Description
CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce displays the categories of your WooCommerce store in responsive grid and carousel layouts, turning navigation into visual showcases grouped by section. Targeted at merchants who manage extensive catalogs, the plugin provides ready-made blocks to highlight collections, departments and product lines on any page of the site, with appearance and sorting controls configurable in the panel.
Main Features
- Category showcases: creates showcases that group products by WooCommerce category in grid or visual list format.
- Responsive carousel: displays categories in sliding sliders, with arrow navigation and automatic adaptation to desktop, tablet and mobile.
- Visual configuration: allows you to adjust columns, spacing, typography and colors directly in the plugin options, without editing theme code.
- Flexible insertion: integrates showcase blocks into pages, posts or widgets via shortcode, keeping the layout consistent in any area of the site.
- WooCommerce compatibility: consumes WooCommerce’s native category structure, automatically reflecting catalog changes, hierarchy and attributes.
Benefits of CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce
- Targeted navigation: guides the visitor straight to the correct category on the home page, shortening the path to the product.
- Organized presentation: avoids long lists of isolated products, grouping the catalog into coherent visual blocks.
- Fast implementation: eliminates custom development to build category highlight areas in the shop.
- Versatile layouts: switches between static grid and dynamic carousel based on the available space in each section of the site.
Who is it recommended for?
- WooCommerce merchants with wide catalogs who need to highlight departments and collections on the home page or landing pages.
- Agencies and developers who build stores for clients and want to deliver category showcases without coding from scratch.
- E-commerce stores in fashion, electronics, home, food and other segments that organize products into many categories and subcategories.
For WooCommerce stores that rely on good category exposure to guide the purchasing journey, CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce acts as a visual layer over the native taxonomy, turning product groupings into navigable showcases. The practical result is a store with clearer hierarchy, reusable highlight blocks and direct focus on the sections that matter most for revenue.
Frequently asked questions
Is CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce GPL-licensed?
Yes. CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce cost at Ultrapack?
CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce include updates?
Yes. The current version of CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce is 1.0.1, published at Ultrapack on Apr 4, 2025. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
What are the requirements for the plugin CatShowcase – Category Showcase for WooCommerce?
Requires WordPress 3.0.1 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 3.4.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
The file on this page is the developer’s full package, documentation included. Do not upload that file through the dashboard: WordPress answers that the package does not contain a valid plugin. The plugin comes ready inside it, as a ZIP of its own, and that is the one you upload.
- Download the file
elements-catshowcase-category-showcase-for-woocommerce.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
cat-showcase-main/catshowcase-pro.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Select that file, click Install Now and then Activate.
Requirements: Requires WordPress 3.0.1 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 3.4.
- There is nothing to zip. The ZIP inside the package is already in the format WordPress accepts.
- The rest of the package belongs to the author: documentation, license and sometimes sample files. None of that is installed through the dashboard.
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UAU Ready