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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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This is a sidebar widget which is useful in displaying the zencart categories and subcategories in wordpress.just drag and drop the widget in the sidebar it will display all the zencart categories.
For using this plugin user need to make 2 changes
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change the table prefix in the zen_categories.php to the prefix of their own categories and categoriesdescription tables
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specify the zencart folder name in $shop variable for me it is store so i have put that user needs to change that according to his folder name in zen_categories.php
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For Ex: Now I have used the prefix as zen_ which is commonly used. if you are using another one please change the prefix by opening the zen_categories.php ie change the zen_ in
<pre><code>$table1 = "zen_categories"; $table2 = "zen_categories_description"; </code></pre>
also change “store” according to your zencart folder
<pre><code>$shop="store"; </code></pre>
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