Descripziun

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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Installaziun

Upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the „Plugins“ menu in WordPress.
Start by visiting plugin settings at „WPFactory > Related Categories“.

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.

Reviews

eschooling Fanadur 3, 2023 1 reply

Thanks guys is what exactly i was looking for!

rondenbesten Mars 29, 2021 1 reply

Made an account just to review this plugin. Thanks!

deandid Favrer 15, 2021 1 reply

I really dig this plugin as well as how responsive and helpful the developer is. Thank you!

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Contributors & Developers

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

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Changelog

2.0.1 – 02/09/2025

WC tested up to: 10.1.

2.0.0 – 20/06/2025

Fix – Translation loading fixed.
Fix – Deprecated „Creation of dynamic property“.
Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Move to the init hook.
Dev – Security – Escape output.
Dev – Code refactoring.
Dev – Coding standards improved.

1.9.9 – 18/06/2025

Fix – Meta boxes were missing.
Dev – Improved WPFactory menu.

1.9.8 – 13/06/2025

Fix – Deprecated „Creation of dynamic property“.
Dev – Added key manager.
Dev – Added WPFactory menu.
WC tested up to: 9.9.
Tested up to: 6.8.

1.9.7 – 31/07/2023

WC tested up to: 9.1.
Tested up to: 6.6.

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.

Very good plugin and support also

Very smart, very good

Great plugin, great developer