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How to create a wishlist (favorite products) for your customers in your WooCommerce store

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Creating a list of preferences within the online store is one of the procedures that contribute to increasing purchases within the store, as many visitors enter online stores to search for their favorite products or that they plan to buy when money is available at a certain time, or when accessing discount coupons for products or other reasons that prompt the visitor to add a product to the favorites list for reference at another time. The appearance and method of displaying the favorites list varies from one store to another, and there are many WordPress plugins that you can benefit from by showing the (Add to Favorites) button on your store’s products, and each plugin has its own features and features. Inside this article, you will find a group of WordPress plugins that show the favorites list on the store’s products, and easily customize their look and feel.

Contents of the article The most popular add-ons to show the (Add to Favorites) button 1. WishSuite add-on 2.

Add YITH Wishlist 3.

Add  WPC Smart Wishlist 4.

Add TI Wishlist 

5. Adding Wishlist and Waitlist, the most popular add-ons to show the (Add to Favorites) button. The following add-ons perform one function, which is to show the list of preferences within WooCommerce products, but each add-on has its own features and features, distinct from the rest of the other add-ons, so choose what suits you according to the features that you find appropriate for the look and feel of your online store. 1.

WishSuite add-on The WishSuite add-on comes as one of the add-ons that help you display the Add to Favorites button within the store easily, as you can control the shape and appearance of the Add to Favorites button through a special easy control panel in addition and you can control all of its options easily. You can also choose to have the Add to Favorites button displayed within the product pages or within the main store page, and the picture shows the appearance of the Add to Favorites button immediately after installing and activating the add-on. When you enter the add-on’s special settings page tab immediately after its installation, you will find all the options. Which you can control the way the preferences list button appears, where you find the following options from which you can activate the appearance of the preferences button within individual product pages, or within the main store page that displays the list of products: The following settings also allow you to control the place and position of the preferences button appearing within the store, where you can choose for the button to be displayed after the (Add to Cart) button, or a kiss, or even above or below the product image inside the store, in addition to the ability to change the text that appears on the preferences button, where you can write (Add to Favorites) or any other text that you see as It is more suitable for visitors to your store. You can also activate the share button so that visitors can share their favorites list with their friends, which helps increase the dissemination of your products to more customers. You will find the option to activate social sharing of the preferences list within the add-on settings. After you have finished customizing all the settings for the preferences list button in the store, you can now show the preferences page within the main menu of the store to make it easier for visitors to access the preferences list at any time and make purchases from within it.

You can create a new page from within the control panel and give it the appropriate title, such as (Favorite Products), then paste the short code into the page and publish the page: When you enter that page where you pasted the short code to show the list of preferences that is generated using the extension, you will find that it contains all the products that you have added to your list of preferences. You may have also noticed that the social sharing icons appear at the bottom of the favorite products page, and that is because we have activated the sharing option from within the settings page for the addition previously. 2.

Addition of YITH Wishlist Also comes the addition of YITH Wishlist

It is one of the additions that is easy to use and is also available in Arabic, as you will find its settings appear completely in Arabic if it is the primary language within your site, and therefore you will not find difficulty in dealing with its options within the control panel. Once the add-on is installed directly, the Add to Favorites button appears below the Add to Cart button on the product pages in the store. When you click on the Add to Favorites button, a message appears directly informing the customer that the product has been added to the Favorites list. Next to it, a button to go to the Wish or Preferences page appears, where the customer can browse his favorites list and control it, whether adding or deleting. When heading to the Wish page, you will notice that buttons for sharing the Favorites list on various social media platforms appear. You can hide these options or Show it from within the special settings page. In return, you can show the (Delete from Favorites) button after the visitor clicks on Add to Favorites for any product? Of course, you can control the shape, appearance, and properties of the add to favorites button after clicking on it. You can choose to show a link to the favorite products page or even a link to delete the product from the favorites. You can also activate the add to favorites button inside the main store page, which displays all the products inside your store in the following way. To activate this option inside the store page below all the products that are displayed, you can enter the add-on settings page and activate this option. You can also 

Determine where the button appears, whether before or after the Add to Cart button. The add-on also provides a short code that you can paste into any new page you create or even an existing page so that the wish list is displayed inside it directly after pasting the short code inside it. You can get the short code for the wish list page from within the add-on settings page easily. You also find within the settings page many options through which you can control the appearance and form of the wish list page, where you can choose the items that are displayed within the page in front of users and customers. Special Settings Menu This add-on is long, and you can enter and browse all its settings, and you will find dozens of options that help you customize the look and feel of the preferences list button and page and control them as desired. 3.

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WPC Smart Wishlist In the same list, we recommend the addition of WPC Smart Wishlist, as it also displays the Add to Favorites or Wish List button within the online store, but it contains a distinctive control panel and provides many options that you may not find in the rest of the other add-ons, through which you can control whether to show or hide the Add to Favorites button for visitors who are not registered on the site, and you can also set up the deletion of products from the Favorites list after a certain time has passed on them inside the list without returning to them. The picture from inside the add-on settings page shows the options through which you can control hiding or showing the list to unregistered visitors, as well as the ability to control deleting products from the preferences after a period of time has passed: Also inside the settings page you will find the short code for the desires or preferences page, which you can copy and paste into any new page that you create and then set it as the preferences page or favorite products for visitors to your site, and you can show it inside the store’s main menu for easy access. You can also activate or disable the sharing buttons on social media platforms for the store’s favorites list: Also in the addition options you will find the ability to control the texts that are displayed whether on the preferences page or on the Add to Favorites button, where you can write texts that suit the visitors of your online store and the type of products you have: 4.

TI Wishlist add-on The TI Wishlist add-on displays an assistant installation program to set up the add-on and its complete options, where you can follow the special instructions or ignore them and enter its settings from within the control panel later: If you choose to complete the installation of the add-on and customize its settings using its setup wizard program, many tabs will appear before you through which you can choose the settings most appropriate for your store so that the Add to Favorites button is designed in the way and shape you want, then after completing the settings you prefer To show the Add to List button, now from within the store page and the products page, the visitor can click on the Add to Wish List button, and immediately after that a pop-up window will appear showing him the option to go to the shopping cart or close and complete browsing. You can go to the add-on settings page at any time to customize the look and feel of the Wish List for store visitors 5.

Adding Wishlist and Waitlist You can also rely on adding Wishlist and Waitlist, as it has a feature that is not available in most other wishlist additions, which is that it helps you create a (waiting list) for store customers. If a product runs out of its stock inside the store, visitors can add this product to the waiting list, as a notification will be sent to them via email when the product is available again. After installing and activating the add-on, you can enter the general settings page for the add-on to choose the wish page as well as the waiting page after completing these settings. Now when the visitor enters the store, the icon to add to the wish or wish list will appear below all the products that are displayed in the store. When there is a product that has run out of stock, another icon will be shown below it, especially in addition to the waiting list. When the customer adds the product to the waiting list, he will be automatically notified by email when the product is back in stock again, and thus when it becomes available. One of the products of the product is not available in stock. The visitor will be able to know when the product will be available again after adding it to the waiting list, which ultimately helps in increasing sales within your online store because customers follow their favorite products and see the latest developments when they are available again in the store. Conclusion: With this, we have learned that providing the add button to the favorites list is considered an easy and uncomplicated procedure, and one of the specialized add-ons can be used to do this in a very short time.

Displaying the button to add to the wish list or preferences is considered one of the important things that must be made available within the store, as it encourages the customer to add his favorite products to purchase them at the appropriate time.

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