Product Category Filter Not Showing Up After Update

Resolved cdixonsu
(@cdixonsu)

3 years, 6 months ago
Since updating WooCommerce, the product category filter when I go to Products, wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=product, does not show up. There is an empty filter box but there are no categories in it, it is just blank.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by cdixonsu.

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lorro
(@lorro)

3 years, 6 months ago

This looks like this issue:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-drop-down-menu-2/#post-9579980

Thread Starter cdixonsu
(@cdixonsu)

3 years, 6 months ago

Thanks but I do not see please enter 3 characters. Just a small empty drop down box. I only have 10 categories. See screenshot https://imgur.com/a/9d4VI

lorro
(@lorro)

3 years, 6 months ago

I got this with Yoast installed. It looks like the Yoast drop-downs squash the category box. Test by temporally deactivating Yoast. In my case, just clicking the down arrow on the category drop-down caused all the boxes the rearrange on the next row down and all was well. Have you clicked the down-arrow? If that doesn’t work, hard reload the page or clear your browser cache to ensure up-to-date styles are loaded. Ensure Yoast is up-to-date.

Thread Starter cdixonsu
(@cdixonsu)

3 years, 6 months ago

I cleared cache, deactivated Yoast, no luck, still a small empty drop down. I also checked and it is up to date. When I click on the small, empty drop down box, nothing happens.

lorro
(@lorro)

3 years, 6 months ago

Please post the url for your site.

sula1591
(@sula1591)

3 years, 5 months ago

I have the same problem .
Is there any way to solve it ?

lorro
(@lorro)

3 years, 5 months ago

You are looking at the new WooCommerce ajax category filter. You can put the old one back with this snippet:
https://pastebin.com/qduTpuCa
dunies2
(@dunies2)

3 years, 4 months ago
In function.php works like a charm! Thank you so much!!!

I just had to remove <?php from top

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// restore old dropdown category filter on admin products page
// snippet goes in functions.php for your child theme if you have one, or you can use the “My Custom Functions” plugin
add_action( ‘restrict_manage_posts’, ‘wcacd_category_dropdown’, 15 );
function wcacd_category_dropdown() {
// show the old dropdown category filter from WC 3.1.2
wc_product_dropdown_categories( array( ‘option_select_text’ => __( ‘Filter by category’, ‘woocommerce’ ) ) );
// hide the WC 3.2+ ajax category filter
print ‘<style>.post-type-product .tablenav div .select2 {display:none;}</style>’;
}
- This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by dunies2.
Plugin Support MechielCouvaras
(@mechielcouvaras)

3 years, 4 months ago

We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.
lws-mo
(@lws-mo)

3 years, 4 months ago
I just updated WooCommerce today and I also got this problem.

Like lorro said I can also see this problem when Yoast SEO is active, as soon as Yoast is activated I am not able to use the filter anymore!

I now had to reactivate the old style drop down which is linked in this thread here.

So, not really resolved?!
- This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by lws-mo.