GazChap's WooCommerce Auto Category Product Thumbnails
Pick WooCommerce category thumbnails automatically from products contained within those categories.
4.4(14 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 months agoAs of April 2026, GazChap's WooCommerce Auto Category Product Thumbnails is a WordPress images plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are up 18% this week. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
4.4/514 reviews
2.0K+active installs
15K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
By default, WooCommerce will only show thumbnails for categories if the category has a thumbnail set.
This plugin changes this behaviour so that WooCommerce will hunt for a product thumbnail in the category being displayed, and use that instead.
Upon activation, the plugin will configure itself with the basic settings. Any categories that you have on your WooCommerce store that do not have a thumbnail set will then start displaying any available product thumbnails inside the category.
There are a number of options, these can be found in WooCommerce -> Settings -> Products -> Auto Category Thumbnails.
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Thumbnail Size sets the image size that the plugin should use when displaying the thumbnails. Defaults to shop_thumbail, but shop_catalog may be a better option for some themes.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It does exactly what it says in the tin
by danielepais·1 month ago·1 reply
Exactly what I needed for a large woocommerce with hundreds of categories. This plugin just solved the problem instantly by assigning a random (related) image to the Category picking one from the products assigned to that category.
Not working at all
by Slim Karaaslan·3 months ago·3 replies
Tested on two completely different wordpress stacks, and does not work.
Nice and Helpful
by Mark Kendall·7 months ago·1 reply
Lots of categories, great to add image from products.
Rescue for stores with a large number of categories
by N.g·1 year ago
Great plugin, thanks!
For stores with a large number of categories, this is a lifeline.
I’m using the theme Woodmart, and yes, the images in the category shortcodes are doubled, and I hope that the developer will have time to somehow make compatibility.
But for now this can be solved visually:
.wrapp-category .category-image-wrapp a img:nth-child(2) {
display: none;
}Did work for long time, but not anymore after update
by elgreco1988·3 years ago·1 reply
Hello,
I really liked this plugin, but after I believe the Woocommerce update, this plugin is not working anymore. None of the thumbnails are showing anymore and I even can’t reinstall the plugin (plugin isn’t getting activated at all). Please try to fix it in a next update.
WooCommerce version: 7.2.0
- This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by elgreco1988.
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.5
91.0%
v1.4
5.1%
Other
4.0%
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Changelog
1.5 (21/06/2023)
- Declared support for WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage. Thanks to benatherton for the information.
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