Perhaps it will be possible to address this point again in the further development of the theme, because in the frontend the category change works via Ajax, but if you as admin then go to ‘Edit category’ via the admin bar, the parent category is called up in the backend.
Could you please check how it works with some default WordPress themes like TwentyTwenty or WooCommerce Storefront to understand is it our theme issue or not? I mean editing without Ajax takes you to the child category on the default theme?
Kind Regards
This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by Luke Nielsen.
This is a normal behaviour, because when content is loaded using AJAX, in order for it to load faster, only the content with products (or categories) is loaded, and in such cases, the header, footer, and admin bar (which would contain the button) are not updated.