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How Do I Customize a WooCommerce Button?

Last updated on January 14, 2023 @ 5:14 am

As a WordPress user, you’re probably familiar with the default WooCommerce buttons. They’re functional, but they’re not exactly stylish. If you’re looking to add a little bit of flair to your WooCommerce store, customizing the buttons is a great place to start.

In this article, we’ll show you how to customize a WooCommerce button in two different ways. First, we’ll use some simple CSS to change the color and style of the button. Then, we’ll walk you through how to change the text on the button using a plugin.

Change the Color and Style of the Button With CSS

If you’re comfortable with CSS, then this is the easiest way to change the style of your WooCommerce buttons. All you need to do is add a few lines of code to your child theme’s stylesheet.

First, you need to find the CSS selector for the WooCommerce button. The best way to do this is using your browser’s inspector tool. For our purposes, we’ll be using Google Chrome.

Open up your website in Google Chrome and navigate to the page where the button is located. Then, right-click on the button and select “Inspect. ”

PRO TIP: Please be aware that there is no guarantee that customizing a WooCommerce button will be successful. It is possible that your changes will not be reflected in the final product.

The highlighted area is the HTML element for the button, which should look something like this:

<button class="button alt">Add to Cart</button>

The part we’re interested in is the “button alt” class.

Your goal is to Target this class with your CSS so that you can change the style of all buttons on your site that have this class.

Now that you know how to find the CSS selector for your button, let’s take a look at how you can use it to change the style of your button.

To start, open up your child theme’s stylesheet (style.css) and add the following code:

button.alt {
background: #000000; /* Change color */
border: 0px; /* Remove border */
; /* Add padding */
}

save your changes and check out your website. You should see that all of your buttons have been updated with the new color and style.

If you want to take things a step further, you can also use CSS to add an icon to your buttons.

For example, let’s say that you want to add a shopping cart icon next to your “Add To Cart” buttons.

To do this, first create or download a shopping cart icon and save it to your website’s images folder.

Once you have your icon ready, open up your child theme’s stylesheet again and add the following code:

button.alt { /* Add icon */
background: url(images/shopping-cart-icon.png) no-repeat left center; /* Change path */
}

This code will display a shopping cart icon next to all of your “Add To Cart” buttons on both product pages and shop pages.

Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

Sysadmin turned Javascript developer. Owner of 20+ apps graveyard, and a couple of successful ones.