Whatsly Documentation

Overview

An “Order on WhatsApp” button on product pages and in the cart, with a ready-made message: product, options, quantity, price and link, or the whole cart.

• Order on WhatsApp
• Product or whole cart
• Ready-made message

Best for: Local shops, makers and stores whose customers prefer messages

Installation

1. Download whatsly-whatsapp-order.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

• Button on product pages, under add to cart
• Message with product, options, quantity, price and link
• Cart button with every line and the total
• Classic and block themes, classic and block cart
• WhatsApp-only mode: hide the add to cart button
• Your number, texts and color
• Shortcode [whatsly id="123"]

Shortcodes

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

• [whatsly]
• [whatsly_preview]

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

• whatsly_cart
• whatsly_sanitize
• whatsly_show

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

Actions

• whatsly_admin_after_form
• whatsly_admin_before_form
• whatsly_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