Comparely Documentation

Overview

A Compare button on products, a compare bar and a side by side table with price, rating, stock, attributes and dimensions, with differences highlighted.

• Products side by side
• Differences highlighted
• Add to cart from the table

Best for: Catalogs with similar products: electronics, furniture, sport, beauty

Installation

1. Download comparely-product-compare.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+, WooCommerce 7.0+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Compare button in the shop, product grids and product pages
• Compare bar with thumbnails, up to 6 products
• Comparison window with price, rating, availability, description, attributes, dimensions, weight and SKU
• Highlight differences
• Add to cart from the table
• Kept in the visitor’s browser: works on cached pages
• Shortcode [comparely ids="12,34,56"] for fixed comparisons in articles or pages

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [comparely]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• comparely_sanitize
• comparely_show

add_filter( 'comparely_sanitize', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• comparely_admin_after_form
• comparely_admin_before_form
• comparely_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions