The Category Manager is a fast, visual editor for your WooCommerce product categories. It works directly on the standard product_cat taxonomy — the same categories WooCommerce uses everywhere — and adds a card grid, a list tree, drill-down with breadcrumbs, image and display-type controls, and a bulk tree builder. The heading shows a live category count.
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These are your real WooCommerce categoriesNothing here is a separate copy. Categories you create, rename, re-parent or delete are the genuine product_cat terms, so every change shows across your store, theme and other plugins immediately.
Sort offers Name A–Z, Name Z–A, Product Count ↓, and Product Count ↑.
Search matches category names and the names of nested subcategories, so searching a child term surfaces its parent (a card shows an "N matching subcategories — click to view" hint). With a search active, matches are shown as a flat list with slug and product count.
Select All toggles bulk selection; Expand All appears in list view.
+ Create Category and + Bulk Create sit on the right.
Two ways to view categories
View
What it shows
Card view
Each top-level category as a card with its thumbnail, slug, product count and subcategory count, a Default badge where applicable, and a View Products → button.
List view
A compact, indented tree. Rows with children show an expand toggle and reveal their children on demand, with an Expand All / Collapse All control.
Each card shows the thumbnail, name (with a select checkbox), slug, the purple Default badge where applicable, a “N products · N subcategories” line, and View Products →.
Parents show a ▶/▼ toggle; children indent beneath them. Columns are name (with the Default label inline), slug, subcategory count, product count, and View Products →.
What you can do here
Create one category at a time, or build an entire nested tree at once with Bulk Create.
Edit a category's name, slug, description, parent, thumbnail and display type.
Drill into a category to manage its children, following a breadcrumb trail.
Set the store's default category.
Open a category's products in the product grid with View Products →.
Delete categories singly or in bulk (the default category is protected).
The default category
WooCommerce always keeps one category as the fallback for products with no other category. The Category Manager marks it with a purple Default badge. Any category can be made the default with Set as Default, and whichever category currently holds that role is protected from deletion.
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Built for large cataloguesIn list view, Expand All fetches the whole tree's structure in a single request rather than one request per branch, so big, deep trees open quickly.