Pair – Product Recommendations for WooCommerce

Description

Plogins Pair adds automatic product recommendations to your WooCommerce store, with no manual setup. It helps shoppers discover more of your catalog while they browse and check out, which lifts average order value and keeps people moving toward the cart.

Out of the box you get three blocks:

• “You may also like” after the product summary, so a shopper always has a next step.
• Cross-sell suggestions on the cart, based on what is already in it, to grow the order before checkout.
• Recently viewed products, so returning shoppers pick up where they left off.

Unlike WooCommerce’s built-in upsells and cross-sells, which you have to pick by hand for every product, Pair generates recommendations for you and keeps them relevant as your catalog and sales change. You choose how products are picked with a simple strategy setting, and the grid is rendered with your theme’s own product-card markup, so it matches the rest of your shop with no extra front-end JavaScript and no layout shift.

Recommendation strategies

For each block you pick how products are chosen:

• Same category (by popularity) – the default; other products from the same categories, ordered by total sales.
• Shared tags – products that share the item’s tags.
• Best sellers – your top sellers, optionally within the same categories.
• Newest products – your most recent additions.
• Recently viewed by the shopper – the products this visitor looked at.

Every strategy falls back to recent products, so a block is never awkwardly empty.

Built to be fast and friendly

• Rendered with the active theme’s product cards, so it looks native.
• No front-end JavaScript; recently viewed is stored in a first-party cookie (product IDs only, nothing sent anywhere).
• Queries are bounded by the number of products you choose.
• A clean, sectioned settings screen with inline help.
• Fully translatable, accessible headings and labels.

Documentation and links

• Documentation: plogins.com/plogins-pair/docs/
• Plugin page: plogins.com/plogins-pair/
• Source code: github.com/wppoland/plogins-pair
• Bug reports and feature requests: github.com/wppoland/plogins-pair/issues

Features

• Automatic “You may also like” block after the single product summary.
• Automatic cross-sell suggestions under the cart, based on its contents.
• Recently viewed products block, on product pages and/or the cart.
• Five selectable strategies per block (category, tags, best sellers, newest, recently viewed) with a recent-products fallback.
• Configurable number of products (1 to 12) and columns (1 to 6).
• Optional “in stock only” filter.
• Editable headings for every block.
• [pair_recommendations] and [pair_recently_viewed] shortcodes to place blocks anywhere, plus matching Elementor widgets when Elementor is active.
• Theme-styled product cards, no custom front-end JavaScript, no layout shift.

Shortcodes

• [pair_recommendations strategy="related" count="4" columns="4"] – a recommendation block. On a product page it uses that product; elsewhere it uses the cart. strategy is optional (related, tags, bestsellers, newest, recently).
• [pair_recently_viewed count="4" columns="4"] – the shopper’s recently viewed products.

Plogins Pair PRO

The free plugin is complete for what it does: automatic recommendations from your
catalog, on the product page and the cart, with no curation and nothing
time-limited. Plogins Pair PRO is a separate add-on for stores that want
recommendations driven by what people actually bought together, and want to
measure what the blocks earn.

                                            Free   PRO
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"You may also like" on the product page      yes   yes
Cross-sell under the classic cart            yes   yes
Recently viewed block                        yes   yes
Five strategies, chosen per block            yes   yes
Shortcodes and Elementor widgets             yes   yes
Frequently bought together, from orders        -   yes
Add all to cart in one button                  -   yes
Hand-pick what a product recommends            -   yes
Rules per product category                     -   yes
Bundle discount applied to the cart            -   yes
Blocks on order-received and checkout          -   yes
Editor block                                   -   yes
A/B test two strategies against each other     -   yes
Click and conversion analytics                 -   yes

What PRO adds. Frequently bought together, computed from your own completed
orders rather than from the catalog, with a single “add all to cart” button and
an optional bundle discount applied as a cart fee. A per-product picker for the
cases where the automatic choice is wrong, and rules per product category.
Placements on the order-received page and the classic checkout. A block for the
editor. An A/B test that splits visitors between two strategies. Click and
conversion analytics, so the blocks stop being a guess. From 29 EUR per year.

Pair PRO requires the free plugin and does not replace it. If the free plugin is
missing or disabled, PRO stays dormant and says so, rather than half-working.

• Plogins Pair PRO – plogins.com/plogins-pair-pro/
• Pricing – plogins.com/plogins-pair-pro/pricing/

External Services

This plugin does not connect to any external services. Recommendations are computed on your own site from your WooCommerce catalog, and recently viewed products are stored only in a first-party cookie on the visitor’s device.

Translations

Plogins Pair is fully translatable and ships the plogins-pair.pot template. Translations are delivered by WordPress.org language packs from translate.wordpress.org, which is where Polish, German and Spanish are being contributed; the package itself carries no compiled translation files.