Please Note:
WordPress 5.8 replaces the existing widget screen with a new block-based editor screen. To use our widgets, you will need to install the Classic Widgets plugin.
WC Vendors Pro provides ten specialized widgets to enhance and enrich the customer and the vendor experience as they shop and interact on your marketplace.
These widgets are available with your other WordPress and WooCommerce widgets by visiting WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
These widgets are:
- WC Vendors Pro Contact Store
- WC Vendors Pro Store Short Description
- WC Vendors Pro Store Ratings
- WC Vendors Pro Store Social Media
- WC Vendors Pro Store Address and Map
- WC Vendors Pro Store Categories
- WC Vendors Pro Recent Products
- WC Vendors Pro Store Search
- WC Vendors Pro Store Price Filter
- WC Vendors Pro Store Attributes Filter
- WC Vendors Pro Store Ratings Filter
- WC Vendors Pro Store Total Sales
- WC Vendors Pro Vendor Search (search for a vendor)
Each of these widgets and their function is explained below.
WC Vendors Pro Contact Store
This widget can output the contact details for the store including
- Store Name
- Store URL
- Phone Number
- Email Address
- Email Contact Form
- Store Opening Hours
The contact form will show in the selected widgetized area on the vendor’s Store page only.
The email form provides a simple contact form so that customers can email a message to the vendors. This includes its own template that can be customized like any other WooCommerce Email can.
WC Vendors Store Short Description
This widget will display the vendor’s short description so that you can provide a bit more context to the Vendor Store pages.
WC Vendors Pro Store Ratings
This widget will allow you to display recent vendor store ratings in the chosen widgetized area.
WC Vendors Pro Store Social Media
The store’s social media widget provides a link to all social media currently listed in the settings area for the vendors.
WC Vendors Pro Store Address and Map
If the store has a physical address, you can include their address and an embedded Google map to the location. You will need to obtain a Google Maps API key for this to work. However, once you have this key, the map will render. You will need to enable Geolocation in the Google Maps API.
This will only appear on the vendor store page.
WC Vendors Pro Store Categories
This widget will allow you to display categories on the vendor store page. this will only display the categories in which the vendor has products listed, and the products displayed within that category will only be those from the respective vendor store.
Recent Products
This widget allows you to display recent vendor products. The following settings are available.
- Title: The title for the widget in the sidebar
- Number of products: Determines how many products to show:
- Show average rating: Show the product’s average star rating
- Show main image: Show a product image
- Image Size: The product image size you want to display. These sizes are determined by your theme.
- Show excerpt: Show a product excerpt.
- Excerpt length: How many characters to use in the excerpt?
WC Vendors Store Search
When used on a vendor store page, this search will only return results from within that vendor’s store. It functions as a normal WooCommerce shop search (all products from all vendors) when used on a marketplace shop page.
WC Vendors Pro Store Price Filter
You can display a price range filter for the current vendor’s store, allowing customers to narrow down products based on their budget. The filter only applies to the products of the vendor whose store page the customer is viewing.
WC Vendors Pro Store Attributes Filter
Use this widget to show available product attributes for the current vendor’s store, enabling customers to refine their search by specific attributes (e.g., size, color, material) available from that vendor’s products.
WC Vendors Pro Store Ratings Filter
This widget allows customers to filter products within a vendor’s store based on average customer ratings, helping them quickly find top-rated items.
WC Vendors Pro Vendor Search
This widget provides a search bar that will allow visitors to the site to search for a specific vendor.
You need to have the WC Vendors Pro vendor list page set in order to use this widget, so please ensure that you have a page created on your site with this shortcode [wcv_vendorlist].
The search results will be displayed using the same style as the WC Vendors Pro vendor list.
WC Vendors Pro Vendor Store Total Sales
The Vendor Total Sales feature displays the cumulative sales a vendor has made on your marketplace. Administrators can customize the label for this field (e.g., “Total Sales,” “My Sales,” or “Items Sold”) by navigating to WP Admin > WC Vendors > Settings > Display > Labels.
This metric is visible on the vendor’s store banner and can also be showcased using the new WC Vendors Pro Store Total Sales widget, available under WP Admin > Appearance > Widgets.
