Plugins that have the feature to remove ‘the product-category’ base from URLs are not currently compatible with the Fast Layered Category Widget and Fast Attribute Widget.

The 3 plugins I have tested are Permalink Manager Pro (I will send you the .zip file and license), SEO for WooCommerce by RankMath (free on WP.org), and Premmerce Permalink Manager (free on WP.org).

To replicate this issue, create a product category called “Shoes” and one attribute, brand, with the term “Nike”. Make sure to have at least 1 product that has this category and attribute.

In the sidebar of the shop page, add the FWW Fast Layered Category Widget and Fast Attribute Widget.

Go to the Shop Page and activate the “Shoes” filter for the product category . You will get an URL like this:
– /product-category/shoes/
Now activate the “Nike” filter as the product Brand (which is an attribute). You will get an URL like this:
– /product-category/shoes/nike/

Next, use any of the 3 plugins mentioned above to remove the product-category base.

Go to the Shop Page and activate the “Shoes” filter for the product category . You will get an URL like this:
– /shoes/ – this works as expected
Now activate the “Nike” filter as the product Brand (which is an attribute). You will get an URL like this:
– /shoes/nike/ – this shows 0 results (when there should be at least 1 product)

If you manually type in your browser address /product-category/shoes/nike/, then it will only show the expected results.

Please let me know if anything is unclear or if you need any help from my end.

I’ve tried to make External Images work automatically on ALL the themes, but there is just so much variety in theme coding out there that it’s just not possible to make it fully automatic.

Some themes correctly use the wordpress functions to grab the thumb or featured image, and in these cases, it will work perfectly straight out the box.

Other themes grab images directly from the database. In these cases, we have to filter their output and replace it with ours. Different themes place these filters on a variety of different hooks.

Other themes even remove the default actions from the main featured image hooks or thumbnail hooks and move the hooks elsewhere.

In these final two cases, to guarantee compatibility with *every* theme, we need to provide:

1. An action hook selector for where to place the featured image and a checkbox for whether we should remove other actions from this hook
2. Same as above but for thumbnail hooks
3. A filter hook selector to override thumbnail generator – we normally get this right, but this may occasionally be required

Not all themes behave in the same way. Not all of them behave in the WordPress approved way.

This feature request is to ask our users which themes they use the most and would like to see automatic compatibility for.

So – please list your theme below and we’ll get automatic configuration coded up for it.

The issue: currently all external images load as full-sized images, even if they’re only displayed as thumbnails on the site. This is extremely detrimental to page sizes and page loading times, and goes against what the External Images plugin is trying to achieve. I do not need 2,000 pixel images to load in 300×300 pixel spaces, for example in the product image galleries.

Solution: Use Jetpack’s free Photon CDN via their API to automatically display images at thumbnail sizes when required. Use the Photon API (https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/) to check if it’s installed and enabled, and if it is, rewrite the URLs to run through Photon so they will return an optimized thumbnail sized image instead where needed. You could make this an option in the admin panel, and greatly improve loading times on the Product Page and all Archive pages a product may appear on.

The issue: currently when using External Images, the lightbox that is normally available for product images, is gone. When you click an image, it simply loads in the little slider. When you click a large image, nothing happens. My customers need to be able to load the images in the lightbox, so they can inspect the details of any garments up close. Please bring back the lightbox link, so that when the larger image is clicked on, it opens in the lightbox that it setup/used for the theme currently active. In case it helps, I use the FooBox plugin for my lightbox.

How to make the categories title stay from Yoast SEO? I have a unique title for each category, when used FWW it changes to the generated title. How to make the generation of the title only when choosing a filter (category + attribute)? This is very important for search engines. Thanks.

The OWL carousel is widely used and External Images should really be compatible with it.

In a test with fashxion I had it working with the ‘touch’ and ‘drag’ part but without the required thumbnails underneath.

Need to alter the thumb generation to be compatible with owl and to correctly produce the thumbs.

Should probably at the same time alter the existing carousel so that the thumbs are displayed properly in the thumb area – currently they’re technically displayed in the main featured image area.

Here’s a copy of the underlying HTML that OWL can use:

The FWW filter ajax title for browser bar really doing the job but I also need user to know where they are going when filtering some option on the shop page. I should reload page to make the output showing.