Swatch Pro
Swatch Pro is the planned premium edition for Swatch. It is an add-on that requires the free Swatch plugin installed and active; it is distributed through Freemius (licensing, activation and automatic updates), not the WordPress.org directory.
The 0.1.0 release is an early scaffold: it ships the licensing, bootstrap, activation and database-migration plumbing that the premium features will hook into. The features below are planned and not yet implemented.
Planned PRO features
Section titled “Planned PRO features”- Image swatches — upload an image per term, not just a flat colour or label.
- Per-variation images — swap the product gallery image as the shopper selects a swatch.
- Rich tooltips — preview the colour, label or image on hover and focus.
- Archive and loop swatches — show swatches on shop, category and search listings, not only the single product page.
What the scaffold does today
Section titled “What the scaffold does today”- Boots only after the free Swatch plugin has loaded and fired its boot action.
- Verifies the free plugin is present and meets the minimum version, with admin notices when it is not.
- Registers premium services and hooks into the free plugin’s container (registries are empty placeholders for now).
- Runs version-tracked PRO activation defaults and database migrations.
- Declares WooCommerce HPOS and Cart/Checkout Blocks compatibility.
- Integrates the Freemius SDK for licensing, activation UI and automatic updates.
Relationship with Swatch
Section titled “Relationship with Swatch”Swatch Pro extends the free Swatch plugin. The free plugin provides the core colour and button/label swatches wired into the native variations form; PRO adds image swatches, per-variation images, rich tooltips and archive swatches that larger catalogs ask for.