Find Product Category IDs

Some WooCommerce features, shortcodes, and integrations require a product category ID. This document explains how to find the ID for your product categories in WooCommerce.

For more details, see Shortcodes included with WooCommerce. You can also use the blocks included in WooCommerce with a theme that supports full site editing.

Find a product category ID

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Follow these steps to locate the ID for a specific product category:

In your WordPress admin, go to Products > Categories.
Hover over a category name.
Click the category name or the Edit link.
Look at the address bar of your browser.
In the URL, find the tag_ID= parameter. The number after the equals sign is the category ID. For example, in tag_ID=16, the category ID is 16.

Browser address bar showing the tag_ID parameter in the URL on the Edit Category page

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You can use a similar approach to find IDs for other items in WooCommerce.

Product ID: See the product ID section of the Adding and Managing Products documentation.
Order ID: See Managing Orders for details on locating an order’s ID.

Questions and support

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Do you still have questions and need assistance?

This documentation is about the free, core WooCommerce plugin, for which support is provided in our community forums on WordPress.org. By searching this forum, you’ll often find that your question has been asked and answered before.

If you haven’t created a WordPress.org account to use the forums, here’s how.

If you’re looking to extend the core functionality shown here, we recommend reviewing available extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace.
Need ongoing advanced support or a customization built for WooCommerce? Hire a Woo Agency Partner.
Are you a developer building your own WooCommerce integration or extension? Check our Developer Resources.

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