WooCommerce - Open the new product that the category is selected

Question

I've been searching all over the internet for hours how to automatically assign a category to new products. When you open the new product that the category is selected.

I have two product categories (Books and FIlms) and I would like that every time we open a new product, Books are selected. In this way it will directly show the custom fields of that product category and we will speed up the creation process.

It's possible? thanks

UPDATE

I found a code that seems to work with the posts. Any idea how I can adapt the code for products and where should I put the category I care about?

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/243462/automatically-select-categories-on-new-post-based-on-get-value

7uc1f3r 7uc1f3r · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-02T09:50:31

When it comes to the checkbox that should already be checked when creating a new product, you can use jQuery

Replace in-product_cat-15 with in-product_cat-{YOUR-CAT-ID}

// Define the admin_head callback 
function action_admin_head() {
    global $post, $pagenow;

    // Only on new product pages    
    if( $pagenow != 'post-new.php' ) return;
    ?>
    <script>    
    jQuery(function($){
        $( '#in-product_cat-15' ).attr( 'checked', true );
    });
    </script>
    <?php
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'action_admin_head', 10, 0 );

WooCommerce - Open the new product that the category is selected

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