Add an Add to cart button outside a product page – WooCommerce

If you like to promote a WooCommerce product in our WordPress post or article, display an add to cart button for that product on that post or article is always a good option.

We can use a WooCommerce short code for this purpose.

When a user click on that add to cart button, instead of directing the user to the product page, we can add the product to his cart from the post / article as it reduce an unnecessary step.

Step 1 – Get Product Details

• First login to WordPress dashboard & then navigate to Products.
• In product list, we can see there product ID below each product.
• Note down one of the product ID.

Step 2 – Insert the Add-to-Cart Short code

• Navigate to the post / page / article in which you want to add the cart button and click in the text editor wherever you want to display the add-to-cart button.

• In some WordPress version, there is a WooCommerce button in editor. If so, just choose Product Price/cart option. This will make a new short code in our page like below one.

  [add_to_cart id="" sku=""]
  

• Else copy paste above short code in to our page / post.

Step 3 – Fill the blank space

• Just insert the ID we taken in Step 1 on this short code.

  [add_to_cart id=”218″ sku=”Prod-03″]
  

Sku is optional, however, id is required one.

Click save and view post / page and we can see a nice little add-to-cart button for our product on that page. When a user click on that add to cart button, then the item is automatically added to his cart without going to product page.

Recent Posts

1. Automating Code Linting with GitHub Actions for WordPress Plugins
2. Comprehensive Guide to Linting PHP, JavaScript, and CSS in WordPress Plugins Using Composer
3. The Ultimate Guide to Indexing in Database Design
4. Understanding 'update_meta_cache' in WordPress - When to Use It, When Not to, and Its Impact on Database Queries
5. A Guide to Configuring JavaScript and SCSS Paths in WordPress Plugins with @wordpress/scripts

This article was published on October 25, 2014

Your Questions / Comments

If you found this article interesting, found errors, or just want to discuss about it, please get in touch.