Category Description for WooCommerce vs Category Posts in Custom Menu

Category Description for WooCommerce allows WooCommerce store owners to customize how product category descriptions are displayed. With advanced options for positioning and formatting, you can better showcase your products and improve SEO optimization. Key Features: – Add custom descriptions for each product category. – Position descriptions above products (full text or excerpt). – Position descriptions below products. – Combine above and below positions with full and excerpt views. – Use a “Load More” button to expand excerpted descriptions. – Seamless integration with block-based (FSE) and classic themes. – Avoid duplicate content with customizable display options. – Edit descriptions easily with the WordPress editor. – Use the [cdfwsp_split] marker to define an exact split point in the description, overriding the word limit. – Use the [cdfwsp_category_description] shortcode to display descriptions anywhere: page builders, custom templates, or theme files. Why Choose This Plugin? Enhance user experience and SEO by having full control over the display of your WooCommerce product category descriptions. This plugin is lightweight, easy to use, and works seamlessly with most WordPress themes. Shortcode Reference [cdfwsp_category_description] Display a product category description anywhere on your site — page builders, custom templates, or theme files. Works independently of the admin Display Option setting. Attributes part (default: full) Controls which part of the description to output: full — complete description ([cdfwsp_split] marker stripped from output). excerpt — excerpt part only (before the split point or word limit). rest — remainder part only (after the split point). Renders with a targetable anchor id for use with excerpt_anchor. excerpt_toggle — excerpt with a Load More button that reveals the full description. JavaScript is loaded automatically. excerpt_anchor — excerpt with an anchor link pointing to a part="rest" shortcode placed elsewhere on the page. No JavaScript required. id (optional) — product category ID. Takes priority over slug. slug (optional) — product category slug. taxonomy (optional) — restrict lookup to a specific taxonomy (default: product_cat). class (optional) — add a custom CSS class to the wrapper div. limit (optional) — override the excerpt word or character limit for this shortcode instance. limit_type (optional) — override the limit type: words or characters. show_read_less (optional) — show or hide the Read Less button: 1 = yes, 0 = no. load_more_text (optional) — override the Load More button text for this shortcode instance. If neither id nor slug is provided, the shortcode auto-detects the category from the current archive page. When using multiple attributes, place them all inside the same shortcode tag separated by spaces — not commas: [cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_toggle" limit="50" class="my-desc"] Examples Display the full description on the current archive page: [cdfwsp_category_description] Excerpt with a Load More button on the current archive page: [cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_toggle"] Excerpt with a Load More button for a specific category: [cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_toggle" slug="clothing"] Split view — excerpt above products, full text below (no JavaScript): [cdfwsp_category_description part="excerpt_anchor"] (place above products) [cdfwsp_category_description part="rest"] (place below products) Support If you have any questions, issues, or suggestions, please post them on the WordPress.org support forum.

The default custom menu in WordPress only allows adding a link that leads to a list of posts and pages belonging to a taxonomy (category, tag, etc). If you want to list the posts and pages themselves and if you want WordPress to do this automatically for you, then I hope you will find this plugin useful. Also works for custom taxonomies and custom post types NEW: CPCM V3 now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor WARNING: Coming from version 1.x? There are breaking changes, read the changelog before upgrading. Using it Enable the plugin and go to either Appearance > Menus or Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Editor. Add a category (or other taxonomy like tag or custom) to the menu. Next, you can choose if you would like to replace the category by the posts or pages themselves. For each Category in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options: Replace by posts in the category y/n; specify the (maximum) number of posts you want to show for this item (max 10); their ordering ascending or descending by Title, Date or Menu Order; specify the title for the menu items. For this you can use %post_title, %post_author and other wildcards, see ‘Other Notes > Wildcards’. Default value: %post_title Wildcards You can control the title of the menu items generated by the plug-in with the following wildcards: %post_title %post_author %post_date for the unformatted post date: 2012-11-10 18:14:23 %post_date() for a formatted post date with the following default formatting: November 10th, 2012 %post_date( ) for custom date formatting. Example: %post_date(l jS \of F Y, h:i:s A). See https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time for formatting options. %post_date_gmt %post_date_gmt() %post_date_gmt( )