Related Categories for WooCommerce

Name: Related Categories for WooCommerce Plugin - WPFactory Plugins
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Rating: 5.00 (3 reviews)

Enhance your WooCommerce store with 'Related Categories for WooCommerce', a plugin designed to dynamically showcase related product categories in your product & shop pages, boosting discovery and engagement on your store.

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Plugin Description

Enhance your WooCommerce site by adding a "Related Categories" section to your single product and archive pages.

Automatically populate this section based on various criteria such as sibling, parent, or child categories, or manually curate related categories on a per-product or per-category basis, even allowing for customization according to product tags or other custom taxonomies.

The plugin allows full control over the section's style and functionality, including the number of categories displayed, the sorting criteria, and the layout.

Plugin Features

Add Related Categories Automatically

Seamlessly integrate a 'Related Categories' section into single product pages and shop pages,

By offering more related categories to the viewed products, you can enrich the customer's shopping experience and encourage more cross-selling of your catalog.

Display Related Categories with Widgets and Shortcodes

Extend the reach of 'Related Categories' with the flexibility of widgets and shortcodes, offering additional ways to feature related categories across various page types and layouts.

This way, you can offer more options that cater to various design requirements, allowing including related categories in different sections of your website.

Multilingual Support for Global Audience

Ensure the 'Related Categories' section caters to a diverse customer base with WPML and Polylang compatibility, making it accessible and relevant to users in different languages.

Discover More Powerful Features

Leverage the full suite of features in this plugin to enhance your store's performance, boost sales, and elevate the customer experience in countless ways.

Manually customize the display of 'Related Categories' on a per-product, per-category, per-tag, or per-custom-taxonomy basis, providing a tailored shopping experience for different segments of your product catalog.
Customize the 'Related Categories' section by defining the maximum number of categories to display in each set.
You can also specify the number number of columns you want to appear in the related categories section, ensuring a layout that complements your store's design.
Organize related categories using a variety of sorting options and automatically connect them based on relationships like siblings, parents, or children, creating an intuitive and logical category structure.
Select the optimal placement for the 'Related Categories' section on your pages and tailor its appearance with custom headers, footers, and item templates.
Select from 5 different positions in product page to show the related categories section, and from 4 other positions in the shop/archive pages, seamlessly integrating it into your site’s overall look and feel.

Plugin reviews and statistics

5.0 from 3 reviews

simple and useful.
great assistance for both plugin improvements and help.

sergio pasotti

4 years ago

Plugin is simple. It adds related categories to the single product page and the archive category pages. I have granular control with selecting individual categories as well as the related categories under the same hierarchy.

Very Quick with responses, fixes and feature additions. Thank you!

jacob maymudes

4 years ago

simple and useful.
great assistance for both plugin improvements and help.

sergio pasotti

4 years ago

Very useful plugin. It helps manage the display of categories on archives and product pages and to choose which ones to display with several options. It's even possible to choose a specific hook. And Tom Anbinder has been very helpful in adding a hook in his plugin that I needed and in helping me with my page builder.
I highly recommend this plugin and more generally Tom's seriousness.

Didier Azibert

4 years ago

Very Quick with responses, fixes and feature additions. Thank you!

jacob maymudes

4 years ago

167

Online stores installed this plugin

6.3

Wordpress version tested

5.0

Rating and reviews from customer

Version

1.9.6

Last updated

10 months ago

Changelog

Required at least WordPress

4.7

1.9.6 - 26/09/2023

WC tested up to: 8.1.
Tested up to: 6.3.
Update plugin logo, banner.

1.9.5 - 02/07/2023

Dev – "High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)" compatibility.

1.9.4 - 18/06/2023

WC tested up to: 7.8.
Tested up to: 6.2.

1.9.3 - 14/11/2022

WC tested up to: 7.1.
Tested up to: 6.1.
Readme.txt updated.
Deploy script added.

1.9.2 - 13/04/2022

Dev - Single - Position Options - "Before single product" and "After single product" positions added.
Tested up to: 5.9.
WC tested up to: 6.4.

1.9.1 - 15/11/2021

Dev - Developers - alg_wc_related_categories_single_product_category_ids filter added.
Dev - Settings - Descriptions updated.
WC tested up to: 5.9.

1.9.0 - 22/09/2021

Fix - Possible PHP parse error fixed.
Dev - All admin settings input is properly sanitized now.
Dev - Plugin is initialized on the plugins_loaded action now.
Dev - Code refactoring.
WC tested up to: 5.7.
Tested up to: 5.8.

1.8.1 - 06/05/2021

Fix - Template Options - Template type - Custom - "Hide empty" option fixed.
WC tested up to: 5.2.

1.8.0 - 16/03/2021

Fix - Frontend - output_related_categories_single() - global $product removed.
Dev - Advanced - "Transients" options added.
Dev - Archives - Relate Options - Current - "Always show first" option added.
Dev - Archives - Template Options - Template type: Custom - %is_active% placeholder added.
Dev - Archives - Advanced - "Visibility" option added. Same option added to the "Related Categories: Archives" widget settings as well.
Dev - Widget - 'Override "Relate Options" in widget settings' option added.
Dev - Widget - Template Options - Default values updated.
Dev - Widget - Settings restyled (section titles added).
Dev - Settings - Relate Options - Section split into "Relate Options" and "Relate Manually".
Dev - Settings - Descriptions updated.
Dev - Settings - alg_wc_related_categories_after_save_settings action added.
Dev - Code refactoring.
WC tested up to: 5.1.
Tested up to: 5.7.

1.7.0 - 17/01/2021

Fix - Image Options - Image size - Was applied only if the "Placeholder image" option was not empty. This is fixed now.
Fix - Loading "per product" and "per category" settings only if section ("Single" or "Archives") is enabled.
Dev - Relate Options - "Per tag" option added.
Dev - Relate Options - "Per custom taxonomy" option added.
Dev - Position Options - "Widget" option added.
Dev - Template Options - "Template type", "Template type: Custom" and "Template type: Custom: Glue" options added.
Dev - Image Options - "Remove image" option added.
Dev - Shortcodes - Atts are now customizable in [alg_wc_related_categories_single] and [alg_wc_related_categories_loop] shortcodes.
Dev - Localization - load_plugin_textdomain() moved to the init action.
Dev - Admin settings descriptions updated.
Dev - Code refactoring.
Dev - Developers - alg_wc_related_categories_single and alg_wc_related_categories_loop filters added.
WC tested up to: 4.9.

1.6.0 - 17/12/2020

Dev - Advanced - "Multi-language" options added.
Dev - Settings - Order by - Description updated.
Dev - Code refactoring.
Dev - Free plugin version released.

1.5.0 - 14/12/2020

Dev - General Options - Order by - "Count" option added.
Dev - Image Options - "Image size" option added.
Dev - Image Options - "Placeholder image" option added.
Tested up to: 5.6.
WC tested up to: 4.8.

1.4.0 - 17/04/2020

Fix - Settings - Per product - Bug (when empty "Categories" value is not being saved) fixed.
Dev - Relate Options - Siblings - "Include grandparents" option added (defaults to yes).
Dev - Relate Options - Siblings - "Include top-level" option added (defaults to no).
Dev - Relate Options - Siblings - "Include grandchildren" option added (defaults to yes).
Dev - Relate Options - Children - "Include grandchildren" option added (defaults to yes).
Dev - Relate Options - Parents - "Include grandparents" option added (defaults to yes).
Dev - Single - Advanced Options - 'Hide "Related products"' option added.
Dev - Settings - Restyled (show_if_checked properties added).
Dev - Settings - "Reset settings" notice updated.
Dev - Admin action link description updated.
Dev - Code refactoring.
Requires at least: 4.7.
WC tested up to: 4.0.
Tested up to: 5.4.

1.3.3 - 19/02/2020

Dev - get_related_categories_single() - Additional $product safe checks added (produced log errors on some servers).

1.3.2 - 31/01/2020

Fix - Relate Options - Siblings - Current category removed.
Dev - [alg_wc_related_categories_single] and [alg_wc_related_categories_loop] shortcodes added (and "Disable" option added to "Position" in both single and archives settings).
Dev - Admin settings descriptions updated.

1.3.1 - 30/01/2020

Dev - Archives - Position - "Before main content" and "After main content" positions added.

1.3.0 - 22/01/2020

Dev - "Archives" options section added.
Dev - "General" options section renamed to "Single".
Dev - "Plugin enabled" option removed.
Dev - Code refactoring.
WC tested up to: 3.9.

1.2.0 - 21/01/2020

Dev - Relate Options - "Per category" option added.
Dev - Relate Options - Per product - "Override" option added.
Dev - Code refactoring.

1.1.0 - 03/01/2020

Dev - Code refactoring.
Dev - Admin settings descriptions updated.
WC tested up to: 3.8.
Tested up to: 5.3.

1.0.0 - 13/05/2019

Initial Release.

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