WooCommerce: Change Number of Products Per Page

If you’re not happy with the default number of products per page (16), or if your theme overrides the default WooCommerce setting for “per_page” products and you need to change it, here’s the fix for you.

Please note that you may also need to set the number of WooCommerce product grid columns, so that you can make sure the total number of products per page is a multiple of that and you don’t leave the shop page with empty grid items.

Enjoy!

Edit the number of WooCommerce products per page (12 in this case)

PHP Snippet: Change “Products per Page” @ WooCommerce Shop

The default number of products per page is 4 rows * 4 columns = 16 products.

Some themes may affect this default setting by using a snippet similar to the one below – in such case try to increase the “9999” priority to a greater number.

In the snippet below, simply define the number of products per page by changing “12” to whatever number you like.

/**
 * @snippet       12 Products per Page - WooCommerce Shop
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 7
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */

add_filter( 'loop_shop_per_page', 'bbloomer_redefine_products_per_page', 9999 );

function bbloomer_redefine_products_per_page( $per_page ) {
   $per_page = 12;
   return $per_page;
}

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.

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21 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Change Number of Products Per Page”

Anggi
April 26, 2020

ah rodolfo, again, you saved my ass from my clients. hahaha.
this code is work like charm.

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 29, 2020
  
  Nice!
  
  Reply
Daniel
April 2, 2020
I think it only works if theme supporst Woocommerce:
```
add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' );
```
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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 9, 2020
  
  Which I hope it does in the first place!
  
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Stephen
February 18, 2020

Code still works in 2020. Thanks for saving me some developer money.

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  February 22, 2020
  
  Great!
  
  Reply
Daniel Flame
January 16, 2020

excellent

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  January 20, 2020
  
  cool
  
  Reply
Ionas Nicolae
September 26, 2019

Perfect!

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  September 30, 2019
  
  Thanks!
  
  Reply
Mario
July 28, 2019

Hello Rodolfo,
I have Multisite, and this snippets does not work. By default Woocomerce shows 12 products, I increased it to 20, but it doesn’t work.
PP Version: 7.3
Wordpress version: .2.2
Woocommerce version: 3.6.5

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1. Mario
  July 28, 2019
  
  Update: WordPress 5.2.2
  
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  1. Rodolfo Melogli
    August 1, 2019
    
    Hi Mario, 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
Margaux
July 8, 2019

Works great! Thank you so much! I don’t know how many snippets I tried before coming across this page to change the amount of products for all pages.

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  July 16, 2019
  
  Thanks!
  
  Reply
Javed
June 17, 2019

I have tried above snippet and it is no longer working now.

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  June 20, 2019
  
  Hi Javed, 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
billy
May 10, 2019
Hi Rodolfo!

I’ve just upgraded my site’s php version to 7.2 and
```
create_function()
```
has been deprecated. Are you prepared to update this snippet to work with 7.2? Would love you even more if you do!! Thanks!
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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  May 16, 2019
  
  Done 🙂
  
  Reply
Ben
September 14, 2016

Hey there,

You need to remove the strong html tag around 40 in the code example.

Thanks!

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  September 15, 2016
  
  Ben, thank you SO MUCH for your valuable feedback – I just made that correction (I don’t know where the came from lol!). ~R
  
  Reply

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