===  WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce - Product Categories Carousel & Grid  ===
Contributors: wpbean, imranwpb
Tags: product category slider, product, category slider, product category, WooCommerce category slider
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9.1
Stable tag: 1.7.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

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

== Description ==

<strong>WPB Category Slider for WooCommerce – Product Categories Carousel & Grid</strong> 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.

>[Live DEMO](http://demo5.wpbean.com/wpb-woo-category-slider/)  |  [Support Forum](https://wpbean.com/support/) |  [Documentation](http://docs.wpbean.com/docs/wpb-woocommerce-category-slider/installing/) |  [Pro Version](https://wpbean.com/downloads/wpb-woocommerce-category-slider-pro/)

### 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

>[WPB WooCommerce Products Slider](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpb-woocommerce-product-slider/)  | [WPB WooCommerce Related Products Slider](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpb-woocommerce-related-products-slider/)  |  [Woocommerce Image Zoom](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-image-zoom/)  |  [WooCommerce LightBox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-lightbox/) |  [WooCommerce WooCommerce Custom Tab Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpb-woocommerce-custom-tab-manager/)

== Installation ==

* Install it as a regular WordPress plugin

* Before install the plugin make sure you have WooCommerce plugin installed already. 

Method 1 (Upload):

1. Go to your Wordpress admin then go to Plugins > Add new > Upload

2. Then select the installable file fom you download folder.

3. Upload and active the plugin and you are ready to go.

Method 2 (FTP):

1. Upload the plugin to your server plugin directory and make sure you don't upload the zip file.

2. Then go back to your Wordpress admin and go to Plugins > Installed Plugins

3. If you successfully upload the plugin You will find WPB WOO Product Slider here.

4. Active the plugin and you are ready to go.


== Frequently asked questions ==

= How to show the slider? =
Use this plugins shortcode for showing the slider.

= Where to get the ShortCodes? =
Go to our documentation site or Plugin info page for getting the shortcodes.


== Screenshots ==
1.  Categories Default Style
2.  Categories with informations
3.  Categories with image
4.  Categories with icon and description
5.  Categories with icon and child
6.  Categories with background image
7.  Categories with background image and hover effect
8.  Categories with background image and hover effect 2
9.  Categories with background image and hover effect 3
10. Categories grid example
11. Category Slider ShortCodes
12. Category Slider style settings
13. Category Slider general settings

== Changelog ==

= version 1.0 =
* Initial release

= version 1.0.1 =
* Add more options in settings.
* Add more parameters in ShortCode.

= version 1.0.2 =
* Small issue fixed.

= version 1.0.3 =
* Small issue fixed.

= version 1.0.4 =
* WordPress 4.9 and WooCommerce 3.2.3 support added.

= version 1.0.5 =
* Setting link chnaged.

= version 1.0.6 =
* Taxonomy column content issue fixed.

= version 1.0.7 =
* Added WordPress 4.9.6 and WooCommerce 3.3.5 support.

= version 1.0.8 =
* Added WordPress 5.0.2 and WooCommerce 3.5.3 support.
* Gutenberg compatibility added.

= version 1.0.9 =
* Added categories grid support.

= version 1.1.1 =
* Added WordPress 5.1.1 and WooCommerce 3.6.1 support.

= version 1.1.2 =
* Added WordPress 5.2 and WooCommerce 3.6.2 support.

= version 1.1.3 =
* Added a new parameter in shortcode.

= version 1.1.4 =
* Added WordPress 5.2.1 and WooCommerce 3.6.4 support.

= version 1.1.5 =
* Added WordPress 5.2.4 and WooCommerce 3.7.1 support.

= version 1.1.6 =
* Added WordPress 5.3 and WooCommerce 3.8.1 support.

= version 1.1.7 =
* Added WordPress 5.3.2 and WooCommerce 3.8.1 support.
* Free and premium condition added.

= version 1.1.8 =
* Admin notice issue fixed.

= version 1.1.9 =
* OwlCarousel updated.

= version 1.2.0 =
* Added WordPress 5.4.1 and WooCommerce 4.1.0 support.

= version 1.2.1 =
* Small issue fixed.

= version 1.2.2 =
* Regular update.

= version 1.2.3 =
* Added WordPress 5.4.2 and WooCommerce 4.2.2 support.

= version 1.2.4 =
* Added template override system. Directory: theme/wpb-woocommerce-category-slider

= version 1.2.5 =
* Tested with WordPress 5.6 and WooCommerce

= version 1.2.6 =
* Tested with WordPress 5.6.1 and WooCommerce 5.0.0

= version 1.2.7 =
* Regular Update.

= version 1.2.8 =
* Tested with WordPress 6.1.1 and WooCommerce 7.3.0

= version 1.2.9 =
* Tested with WordPress 6.2 and WooCommerce 7.5.0

= version 1.3 =
* Tested with WordPress 6.4.1 and WooCommerce 8.3.1

= version 1.4 =
* Discount page added.

= version 1.5 =
* Tested with WordPress 6.7

= version 1.6 =
* Tested with PHP 8

= version 1.7 =
* Fixed $content_type escaping security issue.

= version 1.7.1 =
* Code improvement.

= version 1.7.2 =
* Hire notice removed.

== Upgrade notice ==