Today I start a personal WooCommerce customization marathon as I try to relaunch my personal project A Piece of Sicily (a Sicilian products marketplace, WPML friendly, with products uploaded by vendors and external (affiliate) products).
Each week I will share a snippet I’ve personally coded, so that you can follow me along the going-live path and actually see the results on the live site.
This time, we’ll talk about External Products, and specifically at how to Open the external add to cart URL in a new tab, so that users stay on your WooCommerce website even after visiting the affiliate link. Enjoy!
PHP Snippet: Open External Product Links Into a New Tab/Window @ WooCommerce Single Product Page
/**
* @snippet Open External New Tab - WooCommerce Single Product
* @how-to businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-customization
* @author Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
* @compatible WooCommerce 5.1
* @community https://businessbloomer.com/club/
*/
function woocommerce_external_add_to_cart() {
global $product;
if ( ! $product->add_to_cart_url() ) return;
echo '<p><a href="' . $product->add_to_cart_url() . '" class="single_add_to_cart_button button alt" target="_blank">' . $product->single_add_to_cart_text() . '</a></p>';
}
Thank you very much!! Why did the button turn purple? My newspaper theme’s CSS works on all product pages except the woocommerce button
Try removing the “alt” class from the button
Thank you very much !! I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time in the form of a plugin or something else. Works great!
I have a question, could you help with Sticky Footer external affiliate link? for add to cart it works ok but for external tools it is impossible for me.
I think this problem also comes back to the YITH Wishlist (probably to others as well) for affiliate/external link products the link cannot be configured and for normal products they can be added to the basket directly from the wishlist.
Thank you in advance.
Hello Rafael, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
The above snippet works perfectly in WooCommerce Single Product Page!!
But how about in WooCommerce shop/category Page?
Hi Ana thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Hi, you can try this code, it works for me on Kadence theme
function ns_open_in_new_tab($args, $product) { if( $product->is_type('external') ) { // Inject target="_blank" into the attributes array $args['attributes']['target'] = '_blank'; } return $args; } add_filter( 'woocommerce_loop_add_to_cart_args', 'ns_open_in_new_tab', 10, 2 );Thank you
Cannot redeclare function woocommerce_external_add_to_cart.
What am I missing?
Hi Shane, where did you add this code?
As a snippet
Gotcha! Instead, try adding that to your child theme’s functions.php. Redeclaring a function won’t work with Code Snippets or similar plugins
Is there a way so we’re able to add this to snippets.
Functions.php works until a theme is updated. Thats why snippets are so nice to work with.
Nope, can’t overwrite pluggable functions via Code Snippets
how about a specific product to open in a new tab?
I suggest you take a look at “conditional logic”: https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-conditional-logic-ultimate-php-guide/. Enjoy 🙂