Wishly Documentation

Overview

Shoppers save the products they like with a heart, without creating an account, come back later or share their list. You see which products are the most wished for.

• Visitors save products and come back to buy
• Shareable lists for birthdays and Christmas
• See which products customers want most

Best for: Stores with considered or gift purchases

Installation

1. Download wishly-wishlist.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.
3. Add [wishly_count] to your header (or enable the floating button) so customers find their list.

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

Features

• Heart button on product images in the shop and category pages
• "Add to wishlist" button next to "Add to cart" on product pages
• No account needed: the list is kept in the browser; customers who are logged in get it saved to their account and on all their devices
• Wishlist page with price, stock and one-click add to cart
• Share link: the wishlist can be opened by anyone, who can save the products to their own list
• Header link with a counter ([wishly_count]) or a floating heart button
• "Most wished products" report in WooCommerce › Wishlist (anonymous counter)
• Works with page caching
• Your texts and accent color
• Lightweight: no jQuery on the front end, no external service, no tracking
• Translation-ready

Shortcodes

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

• [wishly]
• [wishly_button]
• [wishly_count]

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

• wishly_show

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

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