Hi @cilnius
Thank you for reaching out — we’re happy to help!
From what I gather, you need to rename Categories to Authors (in both plural and singular of the terms), at your site, along with being able to manually select their order of appearance on product pages and results.
For the “quick ‘n dirty” solution, you could use a translation plugin like the Loco Translation plugin.
Otherwise, it would be best to look into custom post types (linked here is a lesson) — building an online bookstore is literally the example in the lesson linked above. Things can be taken further, also, as detailed in the video linked here.
Moreover, there are a few useful plugins for Custom Post Types available in the repo.
However, the plugins mentioned above are third-party, and we don’t provide help & support for 3rd-party plugins or themes as they’re outside our support scope. It would be best to reach out to their plugin developers for further assistance.
I trust that points you in the right direction, but if you have more questions, let us know.
We’re happy to help.
Thanks you for your reply!
I already have a translation plugin installed, but it will be used to make the shop multilanguage (and I don’t think I can “translate” the primary language too). I’ll watch the lesson linked!
As per the second question, is it something possibile? The categories are showed alphabetically, but we need to have a specific order for every book (writer, artist, colorist, translator… it change from book to book). Is there a way to sort them manually for every product, so to mirror the order shown in the cover of the book (and, basically, the standard order in the market)?
E.G.: the book shown in the attached pic is made by Sonia Morganti, Francesco Vacca, Rossano Fragale, Silvio Costa. And I need that order. But WP/Woo automatically sort it alphabetically (and obviously by name, not surname: in its logic are simply labels).
Thank you!
Glad to hear the tip for the Custom Post Types is useful, @cilnius . 🙂
As per the second question, is it something possibile? The categories are showed alphabetically, but we need to have a specific order for every book (writer, artist, colorist, translator… it change from book to book).
Best to add them manually then. Directly in a product’s short description. Sounds like a good fit, based on the brief shared here.
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Yes, they’re already there. The problem is “categories” are used as authors (at least in the PrintPress theme) so I have to find a way to sort them manually.
I already asked the PrintPress support: they usually directly solve all the problems but, in that case, they can’t intervene because is a WooCommerce related issue.
OK, it was very simple: https://projectdmc.org/plugins/taxonomy-terms-order/
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I’ll go ahead with marking this as resolved now. If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.
Thanks.