Title: Smart Categories for WooCommerce – Product Categories &amp; Category Management
Author: erenlabs
Published: <strong>2026 年 7 月 30 日</strong>
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# Smart Categories for WooCommerce – Product Categories & Category Management

 作者：[erenlabs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/erenlabs/)

[下载](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/smart-categories-for-woocommerce.1.0.9.zip)

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 *  [安装](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/#installation)
 * [开发进展](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/#developers)

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## 描述

WooCommerce product categories are manual: you add each product by hand and
 re-
check them every time a price, stock level or attribute changes. **Smart Categories
for WooCommerce makes a category _define itself_ — you describe the products with
rules, and matching items are added automatically and kept in sync forever.

It is category management for a catalogue that will not sit still: the rule is
 
the category, so product categorization stops being a weekly chore and starts being
something the store does on its own.

 * **Unlimited nested rules.** Combine AND, OR and NOT in nested groups — e.g. _(
   Colour is Black OR Red) AND price < 50 AND on sale_.
 * **35+ fields to match on.** Title, SKU, price, sale price, discount %, stock 
   status/quantity, attributes, tags, brand, product type, ratings, all-time sales,
   dates, custom fields, dimensions and more.
 * **Live preview.** As you build the rules you see exactly which products match,
   and how many, before you save.
 * **Always up to date.** Membership refreshes automatically when a product, price
   or stock level changes, and on a daily sweep — no cron babysitting.
 * **Manual assignments are respected.** Products you added to a category by hand
   are never removed by the engine.
 * **Categories or tags.** Point a rule set at a product category or a product tag.
 * **Storefront sorting & stock.** Order a smart category’s shop page by best-selling,
   newest, price or rating, and push out-of-stock products to the end (or hide them).
 * **Gutenberg block + shortcode.** Drop a smart category’s products anywhere with
   the “Smart Category Products” block or `[scwc_products id="12" limit="12" columns
   ="4"]`.

Works with WooCommerce global product attributes and is HPOS-compatible.

#### Automated collections, the WooCommerce way

Other ecommerce platforms call these automated collections; WooCommerce categories

never had them. Smart collections here work the same way and go further: the category
rules nest to any depth, match on 35+ fields, and preview before you save.

Point a rule set at a product category or a product tag, and the same engine
 runs
both. Manual picks stay yours — the plugin only ever removes memberships it created
itself, so a hand-assigned product never disappears because a rule changed.

#### See it work

[Read the full documentation](https://erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/docs/)—
getting started, the rule reference (every field and operator), nested AND/OR/NOT
groups, storefront sorting, the block and shortcode, performance on large catalogs,
the Pro subcategory generator and troubleshooting.

#### How it works

 1. **Create a category.** Pick a ready-made template (On Sale, New Arrivals, Low Stock…)
    or write your own rules. The live preview shows exactly which products match, and
    how many, before you save.
 2. **Products flow in.** Matching products are assigned immediately when you create
    the category.
 3. **It stays current.** Membership refreshes when a product, price or stock level
    changes, plus a daily sweep — a product that stops matching leaves on its own.
 4. **Your manual picks are safe.** The plugin only ever removes memberships it created
    itself.

#### Pro: a subcategory for every attribute value, generated

Shoppers search for _black hoodie_, not _hoodies_. The category page that would

answer that query usually does not exist, because building one per colour, size 
or brand by hand is a week of work that starts going stale the day you finish.

Pro generates that level for you. Pick an attribute on any parent category and it

creates one smart subcategory per value — **Red Dress**, **Blue Dress**, **Black
Dress** — each with its own rule set, so products flow in and out on their own from
then on.

 * **Two attributes at once.** Combine Colour × Size on “Dresses” and Pro builds
   the cross-product: _Red XL Dress_, _Blue M Dress_, _Black S Dress_.
 * **Editable name templates.** `{value1} {value2} {parent}` is the default; rearrange
   it, or write your own, and every generated page follows it.
 * **Preview before anything is created.** The generation screen lists every page
   it is about to make and how many products each one will hold, so you see the 
   shape of the level before you commit to it.
 * **New values grow their own pages.** Add a colour to the attribute and a subcategory
   for it appears on the next daily run — nobody has to remember.
 * **Optionally pre-build empty combinations**, so the structure is live before 
   the stock lands.
 * **Category Tree page** to see the whole generated hierarchy at once.

**These are real category pages.** Each generated subcategory is a genuine
 WooCommerce
product category: its own URL, its own archive template, its own product count —
indexable and linkable exactly like a category you created by hand. It is not a 
filtered view or a query-string variant that search engines ignore.

And because the rule underneath is a normal smart-category rule, the pages stay

correct without maintenance: a product that changes colour leaves one subcategory
and joins another on its own.

#### Free vs Pro

The complete rule engine is free, with no limits on the number of categories, rules
or products.

**Free — everything you need to organise a catalog**

 * Unlimited nested AND / OR / NOT rule engine
 * 35+ match fields, live preview and daily auto-refresh
 * Category and tag rule sets
 * Storefront sorting and out-of-stock handling
 * Products block + `[scwc_products]` shortcode
 * Ready-made templates and in-admin Help & FAQ

**Pro — automation for growing stores**

 * Auto-generate a subcategory per attribute value (Colour, Size, Brand…)
 * Combine two attributes into a cross-product of subcategories
 * Editable name templates, e.g. `{value1} {value2} {parent}`
 * New attribute values grow new subcategories on their own, daily
 * Sales-intelligence fields: units sold 7 / 30 / 90 days, revenue, velocity, days
   since last sale
 * Trending and stale-product auto-collection templates
 * Category Tree overview page
 * Priority support

**Smart Categories Pro** is a separate download distributed through Freemius. Full
comparison and pricing: [erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce](https://erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/)

### External services

This plugin can connect to Freemius (freemius.com) to power the optional Pro upgrade:
licence activation, automatic updates for the paid version, and the checkout/upgrade
screens. **Nothing is sent unless you opt in.** If you click “Allow & Continue” 
during the optional opt-in, non-sensitive environment data (site URL, WordPress 
and PHP versions, active theme/plugins and your admin email) is sent to Freemius
to enable licensing and updates; if you skip it, no data is transmitted. Freemius
is only contacted for these upgrade/licensing actions.

 * Freemius Terms of Use: https://freemius.com/terms/
 * Freemius Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

## 屏幕截图

[⌊Start in one click — ready-made collections built from your own catalog, each 
showing how many products are ready to add.⌉⌊Start in one click — ready-made collections
built from your own catalog, each showing how many products are ready to add.⌉[

Start in one click — ready-made collections built from your own catalog, each showing
how many products are ready to add.

[⌊Describe products with rules: switch between ALL and ANY, add nested groups and
negate one with NOT — as many levels as you need.⌉⌊Describe products with rules:
switch between ALL and ANY, add nested groups and negate one with NOT — as many 
levels as you need.⌉[

Describe products with rules: switch between ALL and ANY, add nested groups and 
negate one with NOT — as many levels as you need.

[⌊Live preview and product test: see the matching products while you build the rules,
then test any product to see which conditions passed or failed.⌉⌊Live preview and
product test: see the matching products while you build the rules, then test any
product to see which conditions passed or failed.⌉[

Live preview and product test: see the matching products while you build the rules,
then test any product to see which conditions passed or failed.

[⌊Created and populated — matching products are added immediately and kept in sync
as products change; products you added by hand are never removed.⌉⌊Created and populated—
matching products are added immediately and kept in sync as products change; products
you added by hand are never removed.⌉[

Created and populated — matching products are added immediately and kept in sync
as products change; products you added by hand are never removed.

[⌊Every smart category at a glance, with its product count, a Category or Tag badge
and one-click refresh.⌉⌊Every smart category at a glance, with its product count,
a Category or Tag badge and one-click refresh.⌉[

Every smart category at a glance, with its product count, a Category or Tag badge
and one-click refresh.

[⌊Storefront sorting and stock: order a smart category by best selling, newest, 
oldest, price, rating or name, push out-of-stock products to the end or hide them,
and show it anywhere with the block or shortcode.⌉⌊Storefront sorting and stock:
order a smart category by best selling, newest, oldest, price, rating or name, push
out-of-stock products to the end or hide them, and show it anywhere with the block
or shortcode.⌉[

Storefront sorting and stock: order a smart category by best selling, newest, oldest,
price, rating or name, push out-of-stock products to the end or hide them, and show
it anywhere with the block or shortcode.

[⌊Free forever, Pro when you grow — the complete rule engine is free; Pro adds a
subcategory for every attribute value.⌉⌊Free forever, Pro when you grow — the complete
rule engine is free; Pro adds a subcategory for every attribute value.⌉[

Free forever, Pro when you grow — the complete rule engine is free; Pro adds a subcategory
for every attribute value.

## 区块

该插件提供了 1 个区块.

 *   Smart Category Products Display the products of a smart category as a grid —
   anywhere on your site.

## 安装

 1. Upload the `smart-categories-for-woocommerce` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`,
    or install the zip via Plugins  Add New  Upload.
 2. Activate the plugin.
 3. Open **Smart Categories** in the admin menu and create your first smart category.

## 常见问题

### Is this the WooCommerce version of automated collections?

Yes, that is the closest comparison. Other ecommerce platforms call them automated

collections and smart collections; WooCommerce product categories have always been
a manual list. Smart Categories gives the same idea a rule engine: nested AND/OR/
NOT groups, 35+ fields, a live preview before you save, and membership that refreshes
itself when a price, stock level or attribute changes.

### Can I use it for category management across a large catalogue?

That is what it is for. Category management stops scaling the moment a catalogue

outgrows what one person can remember, because every price change, restock and new
product is a re-check nobody does. Here the rule is the category: write it once 
and product categorization keeps itself current, on a live update and a daily sweep,
however many thousands of products you carry.

### How is this different from WooCommerce’s built-in categories?

Built-in categories are static lists you maintain by hand. A smart category is a
rule set: any product that matches is added automatically and removed when it stops
matching, so the category is always current.

### Does it move products I assigned to a category manually?

No. The plugin tracks which memberships it created and only ever removes those. 
Anything you assigned by hand stays.

### Does it slow down my store?

No. Matching runs in the background (Action Scheduler) and on product save; the 
storefront reads normal category relationships, so there is no query overhead for
shoppers.

### Is it translatable?

Yes. The plugin is fully internationalized (text domain `smart-categories-for-woocommerce`)
and receives community translations through translate.wordpress.org — a complete
Turkish translation is already prepared there.

### Can I show a smart category’s products on a page?

Yes — use the “Smart Category Products” block in the editor, or the shortcode `[
scwc_products id="12" limit="12" columns="4"]` where `id` is the category ID. Products
hidden from the catalog are skipped automatically.

### Where can I read more?

The full documentation is at [erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/docs](https://erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/docs/)—
a complete rule reference, worked examples, performance notes and troubleshooting.
There is also a Help & FAQ page inside the plugin.

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## 贡献者及开发者

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贡献者

 *   [ erenlabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/erenlabs/)

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## 更新日志

#### 1.0.9

 * Fixed: on a shop that started on the free plugin and later upgraded to Pro, the
   sales table the Pro rules read was never created. Every rule that sorts or filters
   by sales – best sellers, units in the last 7, 30 or 90 days, days since the last
   sale – matched nothing, and the site error log filled with “table does not exist”.
   The upgrade now builds the table on the next page load; nothing to do but update.

#### 1.0.8

 * Listing: the plugin now shows in your Plugins list as “Smart Categories for WooCommerce–
   Automatic Product Category Rules”, the same name it carries on WordPress.org.
 * New: the upgrade screen explains the Eren Labs Store Suite in full – a block 
   per plugin with a sample screen, what it does, who it suits and its own price,
   beside the bundle arithmetic and a purchase box.
 * New: every plugin in that section has its own button through to its product page,
   plus a three-step upgrade walkthrough and five questions about the Suite licence.
 * Translations: all seven bundled languages now cover the whole upgrade screen,
   including the labels inside the sample screens, and the “Smart Category Products”
   block description that had been English-only.

#### 1.0.7

 * New: Eren Labs Store Suite — the upgrade screen now shows the six-plugin suite
   and its single-licence bundle.
 * New: the plugin accepts a Store Suite bundle licence; one key activates every
   Eren Labs plugin installed on the site.

#### 1.0.6

 * Compatibility: tested up to WooCommerce 11.1.
 * Translations: the free package now bundles the Arabic, German, Spanish, French,
   Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish catalogs, so the admin screens follow
   your site language without waiting for translate.wordpress.org.

#### 1.0.5

 * Updated: bundled Freemius SDK 2.13.4.

#### 1.0.4

 * Listing: summary and tags now say smart categories and dynamic categories.
 * Fixed: price rules read the shop’s list price whoever is logged in — a customer-
   group discount from a sibling plugin could file a product under the wrong price
   band during a save or refresh.
 * Fixed: price rules could not see a variable product at all.
 * Fixed: a half-typed rule (blank number, empty term list, unfinished negation)
   no longer matches the whole catalogue.
 * Fixed: a rules file that could not be read no longer empties a category one product
   save at a time; Refresh no longer ignores a category that is switched off, and
   refreshing a deleted category is not reported as success.
 * Fixed: the assigner no longer claims a product that has been deleted; the review
   count counted rows, not products.
 * New: six more languages — Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Brazilian
   Portuguese — alongside Turkish.
 * Improved: the upgrade page and its Free vs Pro table meet WCAG AA contrast in
   both colour schemes.
 * Tested with WooCommerce 11 and WordPress 7.1.

#### 1.0.3

 * Fixed: the Products block now carries its name, description and icon on the server
   too, so it is listed correctly as “Smart Category Products” everywhere (previously
   the WordPress.org listing derived a raw name from the block slug).

#### 1.0.2

 * Changed: every shared registry name now carries the plugin prefix to avoid collisions
   with other plugins — the shortcode is `[scwc_products]`, the block is `scwc/products`,
   the REST namespace is `scwc/v1` and the WP-CLI command is `wp scwc`.
 * Note: if you used the previous shortcode or block in your content, update them
   to the new names.
 * Fixed: the shortcode now matches the tag documented in the readme.
 * Fixed: the block and shortcode no longer count products that are hidden from 
   the catalog towards the product limit, so they always show as many products as
   you asked for.

#### 1.0.1

 * New: first-run Smart Start onboarding — ready-made category suggestions computed
   from your own catalog, with live product counts and one-click creation.
 * New: a clear result screen after creating a category (products added, view-on-
   store link) and after generating subcategories (parent + children overview).
 * New: in-admin Help & FAQ page.
 * Pro: live generation preview — see every subcategory a template would create,
   with product counts, before generating.
 * Pro: Category Tree page — all smart categories and their generated children as
   a collapsible tree.
 * Pro: optional “Also create empty combinations” mode for pre-building a season’s
   structure.
 * Improved: clearer action hierarchy in the create flow, connection-error retry
   on generation, full Turkish translation refresh.

#### 1.0.0

 * First release: the unlimited nested AND/OR/NOT rule engine (35+ fields, live 
   preview, daily auto-refresh, manual-assignment-safe), category and tag rule sets,
   storefront sorting & out-of-stock handling, and a products block — plus the Pro
   subcategory generator and sales-intelligence fields.

## 额外信息

 *  版本 **1.0.9**
 *  最后更新：**1 月前**
 *  活跃安装数量 **不到10**
 *  WordPress 版本 ** 6.6 或更高版本 **
 *  已测试的最高版本为 **7.1.3**
 *  PHP 版本 ** 7.4 或更高版本 **
 *  语言
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/)
   和 [Turkish](https://tr.wordpress.org/plugins/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/).
 *  [翻译成简体中文](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/smart-categories-for-woocommerce)
 * 标签
 * [category management](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category-management/)
   [Product Categories](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/product-categories/)
   [Smart Collections](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/smart-collections/)
 *  [高级视图](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/smart-categories-for-woocommerce/advanced/)

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## 贡献者

 *   [ erenlabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/erenlabs/)

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