Description

Add a dropdown on the catalog page to filter products by WooCommerce categories. Fits right next to the “sort by” dropdown and uses native WooCommerce components.

Installation

Unzip the plugin file and extract the folder.
Upload the category-filter-for-woocommerce/ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for Woocommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.0.1.5 – 2023-07-31

UPDATE – Implemented improvements suggested by the WordPress plugin review.
UPDATE – Added a security nonce check when saving settings.
UPDATE – Improved the way POST data is sanitized.
UPDATE – Improved the way echoed HTML is escaped.
UPDATE – Improved the class and settings prefixes to be entirely unique to this plugin.

0.0.1.4 – 2023-05-05

UPDATE – Added internal header image on settings page.
UPDATE – Clarified instructions and info on settings page.

0.0.1.3 – 2023-04-24

UPDATE – Changed name to “Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for Woocommerce”.
UPDATE – Added backend CSS styling to match other plugins by Inbound Horizons.

0.0.1.2 – 2023-01-27

FIX – CSS not always styling the WooSelect dropdown on the backend settings page.
FIX – WooSelect dropdown sometimes broke on the frontend if no categories were excluded.

0.0.1.1 – 2022-11-14

ADD – Hide categories option in setting to prevent some categories from being shown to customers.
ADD – Parent CSS Class option to let the user set a CSS class at the top level of the select dropdown container.
UPDATE – Changed the way the dropdown is generated on the frontend to use less WooCommerce code. (Increases future flexibility.)

0.0.1 – 2022-06-22

First public release