Commercial WooCommerce extensions are great. You get premium support and advanced functionality. But it’s always worth keeping an eye on the free offerings on WordPress.org. Occasionally there are gems to be uncovered.
With WooCommerce passing 1 million free downloads this week it seems like the perfect time to highlight some other useful free plugins.
Product Archives Customiser
Allows you to customise WooCommerce product archives. Change the number of product columns and the number of products displayed per page. Toggle the display of core elements and enable some that are not included in WooCommerce core such as stock levels and product categories.
Sold Out Products
“WooCommerce Sold Out Products” enhances the built-in WooCommerce functionality by adding a Widget and Shortcode for displaying sold out products. The WooCommerce Sold Out Products extension uses native WooCommerce functionality ensuring that the widget and shortcode content for the sold out products integrates with your current WooCommerce templates ensuring uniformity on your WooCommerce store.
Smart Sale Badge
“WooCommerce Smart Sale Badge” enhances the built-in sale badge by displaying the total saving amount a customer will receive. The plugin works with all the WooCommerce product types – simple and external products will display a badge that says ‘Save $X!’, while variable and grouped products will display ‘Save up to $X!’.
Bundle Style Coupons
Enables store owners to make a coupon only apply when all products required for it are in the cart. When you want to run a bundle deal, for three products, all those three products need to be in the cart before the coupon works.
Product Details Customiser
Allows you to customise WooCommerce product details pages. Show / Hide core components like product imagery, tabs, upsells and related products.
Email Validation
“WooCommerce Email Validation” is a small extension for WooCommerce that adds a ‘confirm email address’ field to the checkout page as a required field. This will ensure that your customers will enter a correct email address, making managing your orders far easier and more reliable. If a customer’s email address does not match up then they will receive a standard validation error on the checkout page informing them that they need to make sure that their email addresses are the same.
Menu Cart
This plugin installs a shopping cart button in the navigation bar. The plugin takes less than a minute to setup, and includes the following options:
- Display cart icon, or only items/prices.
- Display items only, price only, or both.
- Display always, or only when there are items in the cart.
- Float left, float right, or use your menu’s default settings.
Bitcoin Payments
As the name suggests Bitcoin Payments for WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that allows to accept bitcoins at WooCommerce-powered online stores.
Improvely for WooCommerce
Improvely makes you a smarter store owner. You’ll know exactly how each of your new customers found your store without asking them – the specific website link they clicked, search they typed into Google, or ad they clicked to get to your site. All you need is WooCommerce, an Improvely account and about 60 seconds…
New Product Badge
A very simple plugin that displays a ‘new’ badge on products that were published in the last x days. X is defined on the catalog tab of the WooCommerce settings screen.
Your Favorite?
Have we missed one? What’s that one free WooCommerce extension that you couldn’t live without?
Like free WooCommerce stuff?
Be sure to check out our previous roundup of free WooCommerce extensions.
Awesome plugins 🙂 Happy to have them all – you guys rock at WooTheme
thanks a lot!!! you guys awesome! 🙂
A great selection of community plugins. Would it be possible to list WooCommerce Photos Product Tab ?
Just to add, the sold our products widget is not just a widget but adds a shortcode as well as sold out badges
What’s the point in listing sold out items?
To build community trust in that people are actually buying your stuff. Imagine showing that Band-x’s tickets are sold out:
— It serves to communicate that the deal is now closed; and
— Band-x is actually pretty cool because other people are going (social confirmation)
I get why you show products being out of stock. This plugin seems to show a list of only things that are out of stock though, that is what is confusing. Unless I’m misunderstanding the plugin…
Maybe you’re an artist who sells his work online and wants to show customers a catalog of pieces that have sold in the past?
If you can’t think of a use for it, you probably don’t need to install it ;-P
I actually use it exactly for the purpose James has mentioned – works very well for my needs so definitely worth while for certain users.
Awesome, You guys are Great. <3 Woothemes
Fantastic – THANKS!!!
Super list, would love to see a well supported plugin for crowd funding along the lines of what is outlined in this idea: http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/2939683-crowd-funding-extension would be super to see it integrated with the Rewards/Points extension which would be super for artists and not for profits or community funding and the like. Maybe others interested could vote on this idea 😉
Thank you for your roundup! Just want to add PrimePress, it’s one more free responsive WordPress theme http://www.getmotopress.com/blog/free-motopress-theme-wordpress/
WooCommerce plugin can be easily integrated with PrimePress.
Hope it will came in handy!
Don’t forget the Total Web Solutions Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce! Also Free 🙂
http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-total-web-solutions-gateway/
(UK merchants only – Internet Merchant Account required)
Hi,
how i can translate the woocommerce plugin 2.0.12. There are no more po and mo files how was before.
Can anybody help
thnks thank you soomuch
hello sourabh churan
Menu Cart look great!!!
I’m using the Menu Cart plugin with the Genesis Framework and my own child theme and the two have integrated very well.
You can see it in action here: http://www.gemmawild.co.uk
Hi, are u using some custom WooTheme ? I`like that grid view of products with big images.
Thanks for plugins list i found 3 very important for me
Hi Tumulus
No, as I said I’m using the Genesis Theme Framework and my own designed child theme for that framework =)
Hey there!
Awesome list, I don’t need all of them just yet, but some are very handy. I had a quick question for you though. I have fairly recently started using the Woocommerce plugin and am quite happy with it…..The one thing I would like to be able to do is to give each product a Custom Rating (I’d prefer in numbers out of 10) , which could just be labelled as the “Editors” rating and displayed on single product review pages…. I would really like this option because on my website, I basically give in depth reviews of each product I feature and rate them on a scale of 1 – 10. I am currently “displaying” my rating out of 10, as an addition to the product image (doesn’t look great). And lastly, this doesn’t allow me to have a “Top Rated” category page with them listed in order of MY ratings for them.
I have been searching for a plugin, or some sort of attribute setting to allow me to do something like this, but with no luck so far. Has anyone here seen a plugin that could do something like that? Or know of a way it could be done within attributes or something? I apologize if I still sound like a newbie, cause I sort of am. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂
Matt
Thanks alot…:)