<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>

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<li>Increase customer satisfaction and sales with an intuitive layout that separates products by subcategory</li>
<li>Select which category pages to alter, and which to render as normal</li>
<li>Easily configure the number of products per subcategory to display on the shop and catalog pages</li>
<li>Known compatibility with WooCommerce Themes and the Genesis Framework</li>
<li>Flexible, overrideable architecture allows customization and support for additional themes and frameworks</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Show Your Shop Catalog by Category and Subcategory</h2>
<p>The <strong>WooCommerce Nested Category Layout extension</strong> allows you to show products organized by category and sub-category on the shop and catalog pages. By breaking products up by subcategory, this plugin provides an intuitive and attractive catalog layout that your customers will appreciate. Here are before and after shots of the shop page using Nested Category Layout:</p>
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<figure id="attachment_1095323" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1095323" style="width: 823px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-before.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1095323" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-before.png?w=823" alt="WooCommerce Nested Category Layout Before" width="823" height="893" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1095323" class="wp-caption-text">Before</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_1095324" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1095324" style="width: 822px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-after.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1095324" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-after.png?w=822" alt="WooCommerce Nested Category Layout After" width="822" height="950" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1095324" class="wp-caption-text">After</figcaption></figure>
</div></p>
<p>WooCommerce typically allows you to show subcategories on shop and category pages (or subcategories and products, but this can look messy). While this is a handy option, it requires that customers click on categories, then subcategories to simply browse products and looks like this:</p>
<figure id="attachment_1095319" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1095319" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-typical-subcategories.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1095319" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-typical-subcategories.png?w=586" alt="WooCommerce shop category layout" width="586" height="413" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1095319" class="wp-caption-text">Default WooCommerce Category View</figcaption></figure>
<p>However, the more barriers you put in the way of finding a product or purchasing, the more likely customers are to leave your site, so we’ve sought to fix that with this plugin. Nested Category Layout cleans this process up and makes it simpler for the user. Instead of requiring customers to click through categories, then subcategories to get to products, it simply creates list on the shop and/or category pages organized by category / subcategory, then allows customers to click a category / subcategory title if they want to see more products.</p>
<p>You can select which categories to nest and which to display normally and determine whether to show this layout on shop pages and category pages, or just on category pages. Want to see this in action? You can check out the <a href="http://demos.skyverge.com/product-category/nested-category-layout/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Demo Shop</a> that has the plugin running to get a feel for how the shop and catalog pages are changed.</p>
<h3>Flexible Display</h3>
<p>Don’t have a category for a product? No problem – Nested Category Layout will show these products at the top of the page, then show your categories and subcategories. If a product is in both the parent category and a subcategory, it will be displayed with the appropriate subcategory. If a product is only in a parent category, then it will be displayed in the parent category before subcategories are shown (like this):</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-category-page.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1095268" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-category-page.png?w=609" alt="WooCommerce Nested Category Page" width="609" height="950" /></a></p>
<h3>How to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Purchase and download the extension 🙂</li>
<li>Upload and install into your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Products and configure your options</li>
<li>Organize products into categories and subcategories</li>
<li>That’s it! Sit back and enjoy a flexible, intuitive catalog display!</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Need any more reason to buy? When you purchase a SkyVerge-developed extension, you’re getting the highest quality extensions for your WooCommerce store. Gain peace of mind by knowing that when you purchase our products, your store’s performance is as important to us as it is to you.</em></p>

Nested Category Layout

<p>Display products grouped by sub-category on the shop and catalog pages.</p>

Product 404 Redirects vs Nested Category Layout