WooCommerce has lots of different hooks for their shop page, product pages, cart page & checkout page. These hooks help us to add our content in different places on these pages. We saw the different cart page hooks & checkout page hooks earlier.

In this post, we will learn about different WooCommerce Shop page hooks and where they are placed on the page. The examples below are tested  with WooCommerce version 3.3 .

The WooCommerce Shop page contains the following hooks:

1. woocommerce_before_main_content
2. woocommerce_archive_description
3. woocommerce_before_shop_loop
4. woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item
5. woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title
6. woocommerce_shop_loop_item_title
7. woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title
8. woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item
9. woocommerce_after_shop_loop
10. woocommerce_after_main_content

1. woocommerce_before_main_content

The woocommerce_before_main_content hook is placed at the start of the shop page. This hook is defined in the single-product.php template in woocommerce.

Let’s see an example to show a banner at the top to inform customers about that there is a 10% discount on all the items in the shop.

It will look like this –

2. woocommerce_archive_description

The woocommerce_archive_description hook is placed after the ‘Shop’ header title on the shop page. This hook is defined in the archive-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

This hook defines itself. We can add some description about the shop page using it. Let’s take an example of a shop which sells TV sets. We will add some description like – ‘Shop from a wide selection of LED TVs..’ below the shop title.

3. woocommerce_before_shop_loop

The woocommerce_before_shop_loop hook is placed before the products list on the shop page. This hook is defined in the archive-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

For example, we will add a title before the products list called ‘New & Trending’.

4. woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item

The woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item hook is placed on top of each product in the list. This hook is defined in the content-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

Whatever we define here will apply to all products in the list on the shop page. For example, lets add a tag of ‘New & Trending’ to all products.

If you want to add it to a single product, you can do so by adding a condition to check for the product ID.

5. woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title

The woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title hook is placed above the product image. This hook is defined in the content-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

Let’s add a tag of ‘Best Seller’ to some specific products with ID 57 & 59.

6. woocommerce_shop_loop_item_title

The woocommerce_shop_loop_item_title hook is placed above the product name. This hook is defined in the content-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

There can be many uses of this hook. Lets add the stock available for each product.

7. woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title

The woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title hook is placed below the product name. This hook is defined in the content-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

Lets display the product categories under the product name.

8. woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item

The woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item hook is placed above the ‘Add to Cart’ name. This hook is defined in the content-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

We will show our customers a few recommended products.

9. woocommerce_after_shop_loop

The woocommerce_after_shop_loop is placed just below the product list. This hook is defined in the archive-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

Let’s add a featured product at the bottom using this hook –

10. woocommerce_after_main_content

The woocommerce_after_main_content is placed after all the page content. This hook is defined in the single-product.php template file in WooCommerce.

You can add support related description and link to your support page here.

Conclusion

These are just some simple examples to explain how we can use various hooks defined by WooCommerce. You can create lots of complex things to make your store more appealing to customers.