WowRecommend – Show Recommendations, Related Products, Recently Viewed, and Cross-sells for WooCommerce

Turn every customer visit into higher-value orders with WowRecommend, an AI-powered product recommendation plugin for WooCommerce, built for smarter related products, cross-sells, and personalized product suggestions.

💪 Build recommendation rules with simple AI prompts
☑️ Recommend right products using advanced filters
🛒 Show recommendations on your product, shop, and archive pages
📈 Track analytics driven from the recommendations

🔥WowRecommend Pro | 📃Documentation

All-in-one Product Recommendation Plugin to Show Related Products, Recently Viewed and Cross-sells

WooCommerce gives you basic related product, upsell, and cross-sell options. But recommending the right products becomes difficult when your store has hundreds of items.

WowRecommend helps optimize this process. You can create smarter product recommendations based on your product catalog, customer behavior, product relationships, and more – with the help of filters, sorting, and AI-powered rules.

Key Features of the Recommendation Plugin:

• AI-powered recommendation builder with natural language setup and guided creation options
• Recommendation filters based on products, customer activity, and product relationships
• Advanced related products recommendations beyond default WooCommerce suggestions
• Product-based filters for categories, tags, attributes, brands, prices, and stock
• Smart recommendation sorting with popularity, conversion, freshness, rating, price, and purchase frequency
• Multiple sorting rules with priority control for precise product ordering
• Recommendation placements on product, shop, and product archive pages
• Starter templates (Cross-sell Products and Recently Viewed) to set up a recommendation fast
• Custom recommendation layouts with grid, slider, product count, and responsive display controls
• Live recommendation preview to review changes before publishing
• Scheduled recommendation campaigns with start and end date controls
• Display settings to show all recommendations in the same location, or one at a time
• Recommendation analytics to track add-to-cart actions, orders, revenue, conversion rates, and AOV

AI-Powered Rule Builder for Smart Product Recommendations

WowRecommend makes setting up product recommendations faster with an AI-powered rule builder.

Instead of configuring every condition manually, describe the recommendation you want and let AI create the initial rule.

• Use Your Preferred AI Provider: Connect a supported AI provider through WordPress Connectors and use it inside WowRecommend for recommendation rule creation.
• Plain-English Rule Creation: Describe your recommendation requirements in plain English. For example: “Recommend best-selling products on the product page before the Add to Cart button.” WowRecommend uses AI to turn that request into a working recommendation rule. You can then review it – adjust filters or sorting, customize the design, and publish it.
• Conversational Refinement: Continue the conversation with AI to modify the rule. For example, ask AI to exclude out-of-stock products, change the placement, add another filter, or modify the sorting.

You can also build recommendations manually without using AI.

Free Product Recommendation Features in WowRecommend

WowRecommend offers filters for controlling which products appear in recommendation widgets. The plugin includes filters for product data, customer activity, and product relationships.

WowRecommend includes the following recommendation filters.

Product Filters

✔ Specific Products
✔ Product Categories
✔ Product Attributes
✔ Product Tags
✔ Brand
✔ Current Product’s Category
✔ Current Product’s Tag
✔ Current Product’s Attribute
✔ Product Price
✔ Stock Status

Customer Behavior Filters

✔ Products Viewed
✔ Recently Viewed
✔ Frequently Viewed
✔ Previously Purchased

Product Relationship Filters

✔ Related Products
✔ Cross-sell Products

Live Product Recommendation Rule Builder

WowRecommend includes an interactive live rule builder where you can manage the recommendation logic, placement, sorting, content, and design while viewing the result live for your storefront.

This makes creating a recommendation easier as you don’t need to repeatedly save a rule, open the storefront, check the result, and return to the settings page.

Show Product Recommendations Across Your WooCommerce Store

Different recommendations work better at different stages of the buying journey. WowRecommend lets you place recommendation sections across the important pages on your store.

Product Page

Show related products, cross-sells, products from the same category or brand, and other recommendations while customers evaluate a product.

Shop Page

Display recently viewed products, products from a category, and other product suggestions while customers browse your store.

Product Archive Page

Add relevant recommendations to category and tag archive pages to help shoppers discover additional products within or around the collection they are browsing.

Smart Sorting for Recommended Products

WowRecommend provides multiple sorting options to control which recommended products customers see first.

✔ Popularity
✔ Conversion
✔ Freshness
✔ Price
✔ Rating
✔ Random
✔ Bought Together

You can also stack sorting methods by priority.

For example, if Popularity is 1st and Rating is 2nd, products are sorted by popularity first. When products have the same popularity, rating determines their order.

Display Settings for Multiple Recommendations

Use display settings of WowRecommend to control how multiple recommendation widgets appear when they share the same placement.

Always – Show every recommendation widget assigned to the placement.

Sequential – Show one recommendation widget at a time instead of all of them.

Customize Styles and Designs for the Recommendations

WowRecommend gives you flexible design controls for the Recommendations without requiring custom code.

Card Layouts: Choose from multiple product card designs for a stylish look.

Grid or Slider: Display recommended products in a product grid or carousel.

Responsive Columns: Set different column counts for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

Product Elements: Show or hide the product image, title, price, rating, category, and Add to Cart button.

Style Controls: Customize color themes, border radius, layout padding, card styles, and other visual settings.

Revenue Analytics for the Recommendations

WowRecommend tracks recommendation performance so you can identify which rules and placements are generating revenue.

Order attribution – Identify which recommendation rules and placements generate orders.
Revenue tracking – Measure revenue from recommendation-driven purchases.

Schedule Product Recommendations

Create recommendations for limited-time promotions, seasonal campaigns, launches, and other store events.

Set a start and end date so a recommendation automatically appears during the selected period.

Additional Features in the Separate WowRecommend Pro Plugin

Everything described above is included in this plugin and works without a license. WowRecommend Pro is a separate plugin, sold on wpxpo.com, that you install next to this one. It adds more filters and placements:

• More recommendation filters, such as sales and performance filters, cart and customer-interest filters, and bought-together and upsell relationships
• Cart, Checkout, and Thank You page placements
• Popup upsells and checkout order bumps
• “After delay” and “Page reloads” display operators for sequential display
• Additional premade recommendation templates

This plugin does not download, install, or update the Pro plugin.

Get Started in 3 Simple Steps with WowRecommend

Set up your first product recommendation campaign in three simple steps:

• Choose where to display recommendations – Select the page and placement where you want to show recommended products.
• Set recommendation rules – Use AI or choose from the available filters to define which products should be recommended.
• Customize and publish – Adjust the sorting, design and display settings, then publish your recommendations to your store.

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Author

Developed by WPXPO. Contribute to WowRecommend on Bitbucket and join the party.

Source Code

Source Code

External services

Manual recommendation building does not require an external AI service. The plugin does not send vendor usage telemetry or perform IP geolocation lookups. Optional AI and support requests are separate, user-initiated services described below.

Configured WordPress AI provider

When an authorized administrator explicitly uses AI generation or chat refinement, the plugin uses the WordPress AI client (wp_ai_client_prompt) to contact the provider configured for that site. Provider, model, and credentials are configured in WordPress. The tools are unavailable when that client is unavailable or not configured; manual building remains available.

Requests can include the administrator’s prompt or follow-up message, the administrator’s first name or display name (used to greet them in the chat), recommendation page context, builder rule schema, product taxonomy and attribute term slugs, current rule configuration, and recent AI chat history. Do not use these tools if you do not want that information sent to the configured provider. The configured provider’s account terms and data-handling policies apply.

Provider policy links:

• OpenAI Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/
• OpenAI Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/
• Google Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms
• Google Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Anthropic Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms
• Anthropic Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

These links identify provider policies; site owners should also review the API/service agreement applicable to their configured account.

Optional YouTube tutorial link

The dashboard tutorial opens an external YouTube page only when you click its link. The plugin does not embed or automatically load the YouTube player. Following the link connects your browser to YouTube, which receives your IP address and normal browser request metadata and may use its own cookies according to its policies.

• Terms: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
• Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Ordinary documentation, product, and policy links also open external websites when followed.

Local shopper data and cookies

Recommendation personalization and analytics use the store’s own database and REST API. These shopper events are not vendor telemetry and are not sent to WPXPO by the event tracker.

• Product views, add-to-cart actions, and removals are recorded with product identifiers, event counts, timestamps, and, for signed-in shoppers, their WordPress user ID. A daily WordPress cron task removes user-event records whose last update is older than 90 days; actual cleanup depends on cron execution.
• Guests receive the preco_guest_id identifier cookie for 30 days. Guest event data is held in local WordPress transients with a 30-day expiry and can be associated with the shopper’s account when they sign in.
• The preco_recently_viewed cookie stores recently viewed product IDs for 10 days.
• The preco_reco_click cookie stores recommendation click attribution for 3 days. Browser localStorage provides an attribution fallback; attribution entries have a 3-day validity window, but browser storage itself persists until cleared or updated.
• Sequential display uses browser localStorage to remember display state. Browser storage can be cleared through browser settings.
• Recommendation analytics and WooCommerce order attribution are separate from the 90-day user-event cleanup. Do not assume that cleanup removes order records or all analytics records.

Shopper tracking runs with the storefront scripts; the plugin does not provide a shopper consent banner or a dedicated privacy export/erasure interface. Site owners should disclose this processing in their store privacy policy and configure consent, retention, and privacy-request handling appropriate to their deployment.

Source code and building assets

The JavaScript and CSS files in the plugin’s assets folder are compiled and minified. The human-readable source (React and SCSS in the src folder, plus package.json, webpack.config.js, and gulpfile.mjs) is publicly available at bitbucket.org/wpstabon/wow-ai-product-recommendations.

To build the assets from source, run npm ci and then npm run build-release in the plugin folder. The build uses @wordpress/scripts (webpack) and Gulp for the SCSS.

Licenses and copyright notices for the third-party libraries bundled in the compiled JavaScript are listed in assets/js/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.