WooCommerce: Edit “Continue Shopping” Link Redirect

“Continue Shopping” appears on the Cart page when an item is added to Cart and you have “Redirect to the cart page after successful addition” enabled via the WooCommerce settings.

By default, “Continue Shopping” button redirects to the previously visited page – sometimes this makes no sense and you might want to send them back to the main shop page instead (or a custom page).

Here’s a quick snippet to do just that. Enjoy!

The “Continue Shopping” link @ WooCommerce Cart

PHP Snippet: Change “Continue Shopping” Redirect

/**
 * @snippet       Continue Shopping Link - WooCommerce Cart
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 3.6.2
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */

add_filter( 'woocommerce_continue_shopping_redirect', 'bbloomer_change_continue_shopping' );

function bbloomer_change_continue_shopping() {
	return wc_get_page_permalink( 'shop' );
}

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Where to add custom code?

You should place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file and CSS at the bottom of its style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my guide "Should I Add Custom Code Via WP Editor, FTP or Code Snippets?" and my video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything went as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting.

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Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

21 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Edit “Continue Shopping” Link Redirect”

  1. Jan

    It didn’t work for me, I ended up on the home-page for the site and not the main shopping page. Clearly the function changed the default URL, but it seems that wc_get_page_permalink() was nulled, thus being redirected to home-page. But WHY? I did change ‘shop’ to the name of my main shop page.

    Thanks for any input on this.

    Reply
    1. Jan

      Never mind. Thought I had to change ‘shop’ to the name of my page that is the shop. Used the snippet as-is and it worked just fine.

      Thank you.

      Reply
      1. Rodolfo Melogli

        No problem!

        Reply
  2. Dan

    Thanks Rodolfo, it’s works! Saved me a lot of time and took less than a minute to implement.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Yay

      Reply
  3. Javier

    When the shopping cart is empty there is another “Return to Shop” button. How can I customize that button to go to another page? I guess it’s a similar solution? Thank you.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-change-return-shop-url/

      Reply
  4. Omar

    Thanks – this totally worked for me just now.

    One other thing I’m struggling with is how to edit the “Continue shopping” text. If you have any tips, I’d appreciate it – thanks!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Omar, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  5. Chealsea R.

    Hi! I am having trouble with this snippet. When I add it, the continue shopping button does indeed work, however it also messed up something else, I get a “there’s a critical error on your website” message when I click on a product to add it to the cart instead of redirecting me to the cart. Please Help!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Did you use the exact snippet?

      Reply
      1. Chealsea R.

        Yes, I did. The only thing I changed was wc_get_page_permalink and the ‘shop’ to ‘pricing’. Everything else was the same.

        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          If you want to use an absolute URL:

          return 'https://your-url.com';
          Reply
  6. Rob Elings

    I have tried to add it to my functions.php but it does not seem to work as expected.

    Instead of “Continue Shopping” going to the SHOP page, I need them to go to this page > https://akadeemia.hrsolutions.ee/courses

    Not sure if I missed anything in the code, but I just can’t get it to work ….

    I’ve tried this …

     add_filter( 'woocommerce_continue_shopping_redirect', 'bbloomer_change_continue_shopping' );
 
function bbloomer_change_continue_shopping() {
   return wc_get_page_permalink( 'https://akadeemia.hrsolutions.ee/courses/' );
}

    and I’ve tried this …

     add_filter( 'woocommerce_continue_shopping_redirect', 'bbloomer_change_continue_shopping' );
 
function bbloomer_change_continue_shopping() {
   return wc_get_page_permalink( 'courses' );
}
    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Don’t use wc_get_page_permalink(), just return the URL e.g. 

      return 'https://example.com';
      Reply
  7. Pedro

    Hola! Existe alguna forma que en vez de redirigir a la página de la tienda, se oculte ese enlace?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hola Pedro, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  8. Laura Pavlot

    I tried this and it seems to have disabled other links in woocommerce. I removed the code but now the cart page won’t load when adding new items and it won’t let me update the functions.php file (keeps giving me an error that it will not save). Can you help? I was careful not to take out any of the theme code and put it at the bottom right before the ?>. Not sure what happened!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello Laura, thanks for your comment! I just tested this again with Storefront theme and it works perfectly. Maybe your theme (or another plugin) is messing/conflicting with my snippet?

      To troubleshoot, disable all plugins but WooCommerce and also switch temporarily to “Twentyseventeen” theme (load the snippet there in functions.php) – does it work? If yes, you have a problem with your current theme or one of the plugins.

      Hope this helps!

      R

      Reply
  9. Muhammad Ali Silat

    Awesome. It worked!
    I was looking for this.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Great!

      Reply
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