9 WooCommerce Shortcodes & 5 Uses Cases to Make Your Business Easier in 2022

This shortcode allows you to display the full WooCommerce shopping cart: [woocommerce_cart]. This shortcode can’t be modified.

This shortcode displays the full checkout page: [woocommerce_checkout]. Although there are no options to modify this page, you can control it through your theme – or play around with it by adding a checkout field editor plugin.

The ‘My Account’ page for any users that are logged in will be shown in the ‘my account’ shortcode: [woocommerce_my_account]. It automatically displays the information of every logged-in user when they visit the page with the shortcode. Anyone not logged in will be prompted to either login or register.

With the order tracking form shortcut – [woocommerce_order_tracking] – added to your website, your customers can track their orders by entering the order ID and billing email. It’s an alternative to their account area, so it enables them to track orders when they’re on non-WooCommerce pages, and not logged into their account. This shortcode can’t be modified.

With just one base product shortcode [products], you can display lists of WooCommerce products in your store. However, you can modify the shortcode to control which products you display – like sale products, new additions to your range, or best-sellers – which is ideal if you want to highlight a particular product or product range at a certain time.

You can use these secondary shortcodes to customize your products section in a number of ways. For example, you could use columns to display your latest range in a four-column grid, display the additions to your sale items by using the on_sale shortcode, or choose to display specific products you want to sell more of by entering their ID with the ids shortcode. We’ll look further into shortcode use examples in a later section.

When you use the product categories shortcode [product_categories], you’ll be able to organize your entire product catalog into categories – like hats, coats, gloves. This not only makes your store more organized, but it’ll make your website much easier to navigate for your customers, too.

You can even modify your product categories even further than product type through the use of several add-to-cart modifiers. These include limit, which lets you limit how many categories to display; hide_empty, which hides all your empty product categories; and parent, which lets you display the subcategories or every parent category in your stall.

The product page shortcode [product_page] lets you display a full product page for a specific product – you just need to enter the ID or SKU of the products you want to display. For example, if you wanted to display all the hats in your store, you’d find the ID for hats – in this example, we’ll say the ID for our product is 55 – then enter the following shortcode: [product_page id=”55″].

If you don’t know all your product IDs, you can find them by going to ‘products > all products, then hover over the name on a product.

If you’d like to create a separate landing page away from the standard WooCommerce page, but still want to allow shoppers to buy from your store from that particular landing page, then the Add to Cart shortcode is ideal. It lets you place an add to cart button and the price of the product for any single product. If we were to use our example of hot tubs, like above, then we’d just need to enter the following shortcode: [add_to_cart id=”55″].

You can also choose to include just the URL or a product’s add to cart button using an Add to Cart URL shortcode: [add_to_cart_url], and just like with the standard Add to Cart shortcode, you can also target a specific product for your URL by ID and SKU. Again, using our hot tubs as an example, the shortcode would look like this: [add_to_cart_url id=”55″].

It’s time for a big sale at your store. You want to show your site visitors which of your products have been reduced in price and entice them to make a purchase. You may even choose to show a select few sale items from your store on your homepage.

With shortcodes, this process is pretty straightforward. You can put together a simple shortcode to do all the developing and design work for you – and WooCommerce will decide which of your sale products to show to your customers based on their popularity. Not only will this increase your sales, but it saves you a lot of time having to manually update the sale products your site displays – WooCommerce does it for you.

For example, if we chose to show three of your most popular sale items and display them to customers in a column of three, then the shortcode would read: [products limit=”3″ columns=”3″ orderby=”popularity” on_sale=”true”].

Even if you’re not having a sale, you can still increase sales of certain items in your store by showing them to customers who visit your homepage. There could be a great new coat that people keep buying because it’s a fantastic, warm, fashionable coat, but other customers may not even be aware you stock it. By putting it on your homepage, you can make every visitor aware that it’s in stock and that people love it.

Now if you want to display four of your best-selling products in a column of four, you can enter a shortcode that looks like this: [products limit=”4″ columns=”4″ best_selling=”true”].

You could even choose a product category shortcode to display a particular category of featured products by adding a little more code to the shortcode. For example, it’s winter and you want to display your best-selling hats and gloves only, you’d enter: [product limit=”4″ columns=”4″ best-selling=”true” category=”hats, gloves”].

If you have a new range of products, it’s a great idea to let your customers know about them. You can do this on your WooCommerce site by displaying your new arrivals as featured products on your homepage on your main products page.

WooCommerce automatically generates product IDs for everything you list for sale. You can then enter a shortcode that displays your items in descending order, which will put your newest items first. Here’s what to enter to display your newest 4 products: [products limit=”4″ columns=”4″ orderby=”id” order=”DESC” visibility=”visible”].

If you have sales pages – or maybe some informative blog posts – on your website, you could choose to embed one of your products directly into the blog post and sales pages so readers can click and go straight to that particular product’s page to buy it. Let’s use our trusted hat example once again to show what the code would look like: [product id=”55″].

Every product you sell will have its own set of unique attributes – whether that’s it’s color, size, weight, brand, or material. WooCommerce lets you group products by these unique characteristics in your store, so you can arrange all your blue products in one category, for example. This way, customers can see a whole look book based on their chosen color – they can see all your blue hats, coats, and gloves in one place making it much easier to find the products they want and the look they like. It’s great for upselling, too.

In this example, the shortcode would be: [products tag=”hat” attribute=”color” terms=”blue”].

This WooCommerce shortcodes plugin adds a dropdown button to TinyMCE for you to use all WooCommerce shortcodes. From WooCommerce 2.2 onwards, this button will no longer be part of WooCommerce and will only be available through a plugin.

Plugin Requirement

• WordPress 3.9 or later.
• WooCommerce 2.2 or later.

Plugin Setup & Use

Before you get started, you need to add the WooCommerce shortcode plugin click plugin > add new from your admin dashboard. Then, simply search, install and activate WooCommerce shortcodes.

Once you’ve done that, there will be a new shortcode button in your page editor and post editor. Simply click the button and you’ll be presented with all the code snippets in the drop-down menu.