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Category Children Coupons for WooCommerce provides a complete replacement for WooCommerce’s built-in coupon category restrictions with additional flexibility:
Include children mode: Select a parent category and all its subcategories are automatically included. With WooCommerce’s default restrictions, selecting “Clothing” only matches products directly in that category – not products in “T-Shirts” or “Trousers” subcategories. This plugin includes the entire category tree.
Exclude children mode: Match only the specific categories you select, without including subcategories. This mirrors WooCommerce’s built-in behavior but is managed within this plugin’s unified interface.
Future-proof coupons: The plugin stores your category selection and dynamically expands child categories at validation time – new subcategories are automatically included (or excluded) without editing existing coupons.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Four category restriction fields for complete control:
<ul>
<li>Product categories (incl. children) – allowed categories with all descendants</li>
<li>Exclude categories (incl. children) – blocked categories with all descendants</li>
<li>Product categories (excl. children) – allowed categories only, no descendants</li>
<li>Exclude categories (excl. children) – blocked categories only, no descendants</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Automatic subcategory handling based on your preference</li>
<li>Works alongside WooCommerce’s other (non-category coupon) restrictions</li>
<li>Customizable error messages via filter</li>
<li>AutomateWoo compatibility – category restrictions are copied when generating coupons from templates</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
When you select a category in an “(incl. children)” field, the plugin automatically includes all subcategories during validation. When you use an “(excl. children)” field, only the exact categories you select are matched. Selected categories with children included are validated at usage time, so the current children are automatically used, even if they have changed since the coupon was set up.
<h3>Filters</h3>
<h4>runthings_category_children_coupons_error_message</h4>
Customize the error message shown when a coupon fails category validation.
Parameters:
<ul>
<li><code>$message</code> (string) – The default error message.</li>
<li><code>$context</code> (array) – Contains ‘coupon’ (WC_Coupon object) and ‘type’ (‘allowed’, ‘excluded’, ‘allowed_excl’, or ‘excluded_excl’).</li>
</ul>
Example:
See <a href="https://github.com/runthings-dev/runthings-category-children-coupons#filters" rel="nofollow ugc">readme.md on GitHub</a> for detailed code examples.
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
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Category Children Coupons for WooCommerce

Restrict WooCommerce coupons by product categories, with options to include or exclude child/descendant categories.

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For Demo go here http://codescar.eu/projects/search-into-subcategories
Search-Into-Subcategories plugin allows you to make a select-search shortcode for your own categories.
You can use if everywhere you want and make a tree structure for your categories.
[search-into-subcategories]
Arguments you can pass:
<pre><code>parent_category Default is 0
 You can list only sub categories of the category id you give here. With 0 lists alla categories

max_depth Default is 2
 How many subcategories (children of the parent_category) to display, at least 1.

search_input Default is 1
 Display a text input for search. (You can turn it off with 0 value)

labels Default is <empty string>
 Labels for the inputs. Give them in the order you want with '|' as separator. example: Category1|Category2|Text

search_text Default is Search
 The text to display in search button.

hide_empty Default is 1
 Hide categories without content, set to 0 to display all!

exclude Default is <empty string>
 Category IDs to exclude from listing. Separate them with ','. Example: 6,7,13

show_date_ranges Default is 0
 Show from/to date ranges to filter publish date. Set it to 1 to use it.

dates_format Default is DD-MM-YYYY
 It requires the show_date_ranges to be enabled. It uses Pikaday JS Library (a small one) to create a datepicker
 and manage the date formatting. (If you use spaces into the format, wrap it into single quotes 'like this').
 (The formatting is generated by momentJS https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/ )

custom_field Default is null
 List of custom meta-fields to search in (it will create a new input for every meta-field.
 ( Use , as separator, example: field1,meta_key,etc )

custom_field_labels Default is null
 List for labels in custom meta fields text input. (Use | as separator, example: name1|name2|etc)

custom_post_types Default is null
 Post type to filter results

posts_per_page Default is null
 Set result page posts per page

custom_taxonomy Default is category
 Set custom taxonomy to walk.
</code></pre>
Example: 
[search-into-subcategories parent_category=0 max_depth=3 search_input=1 labels=cat1|cat2|cat3|Text search_text=Find 
 hide_empty=0 exclude=7,6 show_date_ranges=1 custom_field=author,my_custom 
 custom_field_labels=Author|Custom custom_post_types=documents posts_per_page=10 
 custom_taxonomy=my_taxonomy dates_format=YYYY-MM-DD]

search-into-subcategories

Search-Into-Subcategories plugin allows you to make a select-search shortcode for your own categories.

Category Children Coupons for WooCommerce vs search-into-subcategories