snippet doesn't include the products in subcategories when counting. :(
How to get it to give the total count of all the products in a parent category + its subcategories?

Thank you

Give this a shot:

if ( has_term( 'dummy', 'product_tag' ) ) {

    // Get Parent Category and its count
    $taxonomy = 'product_cat';
    $cat = get_the_terms( $post->ID, $taxonomy )[0];
    $count = (int) $cat->count;

    // Loop through children categories
    $child_cats = get_term_children( $cat->term_id, $taxonomy);
    foreach ($child_cats as $child_cat) {
        $term = get_term( $child_cat, $taxonomy );
        $count +=$term->count;
    }
    
    printf(
        '<a class="category-counter" href="%1$s">%2$s <span class="counter">(%3$s)<span></a>',
        $catLink = get_term_link( $cat , $taxonomy ),
        $catName = $cat->name,
        $count
    );
    
} 

That worked. You're awesome!
Huge thanks for the whole thing.