WooCommerce Shortcodes Usage Guide

WooCommerce WordPress plugin comes with several shortcodes that can be used to insert content inside posts and pages. See here a list of the WooCommerce shortcodes.

Please add the ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters on before and after the WooCommerce shortcodes to make it work.

WooCommerce creates a Cart page for its shopping cart functionality. This is the cart shortcode:

The cart shortcode does not accept any additional parameter/argument. It shows the content of the shopping cart such as item details, coupon codes, shipping, taxes etc.

Check out page provides the checkout functionality for your customers. This is the WooCommerce shortcode for the checkout page:

The checkout shortcode does not accept any additional parameter/argument. It shows all the information which will be collected from a user during checkout such as billing info, shipping info, payment method etc.

My Account page shows a dashboard to the logged-in customers. This is the WooCommerce shortcode for the My Account page:

A customer can view their past orders, downloads, and update their personal details such as billing info, shipping info, account password from the My Account page.

Order Tracking Form page is not created automatically by default. This is an optional page that you can manually create to let a customer check the status of an order. This is the WooCommerce shortcode for the Order Tracking Form page:

In order to see the status of an order, the customer needs to enter their order details in the Order Tracking Form.

There are some WooCommerce shortcodes which can be used anywhere you want.

You can use this WooCommerce shortcode to list a set of recent products.

This WooCommerce shortcode allows you to show a single product by ID or SKU.

In order to find the ID of a product, you can hover over that particular product in the WooCommerce Products menu.

This WooCommerce shortcode allows you to show multiple products by ID or SKU.

This WooCommerce shortcode shows the price and adds to cart button of a single product by ID.

This WooCommerce shortcode prints the URL on the add to cart button of a single product by ID.

You can find the slug of a particular category under WooCommerce > Products > Categories.

This WooCommerce shortcode can display multiple product categories in a loop.

You can use the number parameter to display the number of products, and the ids field (containing comma-separated list of category IDs) to choose which categories to display.

There is also the parent parameter that you can set to 0 to only display the top level categories.

In order to find the ID of a category, go to the Product Categories screen and hover over the category. The ID appears in the URL.

This WooCommerce shortcode shows the full product page of a WooCommerce product by ID or SKU.

This WooCommerce shortcode showcases all of your products that are on sale.

This WooCommerce shortcode showcases all of your best-selling products.

This WooCommerce shortcode lists all of your related products.

This WooCommerce shortcode showcases all of your top-rated products.

This WooCommerce shortcode lists products by attributes.

The “order” parameter can accept one of these values:

For example This shortcode will sort 3 products (with SKUs foo, bar and baz) by date in descending order:

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