Product Swatches Light
Capture your customers by displaying your product variations beautifully.
fewer than 10 active installsFree on WordPress.org
Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Product Swatches Light running.
WordPress compatibility
Tested to 7.0.2
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.Last updated
4 months ago
At least 3.1 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.Requires PHP
8.2
Your host must be running at least this version.Requires WordPress
6.0
Requires other plugins
woocommerce
These must be installed and active first.Contributors
2
fewer than 10 active installsWordPress.org reports installs in bands, not exact counts.
Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Product Swatches Light is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
Not enough public feedback to put a confident number on this one. Little public feedback — score rests mostly on release activity. What we can see is below.
Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
Not enough dataListing transparency
4 / 10Ratings
No one has rated this plugin on WordPress.org yet. That is a statement about the ratings page, not about the plugin — plenty of well-kept plugins never collect them.
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
Categories
Plugin details
Version2.1.0
Last updated2026-03-29 12:05pm GMT
Added2023-05-15
Requires WordPress6.0
Tested up to7.0.2
Requires PHP8.2
Tags on WordPress.org
product swatches
variant swatches
variation swatches
woocommerce
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