Plugin info

Total downloads: 1,062
Active installs: 0
Total reviews: 0
Average rating: 0
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 6 language(s)
Contributors: 4
Last updated: 4/5/2025 (317 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 5/15/2023 (2 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 8.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 317 days ago

38/100

Is Product Swatches Light abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 317 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 8.0

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Description

Capture your customers by displaying your product variations beautifully. Performant output of properties in the archive view, no matter how many products and variations you have.

Features

  • show swatches on product archives with respect the ordering
  • default activated caching of swatches to optimize the loading-time of your shop
  • choose color as attribute-type for your attributes and set one of 12 colors for your attributes
  • mouseover-event to change product-images and sales-badge on archive-listing to the touched color
  • update the swatches-cache manual on product or every hour automatically if something on a product has been changed
  • automatically updates the swatches-cache of single products if their stock changes
  • product-thumbs could be changed on hover
  • provides some WP CLI commands to delete or update swatch-caches
  • migration of color-swatches from plugin “Variation Swatches for WooCommerce” from RadiusTheme

The development repository is on GitHub.

Requirements

  • installed and activated WooCommerce-plugin

Hint

With Product Swatches for WooCommerce Pro you will get unlimited colors, more swatch types, swatches on the product detail and much more.

the Pro license includes:

  • more swatch types like button, two-color, image, multicolor (max. 4 different colors)
  • extends support for color-type for optional one or two colors on the same attribute
  • support for transparent colors on every color-type
  • swatches can optional displayed in frontend on: product detail, cart, checkout
  • decide which attribute-type should be visible as swatches on archive or detail
  • also decide to use product-thumbs on hover or click or not
  • and also in backend if you edit your products
  • decide if sales-badge should be visible or not on archive listing
  • change the update interval of your swatches
  • define which stock status should be considered for the output of swatches

Installation

  1. Upload “product-swatches-light” to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
  3. Configure your product attributes under Products > Attributes. Check the Quickstart.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Screenshots

  1. Possible list view in frontend.

    Possible list view in frontend.

  2. Settings on single color-attribute.

    Settings on single color-attribute.

  3. Listing of color-attributes in backend.

    Listing of color-attributes in backend.

  4. Settings for single color-attribute in backend.

    Settings for single color-attribute in backend.

  5. General settings with Pro-version.

    General settings with Pro-version.

  6. Detail-view of product with Pro-Version.

    Detail-view of product with Pro-Version.

Changelog

2.0.5

  • Added GitHub action to build releases
  • Moved this changelog to GitHub

older changes