Product Catalog
WooCommerce Category Pages Not Indexed: Crawled vs Discovered
Crawled – currently not indexed, or Discovered? The exact status tells you which cause is keeping your WooCommerce category page out of Google.
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Product Catalog
WooCommerce Attributes vs Categories: When a Colour Earns Its Own Page
Attributes drive variations, categories drive navigation. What the WooCommerce Enable archives box creates, and three tests before a colour earns a page.
Product Catalog
Why Your WooCommerce Best Sellers List Isn’t Updating (and How to Fix It)
WooCommerce ranks best sellers on total_sales, a lifetime counter refunds never reduce. Why old products stay on top, and how to rank the last 30 days.
Store Operations
Hide Out-of-Stock Products in WooCommerce, or Show Them Last?
WooCommerce’s hide out-of-stock setting skips search, ignores backorders and empties category counts. What it does, and the snippet that sorts instead.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce New Arrivals Category Page That Keeps Old Products Out
Three ways to build a WooCommerce new arrivals page — sorting, the Product Collection block, or a real category — plus the job that removes old products.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Bulk Edit Product Categories: Add, Remove, Uncategorized
Bulk Edit only ever adds — unticking removes nothing. Add in bulk, remove with CSV or WP-CLI, and clear an inherited Uncategorized by moving the default.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Parent Category Not Showing Products? Check These in Order
WooCommerce parent category not showing products? Parents already include child products — check display type, catalog visibility, stock and block themes.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Category Rules: Four Ways to Automate Membership
WooCommerce has no built-in category rules: membership is a stored list. Four ways to automate it, and where each one quietly breaks.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Sale Category: Three Ways to Show On Sale Products
WooCommerce has no built-in sale category. Three ways to show on sale products: shortcode, plugin Page, or real term rules — and why the snippet breaks.
Email Follow-up
How to Track Email Follow-ups in Gmail: Four Searches, Two Habits
The Gmail searches that find threads you never answered, plus one list in four states and a daily five-minute pass that survives a busy week.