Related Categories for WooCommerce

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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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.