Add a dropdown on the catalog page to filter products by WooCommerce categories.
As of April 2026, Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for WooCommerce is a WordPress filter plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: HUSKY – Products Filter Professional….
Simple Dropdown Filter by Category for Woocommerce automatically adds a dropdown on your shop catalog page that allows you to instantly filter products by WooCommerce product categories. The dropdown will show up on the shop page, product archive page and product tag page. It shows a product count per each category by default. The plugin currently supports only selecting a single category to filter.
The dropdown filter buttons shows up to the right of the native WooCommerce “sort by” dropdown and uses native WooCommerce component code.
You can choose to manually exclude certain categories to show up in the dropdown filter if you do not want users to filter by those categories.
You can toggle off or on showing product counts by category or showing empty categories in yo…
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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