WooCommerce Auto Category Thumbnails

Description

** 07/06/18 – Updated for the latest version of WooCommerce **

By default, WooCommerce displays a neutral and uninteresting category image placeholder in those cases where a category has
no explicitly set thumbnail. This plugin simply replaces the placeholder image with a product image from that category.

User can choose whether to use a random product or the latest product from that category.

Feature requests welcome, please post in the support forum.

Usage

There is no complicated setup, simply install the plugin and configure WooCommerce to display categories. Any categories containing products but without a
category thumbnail will now display a product image.

To switch between random and latest product display, see the settings page under WooCommerce > Settings > Auto Category Thumbnails.

More options coming soon. Plugin release page.

Installation

1. Upload the ‘woocommerce-auto-cat-thumbnails’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Change settings if required under ‘WooCommerce > Settings > Auto Category Thumbnails’ in your WP admin panel
4. Enjoy!

FAQ

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the ‘woocommerce-auto-cat-thumbnails’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Change settings if required under ‘WooCommerce > Settings > Auto Category Thumbnails’ in your WP admin panel
4. Enjoy!

My automatic category images are displaying at weird sizes?

Make sure your settings are correct under WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Display
in your WP admin panel. You will need to regenerate your image sizes after changing these
settings, or possibly on first install of the plugin. Find the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin here.

Reviews

It Doesn’t Seem To Work

mywprofile November 2, 2021

Good idea doesn’t work for me for some reason

Works like a charm

sonofara June 14, 2019

out dated but still works well

Great Potential!

astralnyt January 3, 2019

Does what it says. Would like it to also set the Search Filter Thumbnail image, and also rotate through Featured items.

Perfect — thank you!

mourogers December 4, 2018

Great little plugin — unobtrusively does what it says on the tin. Thanks to the dev!!

perfect

seo4444 October 20, 2018

Runs perfect and does what it should!

Not working. Nothing showed up

cdeguzman September 4, 2018

I installed as directed, activated it and no image showed up. Categories remained blank. Cleared cache, change from setting from random to newest product.. still nothing. Uninstalled.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.2.1

• Fixed issue with category image size in newer versions of WooCommerce

1.2

• Fixed incompatibility with latest version of WooCommerce due to changed handling of product visibility setting

1.1

• Moved settings page to WooCommerce settings tab

1.0

• First version