Product Category vs Ultimate Product Catalog

Product Category helps you display WooCommerce product categories in a clean, customizable, and conversion-friendly way. Instead of sending visitors through a plain category list, you can build stylish category sections that guide shoppers toward the products they want faster. Use it on landing pages, shop pages, homepages, blog posts, sidebars, and custom layouts. Whether you prefer the Block Editor, Elementor, SiteOrigin, or a simple shortcode, Product Category gives you a practical way to showcase selected categories with layout, typography, image, color, and pagination controls. The plugin is built for store owners, designers, and developers who want more control over how WooCommerce categories appear without writing custom templates. Compatible with: Shortcode for classic pages, posts, and custom content areas. Block Editor with a dedicated Gutenberg product category block. SiteOrigin Editor with a product category widget. Elementor with a product category widget. The main strength of this plugin is its editor flexibility: choose your preferred workflow, select the categories you want to highlight, and adjust the display to match your store design. Features Add a custom title above your product category listing. Select specific WooCommerce product categories to display. Choose from available category layout and style options. Control the number of categories shown per row and per section. Set category ordering by name or slug. Display categories in ascending or descending order. Show or hide product category descriptions. Enable or disable pagination for longer category lists. Show or hide category thumbnail images. Add image alt text support for better accessibility and SEO. Customize typography, including font size, font weight, font family, and letter spacing. Adjust colors and visual styles to match your WooCommerce store. Use the dedicated Elementor widget for live page-builder editing. Use the Gutenberg block to build category sections directly inside the Block Editor. Use shortcodes when you need a simple, editor-independent embed option. Live Editing with Elementor and Block Editor Product Category supports live editing through its own Elementor widget and Gutenberg block. You can select categories, adjust display settings, refine styles, and preview changes while you build the page.

The ultimate catalog plugin to showcase your products in a sleek and modern layout. Fully responsive and comes with a powerful feature set that is easy to customize. 👩‍💻 Demo | 🌟 Premium | ℹ️ Support Comes with customizable Gutenberg blocks and shortcodes, so you can display either your whole catalog or just individual products on any page, no matter which page editing system or builder you are using. We also include several patterns, so you can integrate your products and catalog directly into your block-based theme. Key Features 3 catalog layouts that can be dynamically viewed and switched by the user with no page reload. Powerful product catalog filtering and sorting system, including for categories, sub-categories, price and product name. All handled in real time with asynchronous requests, so no page reloads. Dynamic product search that works with the filtering, so your customers can quickly find exactly what they’re looking for in the catalog. Set sale prices for products and easily toggle sale prices on and off for the entire catalog or individual products. Organize your product catalog into categories and sub-categories to make searching and filtering products easy. Includes extra blocks to add a product catalog search field as well as to display recent products, a product list or random products anywhere on your site. Set up in < 5 Minutes! The Ultimate Product Catalog comes with a user-friendly walk-through that runs automatically when you activate the plugin and will help you create your first products and catalog, and display them on your site in just a few minutes. Add the Catalog to Any Page Simply insert the Display Product Catalog block or either of the shortcodes below (replacing the “X” with the actual ID of your product catalog) to add a product catalog with filters to any page. [product-catalogue id="X"] or [product-catalog id="X"] Customize Your Catalog The plugin comes with several features that will help you to offer a great experience for your customers and visitors. These include the ability to set up a product catalog overview page, which shows a thumbnail of each product category and lets people click through to view just those products, a separate block (and shortcode) to display a list of featured products (instead of the whole catalog), a price slider for filtering, different sale modes and much more! Additionally, it’s easy to modify the styling of your product catalog with custom CSS, which will help it to further fit with the look of your site. We provide a list of the most common classes from our plugin, as well as an example of how to implement custom CSS, in our documentation. It’s the perfect solution to create a product catalog for your store, agency, art gallery, restaurant and more! Additional Features Some other great features included with the Ultimate Product Catalog plugin are: Catalog overview mode, showing category or sub-category images (such as brands, etc.). Choose currency symbol and location. Price slider that lets you filter the catalog for products that match exact price criteria. Easy-to-use block and shortcode attributes that let you set a starting layout, exclude layouts, hide the sidebar, etc. Make use of URL parameters to load the product catalog with a specific category already pre-selected. Thumbnail support option, which displays a smaller version of your product image, to help with catalog page load times. Easy-to-use and comprehensive settings page, which makes it easy to customize product catalog features. Several different breadcrumbs options for your product catalog. Social media sharing options. Affiliate Catalog The Ultimate Product Catalog is also a great solution for those who are running affiliate stores, in which you link out to products for sale on other sites. With the ability to specify a unique link for each product (using the “Product Link” field), you can insert your affiliate link and then set it up so that, when someone clicks on a product in your catalog, they are brought to that link instead of the product page in the plugin. You get all the benefits and functionality of the Ultimate Product Catalog while being able to sell as an affiliate. 🛒 WooCommerce Product Catalog Integration (Requires Premium) WooCommerce Catalog Demo The premium version offers full WooCommerce product integration, allowing you to sync all your products between the product catalog and your WooCommerce shop, and also allowing your customers to check out directly from the catalog. WooCoommerce Sync: Ultimate Product Catalog products are exported to WooCommerce and WooCommerce products are imported into the catalog. With WooCommerce Sync enabled, products edited in one plugin are also edited in the other. WooCommerce Checkout: Allow people to add items in your product catalog directly to the WooCommerce shopping cart, and then check out and purchase the items. Choose to display the number of items in the cart directly on all product catalog pages. Choose to have the products in your catalog link directly to the WooCommerce product pages, for ultimate flexibility and customization. Combining the Ultimate Product Catalog with WooCommerce will allow you to create the perfect ecommerce catalog or e-commerce store to sell products. You will now be able to have advanced WooCommerce products filters in a customizable product catalog, with all the checkout and ecommerce capabilities available in WooCommerce. The Ultimate Product Catalog is also a great option for those running a mobile shop or mobile store and who are concerned with the responsive aspects of their mobile ecommerce. Our wide array of catalog page and product page styles are all responsive and, by combining the Ultimate Product Catalog with your WooCommerce products, you can have a responsive store that looks great on desktop and as a mobile store. The flexibility, advanced product filter and features you love from the Ultimate Product Catalog combined with the ease and power of WooCommerce checkout! For more information about WooCommerce integration, please see the video above. Premium Features If you’re looking for a more dynamic and feature-packed product catalog, the premium version offers several extras that will take the experience to the next level. These include the ability to add over 100 products, advanced product page layouts, product image galleries, product videos, SEO friendly URLs, product tags and custom fields for sorting within your product catalog, a product inquiry cart, multiple layout options, product export and more! Choose between several newly-redesigned responsive layouts and styles for your catalog and product pages, and then refine these with many styling options. Custom fields allow you to specify additional attributes for your products (like colors, dimensions, availability, etc.) and then include those attributes as filters, giving you the most powerful product catalog possible, and making sure your visitiors/customers find exactly what they’re looking for in no time at all. Premium features include: Choose from 3 new ultra responsive product catalog styles. Choose from 4 custom-designed product page layouts, including the popular tabbed and shop styles. Product Comparison: Allow people to select multiple products in your catalog to view and compare side by side. Custom fields that can be added to your product catalog and used to include product manuals, additional information, etc., and for product filtering. Choose between checkbox, radio button, dropdown and slider for the front-end control type for your custom fields. Product inquiry form (you can choose to have the form automatically created using either WPForms or Contact Form 7) so people can request more info or a quote for any product in your catalog. Product inquiry cart: Allow people to add multiple products to an inquiry cart and then send one global inquiry about/for all those products. Product reviews (using the Ultimate Reviews plugin). Add FAQs (frequently asked questions) to any or all products in your catalog. Uses the Ultimate FAQs plugin. Display product ratings on main catalog pages. Product tags for better catalog organization. Additional images and videos for better product catalog display and product management. SEO-friendly single product pages. SEO By Yoast Integration for your product catalogs. Product catalog styling options and labelling options for product directory elements. For further information and purchasing options, please visit our WordPress product catalog homepage. We are pleased to offer a free 7-day trial of the premium version of the product catalog, which you can use to test out premium features, such as WooCommerce product sync and custom fields, before buying! Customize Your Product Catalog with the Included Template System The Ultimate Product Catalog is built on a series of templates, such that everything that displays on the front end of the plugin can be customized by creating your own template files (to modify and/or overwrite the existing templates files). This gives you a powerful and non-destructive way to customize the look and functionality of the procuct catalog to your exact needs. More info about this can be found [in our documentation]https://doc.etoilewebdesign.com/plugins/ultimate-product-catalog/developer/). Product Catalog in Your Language The Ultimate Product Catalog plugin comes translation ready, with many already available here. For Catalog Help and Support Ultimate Product Catalog documentation Our FAQ pages here and here Ultimate Product Catalog installation guide and information about the walk-through Ultimate Product Catalog tutorial videos The Ultimate Product Catalog support forum Our Support Center