The thing I love about blogging about WordPress is how many great questions come out of the comments of previous blogs.
Today, on my post on ‘Adding the cart button to your shop pages in Divi‘, I was asked the following:
I am trying to put an Add-to-cart button in the main Divi slider. Now Divi slider only gives an option to input a URL for the default slider button. But i was wondering is there a way to modify that button and convert it into a WooCommerce AddtoCart button?
So, there’s no way to make a slider button (or any other button for that matter) an add to cart button. But what you can do is replicate the Add to Cart functionality on any button by entering the right url.
What a lot of people don’t know is that all the Divi add to cart buttons are doing is performing the add to cart action behind the scenes. To add a product to your cart all you need to do is pass a a variable called ‘add-to-cart’ with a value that is the id of a product and WooCommerce will add that product to your cart.
So lets say your site url is http://www.myawesomeshop.com/. To turn that url into an add to cart url you just need to add ?add-to-cart=[ID] to the end of it, where [ID] is the id of the product you want the customer to add to their cart.
http://www.myawesomeshop.com/?add-to-cart=[ID]
If you aren’t sure what the product id is, just look at any product. It’s the value that appears next to ID when you hover over a product. If you edit a product, its the value for post that appears in the address bar
http://www.myawesomeshop.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=[ID]&action=edit
Also, make sure you include the trailing slash at the end of the site url, otherwise things won’t work.
So that’s it, append ?add-to-cart=[ID] to the end of your site url ( don’t forget the trailing slash ) and turn any url into an ‘add to cart’ url.
Happy Diviing.
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