Woocommerce products query being inclusive. I need it to be exclusive.

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I am trying to sort through my new store. I am posting products that fit multiple categories. This is for product navigation.

If you go to the Query on Products Block that gets installed on bricks when you have woocommerce. You can add multiple categories. Due to the volume of products i am going to post, creating a sub category, for each thing is out of the question(i would have over 2000 categories). Also categories would share name and be repetitive.

Instead i am looking to just make categories with no parents (would be less than 100 categories i think). If the categories can be EXCLUSIVE, i can use them to filter items.

Example ( Cat 1 , Cat 2, Cat 3):

  1. White , Plastic , Pen
  2. White , Plastic , Pencil
  3. White , Wood , Pencil
  4. Blue , Plastic , Pen

If i do a query search for show all items that are (White , Plastic) . It shows all listings (1-4), instead of showing listings 1 and 2.

Whats the correct way to do this if there is any? Am i missing something? I have only been using bricks for less than a month.

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I think you should use attributes instead of categories

3

10-4 , i will try. Here is a picture if its of any help.
2024-10-09 16_20_05-- Quality Equipment & Parts, Inc.

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Okay this did not work. Query Still treats them as inclusive even if you mix and max attributes with categories.

Example ( Cat 1 , Cat 2, Cat 3 , (Attribute)):

  1. White , Plastic , Pen , (Cheap)
  2. White , Plastic , Pencil , (Cheap)
  3. White , Wood , Pencil , (Cheap)
  4. Blue , Plastic , Pen , ( Expensive)

So i tried first doing a Block Query which says that i want you to show me only the (Expensive) attribute, then under the Products , i did a separate Query that i want to show me the White Category. The results are 1-3 instead of no result. Also tried (Cheap) and Wood in products and still showed me 1-3.
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I am at my wits end.

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So i have been playing around with attributes @Illarion

Not the way i was hoping to do it. But i can have my buttons on my navigation go to urls with attributes by doing
dummywebsite.com/shop-page
/?b_pa_(attribute)=(attribute#)&b_pa_(attribute)=(attribute#)&b_pa_(attribute)=(attribute#)

I can stack them as many as i want. These are in fact… Exclusive. This will only show result that share the exact attributes listed. I wonder if i can do the same with categories. Testing!