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WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce – Responsive Product Category Carousel & Enhanced UX

Display WooCommerce product categories in responsive sliders and grids to boost navigation, engagement, and product discovery.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.7.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update13 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations700Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.1 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce – Responsive Product Category Carousel & Enhanced UX version 1.7.2 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce – Product Categories Carousel & Grid is a powerful and flexible plugin that enhances your WooCommerce store by displaying product categories in responsive sliders and grid layouts. Designed to improve navigation and visual engagement, this category slider plugin helps your customers find and browse product categories more intuitively, boosting overall interaction and conversions.

With WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce, you can create beautiful category carousels and grids using a simple shortcode system, allowing you to insert category sliders anywhere on your site — including shop pages, homepages, landing pages, and widget areas — without writing any code. You have full control over layout styles, slide counts, navigation arrows, autoplay settings, and responsive breakpoints to tailor the category display to your design and UX goals.

This plugin supports both slider and grid formats, making it easy to showcase product categories in dynamic carousels or structured category lists. Whether you want a compact horizontal slider of top categories or a grid of all product categories, the flexible settings and layout options give you multiple ways to highlight product taxonomy effectively.

Built with performance and compatibility in mind, WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce works seamlessly with modern WooCommerce themes and ensures fast loading times across all devices. By presenting product categories in attractive and interactive formats, this plugin helps your visitors discover products faster, improves shopping experiences, and drives higher engagement throughout your store.

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Live DEMO | Support Forum | Documentation | Pro Version

Plugin Features:

  • WooCommerce Product Category Slider or Grid.
  • Category Slider with Category Icon.
  • Category Slider with Category Image.
  • Category Slider with Sub Categories.
  • Slider Loop and Autoplay.
  • Material Design, Responsive and Modern Design.
  • Shortcode System.
  • Setting Panel for Color Customize.
  • All Modern Browser Support.
  • Translation & RTL Language ready.
  • Very Lightweight & many More
  • WPML, Polylang, GTranslate and all others multi-language plugin support.

Pro Version Features:

  • Show the categories slider with couple of different CSS3 hover effects.
  • Show any of your custom taxonomy or category instate of the product category in slider.
  • Category icon picker with couple of different icon packs.
  • Category Slider with Category Image Background, Icons, Sub Categories, button etc.
  • Super easy ShortCode builder for generating customized slider ShortCodes.
  • Priority support to our support forum.
  • Free installation if you need.
  • Free CSS customization if you need.
  • Tested with most of the popular premium WordPress themes.

You may also like our some other WooCommerce plugins

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • category slider
  • product category
  • product category slider
  • woocommerce category slider
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity13 Aug 20262mo ago

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