WooCommerce: Open External Product Link In New Tab

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!

You can test the “link opening in a new tab for WooCommerce external products” functionality at https://www.apieceofsicily.com/en/shop/sicilian-wine/orestiadi-il-bianco-di-ludovico-riserva-2017/

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        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 5.1
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */

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>';
}

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Where to add this snippet?

You can place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file (delete "?>" if you have it there). CSS, on the other hand, goes in your child theme 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 free video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything worked 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 on PHP 7.3.

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Rodolfo Melogli

Business Bloomer Founder

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.

10 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Open External Product Link In New Tab”

  1. Ana

    The above snippet works perfectly in WooCommerce Single Product Page!!

    But how about in WooCommerce shop/category Page?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      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!

      Reply
      1. István Molnár

        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 );
        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          Thank you

          Reply
  2. Shane

    Cannot redeclare function woocommerce_external_add_to_cart.

    What am I missing?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Shane, where did you add this code?

      Reply
      1. Shane K Taylor
        PRIORITY COMMENTER »

        As a snippet

        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          Gotcha! Instead, try adding that to your child theme’s functions.php. Redeclaring a function won’t work with Code Snippets or similar plugins

          Reply
          1. Rkdl

            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.

            Reply
            1. Rodolfo Melogli

              Nope, can’t overwrite pluggable functions via Code Snippets

              Reply
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