Add "Related categories" section to single product and/or shop pages in WooCommerce.
Related Categories for WooCommerce plugin lets you add “Related categories” section (similar to the standard “Related products” section) to the single product and/or shop (i.e. archives) pages in WooCommerce.
✅ Main Features
- Automatically add “related categories” section to the single product pages and/or to shop pages.
- Set categories limit (i.e. number of categories).
- Set number of columns.
- Sort categories by name, ID, random, count, etc.
- Automatically relate categories by siblings, parents, children, etc.
- Set position for the “related categories” section.
- Customize templates, e.g. set header, footer and item HTML templates.
- Optionally display related categories with a widget and/or with a shortcode.
- And more…
🏆 Premium Version
With Related Categories for WooCommerce Pro you can manually relate categories on:
- per product basis,
- per product category basis,
- per product tag basis, and/or
- per product custom taxonomy (e.g. product brands) basis.
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FAQ
Does your plugin support multi-language?
Yes, for WPML and Polylang translations, you can use our [alg_wc_related_categories_translate] shortcode directly in Templates.
ChangeLog
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
