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Wishlist for WooCommerce Plugin – Setup Guide

Last updated on August 5, 2025

This is a complete documentation of the free Wishlist for WooCommerce plugin that allows you to simply add the Wishlist feature to your WooCommerce store.

Major Features of the Plugin

  • Enable the wishlist option on Product and Shop pages.
  • Enable wishlist for selected product categories
  • Enable wishlist for logged in users only
  • ‘My wishlist’ page for customers to view and manage their wishlists
  • Choose ‘My wishlist’ table contents
  • Choose the style and position of the ‘Add to wishlist’ option
  • View wishlist count for products in your store
  • Option to remove an item from Wishlist after adding to cart
  • Option to enable ‘Add all to cart’ button in the wishlist
  • Option to redirect to cart after adding an item to the cart from the wishlist page

Installation of the plugin

Install the plugin either from the WordPress plugin directory or as a zip downloaded from the WordPress.org website. You can learn more about the installation procedure by reading the article How to Install a Free Plugin from WordPress.

Getting started

To get started with the plugin, open the WooCommerce Wishlist tab on your WordPress dashboard.

Navigation to Wishlist for WooCommerce
Navigation to Wishlist for WooCommerce

General Settings

To enable Wishlist in your WooCommerce store, go to the WooCommerce Wishlist tab on your WordPress dashboard.

Wishlist for WooCommerce - General settings
Wishlist for WooCommerce – General settings
  • Show ‘Add to Wishlist’ only for logged-in users – Toggle ‘Yes’ to disable the ‘Add to wishlist’ option for guest users.
  • Show ‘Add to Wishlist’ in Pages – Wishlist can be enabled for items in both shop and product pages. You can choose as per your preference.
Wishlist enabled for product page
Wishlist enabled for product page
'Add to Wishlist' enabled Shop page
‘Add to Wishlist’ enabled Shop page
  • Show ‘Add to wishlist’ for product categories – You can choose to show ‘Add to wishlist’ for selected product categories or all categories.
  • Show ‘My Wishlist’ in my account – ‘My Wishlist’ will be displayed on my account page by default. If you don’t prefer it, you can toggle it off.

Click Save Changes button to save the settings.

Wishlist Page

Wishlist for WooCommerce - Wishlist page
Wishlist for WooCommerce – Wishlist page

Wishlist pages help a customer to view the products that they have added to their Cart. On activation of the plugin, a Wishlist page will be automatically created on your website where your customers can view and manage all the products they have added.

  • Wishlist Page: The drop-down lists all the pages available on your website. If you wish to choose a page other than the default one (My Wishlist -created by the plugin) you can do it here.
  • Enable Wishlist table contents – Here, one can select the product data that should be displayed on the Wishlist page.
  • Remove item from Wishlist after adding to cart – When you toggle ‘Yes’ items once added to the cart will be removed from Wishlist.
  • Enable ‘Add all to cart’ button – the ‘Add all to cart’ button will move all Wishlist products to the cart. Choose to either enable or disable it on the Wishlist page.
  • Redirect to cart – Redirect users to the cart page when they move a product to cart by clicking the ‘Add to cart’ button across it. Disable redirection by toggling it off.

Click Save changes to save all your Wishlist page configurations.

Following is a screenshot, and a Wishlist page (with products added).

Wishlist for WooCommerce - My Wishlist Page
Wishlist for WooCommerce – My Wishlist Page

Change wishlist table title

To change the default title of the wishlist table, add the following code snippet to the function.php file of the plugin.

add_filter( 'wishlist_table_heading', 'change_wishlist_table_heading' );
function change_wishlist_table_heading($title){
	$title = 'New Heading';
	return $title;
}

‘Add to Wishlist’ Options

Wishlist for WooCommerce - 'Add to Wishlist' Options
Wishlist for WooCommerce – ‘Add to Wishlist’ Options

Here you can choose the style and position of the Add to Wishlist’ option.

  • Show button as – Three options are available in the drop-down for you to choose from – Text, Icon, and Normal button (based on your active theme).
  • Add to Wishlist’ position in loop – ‘Loop’ refers to WooCommerce shop and product category pages.

Here you can choose where you want to display the ‘Add to Wishlist button on the loop from the drop-down. Options available are – after the ‘Add to Cart’ button, and in the top right corner of the product thumbnail.

Wishlist icon enabled after the 'Add to cart button'
Wishlist icon enabled after the ‘Add to cart button’
Wishlist icon enabled on top right corner of the product thumbnail
Wishlist icon enabled on top right corner of the product thumbnail
  • Enable ‘View Wishlist’ link – If the product is already wish listed, it will show the `View Wishlist`link. If you don’t want to show it, you can disable it by toggling it off.
Wishlist for WooCommerce - shop page
Wishlist for WooCommerce – shop page
Wishlist for WooCommerce - popular products
Wishlist for WooCommerce – popular products

The popular products section helps a store admin view the most wish-listed products in their store. It displays the product name, category, and the number of times that wish-listed by the user.

This section gives great insight into customers’ choices and helps devise better marketing strategies for the store.

Conclusion

Wishlist is one of the important features of any eCommerce store. It helps the store owner to understand the most and least popular products in their store while helping customers with a great purchase experience.

If you haven’t added the Wishlist feature to your store, do it now with the WebToffee Wishlist plugin.