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Proposal:
Make an option to show a different product image(s) on WooCommerce product loops (shop catalog and related product elements) than what appears on the single product page. For example, we show a plain image of a bottle on the category page, but on the product page the first gallery shows the bottle with some of the ingredients beside it. This may be done by creating a separate section for loops; or with an option to set the loop to use the first one or two images in the gallery (including the main product image), probably on a per product basis, so that users don’t have to upload duplicate images to get the desired behavior.
Motivation:
I currently edit loop_images.php and loop_thumbnails.php in the WooThumbs plugin each time I update the plugin so that the product page starts at the second image in the gallery instead of the first. This way I can control the image that appears in the product catalog/category pages separately from any images on the product page. This means that if I want the same image, I simply include it twice (the main image and the first image in the gallery section are the same). You know where this is going: The 4.11.0 update is incompatible with my modification. It’d be cool if the image de-duplication was an option I could turn off, and/or there was a feature that allows separate category images. The latter is more useful to me, because supplying an image twice is just a rushed hack.
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