Add product categories to menu in woocommerce

WordPress comes with a wonderful and easy to use menus functionality, letting you quickly create a custom menu and place it in your theme’s supported menu areas or even in a widgetized area with the menus widget. By default WordPress, and our themes, will start by adding all of your pages to the default navigation menu. You can then customize your menuin all our themes by going to Appearance > Menus.

WordPress Menus Location

The WordPress menus functionality is well documented on the WordPress codex .

Adding Links

Here’s a general overview of a menu we’ve created for our theme Canvas. We’re working on our main (primary menu), if you haven’t created a menu yet you will be prompted to create one before being able to add pages, etc… to your site’s navigation. You can create as many menus as you’d like as well. For our example we have two menus on our Canvas demo, a main menu and top menu. Two popular locations for site navigation menus.

Canvas’ Primary Menu

In the left hand column is a list of all your pages, as well as custom post types, categories, tags, etc… You can then select certain pages, or products, or categories and add them to the menu you are creating. For example, using WooCommerce and creating a category menu is a common use of adding a category to your navigation.

Creating Drop Down Menus

Once an item is added to a menu, those menu items can be rearranged. Placing the mouse cursor over the menu item title, when the mouse cursor changes to 4-arrows, hold the left-mouse button down, drag the module to where you want to place it, then release the mouse button (this is called drag-and-drop).

To create a drop down item drag a menu item slightly to the right of the menu item above it to create a hierarchy (parent/child) relationship in the menu. 

WordPress 3.6 adds a note when a menu item has become a sub link as well.

Menus Sub Item

Adding A Home Link

Adding a “Home” link to your menu is useful if you want to give users quick access back to your front page, or if you have set a static page as your front page, and want a “Home” item in your menu. The logos in our themes are also links to your home page, but this helps some users with a specific link saying home.

To add a “Home” link, click View All under the Pages panel.

Create A Home Link

Managing Locations

It’s up to the theme developer to decide how many menu locations a theme should have. Again, in our example using Canvas we have two menu locations: Primary Menu for your main menu, and Top Menu as an additional option. Your theme may not have the same location names or number of locations. Regardless, there are two easy ways to assign a menu you just created to a menu location.

While creating or editing your menu, you can assign it’s location at the bottom of the menu. There is also a Manage Locations tab where you can assign all locations a menu from one screen. Helpful if your theme has many menu locations.

Adding Product Categories

To add Product Categories to your menu, you might need to enable them first in the Screen Options.