Automatically assign WooCommerce product categories and tags using smart, rule-based automation. Save time managing products at scale.

BerryPress

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<p><strong>Save hours of manual work by automating how your WooCommerce products are categorized.</strong></p>
<p>Automatic Product Categories helps you keep your store structured, searchable, and up-to-date — whether you’re managing 30 or 3,000 products.</p>
<p>Define flexible rules to assign product categories and tags based on product data, events, or schedules — no coding required.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>✅ Rule-based automation for WooCommerce products<br />
✅ Automatically assign (add or remove) categories and tags based on product data<br />
✅ Conditions based on product title, price, stock, description, and more<br />
✅ Support for custom fields<br />
✅ Event triggers (on product creation or update)<br />
✅ Scheduled rule execution (run daily)<br />
✅ Works with variable, grouped, and simple products</p>
<h3>🚀 Pro Features</h3>
<p>Automatic Product Categories <strong>PRO</strong> is here!</p>
<p>🔥 Dry Run mode – test your rules without making live changes<br />
🔥 Rule Log – see exactly which products were updated, what categories or tags were added or removed<br />
🔥 Quickly find tags and categories – without scrolling through long lists<br />
🔥 Supports custom taxonomies in conditions (e.g. brands, attributes) – fully compatible with popular third-party plugins<br />
🔥 Import/export rules<br />
🔥 Organize rules with groups<br />
🔥 Clone rules with one click<br />
🔥 Rule search<br />
🔥 Rule filtering<br />
🔥 Rule logs<br />
🔥 Priority support from the BerryPress team</p>
<p><strong>Planned Features:</strong><br />
🔥 Advanced rule logs<br />
🔥 Schedule rule execution on specific dates</p>
<p>👉 <strong>Check it out now:</strong> <a href="https://berrypress.com/product/woocommerce/automatic-product-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automatic Product Categories Pro</a></p>
<h3>📚 Documentation</h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://berrypress.com/docs/automatic-product-categories-for-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">Full setup instructions</a></strong></p>
<h3>📦 Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the plugin files to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/automatic-product-categories</code> directory or install via the WordPress Plugins screen.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>BerryPress <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Automatic Product Categories</strong> in the admin menu.</li>
<li>Start creating rules to automate your product categorization.</li>
</ol>
<h3>1.2.2</h3>
<p>Fix: Resolved an issue where product rules failed to match tags and categories containing special characters (e.g. &)</p>
<h3>1.2.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix: When bulk-editing rules, settings were not saved for newly added rules.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Store rules in a separate table</li>
<li>Add columns sorting</li>
<li>Mixed styling changes</li>
<li>Add created date column</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.8</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix new actions not saving</li>
<li>Fix error outline icon not displaying</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.7</h3>
<ul>
<li>Syntax fix for old php</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Styling changes, optimize icon font size</li>
<li>Minify CSS files</li>
<li>Plugin check fixes</li>
<li>Page length option save</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix potential memory issues</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add: pagination to rule list</li>
<li>Mixed small fixes</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix: Save all and run selected doesn’t run the rule</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix: Limit submitted rule fields to prevent exceeding PHP max_input_vars</li>
<li>Change: Update menu item</li>
<li>Add documentation tooltips</li>
<li>Update: Rename condition matches and adjust “not” condition behavior to resolve confusion with category/tag conditions</li>
<li>Update: Rename condition comparison options</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Styling fix</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Completely refreshed plugin UI.</li>
<li>Refactored logic, removed unnecessary code, improved error handling.</li>
<li>JavaScript: Fixed JS inconsistencies.</li>
<li>Updated rule execution to apply to all product statuses, not just published ones.</li>
<li>Add to conditions “product status”</li>
<li>Add rule name field</li>
<li>Rebrand to BerryPress</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.8</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix error when a rule references a category or tag that has been removed.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.7</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix rule load issue</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Show “and” operator between multiple rule conditions</li>
<li>Declare text domain</li>
<li>Declare plugin dependency</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add rule condition: Product total sales</li>
<li>Add rule condition: Days since product created</li>
<li>Add rule condition: Days since product modified</li>
<li>Add rule condition: Product category</li>
<li>Add the ability to automatically run rules daily on publicly published products</li>
<li>Add case insensitive match types for “Product meta field” condition</li>
<li>Improve UI layout on smaller monitors</li>
<li>Fix: Certain comparison settings (for example, “less than”) result in an exception when saving</li>
<li>Fix: PHP fatal error related to exception</li>
<li>Fix: Certain match settings on numeric conditions result in an exception when saving rules</li>
<li>Fix: Exception when saving rule including a “Product price” condition</li>
<li>Fix: JavaScript error related to “Product meta field” condition</li>
<li>Fix: Product attribute value condition not working correctly</li>
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</ul>
<h3>1.0.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>When removing product categories due to an enabled rule not matching, add the default (Uncategorized) category if the product has no other categories</li>
<li>Don’t show the default (Uncategorized) category in the “Categories/Tags to Add/Remove” column</li>
<li>Label tweak</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added case-insensitive string matching options</li>
<li>Added option not to remove categories/tags for non-matching rules</li>
<li>Added product tag rule condition</li>
<li>Clarified button label</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add header comments to JS and CSS files</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add an additional permissions check to admin functionality</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.0.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial release</li>
</ul>


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