Settings

YITH WooCommerce Recently Viewed Products allows you to show the products that your users have recently viewed in a list on the product detail page or through a widget or shortcodes.

The major plugin feature is the possibility to store the information of logged-in users in the database, not only in a cookie for logged-in and non-logged users.

In this way, when users log into the site, the cookie will be deleted and their information stored in the database. By doing so, users will always be able to see their recently viewed products regardless of the browser used, as the system will get this information directly from the database (and not from a cookie).

General settings

Let’s start with the General settings that you can find in YITH > Recently Viewed Products > Settings.

• Set cookie time: set the duration (in days) of the cookie that tracks user-viewed products;
• Select which products to show: choose whether to show Only viewed products or Viewed products and similar items. By selecting Viewed products and similar items, you will be able to decide to get similar products by
  • categories
  • tags
  • both
• Set how many products to show: enter the number of products to show and how many of them to show in each row;

• Order products by: choose how to order the products from Random, Latest viewed, Sales, Newest, Price: high to low, or Price: low to high;
• Set which products to hide: choose if you want to hide out-of-stock products, free products, and/or products already bought by the customer;
• Show only products from the most viewed category: enable to show only products of the most viewed category.

From the General settings, you can also enable and configure a slider to show the recently viewed products.

• Enable products slider: enable to show the product list section as a slider;
• Enable products slider autoplay: enable to activate the autoplay for sliders;
• Show dot indicators: enable to show dot indicators for sliders;
• Show shortcode in all product pages: enable to automatically add the shortcode in the single product page.

Texts and labels

In the Texts and Labels section, you can customize the text for the message, the section title, and the link to view the recently viewed list.

• Text for no product found: enter the message to show when users open the page without any viewed product and, as a consequence, the list is empty (see the example below);

• Section title: text shown above the section of the recently viewed products;
• Text for “View All” link: link text that redirects users to the “Recently Viewed Products” page.

The page of the recently viewed products will be automatically created when activating the plugin. It offers users the complete list of recently viewed products, in addition to the possibility to filter them by category.

Each product can be removed from the list with a simple click on the X Remove button.

Most viewed products

Through the shortcode [yith_most_viewed_products], you can show a list of all the most viewed products of your store and filter products shown by category as well. This list will not only show products visited by you but by other users as well.

Start building your shortcode by configuring the following options:

• The section title: enter the text you want to show for the recently viewed products section;
• Set how many products to show in plugin section (set -1 to display all): choose the number of products to show in the recently viewed section;
• Set how many products to show per row: choose the number of products to show per row;
• Select the categories to show: add the categories to show in the section;
• Enable slider: enable this option to show a slider for the recently viewed products;
• Enable slider autoplay: enable this option to show the products slider with autoplay;
• Show dot indicators: enable this option to show dot indicators.

The parameters of the shortcode are the following:

Through the Email settings, you can send an email to the users that have not logged into the website for a specific number of days. The email includes the recently viewed products, in addition to other products the administrator can manually select.

Let’s analyze all the available options:

• Send email notifications: enable to send automatic emails to users;
• Schedule email: set how many days have to pass since the last user login to send the email;
• Number of products: define the number of recently viewed products that you want to show in the email;
• Select which products to show:
• Select which products to show: choose whether to show Only viewed products or Viewed products and similar items;

• Order products by:choose how to order the products from Random, Latest viewed, Sales, Newest, Price: high to low, or Price: low to high;
• Show only products from the most viewed category: enable if you only want to show the products of the category most viewed by the user;
• Add also custom products: enable to select additional products to promote in the email;
  • Select custom products: (the conditional option that shows by enabling Add also custom products) choose the products to promote in the email;

Email customization

To customize the emails sent to users and remind them of the products they are interested in, you can use the set of available options:

• Logo image: set an image for the email header. You can upload your own image or use the placeholder;
• Email heading: text for the email heading. You can use one of the available placeholders;
• Email subject: text for the email subject. You can use one of the available placeholders;
• Email format: format for the email. You can choose from Plain, HTML, Multipart.

• Email content: enter your text or use the default one;
• Thumbnail Size: set product image size (in px). Note: Regenerate the thumbnails of your products to have them correctly implemented by the plugin;

• Enable Mandrill: enable to authorize Mandrill to send emails;
• Mandrill API KEY: enter the API KEY of your Mandrill account;

• Add Google Analytics to email links: enable to add Google Analytics parameters to the email links;
  • Campaign Source: enter the referrer;
  • Campaign Medium: enter the marketing medium;
  • Campaign term: enter the terms, comma separated;
  • Campaign content: use this field to differentiate the ads;
  • Campaign name: enter the text for the campaign name;

• Send a test email to: enter the email address to send a test email.

You can attach a coupon code to the emails sent to encourage your users to purchase the products they are interested in. When applied, the coupon will grant a discount on the first product added to the cart among the suggested ones.

You can either choose to use an existing coupon previously created or generate a new one dynamically. You can find this option in the tab Email settings.

1. Use an existing coupon:

Select the coupon code in the field Coupon code to automatically add it to your email content.

Please, note: you must have created the coupon code before, otherwise, it will not be printed out in the email content.

2. Create a coupon:

Once you have set the discount percentage and expiration date of the coupon, add the “{coupon_code}” placeholder in the email to give users the coupon. Don’t forget to save your changes, otherwise, you will lose everything.

Email sample

The available widget adds a recently viewed products list in the sidebar. In addition to these products, you can also add similar products.

This is what it looks like on the frontend.

The plugin is ready to use with the Gutenberg editor. When you add a new post or page, you will be able to find our YITH shortcodes and widgets. With a simple click, they will be added to your page.