<h2>Stop Losing Customers to Dead Product Links</h2>
<p>Every deleted product leaves behind a trail of broken URLs – from Google search results, Pinterest pins, social media posts, and customer bookmarks. Without a redirect, those visitors hit a generic 404 error page and leave your store forever.</p>
<p><strong>Product 404 Redirects for WooCommerce</strong> automatically intercepts these dead-end URLs and sends visitors to the most relevant category page, turning lost traffic into browsing customers.</p>
<h3>Why You Need This Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>SEO-Friendly 301 Redirects</strong> – Search engines transfer link equity to the category page instead of indexing dead URLs, protecting your search rankings.</li>
<li><strong>Intelligent Category Matching</strong> – Automatically picks the most specific, most populated category the product belonged to, so visitors land on a page full of relevant products.</li>
<li><strong>Zero Configuration</strong> – Install, activate, done. Works immediately on previously deleted products too.</li>
<li><strong>Proactive Mapping</strong> – Captures product-to-category relationships the moment a product is trashed or deleted, so even permanently removed products are covered.</li>
<li><strong>Visitor-Friendly Notice</strong> – A subtle, dismissible toast notification lets the customer know what happened and invites them to keep browsing.</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard Analytics</strong> – Track how many visitors you have rescued in real time: today, last 7 days, last 30 days, and all-time.</li>
<li><strong>Redirect Manager</strong> – View all saved redirect rules, monitor hit counts, and remove rules you no longer need.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – No external dependencies, no JavaScript frameworks, no bloat. A single tiny database query runs only on 404 pages.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>A visitor clicks on an old link to a deleted product.</li>
<li>The plugin detects the 404 and looks up the product slug in its redirect map, the WordPress trash, and the slug history.</li>
<li>It issues a 301 redirect to the best-matching category page.</li>
<li>A small toast notification appears, letting the visitor know the original product is no longer available.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Fully Configurable</h3>
<p>Customize the notice text, auto-dismiss duration, and styling with your own CSS. Enable or disable the shop page fallback for products whose categories have also been deleted. Set log retention to control how long analytics data is kept. Everything is managed from a clean settings panel under <strong>WooCommerce > Product 404 Redirects</strong>.</p>
<h3>Built for Performance and Compatibility</h3>
<p>Product 404 Redirects adds zero overhead to normal page loads. It only activates on 404 responses, works seamlessly with all major caching plugins and CDNs, and is fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).</p>

Product 404 Redirects

<p>Automatically redirects deleted WooCommerce product URLs to their category pages with SEO-friendly 301 redirects – rescuing lost visitors, preserving search rankings, and requiring zero configuration.</p>

<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Ajax-Enabled, Enhanced Layered Navigation</h2>
<p>Give shoppers a faster, richer way to browse your store. The Ajax-Enabled, Enhanced Layered Navigation extension lets customers filter products instantly—without waiting for full page reloads. Perfect for stores with lots of variations or multiple product attributes.</p>
<h3 style="color: #f5247d">Why it matters</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Instant filtering:</strong> Ajax updates results in real time so shoppers don’t lose momentum.</li>
<li><strong>Better UI options:</strong> Replace plain text links with interactive color swatches, size selectors, and checkboxes.</li>
<li><strong>Improved product discovery:</strong> Help customers find exactly what they want—faster.</li>
<li><strong>SEO safe:</strong> Attribute links are preserved to ensure your store stays visible in search engines.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ajax_colors.jpg"><br />
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17196" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ajax_colors.jpg" alt="Filter with color swatches" width="400" /><br />
</a></p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ajax_sizes_filters.jpg"><br />
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17197" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ajax_sizes_filters.jpg" alt="Filter with size selectors" width="400" /><br />
</a></p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Who it’s for</h2>
<p>Ajax-Enabled, Enhanced Layered Navigation is built for stores with big or complex catalogs where customers need powerful filters to find the right product fast. Instead of making shoppers click through endless pages, it uses AJAX to instantly update results when filters change, creating a smooth, modern shopping experience.</p>
<p>With support for color swatches, size selectors, and checkboxes, it turns attributes into intuitive filters that reduce friction and speed up the path to purchase.</p>
<p>Here are some examples of who benefits most:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Fashion & apparel stores</strong> — Let shoppers filter by size, color, and style without reloading the page.</li>
<li><strong>Electronics retailers</strong> — Help customers drill down by brand, specs, or features in large catalogs.</li>
<li><strong>Home & furniture shops</strong> — Use swatches and checkboxes for materials, finishes, or dimensions.</li>
<li><strong>Sporting goods & equipment stores</strong> — Quickly sort products by type, size, or use case.</li>
<li><strong>Any store with hundreds of SKUs</strong> — Make large product catalogs easy to navigate and shop.</li>
</ul>
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<h2 style="color: #f5247d">More information</h2>
<ul style="line-height: 1.8em">
<li>Read the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/ajax-enabled-layered-navigation/">documentation for Ajax-Enabled, Enhanced Layered Navigation</a> to explore setup, options, and FAQs.</li>
<li>Need help configuring layered navigation for your catalog? <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Kestrel support</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Made and supported by the team at:<br />
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/vendors/kestrel/"><br />
<img src="https://static.kestrelwp.com/kestrel-logo.png?s=f375ba2aba62dd06c8e33dbc5d70ed9a9c6aa862" alt="Kestrel logo" width="200" height="45" /><br />
</a></p>

Ajax-Enabled Enhanced Layered Navigation

<p>Give your customers faster, more intuitive product filtering with Ajax-powered layered navigation. Replace boring text links with swatches, size selectors, and checkboxes, making it easy for shoppers to find and filter exactly what they want without reloading the page.</p>

Product 404 Redirects vs Ajax-Enabled Enhanced Layered Navigation