Better Usability for WooCommerce

Better Usability for WooCommerce removes the small but persistent friction points that cause shoppers to abandon: waiting for full page reloads, hunting for quantity controls, and navigating an unnecessary cart step before checkout. It covers four areas — Shop, Product, Cart, and Checkout — with settings you can mix and match to fit your store.

Free features:

Cart

• Auto-refresh cart totals via AJAX when quantity changes — no “Update cart” click required
• Show −/+ buttons around the quantity field on cart, product, and shop pages
• Lock the numeric input so shoppers can only use the +/− buttons (prevents accidental typing)
• Show a confirmation prompt before quantity is reduced to zero
• Show item quantity as a dropdown select instead of a numeric input
• Hide quantity inputs on the Cart page

Shop

• Change product quantity directly on the shop/archive page before adding to cart
• AJAX “Add to cart” on individual product pages (same as the shop-loop behaviour)
• Skip the cart page and go straight to checkout after adding a product
• Override the number of products per row
• Hide the default sorting dropdown
• Hide the Add to Cart button entirely (useful for catalogue-only stores)
• Customise the “Add to cart” and “View cart” button labels

Product

• Show item quantity as a dropdown select
• Hide price ranges on variable or grouped products
• Hide the quantity input on single product pages

Checkout

• Allow shoppers to delete items directly from the checkout page
• Allow shoppers to change quantities from the checkout page
• Display the unit price next to each product name

General

• Convert simple-product “Add to Cart” buttons to AJAX site-wide
• Hide the “Added to cart” notice after adding a product
• Hide the “View cart” link after adding a product
• Set a global maximum quantity per product
• Decimal quantity support for +/− buttons

PRO features:

• Sticky Add to Cart bar — a floating bar slides in when the shopper scrolls past the Add to Cart button, keeping purchase intent alive without hunting for the button
• Quick View modal — shoppers open a full product preview in a lightbox (image, price, description, Add to Cart) without leaving the Shop page
• Synchronize cart quantities automatically when changed (view demo)
• Auto-update price on Product and Shop pages as quantity changes (view demo)
• Change product variations directly on the Shop page — fewer clicks to buy (view demo)
• Sync the MiniCart widget live from Shop or Product pages (view demo)
• AJAX delete on the checkout page — no full page reload (view demo)
• Change quantities inside the Mini-Cart widget (view demo)

Get the PRO version here.

1. Upload woo-better-usability.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. It’s done. Now you can go to the Settings to customize what you want

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   AJAX Add to Cart with quantity selector on the Shop page

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   Cart settings — AJAX auto-update, +/− buttons, select dropdown, confirmation prompt

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   Product page settings — quantity select, price range visibility, quantity input visibility

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   Shop settings — products per row, quantity controls, Go to Checkout shortcut

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1.0.60

• Fixed the “Better Usability for WooCommerce may not be compatible with the Checkout block” admin notice — the plugin now declares compatibility with the Cart/Checkout Blocks (its features no-op inside the Blocks rather than breaking them)

1.0.59

• PRO: Added Sticky Add to Cart bar — floats in when the shopper scrolls past the Add to Cart button on product pages; position, background colour, and text colour are all configurable
• PRO: Added Quick View modal — opens a product preview lightbox from the Shop page without a page navigation

1.0.58

• Fixed quantity selector always sending 1 when using the [add_to_cart] shortcode — add-to-cart button is a sibling of the qty form, not a child, so data-quantity was never updated
• Fixed compat scripts reporting missing dependencies by moving enqueue hook to a later priority so third-party scripts are registered first
• Fixed checkout slowdown caused by Ajax Search compat script binding an expensive DOMSubtreeModified listener — replaced with MutationObserver and excluded the script from checkout pages

1.0.57

• Declared the GPLv2 license in the plugin header
• Fixed the Author URI
• Hardened the AJAX cart and checkout handlers with nonce verification and input sanitization
• Escaped all dynamic output and corrected the text domain on every translatable string

1.0.56

• Tested with WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.8
• Declared Cart & Checkout Blocks compatibility status (features target the classic Cart/Checkout)
• Added Requires PHP and Requires Plugins headers
• Fixed a fatal error on the frontend when checking for the WooCommerce Min/Max Quantities plugin
• Added missing exit after dismissing an admin notice redirect

1.0.55

• Added High-Performance order storage compatibility

1.0.54

• Tested with WooCommerce 7.0.1 and WordPress 6.1

1.0.53

• Changed the shop quantity area and Add to cart button to be more template-standard

1.0.52

• Fixed buttons and shop quantity issues for Flatsome theme

1.0.51

• Adding better quantity buttons compatibility with ShopEngine + Elementor
• Tested with WordPress 5.9 and WooCommerce 6.2.0

1.0.50

• Reducing the templating overrides to make the AJAX add to cart features
• Increasing compatibility with WooCommerce and plugins
• Changed default plus and minus buttons looking
• Tested with WC 5.8.1

1.0.49

• Added a span with named class product_name to product title at checkout page
• Fixed block and unblock effect functions to avoid edge cases errors
• Tested with WC 5.5.1 and WP 5.8

1.0.48

• Fixed WooCommerce 5.2 checkout quantity and remove button incompatibilities
• Adding wbu_ajax_add_to_cart_legacy filter to use AJAX Add to cart buttons in more compatible way

1.0.47

• Added single_add_to_cart_button class for Add cart buttons in Shop
• Added BlockUI loading effect on Checkout table when changing quantity
• Allow to reduce quantity with minus button when preloaded exceeding the max limit
• Improved quantity buttons support
• Updated Tested up to tag

1.0.46

• When product is sold individually, disable quantity buttons in single product page
• Fixed some WooCommerce frontend event listeners

1.0.45

• Using document instead document.body listeners that was causing issues with some themes
• Fix incorrect translation domain for specific config
• Compatibility with Saasland theme buttons
• Define more global quantity event listener for different cart theme layouts
• Fixed missing hook call to display -/+ buttons in single product page when using selects
• Added option: Display quantity buttons everywhere, simplified buttons display config

1.0.44

• Cleaning unused source code
• Changed plus and minus buttons display to be more standard (using woo *_quantity_input_field hooks)
• Removing Fix layout break when Enter key is pressed config to use wbu_fix_cart_enter_key filter instead

1.0.43

• Fixing bug in lib that was displaying unwanted admin notices
• Updated WooCommerce tested tag

1.0.42

• Fixed text domain to allow plugin string translation
• Reduced and removed unnecessary frontend variables to reduce page size load
• Removing minified asset wbulite.min.js for better coding standards and debug

1.0.41

• Fixed flatsome duplicating add to cart section issue in shop page
• Updated WooCommerce and WordPress tested tag

1.0.40

• Removing deprecated PHP short_open_tag blocks
• Supporting for decimal quantity increment and decrement buttons

1.0.39

• Optimized Hide View cart link after add product config to not blink after add
• Added per product limit compatibility with BeRocket Min and Max Quantity for WooCommerce plugin

1.0.38

• Reversed changelog ordering to make it more standard
• Changed plugin notices to respect the guidelines
• Standardization of custom plugin templates overriding in theme
• Added filter wbu_bypass_shop_quantity_override to avoid templae override quantity html area in Shop
• Fixed View cart link after add product option to work with Greenmart theme

1.0.37

• Added custom theme template overriding similar to WooCommerce
• Removed listener for minus and plus buttons because it causing trouble with many themes

1.0.36

• Fixed Divi theme child compatibility in increase/decrease buttons
• Fixed Porto theme issues with duplicated quantity buttons
• Prevent page reload in specific cases after change quantity in shop
• Added listener for minus and plus buttons used in most themes
• Compatibility with BeRocket Ajax Products Filter plugin
• Avoid double quantity increment when using Astra theme
• Refresh minicart totals when change quantity in checkout

1.0.35

• Fixed divi theme child quantity on shop display
• Added wp 5.4 tested up to tag
• The option to transform Add to Cart into AJAX in Product is now generic for all pages

1.0.34

• Added compatibility support with WooCommerce 4.0.1

1.0.33

• Respect max stock quantities when using select input for quantities
• Fixed bug that not displaying select input in Cart in some conditions

1.0.32

• Fixed checkout max input quantity validation

1.0.31

• Added compatibility support with WooCommerce 3.8.1
• Fixed Undefined Index error in Shop page

1.0.30

• Added support for modified remove link zero quantity check
• Added support for Woo Gutenberg Products Block plugin

1.0.29

• Updated WC tested up to tag

1.0.28

• Removing -/+ buttons when product is sold individually

1.0.27

• Fixed blockUI to hide when finish Custom AJAX callback
• Added AJAX timeout for quantity change refresh
• Updated WC tested up to tag

1.0.26

• Changed the cart overlay behavior in Custom AJAX mode to use the default of WooCommerce

1.0.25

• Fix and optimize some mess in JS code and removing loops
• Fix issue in Related products not showing quantity input for first product

1.0.24

• Enqueue assets in all pages for better compatibility with custom pages
• Reduced is shop loop detection checks to better compatibility with Elementor and relateds
• Added overlay when AJAX refreshing cart using Run Custom AJAX method
• Removed option Don't apply this option to front page (use wbu_enable_quantity_input filter instead)
• Removed option Always enqueue assets for better compatibility
• Removed option Optimize to make Cart work better when embebed in other pages