Addonify – Compare Products For WooCommerce

April 03, 2024

Addonify – Compare Products For WooCommerce Plugin

Addonify Compare Products is a WooCommerce extension that allows website visitors to compare multiple products on your online store.

Addonify Compare Products is a WooCommerce extension that allows website visitors to compare multiple products on your online store. It enables functionality to let visitors add products to a comparison table which consists of product information like name, image, price, rating, description, attributes etc.

👉 Demo one
👉 Documentation guide

Addonify Compare Products helps your online visitors to make better buying decisions that will result in a better online shopping experience.

⏳ FEATURES:

Light-weight & optimized.
Enable or disable product comparison.
Display the comparison table either in a modal window or a page.
Save the compare cookie in the visitor’s web browser for specified days.
Add to compare button position.
Custom add to compare button label.
Hide/show icon in add to compare button.
Add to compare button icon position.
Contents to display in the comparison table.
Color option for add to compare button.
Color option for comparison dock.
Color option for the product search modal.
Color option for comparison table.
Additional CSS.
Media responsive.
Shortcode support.
Ajax functionality while removing adding & removing products from comparison. (No page reload required).

🔐 GDPR COMPLIANT:

Addonify Compare does not collect any personal or sensitive data from website visitors. Hence, this plugin is fully GDPR compliant.

⚔️ DEVELOPER:

Addonify Compare is developer friendly. We know that we have wonderful developers all around us and wish to customize our plugin’s functionality when using it in their projects. Keeping that in mind, we have built Addonify Compare to be developer friendly and customizable. If you are a developer willing to integrate Addonify Compare into your project do check out our developer documentation guide here..

🐛 DISCUSSION & REPORTING A BUG:

We are open to any kind of discussions on that can help improve our plugin. So, we would like to welcome you to be part of the discussions. Feel free to share your ideas, ask questions related to plugin, report bugs, ask for features, and participate in poll.

👉 Create a new discussion
👉 Report a bug

🎭 TRANSLATION GUIDELINES:

If you wish Addonify Compare Products to be translated in your language, feel free to contribute translating at translate.wordpress.org directly.

Installation

Log into your WordPress dashboard and click on “Plugins”.
Click on “Add New” button.
On search bar, search for “Addonify Compare Products”.
Install and activate it.

Screenshots

Compare button in front-end.
Comparison table modal box.
Compare setting page in dashboard - 1.
Compare setting page in dashboard - 2.
Compare setting page in dashboard - 3.

FAQ

Does this plugin works in all themes?

Yes, Addonify Product Compare should work with all themes if the theme authors haven’t overridden the default WooCommerce template files. If you notice any issue with your theme, please let us know or ask your theme author to check the compatibility with our plugin.

Can I select what fields show inside the compare table?

Yes, you can select the fields from Dashboard > Addonify > Compare > Settings to display in the compare table.

Is there a shortcode for adding product compare button?

Yes, there is. Use [addonify_compare_button] to add product compare button. product_id , button_label, classes, and button_icon_position are the shortcode attributes that can be used. Shortcode attribute, product_id is required in order to display the compare button outside the products loop. Value for shortcode attribute classes should be CSS classes separated by a space. The value for button_icon_position, should be either ‘left’, ‘right’ or ‘none’;. For more information check doc.

I’m a developer, is it possible to customize frontend output?

Yes, you can do it. Copy template from “/public/templates” the plugin’s folder and paste them inside “/addonify/addonify-compare-products” of your theme’s folder. For more information, read the plugin’s documentation

Changelog

1.1.14 – 03 April, 2024

Tested: WordPress version 6.5.
Tested: WooCommerce version 8.7.0.

1.1.13 – 17 January, 2024

Fixed: Comparison table not displaying in comparison page.
New: Plugin setting page user interface.
Added: Color options for comparison modal.
Added: Color optoins for product search modal.
Added: Dashboard notice in plugin setting page.
Tested: WooCommerce version 8.5.1.
Tested: WordPress version 6.4.2.

1.1.12 – 09 November, 2023

Tested: WordPress v6.4.0
Tested: WooCommerce v8.2.2

1.1.11 – 04 August, 2023

Added: Option to enable compare product button for logged in user.
Added: Options to enable compare product button on product single page.
Added: Option to enable product button on products loop.
Added: Shortcode, [addonify_compare_button], for adding compare button.
Updated: Plugin setting page link moved before the ‘Deactivate’ link in plugins list page.
Updated: Compare dock is now visible only if there is compare button on a page.
Tested: Up to WooCommerce version 8.0.3.
Tested: WordPress version 6.3.1.

1.1.10 – 20 June, 2023

Fix: Translation issue. String “N/A” is now translation ready. #181
Tested: WooCommerce version 7.8.0.

1.1.9 – 15 June, 2023

Fixed: Issue of product image getting rendered twice in comparison docker. GitHub Issue#159
Fixed: PHP warnings. GitHub Issue#168
Added: Product attributes, weight, dimensions, and additional information can now be selected for comparison.
Added: Sortable option to select product attributes for comparison.
Updated: Ratings count has been added after the rating in comparison table.
Updated: Option, Compare Table Fields, is updated to be sortable.
Updated: Table fields can be sorted.
Updated: Plugin setting page is now hidden if WooCommerce is inactive.

1.1.8 – 07 June, 2023

Added: Missing 772x250px banner image for wordpress.org.
Tested: with WordPress version 6.2.2.

1.1.7 – 07 June, 2023

Tweak: Calculating the height of the comparison model using JavaScript.
Enhancement: Console warn if perfect scroll bar couldn’t be initialized.

1.1.6 – 01 June, 2023

Tweak: How reactive state on plugin setting’s page is managed (vue js).

1.1.5 – 09 March, 2023

Fix: Release issue in Github & WordPress.org SVN. [Version bumped].

1.1.4 – 07 March, 2023

Update: Static texts in UDP Agents are now translation ready.

1.1.3 – 03 March, 2023

Updated: UDP agent to version 1.0.1.

1.1.2 – 24 January, 2023

Added: Recommended products in compare setting page.

1.1.1 – 28 December, 2022

Added: Custom JS events, addonify_added_to_comparelist and addonify_removed_from_comparelist when a product is added and removed from the compare list respectively.
Added: Support for multisite.

1.1.0 – 12 December, 2022

Added: UDP Agent https://creamcode.org/user-data-processing.
Tweak: Managing Products for comparison moved to client-side. It was done through server-side previously.
Tweak: Used the function, ‘wp_unslash’, instead of ‘stripslashes’.
Removed: Unwanted functions.
Updated: Settings levels and descriptions in the plugin settings page.
Improvement: Color Picker in settings page.
Improvement: Implemented WPCS.

1.0.5 – 19 Sept, 2022

Fix: Text domain on vue components.
Fix: Section title visibility logic for admin dashboard pugin design setting page.

1.0.4 – 31 August, 2022

Tested: with WordPress version 6.0.2.

1.0.3 – 7 August 2022

Updated: Removed button from button.addonify-cp-button in custom.js

1.0.2 – 29 July 2022

Updated: Readme.txt file.
Fixed: Author URL.

1.0.1 – 29 July 2022

Added: wordpress.org graphics.
Fixed: Typo in vue js files.

1.0.0 – 28 July 2022

New: Initial release