Title: Facebook categories
Last modified: March 26, 2021

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# Facebook categories

 *  Resolved [mintblue2068](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mintblue2068/)
 * (@mintblue2068)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-categories/)
 * On the Facebook page Commerce > Catalogue > Items under attributes the category
   shows as a numeric value, for example 166 or 196. Maybe the google product category
   Id (?)
 * For a simple product I can correct this to the product category, as text if I
   also set the Google product category chain.
 * For a Variable product I can set the main product category and the Google product
   category chain. However, variable products continue to use the numeric category
   naming.
 * Note, by Choosing to reset the Facebook metadata on a product and selecting a
   different Google product category I can change the numeric category ‘name’.
 * Only the product wrapper has the category options not the individual variations.
 * Is this a bug or am I missing something in the configuration?
 * Thanks

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 *  [mother.of.code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imazed/)
 * (@imazed)
 * The Mother of Code
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-categories/#post-14249249)
 * Hi there!
 * I suspect it’s the same issue as described in this bug: [https://github.com/woocommerce/facebook-for-woocommerce/issues/1775](https://github.com/woocommerce/facebook-for-woocommerce/issues/1775)
 * If it does indeed sound familiar, please go ahead and add your own comment to
   the thread if you can. This will give the developers a good idea of the size 
   and impacts of the issue.
 * Thank you!
 *  Thread Starter [mintblue2068](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mintblue2068/)
 * (@mintblue2068)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-categories/#post-14255136)
 * Thanks for the link.
 * I trialed the two amendments but as expected re category field the main product
   category settings were not copied across to Facebook. The numeric value for the
   Google category selection is used.
 * Comment summary added to your linked Github page.
 *  [Tseten a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tibetanitech/)
 * (@tibetanitech)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-categories/#post-14264528)
 * Hi [@mintblue2068](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mintblue2068/)
 * Thank you for adding your comment to the Github bug report. We recommend keeping
   an eye on that issue to see if the developers gives any update on this behavior.
 * Since there is nothing more we can do here to help you further I’m going to mark
   this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

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 * Last reply from: [Tseten a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tibetanitech/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-categories/#post-14264528)
 * Status: resolved