Description
eCommerce Product Catalog is a beautiful, easy-to-use, 100% responsive, and free product catalog plugin for WordPress eCommerce or a simple product catalog website with a request for a quote functionality.
With eCommerce Product Catalog plugin, you can:
- Display products anywhere on your WordPress website with or without price and custom parameters
- Fully customize product display with WordPress Customizer, template files or CSS
- Organize products into multi-level categories, tags, and multiple product catalogs
- Filter the products in many different ways to give your customers what they are looking for
- Add product search and get your products found easily
- Import & Export your products with a CSV spreadsheet
- Let your visitors request a quote for all or selected products from the product catalog
- Enable full WordPress eCommerce functionality at any time to create a shop or online store with or without payments
- Many, many more features with dozens of compatible free and premium plugins
All with beautiful design and user-friendly functionality for all WordPress eCommerce needs.
Great product catalog plugin for full eCommerce or simple request a quote WordPress website
eCommerce Product Catalog plugin is a powerful, highly customizable, and simple solution that works with any theme and most of WordPress plugins. It will make your web development even more effective.
Easy-to-use for Beginners & Fully Customizable for Power Users
Expect high-quality code, beautiful design, and detailed documentation, which is an excellent value for skilled professionals and for newbies less experienced in web development.
Product Catalog Documentation
eCommerce Product Catalog is built from the ground at impleCode. The plugin, documentation, and the extensions are in constant development. New features, tweaks, and fixes come regularly.
This e-commerce WordPress plugin is an excellent solution for those who look for an easy way to implement product management to the WordPress website.
Product Catalog Support
eCommerce Product Catalog is supported on WordPress forums, Premium Support, and has documentation publicly available.
Product Catalog Compatibility
This eCommerce store like solution works with any theme and most of WordPress plugins. It is based on custom post types.
Make sure to try our responsive product catalog WordPress theme. The Catalog Me! theme will let you create a great website with simple customizer features.
Product Catalog FEATURES
Read all about eCommerce Product Catalog features on the impleCode website.
Unlimited number of products
Add as many products to the catalog as needed. Your catalog can display 10, 100, 1000, 10 000, 100 000 or more products. The product display will be divided into pages.
There are eCommerce Catalog users with hundreds of thousands of products displayed without any issues on the performance.
SEO Friendly eCommerce Plugin
Give the site a nice boost in search engines with SEO optimized product pages. There are all meta tags and schema.org rich snippets included. Also, a product feed is generated by default.
You can also modify them with your custom template or use a third-party SEO plugin for more titles and meta tags optimization.
eCommerce Product Catalog is compatible with all major SEO plugins out of the box! You can create a sitemap and manage meta tags for all WordPress eCommerce pages.
User-Friendly Product categories
Organize your product catalog using categories easily with well-known WordPress categories screen.
If you know how to use WordPress post categories, there will be no learning curve to use them in the product catalog.
You can display as many multi-level product categories as you need! All of them can have an image and a description. You can list Product Categories on the main product listing or with [show_categories] shortcode.
Intuitive Catalog Settings
eCommerce Product Catalog works well out of the box in most cases. However, if you need some adjustments, you can fully customize the product catalog display in settings.
You will be able to:
- set colors of various product catalog elements on a product page or product display
- define custom labels, headers, and all product catalog text output
- choose product display design
- disable or enable price and set the currency and format
And much, much more… out of the box!
eCommerce Product Catalog Shortcodes
eCommerce Product Catalog comes with a variety of shortcodes so you can show products and display related data anywhere on the website.
Two main shortcodes:
- [show_products] – to show product catalog products
- [show_categories] – to display the product categories on the home page or any other WordPress page
See catalog docs to see more shortcodes.
Lightbox Gallery on product image
Yes, we all like the fancy effects! You can display a product image in a lovely lightbox gallery. It comes with the eCommerce Product Catalog plugin out of the box.
However, we realize that this is not a requirement for all the projects, so you can easily disable it in the settings. You can also use any third-party lightbox with some templates adjustment.
Product Attributes & Custom Fields
Many product catalogs require some parameters table for quick comparisons. With eCommerce Product Catalog you can specify as many attributes or custom fields for each product as you need.
You can also easily disable this feature in settings or during the initial configuration.
Product Shipping
Do you need a simple shipping management option? Now you have it! You can specify shipping options for each product, which can have a custom label and price.
If you are setting up a catalog for digital products or handling shipping differently, you can also disable this feature in settings or during the initial configuration.
Color & Size Change
The Catalog Design tab in catalog settings will let you quickly switch the color scheme.
No more hassle when you switch your theme, and the styling does not match anymore!
3 Product Listing Templates
Choose from 3 completely different product listing templates to match your blog, store, portfolio, restaurant menu, or company website needs. You can select one product display template globally and use a different template for each product list or inventory generated with a shortcode.
2 Product Page Templates
eCommerce Product Catalog plugin comes with two completely different product page templates:
- Simple template – with almost no styling! Great if you want to design it with your own hands.
- Tabular template – great looking template with fully responsive product tabs
168 currencies available
Choose from 168 different currencies defined out of the box or insert a custom currency.
Customizable Price Formats
Choose from 4 different price formats to suit any currency needs. You can also add any text after the price.
Drag-and-Drop functionality
Highly intuitive interface to manage Product Attributes and Shipping Options.
eCommerce Product Catalog Widgets
eCommerce Product Catalog plugin comes with various WordPress widgets, which you can place in your theme widget areas
- Product Category Widget – show all product categories in CSS customizable list. The widget also has several customization settings;
- Product Search Widget – give the users a useful product search function;
- Product Sort Widget – Change the product listing order;
- Categories Filter Widget – Filter products display by category;
- Product Price Filter Widget – Filter product list by price;
Completely Customizable Design
You can use the Customizer CSS feature to modify the catalog styling. We also create a unique docs page when we place useful CSS snippets.
You can also create custom templates for all product catalog output on your blog, portfolio, simple company website, or full-featured eCommerce site. It’s as easy as adding a folder in your theme directory.
Please see the custom templates docs for details.
Ability to Disable the e-commerce functionality
You can easily disable price, shipping, or any other product element. It’s convenient to show the products without a price.
Cross Browser Compatibility
We take care of the compatibility in all major browsers: IE7, IE8, IE9, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera
eCommerce Product Catalog looks excellent on all screen sizes and operating systems.
Product Listing Page
You don’t even have to place any shortcode to start using eCommerce Product Catalog. Just choose a page to display the products, and all of them will appear there with superior styling out of the box.
Product Breadcrumbs
We all know that navigation is critical for complex product catalogs. Now you can use SEO friendly product breadcrumbs.
You can also disable them if it is not useful for your project.
Product Import & export
With eCommerce Product Catalog you can easily import and export an unlimited amount of products to a CSV file.
Responsive Layout
Product listings and product pages are fully responsive unless your theme does not prevent it. In case it does contact us directly, we will help for sure!
Display Products with a Shortcode
Use the shortcode to show products whenever needed on the website. Just paste on any page: [show_products] and watch all products in place of the shortcode.
To show products from just one category, use: [show_products category=”2″] where 2 is category ID (it’s possible to display several categories by inserting comma-separated IDs).
To list products by IDs, use: [show_products product=”5″], where 5 is the product ID.
Product Catalog without Price
Easily disable price from both front-end and back-end by switching one setting.
eCommerce Product Catalog Extensions
This WordPress e-commerce plugin is extensible. The feature-packed extensions are that what makes the eCommerce Product Catalog plugin a more specialized solution. Browse the extensions.
Some extensions examples:
Product Reviews – activate rich reviews for your catalog products.
Product Gallery Advanced – Customize multiple image product gallery and use the product slider. Show product slider anywhere on the website with a slider shortcode.
Quote Form – Add ‘request a quote’ feature to your product pages with a quote button and fully customizable quote form. Perfect for product catalogs or particular products without a price.
Order Form – Get ‘buy now’ orders for your priced products. Boost your eCommerce Product Catalog conversion rate with an innovative, fully customizable order form. This powerful extension allows you to sell individual products by adding an order button to each product page. Best when you need to offer one product at a time.
Shopping Cart – full-featured shopping cart with advanced customization options. Transform your product catalog to a Web Store! High usability measures, product variations, smooth experience, and more!
Upload PDF – Quickly attach multiple PDF files to products and make them available to download on product pages
Product Manufacturers – Manage product manufacturers & brands on a separate screen and easily assign them to products. Show manufacturers or brands catalog on your website.
And many more extensions already available and in constant development. You will never be limited!
WooCommerce Catalog Integration
Now you can also display your WooCommerce store with an excellent eCommerce Product Catalog plugin layout. Use WooCommmerce Catalog Booster to achieve that!
With Quote Form or Quote Cart extension, you will enable a tremendous WooCommerce request for a quote functionality. A WooCommerce quote button was never easier to achieve!
Get involved
Developers can contribute to the source code on the eCommerce Product Catalog GitHub Repository.
Translations
- English – default, always included.
- Bosnian – Thanks to Faruk
- Bulgarian – Thanks to Valentina & Koceto
- Croatian – Thanks to Vedran
- Dutch – Thanks to Pieter & Chippie & Maas & Tim
- Finnish – Thanks to Hannu
- French – Thanks to Denis & James & Antoine
- German – Thanks to Peter & Toby
- Greek – Thanks to Giorgos
- Hebrew – Thanks to Ahrale
- Hungarian – Thanks to Orsolya
- Italian – Thanks to Fabio & Pietro
- Japanese – Thanks to Diginatu
- Norwegian – Thanks to Oyvind
- Polish – Thanks to Norbert
- Romanian – Thanks to Alex
- Serbian – Thanks to Ogi
- Spanish – Thanks to Andrew, Norbert, and Josu
- Turkish – Thanks to Tahir
- Your translation? – Send it in
International Keywords
catalogo de productos, katalog produktów, wtyczka eCommerce, plugin eCommerce, plugin de comercio electrónico, le catalogue des produits, productcatalogus, produktkatalog, каталог продукции, sklep, boutique, tienda, winkel, Gesch?ft, магазин
Note: All our plugins are localized/translatable by default, which is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating, we invite you to join this essential impleCode translation project.
Plugin Usage Examples
The following list shows some of the examples of successful eCommerce Product Catalog implementation:
- Flowers catalog
- Electronic devices catalog
- Animals, pets catalog
- Clothes catalog
- Shoe catalog
- Golf accessories catalog
- Electronic services store
- Industrial devices catalog
- Glasses catalog
- Billiard tables catalog
- Bread, bakery Catalog
- People, professions, photographers catalog
- Chairs catalog
Privacy & GDPR
eCommerce Product Catalog doesn’t use cookies or local storage in the default configuration. A PHPSESSID or _wp_session cookie is only used if you enable Quote Cart or Shopping Cart. This cookie will store the session id (a random string) to make the cart functionality work correctly.
Screenshots
Default product catalog archive. 
Default product page. 
Plain product page 
Classic grid product catalog archive. 
Classic list product catalog archive. 
Product edit/add screen. 
Product catalog settings.
Blocks
This plugin provides 16 blocks.
- Catalog Price Filter
- Price Table
- Catalog Search
- Active Filters
- Show Categories
- Short Description
- Catalog Sort
- Product Name
- Show Catalog
- Catalog Size Filter
- Show Products
- Catalog Category Filter
- Related Products
- Product Image
- Catalog Category Links
- Catalog Icons
Installation
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 3.5 or greater (The latest version is always recommended)
- PHP version 5.6 or greater (PHP 8.2 or greater is recommended)
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t even need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of impleCode eCommerce Product Catalog, log in to your WordPress admin panel, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type “impleCode” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found our product catalog plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking Install Now. After clicking that link you will be asked if you’re sure you want to install the plugin. Click yes and WordPress will automatically complete the installation.
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading our product catalog plugin and uploading it to your web-server via your favorite FTP application.
- Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it
- Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu within the WordPress admin.
Upgrading
Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case.
If on the off-chance you do encounter issues with the product catalog pages after an update you simply need to flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting ‘save’. That should return things to normal.
FAQ
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Is it possible to use eCommerce product catalog without eCommerce functionality?
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Yes, just leave the product price empty and you will disable eCommerce functionality.
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Are there any payment gateways?
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By default eCommerce Product Catalog works without online payments.
There are payment gateways available on the extensions page.
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Will eCommerce Product Catalog work with my theme?
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Yes. eCommerce Product Catalog will work with any theme but in some cases may require some styling to make it match nicely. Please see Theme Integration Guide for help.
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Why product image is not working?
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If you cannot add product image it means that your theme is not supporting featured image feature. Please see WordPress Codex.
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How to change category prefix “All”?
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To change category prefix or any other front-end text go to product settings > Front-end labels and change to empty or any value.
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Where can I request new features, themes and extensions?
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We are available on the support forum and through impleCode website.
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Where can I report bugs and contribute to the project?
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Bugs can be reported on the support forum.
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How to disable AJAX on filter widgets and pagination?
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If you prefer page reload instead of AJAX functionality place the following code in your child theme functions.php file:
add_action(‘ic_epc_loaded’, ‘my_epc_mods’);
function my_epc_mods() {
remove_action( ‘enqueue_main_catalog_scripts’, array( ‘ic_catalog_ajax’, ‘enqueue_styles’ ) );
} -
Where can I find impleCode documentation and user guides?
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Documentation is available here.
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Is this an eCommerce plugin?
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Yes, you can select from 4 available modes: web store, inquiry catalog, affiliate catalog or simple catalog to show products.
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What’s the difference between eCommerce Product Catalog and classic eCommerce plugin (e.g. store)?
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This can be a store but it is not limited to it. It’s main purpose is to present products or services on the website in a convenient and easy to manage way. It’s more lightweight than most of eCommerce Plugins. It’s commonly used for company pages or blogs with product catalogue. It’s easily CSS customizable and has 3 themes for product listings in the default version. It can be configured to work with product quotes (for products without price), order forms (for product with price), payment gateways, PDF specifications and even separate catalogues with separate menus in admin.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress” into your language.
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Changelog
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3.3.42 – 15/11/2024
- Fix PHP notice that shows up on the product page with WP_DEBUG active
3.3.41 – 13/11/2024
- WordPress 6.7 compatibility update
3.3.40 – 06/09/2024
- Fix PHP notices for older WordPress versions
3.3.39 – 24/08/2024
- Fix show products shortcode pagination on main catalog page
- Fix PHP depreciated errors for some configurations
3.3.38 – 19/08/2024
- Fix PHP depreciated errors for some configurations
3.3.37 – 18/08/2024
- Category description shortcode handling
3.3.36 – 27/06/2024
- New user role to manage orders/inquiries and products
3.3.35 – 10/05/2024
- Avoid PHP errors within the category filter under certain exceptional circumstances
3.3.34 – 09/04/2024
- Fix classic editor in WordPress 6.5
3.3.33 – 03/04/2024
- WordPress 6.5 compatibility update
- Security – escape form fields on order edit screen
3.3.32 – 23/02/2024
- Fix category select dropdown on filtered pages
3.3.31 – 16/02/2024
- Ability to add catalog icons to the site editor navigation
- Fix the modern grid color picker
- Fix the category page product count for some themes
3.3.30 – 24/01/2024
- Added WooCommerce menu in settings for additional integration options
- Security – added nonce check to admin notifications hiding feature
3.3.29 – 12/01/2024
- Tweak – configuration wizard styling improvements
- Security – added nonce checks in the configuration wizard
3.3.28 – 09/01/2024
- Category filter styling improved when used outside of the catalog context
- Added container for the featured products
3.3.27 – 14/11/2023
- Fix categories metabox to show the correct hierarchy
- Security fix – ic_container shortcode parameters sanitization
3.3.26 – 08/11/2023
- Security fix
- WordPress 6.4 compatibility update
3.3.25 – 06/11/2023
- Display the correct message when an empty category page is viewed
3.3.24 – 23/10/2023
- Fix the product display when only categories should be displayed
3.3.23 – 25/09/2023
- Better compatibility with the classic editor plugin
3.3.22 – 07/09/2023
- PHP 8.2 compatibility update
3.3.21 – 21/08/2023
- Fix the product category dropdown
3.3.20 – 14/08/2023
- Theme integration colorpicker fixed
- Category dropdown selector improved
- PHP 8.2 compatibility update
3.3.19 – 09/08/2023
- WordPress compatibility update
3.3.18 – 28/07/2023
- WPML compatibility update
3.3.17 – 19/07/2023
- Added product variations shortcode to display the variaiton selectors
3.3.16 – 11/07/2023
- Polylang compatibility update
3.3.15 – 22/06/2023
- Mobile product page tabs improved
- Settings reset button added to the general settings screen
3.3.14 – 13/06/2023
- Inquiry Mode labels updated in admin
3.3.13 – 30/05/2023
- Fixed order/quote custom lines
3.3.12 – 02/05/2023
- Improved shortcode filtering
- Russian translation updated
3.3.11 – 31/03/2023
- Fixed checkbox on the order edit screen
- Remove unnecessary pagination with only main categories visible
- WordPress compatibility update
3.3.10 – 22/03/2023
- Extensions compatibility update
3.3.9 – 17/03/2023
- Translations fix
- Security fix
3.3.8 – 13/03/2023
- New line character changed in files
3.3.7 – 20/02/2023
- Privacy checkbox in the Quote Cart mode
3.3.6 – 15/02/2023
- Checkout form validation improved
3.3.5 – 03/02/2023
- Security fix
3.3.4 – 02/02/2023
- New active filters block and widget
- Now the plain template is the default one if blocks editor is enabled for products
- Fixed the CSS for the grid on some server configurations
- Latvian language introduced for some strings thanks to @davidprais
3.3.3 – 02/12/2022
- Fix tooltip JavaScript error in admin
3.3.2 – 25/11/2022
- New block hooks for additional settings in future upgrades
3.3.1 – 15/11/2022
- Fix the new blocks on the widgets screen
3.3.0 – 14/11/2022
- New product gallery block to display a product image
- New short description block
- New product name block
- New block styling options