Automatic Product Categories for WooCommerce

Save hours of manual work by automating how your WooCommerce products are categorized.

Automatic Product Categories helps you keep your store structured, searchable, and up-to-date — whether you’re managing 30 or 3,000 products.

Define flexible rules to assign product categories and tags based on product data, events, or schedules — no coding required.

Features

✅ Rule-based automation for WooCommerce products
✅ Automatically assign (add or remove) categories and tags based on product data
✅ Conditions based on product title, price, stock, description, and more
✅ Support for custom fields
✅ Event triggers (on product creation or update)
✅ Scheduled rule execution (run daily)
✅ Works with variable, grouped, and simple products

🚀 Pro Features

Automatic Product Categories PRO is here!

🔥 Dry Run mode – test your rules without making live changes
🔥 Rule Log – see exactly which products were updated, what categories or tags were added or removed
🔥 Quickly find tags and categories – without scrolling through long lists
🔥 Supports custom taxonomies in conditions and actions (e.g. brands, attributes) – fully compatible with popular third-party plugins
🔥 Import/export rules
🔥 Organize rules with groups
🔥 Clone rules with one click
🔥 Rule search
🔥 Rule filtering
🔥 Rule logs
🔥 Priority support from the BerryPress team

Planned Features:
🔥 Advanced rule logs
🔥 Schedule rule execution on specific dates

👉 Check it out now: Automatic Product Categories Pro

📚 Documentation

Full setup instructions

📦 Installation

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/automatic-product-categories directory or install via the WordPress Plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Go to BerryPress → Automatic Product Categories in the admin menu.
4. Start creating rules to automate your product categorization.

1.2.6

• Fix: Stock status condition now works for products without “manage stock” enabled
• Add: New condition “manage stock enabled” (yes/no)

1.2.5

• Fix: Scheduled trigger issues
• Add: New hooks for plugin extensibility

1.2.4

• Add: Process rules in batches to avoid timeout issues
• Fix: Daily schedule rule execution
• Fix: potential run order issue

1.2.3

• Don’t exclude the default category from the category list in rules

1.2.2

Fix: Resolved an issue where product rules failed to match tags and categories containing special characters (e.g. &)

1.2.1

• Fix: When bulk-editing rules, settings were not saved for newly added rules.

1.2.0

• Store rules in a separate table
• Add columns sorting
• Mixed styling changes
• Add created date column

1.1.8

• Fix new actions not saving
• Fix error outline icon not displaying

1.1.7

• Syntax fix for old php

1.1.6

• Styling changes, optimize icon font size
• Minify CSS files
• Plugin check fixes
• Page length option save

1.1.5

• Fix potential memory issues

1.1.4

• Add: pagination to rule list
• Mixed small fixes

1.1.3

• Fix: Save all and run selected doesn’t run the rule

1.1.2

• Fix: Limit submitted rule fields to prevent exceeding PHP max_input_vars
• Change: Update menu item
• Add documentation tooltips
• Update: Rename condition matches and adjust “not” condition behavior to resolve confusion with category/tag conditions
• Update: Rename condition comparison options

1.1.1

• Styling fix

1.1.0

• Completely refreshed plugin UI.
• Refactored logic, removed unnecessary code, improved error handling.
• JavaScript: Fixed JS inconsistencies.
• Updated rule execution to apply to all product statuses, not just published ones.
• Add to conditions “product status”
• Add rule name field
• Rebrand to BerryPress

1.0.8

• Fix error when a rule references a category or tag that has been removed.

1.0.7

• Fix rule load issue

1.0.6

• Show “and” operator between multiple rule conditions
• Declare text domain
• Declare plugin dependency

1.0.5

• Add rule condition: Product total sales
• Add rule condition: Days since product created
• Add rule condition: Days since product modified
• Add rule condition: Product category
• Add the ability to automatically run rules daily on publicly published products
• Add case insensitive match types for “Product meta field” condition
• Improve UI layout on smaller monitors
• Fix: Certain comparison settings (for example, “less than”) result in an exception when saving
• Fix: PHP fatal error related to exception
• Fix: Certain match settings on numeric conditions result in an exception when saving rules
• Fix: Exception when saving rule including a “Product price” condition
• Fix: JavaScript error related to “Product meta field” condition
• Fix: Product attribute value condition not working correctly

1.0.4

• When removing product categories due to an enabled rule not matching, add the default (Uncategorized) category if the product has no other categories
• Don’t show the default (Uncategorized) category in the “Categories/Tags to Add/Remove” column
• Label tweak

1.0.3

• Added case-insensitive string matching options
• Added option not to remove categories/tags for non-matching rules
• Added product tag rule condition
• Clarified button label

1.0.2

• Add header comments to JS and CSS files

1.0.1

• Add an additional permissions check to admin functionality

1.0.0

• Initial release