How to create a shortcode that will list products on the basis of given tags in Woocommerce?

Shortcodes are a great way to add functionalities to your store. While creating a shortcode you can use same code written once at multiple places. It’s same like calling a function in functional programming approach.

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a short code that will list products on the basis of given tags.

To do this add the following lines of code at the end of your theme’s functions.php file:

function woo_products_by_tags_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
 
// Get attribuets
 
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
 
"tags" => ''
 
), $atts));
 
ob_start();
 
// Define Query Arguments
 
$args = array(
 
'post_type' => 'product',
 
'posts_per_page' => 100,
 
'tag_name' => $tags
 
);
 
// Create the new query
 
$products = new WP_Query( $args );
 
 
 
//$woocommerce_loop['columns'] = $columns;
 
 
 
if ( count($products->posts) > 0 ) : ?>
 
 
 
<?php $products->the_post(); ?>
 
 
 
<?php endif;
 
 
 
// The Loop
 
while ( $products->have_posts() ) {
 
                $products->the_post();
 
                ?>
 
<li><a href="<?php the_guid() ?>"><?php echo get_the_title() ?></a></li>
 
<?php
 
                //echo '<li><a href="'.the_guid().'">' . get_the_title() . '</a></li>';
 
}
 
 
 
$product_count = $products->post_count;
 
 
 
if( $product_count > 0 ) :
 
 
 
                                echo '<ul class="products">';
 
 
 
                                                // Start the loop
 
                                                while ( $products->have_posts() ) : $products->the_post();
 
 
 
                                                                global $product;
 
                                                                global $post;
 
                                                                $products->the_post();
 
 
 
                                                endwhile;
 
 
 
                                echo '</ul><!--/.products-->';
 
 
 
                else :
 
 
 
                                _e('No product matching your criteria.');
 
 
 
                endif;
 
 
 
woocommerce_reset_loop();
 
wp_reset_postdata();
 
 
 
return ob_get_clean();
 
}
 
 
 
add_shortcode("woo_products_by_tags", "woo_products_by_tags_shortcode");

You can access functions.php file here:

This code will create a shortcode that can be used on any page or post. This will be the shortcode which can be used along with tag parameter:

[woo_products_by_tags tags=”xyz”]

Place it on any page.

Save page and go to page from front end.

You’ll see product having provided tag, listed there:

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