Display list of products (title only) in a category via shortcode

Hi steve49589,

Just wondering if you ever came up with a solution for this? I’m looking for the same thing…

Too bad. 🙁

If I find anything, I’ll let you know. I’m considering outputting a product loop there using a shortcode, and hiding everything but the titles (w/ permalinks) with CSS. A lot of wasted overhead, but I really don’t want to have to manually maintain the list…

WooCommerce shortcodes:
https://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/

Mike,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Let me know what you think of this. It’s working well for me. It might make a nice addition to WooCommerce built in shortcodes?

Steve,

Try this and see if it works for you. You can paste this into your functions.php file. Shortcode usage and parameter options are shown in the comments of the code.

With this in your functions.php file, you could just insert the shortcode wherever you want to output the list.

Basic usage would be something like:

[my_product_titles number_of_posts="10" category="tattoo-supplies" orderby="date"]

All parameters are optional.

Paste the following into your functions.php file:

/*
*
* Shortcode to add a list of hyperlinked products from a category, listed by title only.
* Outputs an unordered list.
* Used wherever you can use a shortcode, such as pages or posts.
* See: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-list-of-products-title-only-in-a-category-via-shortcode
*
* Format is: [my_product_titles]
*
* Parameter options are: [my_product_titles number_of_posts="-1" category="tattoo-supplies" orderby="date"]
*
* number_of_posts defaults to -1 (show all products); value is an integer. Ex: [my_product_titles number_of_posts="10"]
* category defaults to '' (empty value; shows all categories); value is a category slug. Ex: [my_product_titles category="tattoo-supplies"]
* orderby defaults to 'title' (alphabetical); Ex: [my_product_titles category="tattoo-supplies" orderby="date"];
*   For orderby options see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
*
**/

function my_woocommerce_titles_list($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'number_of_posts'	=> -1,
		'category'		=> '',
		'orderby' 		=> 'title'
		), $atts));

	$return_string = '<ul class="product-titles-list">'.PHP_EOL;

	global $post;
	$args = array(
		'posts_per_page'		=> $number_of_posts,
		'offset'           		=> 0,
		'post_status'      		=> 'publish',
		'post_type'      		=> 'product',
		'product_cat' 			=> $category,
		'order'				=> 'ASC',
		'orderby' 			=> $orderby
	);
	$postslist = get_posts( $args );
	foreach ( $postslist as $post ) :
		setup_postdata( $post );
		$my_permalink = get_the_permalink();
		$my_title = get_the_title();
		$return_string .= '<li><a href="' . $my_permalink . '">' . $my_title . '</a></li>'.PHP_EOL;

	endforeach;
	wp_reset_postdata();

	$return_string .= '</ul>'.PHP_EOL;

	return $return_string;

};

function my_register_shortcodes(){
   add_shortcode('my_product_titles', 'my_woocommerce_titles_list');
}

add_action( 'init', 'my_register_shortcodes');

I’d love to see this as a shortcode as well. Currently our client is manually listing the product titles and prices as a text widget on the description page. When they update the product price, they have to remember to update the widget as well. Would be great to update just the product.

hommealone, thanks for posting this. I’ll try adding this to the clients site. Need to add the price field as well, but I’m sure I can figure that out.

@hommealone this was exactly the solution I was looking for! Thank you!

Just a quick addition to the code above that will display a message if no products are found in a particular category: (I am NOT a PHP guru, so there may be ways to optimize this, but it works for me)

functions.php file:

/*
*
* Shortcode to add a list of hyperlinked WooCommerce products from a category, listed by title only.
* Outputs an unordered list.  Displays user defined message if no products are listed in said category.
* Used wherever you can use a shortcode, such as pages or posts.
* See: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-list-of-products-title-only-in-a-category-via-shortcode
*
* Format is: [my_product_titles]
*
* Parameter options are: [my_product_titles number_of_posts="-1" category="tattoo-supplies" orderby="date"]
*
* number_of_posts defaults to -1 (show all products); value is an integer. Ex: [my_product_titles number_of_posts="10"]
* category defaults to '' (empty value; shows all categories); value is a category slug. Ex: [my_product_titles category="tattoo-supplies"]
* orderby defaults to 'title' (alphabetical); Ex: [my_product_titles category="tattoo-supplies" orderby="date"];
*   For orderby options see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
*
**/

function my_woocommerce_titles_list($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'number_of_posts'	=> -1,
		'category'		=> '',
		'orderby' 		=> 'title'
		), $atts));
	$return_string = '<ul class="product-titles-list">'.PHP_EOL;

	global $post;
	$args = array(
		'posts_per_page'		=> $number_of_posts,
		'offset'           		=> 0,
		'post_status'      		=> 'publish',
		'post_type'      		=> 'product',
		'product_cat' 			=> $category,
		'order'				=> 'ASC',
		'orderby' 			=> $orderby
	);
	$postslist = get_posts( $args );
	if(!$postslist) : 
		$return_string2 = '<span class="noproducts">NO PRODUCTS TO LIST RIGHT NOW</span>'.PHP_EOL;
		return $return_string2;
	endif;
	foreach ( $postslist as $post ) :
		setup_postdata( $post );
		$my_permalink = get_the_permalink();
		$my_title = get_the_title();
		$return_string .= '<li><a href="' . $my_permalink . '">' . $my_title . '</a></li>'.PHP_EOL;
	endforeach;
	
	wp_reset_postdata();

	$return_string .= '</ul>'.PHP_EOL;

	return $return_string;
	
};

function my_register_shortcodes(){
   add_shortcode('my_product_titles', 'my_woocommerce_titles_list');
}

add_action( 'init', 'my_register_shortcodes');
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'modify_contact_methods');

Same basic usage:
[my_product_titles number_of_posts="10" category="tattoo-supplies" orderby="date"]