Woo Parent Category Selector – Auto Select Parent Categories
Automatically manage WooCommerce category hierarchies. Auto-select parent categories, repair missing parent assignments, prevent category mistakes, and maintain clean product taxonomy structures.
Price: $39 / Lifetime
About This Plugin
Woo Parent Category Selector is a lightweight WooCommerce extension that helps store owners maintain accurate and consistent product category hierarchies.
The plugin automatically selects all required parent categories whenever a child category is chosen, ensuring your WooCommerce product taxonomy remains clean, organized, and logically structured.
It also prevents accidentally deselecting parent categories while their child categories are still selected, helping avoid broken category relationships and inconsistent product organization.
To further improve category management, the plugin includes powerful category repair tools that can automatically scan existing WooCommerce products and assign missing parent categories in bulk. This is especially useful for stores with imported products, large catalogs, or inconsistent category structures.
Additional category management features include:
- Hiding the default “Uncategorized” category from the product editor
- Restricting products to only one category
- Automatic parent category repair during product save
- Bulk repair tools with progress tracking for existing products
The plugin supports hierarchical WooCommerce product taxonomies such as Product Categories and custom taxonomies like Brands. Non-hierarchical taxonomies such as tags and attributes are intentionally excluded.
Woo Parent Category Selector helps store managers maintain proper category relationships for better organization, product filtering, navigation, and SEO.
Plugin Features
Woo Parent Category Selector Settings
- Works with hierarchical WooCommerce taxonomies (e.g., Product Categories, Brands)
- Automatically selects parent categories when a child is chosen
- Prevents deselecting parent categories if their children are selected
- Option to hide the default “Uncategorized” category in the product editor
- Option to allow only one product category per product
- Automatically repairs missing parent category assignments during product save
- Bulk repair existing WooCommerce product category structures
- Easy configuration through WooCommerce → Category Selector
Product category Selection
- Works with hierarchical WooCommerce taxonomies (e.g., Product Categories, Brands)
- Automatically selects parent categories when a child is chosen
- Prevents deselecting parent categories if their children are selected
- Option to hide the default “Uncategorized” category in the product editor
- Fully compatible with WooCommerce product editor (Classic and Block-based)
Allow only one product category per product
- Option to allow only one product category per product
- Option to hide the default “Uncategorized” category in the product editor
Benefits
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