A beautifully lightweight plugin that packs a powerful product marketing punch!
WooCommerce Widget Product Slideshow enables you to quickly and easily create any number of Customized Widget Product slideshows.
The plugin has no settings. Just install and activate and add the WooCommerce Product Slideshow widget to as many widgetized areas and sidebars on your site as you like.
Features
- Create Product Picture Slideshows in any Widgetized area, sidebar or footer.
- Create a slideshow of products from any Product Category
- Create a slideshow of products from any product Tag.
- Create an ‘On Sale’ Product Slideshow. Auto shows any product that has a reduced price.
- Plugin has no settings. Each widget has its own setting panel.
- 5 Different transition effects.
- Set transition effect speed and time between transitions.
View the Plugin DEMO which shows 3 Widgets created from the 3 Different Sources.
Show products from any Product category.
Products from any Product category.
Create Product Image Galleries with products showing from any category
Show Products from any Product Tag.
This feature gives the WooCommerce Widget Slideshow incredible flexibility. Make any Product Tag – example ‘Featured’ – assign products to that tag and they will show in the Widget if you select that tag as the source.
Create a Slideshow of all ‘On Sale’ Products.
Just set this feature and all of the Products that you have set a “Specials’ or ‘marked down’ price will auto show in the Gallery, including the reduced price.
Create an ‘On Sale” Widget gallery and it auto shows all of you ‘specials’ or ‘ ‘marked down’ products.
Each widgets admin panel allows you to customize not only which products show in the gallery slideshow but how they are displayed. For a full explanation of how the settings work see the plugins documentation.
I was under the impression that you could display a number of products side by side. Currently only one product is displayed at a time. Is it possible to display “n” number of products side by side, like say 6 products, then slide to the next 6, etc.
Hello Julian,
Sorry being a Sunday – bit slow at responding. The WooCommerce Widget Products Slideshow at the moment works just like you see it here showing on the a3rev site – cycling a single product through the Gallery with the transition and speed that you set from the widget.
A slider that you described I think is a Carousel and would require either a full wide widget area or to embed on a post or page.
What is it that you are after? We have a products carousel feature on this plugins roadmap but have not yet perfected it so I’d be interested to know how you’d be using it.There are lots of issues with a carousel if it was in the footer say – its a heavy script and would slow you product page load a lot if it was in the footer.
There are many scripts already running on a WooCommerce custom post type (product page) – image galleries, add to cart ajax, related products loading and whatever else is in the sidebar – adding a big script such as a products Carousel to a products page is not something that we would want to do.
So it is a work in progress for us. Thank you.
Hello, is there anyway you can have more than one product at a time? I have mine on the front page so it is lean to have just one product rather than three or so viewable at a time.
Thank you,
Jessica
Hello Jessica,
This is a type of feature request that we are getting quite a bit – When you say more than one product at a time do you mean a slider type option rather than a Gallery? Galleries are 1 image and are different to a slider? I think we could build a slider feature option into the plugin – but want to be sure that is what you mean?
Thank you for the quick response, Steve and that would be wonderful. I do use it as a slider and as you can see: http://wintergoosepublishing.com/, it does not look as good with one title showing. This is a great plugin for what I’m going for, just need it to look a little prettier
Let me know if you also see the little jolt when it slides. Maybe it’s because it’s not being used as a side widget?
Thank you!
Thank you for the link – we are looking at it at the moment to see what we can do. Will let you know.
My API Key disappeared and the widget popped off. It won’t show on my account either. Is ti because you’re working on it?
Any word on this (see below comment)? Just wondering what the issue is. Thank you.
Hi Jessica,
No we have not done anything and I see the plugin is still activated on your site? Please set me up a temp wp-admin access account on your site and i’ll log in and have a look at it for you. Please use the contact us form to send the creds.
Is the “single Site License $20″ a download or cd?
Hi, the Pro version looks good, but I want it to show the featured products, but this doesn’t appear to be an option. Will you be making this available?
Chris
Hi Chris,
I must be missing something here – but featured is not a taxonomy of WooCommerce that I know of. I may be about to learn something else about Woocommerce and that would be good. The Widget gallery allows you to Create 3 ‘Types’ of Product galleries.
1. Products from any category – Category Products slideshow.
2. Products from any Tag – Tags Product Slideshow This may be what you are referring to, as you can create a Featured tag?
3. Products that are Marked ‘On Sale’ from the products WooCommerce meta – ‘On Sale’ Products Slideshow
The links above are to those sections on the plugins a3rev wiki.
Hi,
WooCommerce has a widget titled “WooCommerce Featured Products” described as “Display a list of featured products on your site.” This is a static list of a selectable number of products; products which you have highlighted/identified/chosen as being ‘featured products’ either on the main products page, or from within the Add New Product page.
What I want is a non-static version of this widget, which in theory your plugin should be able to do.
Chris
Hi, I try to put in my site the LITE version and I obtained this error:
URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in on line : getimagesize
How can I modify to fix this problem?
Regards.
Hi Laro,
you are getting that message because you you do not have ‘getimagesize’ activated on you server. We should actually edit the plugin so that it does not use ‘getimagesize’ but instead gets the real image url – will do that tomorrow and put out an update for the Lite and Pro versions.
Does anyone support this plugin? Please could you tell me the shortcode?
Hello Julia,
Sorry we give same day support to our Pro License holders – that is our priority. We try to help Free version users but only when when we can get to them, support for Pro users is the priority as you will know doubt understand. – The plugin is a widget plugin and as such does not support shortcode – perhaps in a future Pro version upgrade. You can see all workings and features of the plugin on its wiki docs.
This is a fantastic plugin! Please forgive me for such a simple question, but I’m having issues finding what shortcode to use for inserting a slideshow. I have the free version, so maybe that’s why I don’t see the slideshow tab listed under insert > media. I seem to only be able to insert the slideshows as a widget. Anyway, if someone could please tell me what the shortcode arguments are, I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance!