Ultimate Product Catalog Premium organizes products into a responsive WordPress catalog that can run without WooCommerce. Add the full catalog or selected products to pages using Gutenberg blocks, shortcodes, or patterns for block-based themes. Categories and sub-categories help visitors browse collections for a shop, agency, art gallery, restaurant, affiliate catalog, or another product range.

Place catalogs and products on pages

Use the Display Product Catalog block or a catalog shortcode, replacing X with the catalog ID: [product-catalogue id="X"] or [product-catalog id="X"]. Other blocks and shortcodes can show individual or featured products, a search field, recent products, product lists, or random products. Block and shortcode options can set the starting layout, exclude layouts, or show or conceal the sidebar. URL parameters can open a catalog with a category preselected.

Help visitors find products

Visitors can switch between three catalog layouts without a page reload, then search and filter by category, sub-category, price, product name, or custom fields. Sorting and dynamic search work with the filtering system. A price slider can narrow results by price. Overview mode displays category or sub-category pictures, such as brand images, before visitors browse the products.

Premium includes three redesigned responsive catalog styles with styling options, plus four product page layouts, including tabbed and shop styles. Custom fields can describe product details such as color, dimensions, or availability, and can be used for filtering and sorting. Choose checkbox, radio button, dropdown, or slider controls for custom-field filters.

Manage product details and inquiries

Premium works with more than 100 products and adds image galleries, product videos, SEO-friendly URLs, product tags, product export, and a product inquiry cart. Visitors can compare multiple selected products. For inquiries, configure a form to use WPForms or Contact Form 7, and let visitors ask about one product or send a combined inquiry for entries in the inquiry cart.

Set sale prices and enable or disable them for the whole catalog or individual products. Choose the currency symbol and where it appears. For affiliate catalogs, add a unique destination in the Product Link field so a product click opens that link instead of its plugin product page. Product reviews can use Ultimate Reviews, and product FAQs can use Ultimate FAQs.

Catalog styling and labels have customization options, including custom CSS. Other options include breadcrumb choices, social sharing, and thumbnail support, which displays a smaller product image to help with catalog page load times. Yoast SEO integration is available for product catalogs.

Connect WooCommerce when needed

WooCommerce is optional for a standalone catalog. With Premium and WooCommerce, products can be synchronized between the catalog and the shop, with supported product data kept aligned for synchronized items. Products edited in either add-on are updated in the other. Automatic synchronization uses scheduled tasks, so WP-Cron or a configured system cron must be running for sync to progress.

With WooCommerce configured, visitors can add catalog items to the WooCommerce cart and complete checkout there. Catalog pages can show the cart item count, or catalog products can link directly to their WooCommerce product pages.

Set up the catalog

1. Install and activate the plugin in WordPress.
2. Follow the automatic walkthrough to create initial products and a catalog.
3. Organize products into categories and sub-categories, then add prices, media, links, tags, or custom fields.
4. Choose layouts, styles, filters, and product page options.
5. Place the catalog block or shortcode on the required page.
6. If using WooCommerce, enable synchronization and configure catalog checkout or product-page linking.