About this plugin
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:
- Unsplash Terms of Service
- Unsplash Privacy Policy
- Unsplash API Guidelines
An Unsplash Application Access Key is required for the plugin to fetch images.