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How Do I Create a WooCommerce Shortcode?

Last updated on January 16, 2023 @ 2:36 pm

WooCommerce is a powerful eCommerce plugin for WordPress. It allows you to sell anything, anywhere. In this article, we will show you how to create a WooCommerce shortcode.

A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcodes are written in square brackets [like this].

WooCommerce comes with several shortcodes that can be used out of the box. For example, the [woocommerce_cart] shortcode displays the cart contents and the [woocommerce_checkout] shortcode displays the checkout form.

In addition to these built-in shortcodes, WooCommerce also allows you to create your own custom shortcodes. This can be very useful if you want to display specific products, categories, or other information on your site in a unique way.

Creating a custom WooCommerce shortcode is easy. First, you need to define the shortcode in your theme’s functions.php file. This tells WordPress what theshortcode does and how it should work:

Once you have defined the shortcode, you can use it anywhere on your site by simply typing [foobar]. When someone views the page, they will see “foo and bar” in place of the shortcode. Of course, most shortcodes are more complex than this one.

You can add attributes to your shortcodes to make them more flexible. Attributes are like options that can be set when theshortcode is used. For example, let’s say you want to create a shortcode that displays a product from your WooCommerce store:

In this example, we are using the attributes array to set an default value for the id attribute. If no id attribute is set when theshortcode is used, then an empty string will be used instead.

We are also using the wc_get_product() function to get a product object from its id. This product object allows us to get the title and excerpt for our product display.

PRO TIP: Please be aware that the WooCommerce Shortcode is a powerful tool and can easily break your website if used incorrectly. We highly recommend that you backup your website before using this tool.

Once you have created your custom WooCommerce shortcodes, you can style them using CSS just like any other element on your site. For example, let’s say we want our product displayto have a green background:

 
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