Descripción
RapidCatalog for WooCommerce lets you spin up realistic WooCommerce products in seconds. Perfect for demos, staging environments, theme development, and store prototyping.
Simply enter your Unsplash API key, choose your categories, set a price range, and hit Generate. The plugin handles everything else — product names, descriptions, categories, featured images, and SKUs — all created automatically.
✨ Key Features
- One-click bulk generation — create up to 500 products at a time.
- Unsplash integration — every product gets a beautiful, high-quality featured image fetched from the Unsplash library.
- Dynamic categories — define comma-separated categories; the plugin auto-creates them in WooCommerce if they don’t exist.
- Randomised product content — natural-sounding names, structured HTML descriptions with feature bullet points, and realistic pricing.
- Background processing — products are created in batches via AJAX so you never hit a timeout, and a live progress bar keeps you informed.
- Cancellable — stop a running generation at any time.
- WP-CLI support — generate products from the command line with
wp rapidcatalog-generate. - HPOS compatible — fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage and Cart/Checkout Blocks.
- Clean uninstall — all plugin data is removed when you delete the plugin.
- Built-in logging — detailed logs written to
wp-content/uploads/rapidcatalog-logs/for easy debugging.
🖥️ Admin Interface
A clean, modern settings page lives under WooCommerce Product Generator and includes:
- Unsplash API key configuration with step-by-step setup instructions.
- Category, quantity, price range, and publish status controls.
- A real-time progress bar with cancel support.
🔧 WP-CLI Commands
Generate products directly from the terminal:
wp rapidcatalog-generate
wp rapidcatalog-generate --count=20
wp rapidcatalog-generate --count=5 --category="Living Room" --status=draft
External services
This plugin relies on the Unsplash API to provide high-quality, royalty-free product images.
- Service: Unsplash (provided by Unsplash Inc.)
- Usage: Fetching and downloading featured images for generated products based on your chosen categories.
- Data Sent: Search queries (e.g., category names like “Living Room”) are sent to Unsplash to find relevant photos. The plugin also triggers a “download” tracking endpoint per Unsplash API guidelines to credit photographers. No user-identifiable data is sent.
- Links:
An Unsplash Application Access Key is required for the plugin to fetch images.
Instalación
- Upload the
rapidcatalog-for-woocommercefolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install directly through the WordPress plugin screen. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.
- Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active — the plugin will not activate without it.
- Go to WooCommerce Product Generator to configure your settings.
- Obtain a free Unsplash API key at unsplash.com/oauth/applications and paste the Access Key into the settings.
- Adjust categories, product count, price range, and status to your liking.
- Click Save Settings, then Generate Products.
Preguntas frecuentes
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Does this plugin require WooCommerce?
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Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active. The plugin will display an admin notice and refuse to activate if WooCommerce is missing.
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Where do I get an Unsplash API key?
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- Create a free account at unsplash.com.
- Go to unsplash.com/oauth/applications.
- Click New Application and accept the API guidelines.
- Copy the Access Key from your application page.
Demo (free) apps are limited to 50 requests per hour. Apply for Production status to increase the limit.
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What happens if the Unsplash API key is missing or invalid?
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Products will still be created but without a featured image. A warning is logged for each product that could not receive an image.
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Can I cancel a generation in progress?
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Yes. Click the Cancel button that appears during generation to stop immediately. Products already created will remain.
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What content is generated for each product?
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Each product receives:
- A randomised name (adjective + category + noun).
- A structured HTML description with an intro paragraph, feature bullet points, and a closing paragraph.
- A short description.
- A random price within your configured range.
- A unique SKU prefixed with
rapidcatalog-. - A featured image from Unsplash.
- Assignment to one of your configured categories.
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Is the plugin compatible with WooCommerce HPOS?
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Yes. The plugin declares full compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (Custom Order Tables) and Cart/Checkout Blocks.
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Does the plugin clean up after itself?
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On deactivation, the generation queue and progress state are cleared. On deletion (uninstall), all plugin options (
rapidcatalog_settings,rapidcatalog_queue,rapidcatalog_progress) and scheduled events are removed. Generated products and their images are not deleted — they are standard WooCommerce products and can be managed normally. -
Can I use WP-CLI to generate products?
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Yes. If WP-CLI is available, you can run:
wp rapidcatalog-generate --count=10 --category="Workspace" --status=publishRun
wp help rapidcatalog-generatefor all available options.
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Registro de cambios
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- One-click bulk product generation with configurable categories, pricing, and status.
- Unsplash API integration with search, random photo, and download-tracking endpoints.
- AJAX-driven background processing with real-time progress bar.
- WP-CLI command:
wp rapidcatalog-generate. - WooCommerce HPOS and Cart/Checkout Blocks compatibility.
- Built-in file logger with daily rotation.
- Clean uninstall handler removes all plugin data.