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List Products By Category Widget for WooCommerce

Description

Display a list of all the products in a WooCommerce product category with this handy widget. Simply add the widget to a sidebar or widget area, customise the settings and your list is created.

Widget options include:

Title – Add a title to your product list.
Category – Choose from a dynamically loaded drop down list of all WooCommerce product categories available on your website.
Products Shown – Leave blank to show all products in the category or only show a certain number.
Thumbnail – Show/hide the product thumbnail.
Hidden Products – NEW! Show/hide Hidden products.
Out Of Stock Products – NEW! Show/hide Out Of Stock products.
Order By – Sort the list of products by Product Name, Product ID, Date Published, Last Modified, Random or None.
Order – Display the list of products in Ascending or Descending order.

Screenshots

  • Widget settings
  • Product list in website sidebar

Installation

WooCommerce List Products By Category Widget requires the WooCommerce plugin (at least version 3.0.0) to be installed.

Via WordPress

  1. From the WordPress Dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New
  2. Search for ‘WooCommerce Products By Category’ and click Install. Then click Activate.
  3. Go to Appearance > Widgets, and add the ‘WooCommerce List Products By Category Widget’ widget to a widget area.
  4. Customise the settings.

Manual

  1. Upload the folder /woo-products-by-category/ to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Appearance > Widgets, and add the ‘WooCommerce List Products By Category Widget’ widget to a widget area.
  4. Customise the settings.

Reviews

august 30, 2023
A great plugin, no other like it. Perfect if you need to showcase products by a specific category. Needs an update, based on Wordfence actively reminding me that this plugin is abandoned since there haven’t been an update for the past 3 years and Wordpress warning me about this plugin might not work. I just updated to Wordpress 6.3.1 and this plugin still works just fine.
august 17, 2021
Works great, plenty of customization. Just what WooCommerce needed
juni 6, 2019 1 reply
Needed to only show certain brands inside of a widget, and this plugin allowed me to do just that. Quick and simple.
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Contributors & Developers

“List Products By Category Widget for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.3.0

  • Version compatibilty updates

1.2.2

  • Added product count to category list
  • Updated deprecated woocommerce placeholder image function

1.2.1

  • Fixed issue where the selected category would revert to the first category in the list and no products would show on the frontend

1.2.0

  • Added options to hide/show hidden and out of stock products from the list
  • Category list now shows all hierarchy levels
  • Enabled plugin translation
  • Fixed issue with undefined options on first install

1.1.3

  • Fixed issue where long product names disappeared when thumbnails were enabled
  • General bug fixes

1.1.2

  • Fixed missing files issue
  • Updated WooCommerce version

1.1.1

  • Spelling error in function
  • Plugin and widget name change
  • Updated readme

1.1.0

  • Added option to show product thumbnail
  • General bug fixes

1.0.0

  • Initial release