Custom archive page for custom taxonomy and pagination issue

so this is something I am trying to figure out for quite some time about my custom archive page for a custom taxonomy 'workplace'. There is many workplaces, and what i want is to display the products ( custom post type ) associated with the workplace by their categories, and also there descendents ( line 232 is an example of this. ) So for The 6 sections of categories, it finds each product category associated with each product and does not display the main category as it is already a tab ( it would be like a duplicate ). the code finds unique categories and then only displays them within their relevant sections.

all of this is working fine, until I tried to implement ajax load more.

the problem i am having, is that the page loop is initializing with the original product quantity/count, whereas I need it to only take account of the category count for each section, for pagination purposes for the categories. see, the product number is more than the category count since some products are from the same category.

I think what i need to do is count the categories outside of the page loop, ( or woocommerce loop) and then implement the page loop based on the findings. Should I somehow access the page queried object ( the workplace ) and find the information before the loop? I just can't seem to figure it out.

If anyone can throw some light on this it would be great.

?php
/**
 * The Template for displaying product archives, including the main shop page which is a post type archive
 *
 * This template can be overridden by copying it to yourtheme/woocommerce/archive-product.php.
 *
 * HOWEVER, on occasion WooCommerce will need to update template files and you
 * (the theme developer) will need to copy the new files to your theme to
 * maintain compatibility. We try to do this as little as possible, but it does
 * happen. When this occurs the version of the template file will be bumped and
 * the readme will list any important changes.
 *
 * @see https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/template-structure/
 * @package WooCommerce\Templates
 * @version 3.4.0
 */
/**
 * THIS TEMPLATE IS FOR DISPLAYING WORKPLACES
 * IT FINDS PRODUCT CATEGORIES FROM EACH SECTION AND SHOWS THEM IF THEY ARE RELEVANT FOR THE WORKPLACE.
 * 
 */
defined('ABSPATH') || exit;

get_header('shop');

/**
 * Hook: woocommerce_before_main_content.
 *
 * @hooked woocommerce_output_content_wrapper - 10 (outputs opening divs for the content)
 * @hooked woocommerce_breadcrumb - 20
 * @hooked WC_Structured_Data::generate_website_data() - 30
 */
do_action('woocommerce_before_main_content');

?
header class=woocommerce-products-header background_diamond
    
    style type=text/css
    .major_cat_archive.custom_banner_style::before {
        ?php $term = get_queried_object();
// vars
$image = get_field('banner_image', $term);

if ($image)
{

?background-image: url(?php echo $image['url']; ?);
            ?php
}

elseif (!$image)
{
?background-image: url(?php woocommerce_category_image();
}

?);
    }
    /style
    ?php if (apply_filters('woocommerce_show_page_title', true)): ?
    div class=major_cat_archive custom_banner_style example_layout_left

        h1 class=woocommerce-products-header__title page-title example_layout data-aos=fade-right
            data-aos-offset=-200 data-aos-delay=10 data-aos-duration=1000 data-aos-easing=ease
            data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=false data-aos-anchor-placement=top-center
            ?php woocommerce_page_title(); ?/h1
    /div
    ?php
endif; ?
    ?php
/**
 * Hook: woocommerce_archive_description.
 *
 * @hooked woocommerce_taxonomy_archive_description - 10
 * @hooked woocommerce_product_archive_description - 10
 */
do_action('woocommerce_archive_description');
?
/header
div class=holder  data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-200 data-aos-delay=10 data-aos-duration=1000
    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=false data-aos-anchor-placement=top-center
    div class=sub_holder row content
        div class=col-12
            div class=intro_sec
                div class=sub_holder row
                    div class=col-lg-6 f-col
                        div class=first_col
                            h2Our Value Promise/h2
                            div class=custom_content
                                ?php $term = get_queried_object();
$custom_content = get_field('custom_content', $term);
echo $custom_content; ?
                            /div
                        /div
                    /div
                    div class=col-lg-6

?php
                    $image = get_field('workplace_thumb', $term);

if ($image)
{
?
                        div class=second_col style=background-image: url(?php echo $image['url']; ?);

                        ?php
}

elseif (!$image)
{?
                        div class=second_col style=background-image: url(?php woocommerce_category_image();
}

?);
                            div class=gradient_overlay/div
                        /div
                    /div
                /div
            /div
        /div
    /div
/div

?php
if (woocommerce_product_loop())
{

    /**
     * Hook: woocommerce_before_shop_loop.
     *
     * @hooked woocommerce_output_all_notices - 10
     * @hooked woocommerce_result_count - 20
     * @hooked woocommerce_catalog_ordering - 30
     */
?
div class=container notices
    div class=row_notices
        ?php /*notices output in separate div */
?
        div class=xoo-wsc-cart-triggerTrigger Side Cart/div
        ?php
    do_action('woocommerce_before_shop_loop'); ?
    /div
/div
/div
/div
/div


div class=container cat_view
    div class=row?php
    woocommerce_product_loop_start();

    if (wc_get_loop_prop('total'))
    {

        while (have_posts())
        {

            the_post();
            $product_cats = wp_get_post_terms(get_the_ID() , 'product_cat');
            global $post;
            //Get the current workplace slug
            foreach ($product_cats as $collection)
            {
                
                $category_slugs[] = $collection-slug;          

            }          
        

            /**
             * Hook: woocommerce_shop_loop.
             */
            do_action('woocommerce_shop_loop');

           //   wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' );

        }

    }
    

    /*at this point, all relevant category slugs have been gathered and then sorted to remove duplicates.*/
?
       
         ?php $category_slugs = array_unique($category_slugs);
  //  print_r($category_slugs); 
  
     

        
/**
 * INITIALISE EMPTY ARRAYS FOR PROCESSING.
 * ADD TO ARRAY IF SLUG AT $check IS A SIBLING OF RELEVANT CATEGORY.
 * IT ALSO WILL CHECK WITH || OR IF IT IS == TO RELEVANT CATEGORY.
 * THIS IS IN THE EVENT A PRODUCT IS ASSIGNED TO THE PARENT CATEGORY.
 * EACH ARRAY IS PLACED WITHIN IT'S RELEVANT TAB.
 * AN 'OTHER' TAB WILL ONLY APPEAR IF A CATEGORY IS ABSTRACT TO THE RELEVANT CATEGORIES.
 * THIS USES workplace_construct_categories();  prod_cat_is_ancestor_of(); FUNCTIONS IN FUNCTIONS.PHP.
 */

 /*Initialise each relevant array */
    $array_of_window_cleaning = [];
    $array_of_hygiene_products = [];
    $array_of_catering_supplies = [];
    $array_of_hygiene_equipment = [];
    $array_of_workwear = [];
    $abstract_categories = [];
if( $category_slugs ){
    foreach ($category_slugs as $check)
    {
        $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');
        $workwear_safety = get_term_by('slug', 'workwear-safety', 'product_cat');
        $hygiene_products = get_term_by('slug', 'hygiene-products', 'product_cat');
        $hygiene_equipment = get_term_by('slug', 'hygiene-equipment', 'product_cat');
        $catering_supplies = get_term_by('slug', 'catering-supplies', 'product_cat');
        $window_cleaning = get_term_by('slug', 'window-cleaning', 'product_cat');

        if (prod_cat_is_ancestor_of($workwear_safety, $value) || ($value-slug == $workwear_safety-slug))
        {
            if ($value-slug != $workwear_safety-slug)
                $array_of_workwear[] = $value-slug;
        }
    
        elseif (prod_cat_is_ancestor_of($hygiene_products, $value) || ($value-slug == $hygiene_products-slug))
        {
            
            if ($value-slug != $hygiene_products-slug)
                $array_of_hygiene_products[] = $value-slug;
                
        }
    
        elseif (prod_cat_is_ancestor_of($hygiene_equipment, $value) || ($value-slug == $hygiene_equipment-slug))
        {
            if ($value-slug != $hygiene_equipment-slug)
                $array_of_hygiene_equipment[] = $value-slug;
        }
    
        elseif (prod_cat_is_ancestor_of($catering_supplies, $value) || ($value-slug == $catering_supplies-slug))
        {
            if ($value-slug != $catering_supplies-slug)
                $array_of_catering_supplies[] = $value-slug;
        }
    
        elseif (prod_cat_is_ancestor_of($window_cleaning, $value) || ($value-slug == $window_cleaning-slug))
        {
            if ($value-slug != $window_cleaning-slug)
                $array_of_window_cleaning[] = $value-slug;
        }
    
        else
        {
            global $post;
            $terms = get_the_terms( $post-ID, 'product_cat' );      
            foreach ($terms  as $term  ) {
                $product_cat_id = $term-term_id;
                $product_cat_name = $term-slug;
                break;
            }
    
         
            if($value-slug != $product_cat_name)
                $abstract_categories[] = $value-slug;
            
        }
    }
    } 
?




    /div
/div
/div
/div
/div
pre?php
//print_r( $array_of_hygiene_products );
?/pre
!-- Display section of categories --

div class=container data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=10 data-aos-duration=1000
    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=false data-aos-anchor-placement=top-center
    div class=row
        h2 class=main_headings cat_titles?php woocommerce_page_title(); ?: Relevant Categories /h2
    /div
/div ?php
?

div class=container-fluid
    div class=row
        div class=col-12
            ul class=nav nav-tabs justify-content-center
                li class=active data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=10
                    data-aos-duration=1000 data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=true
                    data-aos-anchor-placement=top-centera class=active href=#tab1 data-bs-toggle=tabWorkwear
                         Safety/a/li
                li data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=300 data-aos-duration=1000
                    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=true
                    data-aos-anchor-placement=top-centera href=#tab2 data-bs-toggle=tabHygiene Products/a
                /li
                li data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=600 data-aos-duration=1000
                    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=true
                    data-aos-anchor-placement=top-centera href=#tab3 data-bs-toggle=tabHygiene Equipment/a
                /li
                li data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=900 data-aos-duration=1000
                    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=true
                    data-aos-anchor-placement=top-centera href=#tab4 data-bs-toggle=tabCatering Supplies/a
                /li
                li data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=1200 data-aos-duration=1000
                    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=true
                    data-aos-anchor-placement=top-centera href=#tab5 data-bs-toggle=tabWindow Cleaning/a/li
                ?php
    if (!empty($abstract_categories))
    {
?
                li class=tab6_zindex data-aos=fade-up data-aos-offset=-300 data-aos-delay=1200 data-aos-duration=1000
                    data-aos-easing=ease data-aos-mirror=true data-aos-once=true
                    data-aos-anchor-placement=top-centera href=#tab6 data-bs-toggle=tabMore/a/li
                ?php
    } ?
            /ul
        /div
    /div
/div
div class=tab-content container
    div class=tab-pane active id=tab1
        div class=panel panel-default
            div class=panel-heading
                h4 class=panel-title
                    a data-bs-toggle=collapse data-bs-parent=.tab-pane href=#collapseOne

                        Workwear  Safety
                    /a
                /h4 
            /div
            div id=collapseOne class=panel-collapse collapse in
                div class=panel-body
                    ?php $term = get_queried_object();
    $safteyworkwear = get_field('workwear-safety', $term);
    echo $safteyworkwear;

    //$newarray = [];
    if (!empty($array_of_workwear))
    {
       
        echo 'div class= woocommerce columns-5ul class=products columns-5';
        foreach ($array_of_workwear as $check)
        {
            $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');
            workplace_construct_categories($value);
        }

    }
    if (!empty($array_of_workwear)) echo '/ul/div';

?
                /div
            /div
        /div
    /div
    div class=tab-pane id=tab2
        div class=panel panel-default
            div class=panel-heading
                h4 class=panel-title
                    a data-bs-toggle=collapse data-bs-parent=.tab-pane href=#collapseTwo
                        Hygiene Products
                    /a
                /h4
            /div
            div id=collapseTwo class=panel-collapse collapse
                div class=panel-body
                    ?php $hyg_products = get_field('hygiene_products', $term);
    echo $hyg_products;

    if (!empty($array_of_hygiene_products))
    {
       $array_of_hygiene_products = array_unique( $array_of_hygiene_products);
             
        echo 'div class= woocommerce columns-5ul class=custom_load products columns-5';
   
        foreach ($array_of_hygiene_products as $check)
        {
            $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');           
            workplace_construct_categories($value);
           //wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'product_cat' );
        }

    }
    if (!empty($array_of_hygiene_products)) echo '/ul/div';
?

                /div
            /div
        /div
    /div
    div class=tab-pane id=tab3
        div class=panel panel-default
            div class=panel-heading
                h4 class=panel-title
                    a data-bs-toggle=collapse data-bs-parent=.tab-pane href=#collapseThree
                        Hygiene Equipment
                    /a
                /h4
            /div
            div id=collapseThree class=panel-collapse collapse
                div class=panel-body
                    ?php $hyg_equip = get_field('hygiene_equipment', $term);
    echo $hyg_equip;

    if (!empty($array_of_hygiene_equipment))
    {
        echo 'div class=woocommerce columns-5ul class=products columns-5';
        foreach ($array_of_hygiene_equipment as $check)
        {
            $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');
            workplace_construct_categories($value);
        }

    }
    if (!empty($array_of_hygiene_equipment)) echo '/ul/div'; ?
                /div
            /div
        /div
    /div
    div class=tab-pane id=tab4
        div class=panel panel-default
            div class=panel-heading
                h4 class=panel-title
                    a data-bs-toggle=collapse data-bs-parent=.tab-pane href=#collapseFour
                        Catering Supplies
                    /a
                /h4
            /div
            div id=collapseFour class=panel-collapse collapse
                div class=panel-body
                    ?php /*do_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop' ); */ ?
                    ?php $catering = get_field('catering_supplies', $term);
    echo $catering;

    if (!empty($array_of_catering_supplies))
    {
        echo 'div class= woocommerce columns-5ul class=products columns-5';
        foreach ($array_of_catering_supplies as $check)
        {
            $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');
            workplace_construct_categories($value);
        }

    }
    if (!empty($array_of_catering_supplies)) echo '/ul/div';
?
                /div
            /div
        /div
    /div
    div class=tab-pane id=tab5
        div class=panel panel-default
            div class=panel-heading
                h4 class=panel-title
                    a data-bs-toggle=collapse data-bs-parent=.tab-pane href=#collapseFive
                        Window Cleaning
                    /a
                /h4
            /div
            div id=collapseFive class=panel-collapse collapse
                div class=panel-body
                    ?php /*do_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop' ); */ ?
                    ?php $win_cleaning = get_field('window_cleaning', $term);
    echo $win_cleaning;
    if (!empty($array_of_window_cleaning))
    {
        echo 'div class= woocommerce columns-5ul class=products columns-5';
        foreach ($array_of_window_cleaning as $check)
        {
            $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');
            workplace_construct_categories($value);
        }

    }
    if (!empty($array_of_window_cleaning)) echo '/ul/div';
?
                /div
            /div
        /div
    /div
    !--tab 5 close --

    ?php
    if (!empty($abstract_categories))
    {
?
    div class=tab-pane id=tab6
        div class=panel panel-default
            div class=panel-heading
                h4 class=panel-title
                    a data-bs-toggle=collapse data-bs-parent=.tab-pane href=#collapseSix
                        More
                    /a
                /h4
            /div
            div id=collapseSix class=panel-collapse collapse
                div class=panel-body
                    ?php /*do_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop' ); */ ?
                    ?php
                   
        echo 'div class= woocommerce columns-5ul class=products columns-5';
        foreach ($abstract_categories as $check)
        {
            $value = get_term_by('slug', $check, 'product_cat');
            workplace_construct_categories($value);
        }

        echo '/ul/div';
?
                /div!-- close --
            /div!-- close --
        /div!-- close --

     
    /div!-- more div close --


    
/div!-- close --







/div!-- close --
?php
    }
    else
    {
        echo '/div';
    } ?

!--end of display section --
?php
echo 'pre';
    print_r( $array_of_hygiene_products);
    echo '/pre';?

?php
    woocommerce_product_loop_end();
    /**
     * Hook: woocommerce_after_shop_loop.
     *
     * @hooked woocommerce_pagination - 10
     */
    do_action('woocommerce_after_shop_loop');
}
else
{
    /**
     * Hook: woocommerce_no_products_found.
     *
     * @hooked wc_no_products_found - 10
     */
    do_action('woocommerce_no_products_found');
}
/**
 * Hook: woocommerce_after_main_content.
 *
 * @hooked woocommerce_output_content_wrapper_end - 10 (outputs closing divs for the content)
 */
do_action('woocommerce_after_main_content');
/**
 * Hook: woocommerce_sidebar.
 *
 * @hooked woocommerce_get_sidebar - 10
 */
do_action('woocommerce_sidebar');
get_footer('shop');

My function you will see within the separate tabs to construct categories:

/*For use on WORKPLACE TAX PAGE*/
function workplace_construct_categories($value){

    global $wp_query;
    $wp_slug = $wp_query-query_vars['workplaces'];   
    $cat_slug = $value-slug;                        
    $cat_name = $value-name;
    echo 'li class=product-category product brand_catsdiv class=banner-boxdiv class=banner-box__image 
    a href=' . esc_url ( get_bloginfo( 'url' ) ) . '/'. 'product-category'. '/' . esc_html($cat_slug) . '?workplaces=' . esc_html($wp_slug) . '';
    echo the_subcategory_thumbnail( $value);          
    echo '/a/divdiv class=banner-box__infoa href=' . get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/'. 'product-category'. 
    '/' . esc_html($cat_slug) . '?workplaces=' . esc_html($wp_slug) . '/' . '' . 'h2 itemprop=name class=woocommerce-loop-category__titlespan' . 
    esc_html($cat_name) . '/a/span/h2/li'; 
}