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Category Listing for WooCommerce

Description

WooCommerce displays categories and products in the same list by default, which doesn’t look very good and it’s hard for the user to understand, what is products and what is categories.

This little plugins splits categories and products into two separate lists.

It’s important that you DON’T ask WooCommerce to “Show categories and products” in the Customizing Tab. Set it to the default option “Show products”, and the separate listing for categories will automatically be added before the list of products.

The frontend is by default in English, but is also available in German, Spanish, Danish and Russian. POT included for easy translation with Poedit, WPML or Polylang.

Plugin is tested and tried with Storefront by Automattic.

Screenshots

  • This is a screenshot of the main Shop page in WooCommerce, when the plugin is active. Storefront theme used for example.
  • This is a screenshot of a category page showing the subcategories in WooCommerce. Storefront theme used for example.

Installation

  1. Upload the Category Listing for WooCommerce plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or through the Plugins and Add New section in the WordPress Dashboard.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  3. That’s all!

FAQ

Will the plugin create a separate listing for categories?

Yes, all your categories will be shown above the product list on archive pages.

Will I be able to determine what pages will show the category listing?

No, at the moment the plugin is always showing the categories above the products. If the current category doesn’t have any subcategories, no categories will be shown.

Reviews

জানুৱাৰী 27, 2023
A simple plugin that does what we expected, split Categories from Products.Please keep the plugin updated and compatible with Wordpress and Woocommerce.
আগষ্ট 23, 2019
The default WooCommerce “Show Categories & Products on the shop pages can be messy and confusing. This plugin perfectly solves the issue in a nice and user friendly way. No more guessing or miss clicking between a category or a product!
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Contributors & Developers

“Category Listing for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Category Listing for WooCommerce” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Category Listing for WooCommerce” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.0.6

  • Version – WC tested up to 7.7.0

1.0.5

  • Enhancement – Implementing BEM naming structure
  • Enhancement – CSS cleanup
  • Version – WC tested up to 7.6.1

1.0.4

  • Enhancement – Remove unnecessary
  • Enhancement – Changed the conditional logic to only show on WooCommerce pages with a shop loop.
  • Dev – Add a unique id with the category slug to each single list tag
  • Version – WC tested up to 5.1.0

1.0.3

  • Removed categories from search results page.
  • Removed headlines from search results page.
  • Tested with newer version of WooCommerce.

1.0.2

  • List is now using flex grid.
  • Improved mobile experience.
  • Tested with newer version of WordPress and WooCommerce.

1.0.1

  • Removed the Categories headline when there’s no categories.
  • Updated the Danish translation.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.