UAU Ready
Description
The WishLists addon adds persistent wish lists to WooCommerce that logged-in customers and visitors can create, name, and share via public link, email, or social media. The extension allows products to be saved for future purchase and multiple lists to be managed per account, making it ideal for those who sell fashion, home decor, gifts, electronics, and mid-priced items with a longer decision cycle in the cart.
Key WishLists Features
- Multiple lists per customer
Each user can create multiple named lists, such as birthday, wedding, or personal favorites. - Button on the product page
Adds the “Add to list” button to the product page, loop, and cart. - Sharing via public link
Each list gets a public URL that can be shared via email, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. - Lists for visitors
Allows users who are not logged in to create lists via session, with the option to migrate them when creating an account. - Management through the WooCommerce dashboard
The administrator can view created lists, most-saved products, and usage metrics directly in the admin area.
Benefits of WishLists
- Abandoned cart recovery
Saved products return to the customer’s attention on future visits, recovering lost sales. - Organic word-of-mouth marketing
Shared lists act as an indirect storefront, attracting friends and family to the store. - Demand intelligence
The most-wished-for products report guides inventory, promotion, and catalog curation decisions. - Continuous shopping experience
Customers can resume browsing on another device without losing their selected items.
Who Is WishLists For?
- Those who sell fashion, jewelry, home decor, and gifts to customers who need to compare options before completing a purchase.
- Wedding registry, baby shower, and birthday registry stores that need a public URL guests can share.
- Those who want to understand which catalog products generate the most interest even without immediate conversion.
- High-average-order-value businesses, such as electronics and furniture stores, with a long decision cycle between interest and checkout.
How to Download WishLists
WishLists is available for download here at Ultrapack. After saving the .zip file, install it under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, select the package, and activate it. With WooCommerce active, the list button will appear on each product page, and the management menu will be available in the store dashboard.
By integrating persistent, shareable, and measurable wish lists into WooCommerce, the addon connects customers’ stated interest to concrete demand reports, creating opportunities for remarketing campaigns, price-drop alerts, and catalog curation guided by real data, without relying on external spreadsheets.
It is a consistent choice for stores with extensive catalogs, pronounced seasonality, or a considered purchasing cycle, where the separation between discovery and checkout is a natural part of the journey and deserves dedicated treatment within WooCommerce itself.
Frequently asked questions
Is WooCommerce WishLists GPL-licensed?
Yes. WooCommerce WishLists is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use WooCommerce WishLists on multiple sites?
Yes. You can use WooCommerce WishLists on multiple sites. The number of sites connected to Ultrapack Auto Updater is limited by your plan.
How much does WooCommerce WishLists cost at Ultrapack?
WooCommerce WishLists costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does WooCommerce WishLists include updates?
Yes. The current version of WooCommerce WishLists is 2.4.4, published at Ultrapack on Sep 21, 2026. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is WooCommerce WishLists scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of WooCommerce WishLists goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
What are the requirements for the plugin WooCommerce WishLists?
Requires WordPress 6.8 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
What changed in this version
Version 2.4.4 2026.09.19
- Fix: The "Date Added" column on the My Lists page and in the Wishlists table under My Account was always empty. It shows each list's date again.
- Fix: With guest wishlists switched off, a logged-out visitor on the wishlist pages now sees the "log in or register" message from the settings instead of an empty box.
Version 2.4.3 2026.09.18
- Fix: Security. A visitor's wishlist identity is held in a browser cookie, and a value shaped like a customer's account number was accepted as that customer. A crafted cookie could therefore read, rename, add to, take items from or delete another shopper's lists without signing in. Such a value is now rejected outright.
- New: A "Require a variation" setting keeps Add to Wishlist inactive on a variable product's page until the shopper chooses options, the way Add to Cart waits. Off by default: saving the product first and choosing options later from the list stays the default.
Version 2.4.2 2026.09.09
- Fix: On a product page that also lists other products - related products, upsells, or any shop loop - an Add to Wishlist button on one of those could act on the product at the top of the page instead of its own. With a variation chosen above, opening one of those buttons showed the list as already saved, and unticking it removed the product from the top of the page rather than the one whose button was open. Each button now reads only its own product's form.
- Fix: Restored bind_wishlist_button as a deprecated no-op. Sites still running the temporary snippet our support team supplied for Divi Theme Builder in 2.3.x hit a fatal error on 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, because that method was removed. The snippet is no longer needed on 2.4.x and should be deleted, but it will no longer take the site down. Scheduled for removal in 3.0.0.
Version 2.4.1 2026.09.09
- Fix: The Add to Wishlist button's loading spinner stayed on screen on themes that style the contents of buttons, leaving a ring that kept spinning for as long as the page was open. It is hidden again unless the button is actually working.
- Fix: The Add to Wishlist button's icon and its label keep their spacing on those themes, instead of sitting flush against each other. Add to Cart on the wishlist pages gets the same fix.
- Fix: A product saved with options - a Gravity Forms entry, a Product Add-ons configuration, an engraving - is now stored as its own item. Saving the same product again with different options keeps both, rather than the newer one taking the place of the older, and saving the same configuration twice adds to its quantity. Items already on a list keep their place; the change applies to items saved from now on.
Version 2.4.0 2026.09.03
- New: A new Add to Wishlist button. It shows whether the product is already saved - outlined icon when it is not, solid when it is - and keeps whatever wording you configured. Choose a heart, bookmark, star or gift icon, drawn in your theme's button colour. Screen readers hear "Saved" or "Saved to 3 lists"; the wording is a new "Saved State Text" setting.
- New: Saving stays on the page. The list picker opens as a dialog showing which of your lists already hold the product; tick to save, untick to remove, name a new list and save to it in one step. A confirmation appears with a link to the list.
- New: On a variable product the button and the picker follow the variation you have chosen, so two colours of the same product can be saved to one list and removed one at a time.
- New: "One-click first save" setting. When a shopper has no lists yet, the first save goes straight to a new list called "My List" instead of opening the picker. Off by default.
- New: The Add to Wishlist button appears in shop listings as well as on product pages, on classic and block themes. A new Product Listing Button section in the Wishlists settings switches it off, hides it on variable products, places it on the product image or above or below the add-to-cart button, and gives it its own text or none at all (icon only). 'woocommerce_wishlists_loop_position' and 'woocommerce_wishlists_render_in_loop' still override the settings, per product.
- New: The "Add to Wishlist" and "Wishlist" blocks can be styled in the editor - colour, spacing, typography and border - and pick up your theme.json. On block themes the listing button is a real block in your product template: see it in the Site Editor, move it, restyle it, or delete it.
- New: The list pages (View a List, Edit My List) are live. Change a quantity, remove an item, or add it to the cart without a page reload; Add to Cart shows a spinner while it works and a checkmark when it lands, with a confirmation linking to the cart. On block themes the Mini Cart count updates immediately. Everything still works with JavaScript off.
- New: Abandoned guest lists are cleaned up automatically. A temporary list older than 30 days with no item saved in 30 days is deleted, so bot-created lists stop piling up. Lists belonging to accounts are never touched. Change the lifetime with 'wc_wishlists_temporary_list_lifetime_days' (0 disables).
- New: A REST API, wc-wishlists/v1, for lists and items, with guest support and share keys. A price hidden by Catalog Visibility Options is hidden there too, and 'wc_wishlists_can_view_price' lets any plugin withhold one.
- New: The confirmation's position is configurable via the 'wc_wishlist_snackbar_position' option or 'woocommerce_wishlist_snackbar_position' filter (bottom-left by default; any corner or centre edge).
- New: 'woocommerce_wishlists_loop_template_priority' positions the listing button within its hook, and 'woocommerce_wishlist_icons' / 'woocommerce_wishlist_icon_svg' add your own icons.
- New: 'wc_wishlists_use_classic_add_to_cart' sends a list row to the cart through a page reload instead of the Store API. Off by default; used automatically for saved Gravity Forms entries on Gravity Forms Product Add-ons older than 3.8.4.
- Tweak: A saved item that still needs a choice - a variable product with no variation chosen, or add-on fields not filled in - offers "Choose options" linking to the product page instead of an Add to Cart that could not add it. An item saved with its options chosen keeps them and its Add to Cart.
- Tweak: The icon setting now applies to the button as well as the link. Stores that left it on "Present" will see a gift icon on the button; choose "None" to keep the button plain.
- Tweak: Loading a shopper's lists no longer slows down as a store accumulates wishlists. On a store with 27,500 lists the worst case went from 11.5 seconds to under 50 milliseconds.
- Tweak: The sort/filter row and bulk-action rows on the list pages wrap on narrow screens instead of overflowing, and the Privacy Settings and Email Notifications choices are proper fieldsets with the whole row clickable.
- Tweak: The List Items / Settings tabs on Edit My List are a real tab strip: arrow keys move between them, screen readers are told which is current, and with JavaScript off both panels show.
- Tweak: List quantity inputs are number inputs carrying the product's stock maximum, matching WooCommerce's own.
- Tweak: "Add All To Cart" reports its count in the singular or plural as appropriate (translators will see a new string).
- Tweak: Wishlist pages send no-cache headers so a shared list is never served stale by a page cache.
- Tweak: Stylesheets and scripts are versioned by file date, so browsers pick up the new files after an upgrade instead of serving ones cached from an earlier release.
- Tweak: Minimum WordPress version is now 6.8 and minimum WooCommerce 10.4.
- Fix: Gift-registry purchase tracking - the "previously ordered" column and the "Automatic Removal" setting - had not run on any 2.3.x release. Both now work: rows are removed once an order reaches the configured status, and the column populates.
- Fix: Creating an account while another shopper was signed in (single sign-on, membership or B2B flows that provision users; the wp/v2 users endpoint) reassigned that shopper's wishlists to the new account. Logins that establish the user before 'wp_login' fires now claim the guest's lists too.
- Fix: "Add All To Cart" on the View a List page always failed with "Action failed. Please refresh the page and retry."
- Fix: "Add All To Cart" adds exactly the items the list offers an Add to Cart for, tells the shopper which it skipped and why, no longer adds products with unfilled required add-on fields at base price, and reports the number it actually added.
- Fix: The quantity typed in the list grid is now the quantity added to the cart, and "Add All To Cart" on the Edit screen saves those quantities to the list as documented. The saved quantity was being used instead.
- Fix: The "Prompt for quantity when adding to cart" setting works again, still filterable per item via 'woocommerce_wishlist_use_add_to_cart_quantity_prompts'.
- Fix: Typing a quantity on a list you are only viewing no longer errors or sends a logged-out visitor to the login page.
- Fix: Adding an item to the cart from a list no longer carries the list's bookkeeping onto the cart line, which on a gift registry could split one item into two cart lines after another guest's checkout.
- Fix: List rows no longer offer Add to Cart for products that cannot be purchased, such as a product with no price.
- Fix: A product whose purchases Catalog Visibility Options has switched off could still be added to the cart through a list row's add-to-cart link, because that link never asked. Both add paths now refuse it with "Purchases are currently disabled", as the list itself already did by offering no button. Saving such a product to a list is unaffected.
- Fix: An external product's buy link is no longer hidden by the purchase filters or by Catalog Visibility Options - those govern this store's cart, and the link is the shopper's only route to the product.
- Fix: Purchase controls on both list screens now honour 'woocommerce_wishlist_purchases_enabled', both spellings of 'woocommerce_wishlist_user_can_purchase', and Catalog Visibility Options' per-product restrictions. Each screen previously honoured a different subset.
- Fix: On Edit My List, the second Actions dropdown below the grid did nothing without JavaScript, and pressing Apply Action with no action chosen reported "Invalid destination list".
- Fix: The List Items / Settings tabs on Edit My List rendered as two stacked rows in Storefront and themes derived from it.
- Fix: The "In Category:" label on View a List pointed at the Sort by dropdown.
- Fix: The Items box on a wishlist's wp-admin screen showed each product image at its full upload size. It asked for an image size WooCommerce no longer registers; it now uses the gallery thumbnail.
- Fix: The [wc_wishlists_add_link] shortcode linked to the retired add-to-wishlist URL, so clicking it reloaded the page and saved nothing. It now renders the same Add to Wishlist control as the product page, for the product it names, with 'title' as the button text.
- Fix: The 'woocommerce_wishlists_loop_template_location' filter could not be set from a theme's functions.php or a snippets plugin; it was read before the theme loaded.
Release notes published by the developer.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
- Download the file
woocommerce-wishlists.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Select the file
woocommerce-wishlists.zipand click Install Now. - Click Activate.
Requirements: Requires WordPress 6.8 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
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