Description

CategorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Category Showcase Plugin

Boost your eCommerce store’s conversion rates and user experience with CategorX Category Displays. Easily create stunning, highly converting WooCommerce product category showcases in minutes. Whether you want a responsive category grid, a dynamic category carousel slider, or a modern Bento grid, CategorX provides unparalleled flexibility and styling controls.

Designed for performance and ease of use, CategorX lets you build unlimited WooCommerce category displays, each managed as easily as a standard WordPress post. Just create a display, customize it, and embed it anywhere using a simple shortcode!

🌟 Key Features

3 Stunning Layouts: Choose between Grid (classic responsive layout), Carousel Slider (interactive slider with swipe, drag, and autoplay support), or Bento Grid (modern masonry-style asymmetric blocks).
Unlimited Showcases: Create as many category displays as you need. Perfect for homepage categories, shop pages, sidebars, or targeted landing pages.
Smart Category Selection: Display “All Categories” (with smart sorting, limiting, and exclusions) or Hand-pick and Reorder specific categories manually.
Fully Responsive Design: Complete control over column counts for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile devices. Ensure your categories look perfect on any screen.
Advanced Typography & Styling: Take full control of typography (font size, weight, color, margins) for your Category Title, Product Count, and Description. No CSS required!
Interactive Image Controls: Customize item gaps, border radius, and add beautiful color overlays to your category thumbnails.
Carousel Navigation Styling: Customize slider arrows (color, background, border, hover states) and pagination dots (active/inactive colors) to match your brand identity perfectly.
Shortcode Powered: Easily embed your category showcase on any Page, Post, Widget, or page builder (Elementor, Gutenberg, Divi, WPBakery) using a simple shortcode like [categorx_category_displays id="123"].
Developer Friendly: Highly extensible architecture. Additional layouts can be registered by themes or other plugins via the categorx_category_displays_layouts filter.

🚀 Why Choose CategorX?

SEO Optimized: Clean HTML and semantic markup to boost your WooCommerce store’s SEO ranking.
Lightweight & Fast: Built with performance in mind, ensuring your online shop loads lightning-fast.
Beginner Friendly: Intuitive admin interface built seamlessly into the native WordPress dashboard.
Universal Compatibility: Works flawlessly with all well-coded WordPress themes and popular page builders.

💡 Perfect For:

Showing top-level categories on your homepage to guide visitors.
Creating a “Featured Categories” slider to highlight best-sellers.
Building a modern, eye-catching “Bento” style category wall.
Highlighting seasonal or promotional product groups effortlessly.

Requirements

WooCommerce must be installed and activated (categories are read directly from the WooCommerce product_cat taxonomy).

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Installation

Upload the categorx_category_displays folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip via Plugins Add New Upload Plugin.
Activate the plugin.
Go to CategorX Category Displays Add New, configure your layout, style your elements, select your categories, and publish.
Copy the shortcode shown on the edit screen (or the “Shortcode” column in the showcase list) and paste it wherever you want it to appear.

FAQ

Can I have more than one showcase?: Yes — create as many as you like, each with its own layout, custom styling, and category selection. Each gets its own unique shortcode.

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Contributors & Developers

“CategorX Category Displays – Product Category Slider, Grid & Bento Grid for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0.0

Initial release: Grid, Bento Grid and Carousel Slider layouts, per-showcase settings.