I wished to show the default list of WooCommerce categories as 3 columns, with larger featured images and titles.
By default it was showing as a list of categories in 4 columns.
I consider whether the setting may be a configurable WooCommerce option.
I opened the Customise option: appearance/customise
Then in the sidebar I selected WooCommerce and Product Catalogue
Looking here there is the option to configure the number of columns but this only affects the choice for the shop page and doesn’t govern where shortcodes have been used on another page.
Reviewing the WooCommerce documentation I readily found the setting for amending the number of columns shown.
There are other parameters too, associated with the shortcode, including
- Number per page
- number of columns
- order by
- order ascending/descending
I further modified my shortcode to ensure that the category list was in a known sequence, the name of the category.
Given below is the shortcode, which I used, for the presentation of the product categories.
[product_categories number=”9″ columns=”4″ orderby=”name” order=”asc”]
