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WooCommerce-Short-Codes

Table of Contents

  • Replaced shortcode attributes.
  • Products shortcode
    • Available attributes
    • Examples
      • Products by category
      • Products by attribute
      • Products by ID
      • Products by SKU
      • Recent products
      • On sale products
      • Best selling products
      • Top rated products
      • Featured products

Shortcodes has been improved on WooCommerce 3.2.0, see the changes:

Replaced shortcode attributes.

Some of the attributes have gained a new names.

  • per_page now is called limit.
  • operator now is called cat_operator.
  • filter now is called terms.

All changes has been made to make the attributes clearer and easier to use.

Note that the old names will still work without generating any warning or deprecated notice.

Products shortcode

The [products] shortcode has been improved on WooCommerce 3.2, allowing fetch products by ids, SKUs, categories, attributes, and more, replacing the need for multiples shortcodes like [product_category], [featured_products], [sale_products], [best_selling_products], [recent_products], [product_attribute], and [top_rated_products].

Available attributes

  • limit – Results limit. Defaults to -1.
  • columns – Number of columns. Defaults to 4.
  • orderby – Sort retrieved products by parameter. Available options: menu_order, title, date, rand, price, popularity, rating, or id. Defaults to title. One or more options can be passed separated by empty spaces.
  • order – Designates the order of the orderby attribute. Available options: ASC and DESC. Defaults to ASC.
  • ids – Comma separated list of product IDs.
  • skus – Comma separated list of product SKUs.
  • category – Comma separated list of category slugs.
  • cat_operator – Operator to compare categories. Available options: AND, IN, and NOT IN. Defaults to IN.
  • attribute – Retrieved products based on an attribute slug.
  • terms – Comma separated list of attribute terms to be used with attribute.
  • terms_operator – Operator to compare attribute terms. Available options: AND, IN, and NOT IN. Defaults to IN.
  • visibility – Retrieve products based on visibility. Available options: visible (visible on shop and search results), catalog (visible on shop only), search (visible on search results only), and hidden. Defaults to visible.
  • class – Shortcode wrapper HTML class.
  • on_sale – Retrieve on sale products. Not to be used in conjunction with best_selling or top_rated.
  • best_selling – Retrieve best selling products. Not to be used in conjunction with on_sale or top_rated.
  • top_rated – Retrieve top rated products. Not to be used in conjunction with on_sale or best_selling.

Examples

Check the follow examples that replaces our old shortcodes.

Products by category

[products category="clothing" limit="4" orderby="menu_order title" order="ASC"]

Products by attribute

[products attribute="color" terms="black" limit="4" orderby="title" order="ASC"]

Products by ID

[products ids="1,2,3,4,5,6"]

Products by SKU

[products skus="foo,bar,baz"]

Recent products

[products limit="4" orderby="date" order="DESC"]

On sale products

[products on_sale="true" limit="4" orderby="title" order="ASC"]

Best selling products

[products best_selling="true" limit="4"]

Top rated products

[products top_rated="true" limit="4" orderby="title" order="ASC"]

Featured products

[products visibility="featured" limit="4" orderby="date" order="DESC"]