Twurn – 360° Product Spins for WooCommerce

Description

Twurn turns two ordinary product photos, one from the front and one from the back, into a smooth 360° spin that shoppers can drag to see every side of the product. It takes about a minute, and you don’t need a turntable, a studio or any new photos: the product photos already on your store usually work.

• Made from two photos. Pick the front and back photos from the product’s images and press Make spin.
• Shows on the product page. Published spins appear first in your product images, with a 360° badge on the thumbnail. You can show them below the images instead, or anywhere with the [twurn_spin] shortcode.
• Fast and light. The viewer loads only when the spin scrolls into view, sets no cookies and doesn’t track shoppers.
• Works on phones. Shoppers drag with a finger or the mouse; the product turns on its own for a moment when it first appears.
• Pay per spin. New accounts get free spins to try it. After that, buy spin packs at twurn.com; spins never expire, and a spin that fails is never charged.

How it works

1. Install the plugin and press Connect to Twurn (WooCommerce → Twurn spins). Sign in at twurn.com and you’re sent straight back, connected.
2. Open a product. In the 360° spin box, pick the front and back photos and press Make spin.
3. About a minute later, check the preview and press Publish.

Photos that work best

• One photo from the front and one from directly behind.
• Taken from the same distance and height, in the same light, ideally on a plain background.
• Products with a clear front and back turn best: bags, shoes, clothing, toys, gadgets, bottles and boxes.

External services

This plugin relies on Twurn (https://twurn.com), a service run by the plugin’s authors, to make and show 360° spins. The spins are made on Twurn’s servers, so the plugin can’t make them without the service. Nothing is sent to Twurn until you press Connect to Twurn.

• Connecting: when you press Connect to Twurn, you are sent to twurn.com with your site’s name and the address of this plugin’s settings page, so you can sign in and be sent back. The plugin then exchanges a one-time code for an API key, which is stored in your WordPress database.
• Making a spin: when you press Make spin, the two photos you picked, the product’s name and its ID are sent to Twurn, which makes the spin. The plugin then checks the spin’s progress, and tells Twurn when you delete a spin, delete the product, or disconnect.
• Your account: on the settings page, the plugin asks Twurn for your account’s name and spins left.
• Showing a spin: on product pages with a published spin, shoppers’ browsers load the spin’s images from twurn.com. The viewer sets no cookies and sends no tracking data; Twurn’s servers see only the basic request details any website receives.

Twurn terms of service: https://twurn.com/terms
Twurn privacy policy: https://twurn.com/privacy

Source code

All of the plugin’s code, including the 360° viewer (assets/twurn-spin.js), is included unminified and readable. There is no build step.