CataLord

CataLord replaces the default WooCommerce product editing experience with a fast, modern interface built for store managers who value speed and clarity. No more jumping between tabs, hunting for settings, or fighting the default editor. CataLord puts everything you need on a single, clean screen - and adds tools WooCommerce doesn't offer out of the box. See it in action, a three-minute tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMs-EDqkJbE The free plugin covers the full single-product editor, the full Variant Builder, bulk actions and bulk edit with no per-batch cap, CSV export with no row cap, extended Quick Edit (brand / category / tags inline), upsells & cross-sells editing, and AI product descriptions with your own Google Gemini API key. An optional CataLord Pro upgrade unlocks catalog-scale paradigms that the free tier doesn't try to be: Sheet Mode (spreadsheet-style multi-product editing, including adding new products as rows), CSV Import wizard, AI Product Enrichment, AI image editing, and deeper editor integrations. Every Pro feature is clearly tagged in the lists below. Most features below are part of the free CataLord plugin. Items tagged (Pro) require the optional CataLord Pro upgrade. Product List

• Powerful Filtering + Search - Combine multiple filters with instant search and autocomplete. Find exactly the products you need in seconds.
• Quick Bulk Edit - Update prices, stock, status, categories, tags, brands, and linked products across multiple products at once, with the choice to append or replace existing values. No per-batch cap.
• Customizable Columns - Show or hide table columns to focus on what matters to you.
• Smart Links - External links open in new tabs by default, so you never lose your place.
• Sales Data Column (Pro) - See total sales figures for every product directly in the main product table, with click-to-sort.
• Sheet Mode (Pro) - Switch into a spreadsheet-style view for rapid multi-product editing with drag-to-fill, undo, column reordering, a freeze-column control that keeps one column in view while you scroll, column visibility controls, and adding new products as rows.

Product Editor

• Single-Screen Editing - Pricing, inventory, shipping, images, categories, attributes, SEO, and linked products - all visible and editable without switching tabs.
• Drag & Drop Images - Upload from your computer and rearrange gallery images by dragging, including promoting a gallery image to the featured image. (Pro adds paste an image from your clipboard, or from an image address, with automatic WebP conversion.)
• Simplified Stock Management - Intuitive inventory controls without the confusing separation between stock tracking and stock management.
• Variant Builder - Create variable products effortlessly. No need to set up attributes in advance - just type attribute names and values, and CataLord generates all combinations automatically. Multi-attribute generation (Color x Size x Material), the "Any" variant pattern and auto-inheritance from existing variants are all included. Pro adds drag-to-reorder.
• Smart Orphan Detection - Warnings when variations reference deleted attributes or values, with automatic filtering of invalid combinations.
• Duplicate SKU Alerts - Real-time warnings when a SKU is already in use by another product.
• Progress Bar - Visual tracker for new product setup so you never forget a required field.
• Scheduled Publishing - Set future publication dates with an intuitive, clear interface.
• One Save Button - No more confusion between Publish, Update, and Save Draft. One button, clear status management.
• Drag & Drop Layout - Rearrange editor sections to match your personal workflow.
• Smart Attributes - The Attributes block shows the attributes this product already uses, then the ones most relevant to it - ranked by what other products in the same category actually use, and kept up to date as your catalog changes. Suggested attributes appear as chips grouped under "Common in ", each added with one click, and search finds any other attribute instantly.
• Instant Taxonomy Access - Categories, brands, and tags are immediately accessible with in-list search and automatic parent category selection.
• SEO Fields - See your Yoast SEO or Rank Math title and meta description right inside the product editor. Pro makes them editable in place and can fill them with AI.
• Keyboard Shortcuts - Save with Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on Mac) from anywhere in the editor. Pro adds paste-to-upload: press Ctrl+V to add an image straight from your clipboard.
• AI Product Descriptions - Generate and refine product descriptions with AI (requires your own Google Gemini API key - bring your own key). Pro adds saved custom system prompts.
• Quick Taxonomy Entry - Add new attribute values, categories, tags, and brands inline without leaving the product editor.
• AI Image Editing (Pro) - Edit product images with free-text instructions using Google's Gemini "Nano Banana" image model and auto-save to WebP (requires your own Gemini API key).
• Linked Products Made Easy - Add upsells and cross-sells with a fast search-and-select interface, or edit upsells and cross-sells across many products at once with Bulk Edit from the product list.
• ACF Custom Field Editing (Pro) - Read and write Advanced Custom Fields directly in the editor. Free shows ACF fields read-only.
• Extended Quick Edit - Assign Brand, Category, and Tags inline from the product list.

AI Product Enrichment (Pro) Most stores sell products they did not make - and the data arrives as a bare name, a supplier's one-liner, or a messy paste. AI Product Enrichment turns that into a complete, consistent product page in one click, using your own Google Gemini API key.

• Fill with AI - Open any product, however thin or untidy its content, and let the AI complete it from what the product already holds. You choose which parts to fill.
• Everything a product page needs - A clean product name, full description, short description, category assignment, brand, tags, attributes with their values, and SEO title and meta description.
• Fits your store, not a template - Categories, brands and attribute values are matched to the ones your catalog already uses, so enrichment does not litter your taxonomy with near-duplicates. New values are suggested for your approval, never added silently.
• Works at import scale - The CSV Import wizard has an enrichment step: import a file that carries little more than product names and let the AI complete every row on the way in.
• Your language, your voice - Output language follows your setting, with full Hebrew / RTL support, and saved custom prompts keep the tone consistent.
• You stay in control - Every suggestion lands in the editor for review. Nothing is saved until you press Save.

Taxonomy Manager

• Unified Management - Manage brands, categories, tags, and custom attributes from one page, without navigating away for every action. Free can create, rename, and delete Categories, Tags, and Brands; Attributes and their terms are read-only.
• Safe Deletion - Smart warnings before deleting attributes or values that are actively used in product variations, showing affected product names.
• Attribute Management (Pro) - Create, rename, and delete global attributes and their terms.

Import / Export

• CSV Export - Export your filtered product set to CSV. No row cap.
• CSV Import (Pro) - Wizard-driven import with column mapping, ACF field support, image downloading, batch resume after errors, and per-row warnings for unresolved tax/shipping classes.

Integrations

• WP Sheet Editor - Open your filtered product set directly in WP Sheet Editor with one click.
• ACF - Compatible with Advanced Custom Fields (read-only in Free; Pro adds write support).
• Price Per Unit Pro (Pro) - Edit price-per-unit fields from within CataLord.
• Quantity Manager (Pro) - Edit quantity rules from within CataLord.

Free vs Pro CataLord is free to install and use, with no per-batch caps on the day-to-day tools. A Pro upgrade unlocks advanced paradigms that the free tier intentionally doesn't try to be. Free tier includes:

• Full single-product editor - pricing, stock, images, categories, tags, brands, variations, scheduling
• Quick Edit with title, status, price, sale price, stock, SKU, shipping class, scheduling, brand, category, and tags
• Full Variant Builder - unlimited attribute dimensions (Color x Size x Material), "Any" pattern, auto-inheritance from the closest existing variant
• Inline management of existing variations - price, stock, SKU, image
• Bulk actions (Trash / Restore / Delete) - no per-batch cap
• Bulk Edit modal - no per-batch cap
• CSV Export - no row cap
• Upsells / Cross-sells editing on the single-product editor, and across many products at once with Bulk Edit from the product list
• Create, rename, and delete Categories, Tags, and Brands; read-only browsing of Attributes and their terms
• AI product description generation (BYOK - bring your own Gemini API key)
• Smart Attributes block - category-aware attribute suggestions and instant attribute search
• SEO title and meta description display (Yoast SEO / Rank Math)
• Ctrl+S to save
• Read-only display of ACF custom fields and integrations data
• Full Hebrew / RTL support

Pro unlocks:

• Sheet Mode - spreadsheet-style bulk editing of all product fields, with drag-to-fill, undo, a freeze-column control, and adding new products as rows
• CSV Import with column-mapping wizard, batch resume, image download, ACF support
• AI Product Enrichment - complete a product's name, descriptions, categories, brand, tags, attributes and SEO fields with AI, in the editor and during CSV import
• SEO field editing - edit Yoast SEO / Rank Math title and meta description in place, with AI fill
• Drag-to-reorder variants
• AI image editing - transform product images with natural-language instructions
• Custom AI prompts - save your own description-generation templates
• Attribute management - create, edit, delete attributes and their terms
• Paste an image from the clipboard or from an image address with automatic WebP conversion, square crop, and resize on paste
• ACF custom field editing (read + write)
• Total Sales column with click-to-sort
• Deep integrations - edit Price Per Unit Pro fields and Quantity Manager rules from within CataLord

For the latest pricing and purchase link, see the CataLord plugin page. What CataLord Doesn't Cover (Yet) CataLord is focused on simplifying the most common product-management tasks. Some WooCommerce features aren't (yet) exposed in our interface - for those, the standard WooCommerce editor remains fully available side-by-side with CataLord:

• Grouped products - the Grouped product type isn't (yet) editable in CataLord (Simple, Variable, External/Affiliate, Virtual, and Downloadable are all supported)
• Sold-individually flag - the "limit purchases to 1 per order" option
• Other advanced fields - purchase note, menu order, review-enabled flag, featured flag
• Quick Edit for Variable products - use the full editor for variable products

CataLord reads and writes standard WooCommerce data with zero proprietary storage. For any field we don't cover, switching to the native WooCommerce editor preserves everything - no data is hidden, converted, or locked in. Built for Global Stores

• Full RTL Support - Complete right-to-left layout for Hebrew, Arabic, and other RTL languages.
• Translation Ready - Built-in translation system with Hebrew included. Non-Latin characters fully supported throughout.

Why CataLord? WooCommerce is a powerful e-commerce engine, but its product management interface was built for simplicity, not speed. As your catalog grows, the default editor becomes a bottleneck - too many clicks, too many page loads, too many tabs. CataLord is purpose-built for efficiency. Every feature is designed to reduce clicks, eliminate page reloads, and keep you focused on your products. Whether you manage 10 products or 10,000, CataLord makes the experience dramatically faster and more pleasant. Requirements

• WordPress 6.5 or higher
• WooCommerce 9.9 or higher
• PHP 7.4 or higher

Privacy & Third-Party Services CataLord runs entirely in your WordPress admin and stores all product data in your own WooCommerce tables - nothing proprietary. The plugin does, however, communicate with a small number of optional third-party services. Each is described below so you can decide what fits your privacy policy. None of them is contacted on a fresh install until you take an explicit action.

• Freemius (license / update infrastructure) - CataLord uses the Freemius SDK to handle plugin updates, optional opt-in usage diagnostics, and Pro license checks. Opt-in diagnostics are off by default; you choose whether to share them when activating the plugin. License-related calls only happen for users who purchase Pro. Endpoints: api.freemius.com, checkout/pricing pages on checkout.freemius.com. See Freemius Privacy Policy and Terms.
• Google Gemini API (optional AI features) - The AI product-description generator is included in the free plugin; AI Product Enrichment and AI image editing are part of Pro. Both require your own Google Gemini API key (BYOK), which you save in the CataLord settings. When you generate or edit content, the plugin sends your prompt and the relevant product text or image bytes directly from your site to generativelanguage.googleapis.com using your key. When AI Product Enrichment needs facts the product does not hold, it asks Gemini to use its own Grounding with Google Search tool - the search runs inside Google's API under your key, and CataLord itself never retrieves third-party pages. CataLord does not proxy, log, or retain this data. If you do not enter a Gemini API key, no calls are made. See Google Gemini Terms and Privacy Policy.
• Remote image downloads (Pro CSV import) - When your CSV maps an image URL column, your server downloads each of those files from the addresses in your own file. Nothing is requested unless you supply the address yourself.

The plugin makes no other outbound HTTP calls - no analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party fonts (Roboto Slab, Noto Sans Hebrew and Google Sans are all bundled locally in assets/fonts/), no remote code execution. Bundled JavaScript libraries: DOMPurify 3.4.13 (Cure53) ships as assets/purify.min.js under the Apache License 2.0 and the Mozilla Public License 2.0 - MPL-2.0 is GPLv2-compatible, so the bundle is GPL-compatible under WordPress's own licence. No other third-party JavaScript is bundled, and nothing is loaded from a CDN. Bundled font licences: Google Sans and Noto Sans Hebrew are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Roboto Slab 2.002 is under the Apache License 2.0 - its full text ships as assets/fonts/LICENSE-Apache-2.0.txt, as that licence requires. Per-file details are in assets/fonts/LICENSE.txt. Apache-2.0 is GPLv3-compatible and WordPress is "GPLv2 or later", so all bundled assets are GPL-compatible. What is written to your logs CataLord writes diagnostic entries through WooCommerce's own logger. Any address it records is written without its query string or fragment (https://example.com/product/thing?…), so signed URLs, session identifiers and affiliate tokens never land in a log file or a support bundle. Trademarks CataLord is an independent plugin and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Automattic, WooCommerce, Woo, Google, Gemini, Yoast, Rank Math, Advanced Custom Fields, WP Sheet Editor, Price Per Unit Pro, or Quantity Manager. All trademarks referenced in this plugin's documentation are the property of their respective owners.

Only the most recent releases are listed here, to stay inside the readme size limit WordPress.org applies to this section. 15.7.25

• New: a "Lifestyle photo" quick action in the AI image editor shows the product in use, in its natural place, as a square high-resolution photo that keeps the product exactly as it is. Text typed in the prompt box sets the scene.
• Improvement: AI Product Enrichment (Pro) is more thorough: it captures the full spec list, reads linked data sheets, and the editor shows how many spec rows were captured.
• Improvement: images added by AI Product Enrichment (Pro) skip small images (both sides under 400 px) and keep only the largest size of each photo.

15.7.24

• Improvement: the description editors have an HTML button in the toolbar for viewing and editing the source, and descriptions keep their structured HTML (sections, details blocks, data attributes) as written.
• Improvement: square crop of a photo that fills the whole frame, with no white margins, gives a centered 1:1 crop that keeps as much of the picture as possible. Product shots on white keep the trim and white padding.
• Fix: a new image saved for a product shows at once, without reloading the page, also when it replaces an image that was cancelled or discarded. This covers pasted, AI-edited and cropped images, and images dragged from the computer.
• Improvement: in the Paste Image dialog, the preview sits in an even frame.
• Housekeeping: add-on hooks for the description editor and structured-reply options for AI requests.

15.7.23

• Fix: after "Save and continue" creates the variations, the Attributes block in the sidebar shows the variation attributes straight away, with the Variants tag and their values, without reloading the page.
• Improvement: the Attributes block switches to its "Set on this product" / "Common in " layout once the store has more than 6 attributes, so smaller stores get the category-based suggestions too. The threshold stays adjustable through the catalord_attributes_inline_cap filter.
• Fix: in the Variant Combinations section, the "Set Defaults" link reads "Reset Defaults" as soon as the default selection is saved, without reloading the page.
• Fix: in the product list, the status label reads the same on every row ("Published", "Draft", "Pending"), including a row just saved with Quick Edit.
• Improvement: images dragged from your computer into the product editor take the product's name as their filename and alt text, like pasted, AI-edited and cropped images. Before the first save, the title typed in the editor is used.
• Fix: in the Attributes block, a product with categories ticked gets suggestions from those categories only. The "Recently used" chips appear only while no category is ticked.

15.7.22

• Improvement: the Description field in the category, brand and tag dialogs is a rich-text editor with the same toolbar as the product editor, and formatting is kept on save as WooCommerce allows.
• Improvement: in Bulk Edit, categories and tags open on "Add", so applying a change keeps the categories and tags the products already have. "Replace" stays one click away.
• Improvement: the status fields in the product editor, Quick Edit and Bulk Edit show the coloured status dot on the closed field as well as in the list.
• Improvement: the "Category tree view" switch is disabled while every category is top-level, since there is no tree to show.
• Fix: a category, brand, tag or attribute value whose name contains a character such as "&" shows that character, in the list, in the Category tree view and in the edit dialog. Earlier versions are listed in changelog.txt, shipped with the plugin.