These settings allow you to exclude specific product categories, tags, or attributes from being displayed as individual variations in your WooCommerce store. This provides greater control over how variations are shown to customers and helps manage product listings more effectively.
1. Exclude Product Categories: Enter the product categories that you want to exclude from displaying as individual variations. Products in these categories will not show each variation separately in the store.
Use Case: Use this setting to exclude certain categories of products (e.g., “Sale” or “Clearance”) from displaying each variation as an individual product.
2. Don’t Exclude Child Categories of the Selected Excluded Categories: When this checkbox is enabled, child categories of the selected excluded categories will not be excluded. Only the parent categories listed will be excluded.
Use Case: If you want to exclude parent categories but still display variations in their child categories, check this box.
3. Exclude Product Tags: Enter the product tags that you want to exclude from displaying as individual variations. Products with these tags will not show each variation separately.
Use Case: Useful for excluding products tagged with specific labels (e.g., “Featured”, “Limited Edition”) from being displayed with all their variations.
4. Exclude Product Attributes: Enter the product attributes that should be excluded from displaying as individual variations. Variations with these attributes will not appear as separate products.
Use Case: This can be used to exclude specific attributes (e.g., “Color”, “Size”) from causing variations to appear as separate products.
5. Ignore Combine Attributes: When this checkbox is enabled, excluding a product attribute will retain the variant if it has multiple attributes. For example, if you exclude the pa_color attribute, only variations with pa_color alone will be excluded. Variants that have both pa_color and pa_size or other combinations will still be displayed.
Use Case: This is helpful when you want to exclude single-attribute variations but still want to display variations with combined attributes.