A shop with a dozen categories cannot give each one a full card above the fold. A carousel buys the space back.
This is the product-category taxonomy in the carousel layout — the same slider as the blog category carousel, with the same two defaults worth changing.
For every Taxonomy Listing setting in one place, see the Taxonomy Listing guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Taxonomy Listing block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Taxonomy Listing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- WooCommerce active, with product categories. Product categories are an ordinary taxonomy to this block, but they only exist once WooCommerce does.
- Images on your product categories, set in Nexter’s term image field.
Steps
- Add the Taxonomy Listing block, choose product categories, and set the layout to carousel.
- Set the cards per view, turn autoplay off, enable arrows, then publish.
How It Behaves
- Measured on a seeded store: 4 product categories rendered inside the slider track, each linked to its own archive and carrying its real product count.
- Autoplay is on by default and does not pause on hover. Measured in the slider configuration:
autoplay: true,pauseOnHover: false. Turn it off unless you have a reason to keep it, because a moving carousel is hard to read and hard to click. - One card per view is the default. Measured
perPage: 1, so an unconfigured carousel shows a single category across the full width. Set the per-view count for each breakpoint. - Arrows are off and dots are on by default, which is usually the wrong way round for a shop.
- Empty categories are hidden by default, so unstocked categories stay out.
- The category image comes from Nexter’s own term image field, set on the term itself when you edit it. It is not WordPress’s featured image and, on a product category, it is not WooCommerce’s category image either — those are stored separately and this block does not read them.
- Type a number into the item count; do not leave it blank. Measured on 5.0.6: a blank field renders one term rather than all of them, and so does
0. Reported to the developers. - Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: the block renders nothing at all — not a wrapper, not a message, zero output. This is a Pro-only block.
Limitations
- Pro only — nothing renders with Pro deactivated.
- Autoplay without pause-on-hover costs you clicks. A shopper reaching for a category can have it slide out from under the cursor. Turn it off.
- Categories off-screen are effectively hidden, which matters more on a shop than on a blog. If category browsing is your main path to purchase, use a grid.
- WooCommerce’s own category image is not used — set Nexter’s term image.
- The count includes out-of-stock products.
- Four categories do not need a carousel. Use a grid and let shoppers see all of them at once.
Troubleshooting
Only one category shows at a time
One card per view is the default. Set the per-view count for each breakpoint.
It slides away as shoppers try to click
Autoplay is on by default and does not pause on hover. Switch it off.
The category images are blank or generic
Set Nexter’s term image on each product category. WooCommerce’s category image is a separate field and is not read here.
A category is missing from the carousel
It has no products and empty terms are hidden by default.
