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<p><strong>Stop listing products. Start recommending them.</strong></p>
<p>DecisionWidget turns your affiliate content into an interactive recommendation engine. Instead of static “top 10” lists your readers skim and bounce from, they take a 5-question quiz and get a personalized match — with transparent scoring that shows exactly why each product was recommended.</p>
<p><strong>Drop in one shortcode. Pick from 359 categories. Done.</strong></p>
<h4>Everything included, free forever:</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>359 ready-to-embed categories</strong> — from stand mixers to noise-cancelling headphones to mechanical keyboards</li>
<li><strong>9,000+ curated products</strong> — individually vetted, 4.5+ star rated, scored against real buying criteria</li>
<li><strong>Live retailer deal badges</strong> — “50% off” and “Lightning Deal — 3h left” pulled in real time</li>
<li><strong>AI-generated buying guides</strong> — quality-scored 85+/100, written specifically for each category</li>
<li><strong>Transparent scoring</strong> — every recommendation shows the why, not just the what</li>
<li><strong>Multi-market support</strong> — automatically routes to the right regional storefront based on visitor location (US/UK/CA/AU)</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg block + shortcode</strong> — works with any theme, any page builder</li>
<li><strong>Zero maintenance</strong> — products, prices, deals, and content update automatically</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who this is for:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Affiliate bloggers who want to upgrade from link tables to conversion tools</li>
<li>Review sites that need depth across many categories without hiring writers</li>
<li>Content marketers who want readers to engage, not just skim</li>
<li>Niche site builders who want the conversion lift industry research consistently finds with interactive content vs. static comparison tables (typically 3–5×)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why publishers are switching from link managers to DecisionWidget:</h4>
<p>Traditional affiliate plugins help you organize links. DecisionWidget helps your readers decide. That’s a categorical difference. Your readers don’t want another list — they want an answer to the question “which one is right for me?” DecisionWidget answers it in 30 seconds with scoring they can trust.</p>
<h4>Urgency that converts — without lifting a finger</h4>
<p>Static affiliate links have no urgency. DecisionWidget embeds surface real-time retailer deals the moment they happen:</p>
<ul>
<li>“50% off — today only” badges pulled live from each retailer</li>
<li>Lightning Deal countdowns (“ends in 2h 47m”)</li>
<li>Price drops flagged automatically</li>
</ul>
<p>Your readers see the same urgency signals they’d see at the retailer — except they’re deciding before they leave your page.</p>
<h4>What you get vs. building it yourself:</h4>
<p>Major review sites spend six figures building custom recommendation engines. DecisionWidget drops the same capability into your site in 60 seconds. You focus on writing great content. We handle the products, the quiz logic, the scoring, the deals, the buying guides, the updates.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Embed Modes:</h4>
<p><strong>Full Quiz</strong> (default) — Interactive 5-question recommendation quiz:<br />
    [decisionwidget category=”noise-cancelling-headphones”]</p>
<p><strong>Inline CTA</strong> — Subtle mid-paragraph prompt that expands to show top 3 picks:<br />
    [decisionwidget category=”noise-cancelling-headphones” mode=”inline”]</p>
<p><strong>Compact Card</strong> — Small sidebar widget showing the #1 pick:<br />
    [decisionwidget category=”noise-cancelling-headphones” mode=”compact”]</p>
<p><strong>Versus</strong> — Head-to-head product comparison with specs, winner badge, and verdict:<br />
    [decisionwidget category=”noise-cancelling-headphones” mode=”versus” versus=”sony-wh1000xm5_vs_bose-qc-ultra”]</p>
<h4>With options:</h4>
<pre><code>[decisionwidget category="robot-vacuums" height="800" theme="dark"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Gutenberg Block:</h4>
<p>Search for “Decision Widget” in the block inserter. Select a category from the dropdown, choose an embed mode, adjust height, and publish. The versus mode includes a text input for the pair slug.</p>
<h4>Example:</h4>
<p>A food blogger writes “Best Stand Mixers of 2026.” Instead of a static comparison table, she drops in <code>[decisionwidget category="stand-mixers"]</code>. Her readers answer five quick questions — budget, capacity, what they bake, countertop space, color preference — and get a personalized match with live retailer pricing and a Lightning Deal badge.</p>
<p>Her bounce rate drops. Her affiliate revenue climbs. Her post ranks higher because visitors engage instead of skim. She wrote nothing new. She just added one line.</p>
<p>For a “KitchenAid vs Cuisinart” comparison post, she adds <code>[decisionwidget category="stand-mixers" mode="versus" versus="kitchenaid-artisan_vs_cuisinart-precision"]</code> for a head-to-head widget with specs and a winner badge.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the Decision Widget service hosted at decisionwidget.net to deliver interactive product recommendation quizzes and to power the in-product tools described below. Your readers’ visit to your site does not result in any data being sent to Decision Widget; only the plugin’s own administrative requests and the visitor’s browser loading the embed iframe do.</p>
<p>The plugin makes the following requests:</p>
<p><strong>1. Category list — https://www.decisionwidget.net/api/categories</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When: Once per day, only after you have given consent in the setup wizard. The list is cached for 24 hours.</li>
<li>What is sent: The standard HTTP request only (no user data, no site URL, no cookies).</li>
<li>Why: To populate the category dropdown in the Gutenberg block and shortcode picker so you can choose which quiz to embed.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>2. Account status — https://www.decisionwidget.net/api/v1/account/status</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When: Only if you have entered a Partner ID in the plugin settings. Cached for 1 hour.</li>
<li>What is sent: Your Partner ID (which you entered yourself).</li>
<li>Why: To display your current plan, monthly click usage, and quota reset date in the plugin settings page.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>3. Quiz embed iframe — https://www.decisionwidget.net/embed/{slug}</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When: When a page containing the shortcode or Gutenberg block is rendered in a visitor’s browser. The iframe is loaded by the visitor’s browser, not by your server.</li>
<li>What is sent: The category slug you selected, your Partner ID (if set), the embed mode, and the host page URL (used for click attribution).</li>
<li>Why: To render the interactive quiz inside the iframe.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>4. Deactivation feedback — https://www.decisionwidget.net/api/wp/deactivation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When: Only when you click “Deactivate” on the plugin and submit a choice in the deactivation modal that appears (upgrade, leave email for product updates, or deactivate with optional reason). Sent from your administrative browser, not your server.</li>
<li>What is sent: Your selected action (upgrade / email / remove), an optional email address (only if you typed one), an optional reason code from the dropdown, your site host, your anonymous site ID, and your Partner ID (if set).</li>
<li>Why: To track churn signals and to follow up with product updates if you opted in. Fire-and-forget — never blocks the deactivation.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>5. Post & Page Scanner — https://www.decisionwidget.net/api/wp/scan-posts</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When: Only when you click “Scan My Posts” on the settings page. Sent from your administrative browser.</li>
<li>What is sent: A list of up to 50 of your published posts and pages — for each: its WordPress post ID, title, excerpt, and URL — read from your own site’s WordPress REST API.</li>
<li>Why: To suggest which posts would benefit from an embedded quiz and which category best fits each one.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>6. Conversation Insights — https://www.decisionwidget.net/api/wp/scan-comments</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When: Only when you click “Scan Comments” on the settings page. Sent from your administrative browser.</li>
<li>What is sent: Up to 100 approved comments from your site — for each: its comment ID, the post it’s on, the post title, the commenter’s display name, and the comment content — read from your own site’s WordPress REST API.</li>
<li>Why: To surface which product categories your audience is already discussing in comments, so you know where to add a quiz.</li>
</ul>
<p>By using this plugin, you agree to the Decision Widget Terms of Service and Privacy Policy:</p>
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service: https://www.decisionwidget.net/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://www.decisionwidget.net/privacy</li>
</ul>


Decision Widget — Product Quiz Recommendations

Turn any blog post into an interactive product recommendation engine. 359 categories, 9,000+ products, live retailer deals. Free forever.

WebToffee

<p>Related Products for WooCommerce plugin shows custom related products in WooCommerce. You can show WooCommerce related products by category, tags, or choose products to show as related products on the product details page of a specific product.</p>
<p>Showing WooCommerce related products recommendation brings customers’ attention to other products in your store that they might be interested in. This persuades them to try those products, thus resulting in an increase in the average order value.</p>
<p>You can also make use of the related product’s functionality in your WooCommerce store to suggest upsells, cross-sells and similar products to your customers and boost your sales.</p>
<h3>Key features of WooCommerce Related Products Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Disable default WooCommerce related products</strong> functionality</li>
<li>Choose <strong>custom related products</strong></li>
<li>Option to <strong>set up WooCommerce related products for the entire store</strong> (by category, tags)</li>
<li><strong>Set up related products for individual products</strong> (by category, attributes, tags, or products)</li>
<li><strong>Exclude selected categories</strong> from showing as related products</li>
<li><strong>Exclude out of stock products</strong> from showing as related products</li>
<li>Displays <strong>related products</strong> in the slider</li>
<li><strong>Customize the related products section</strong> on the front-end (heading, order of items,  number of products, and more)</li>
<li>Relate <a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/related-products-woocommerce-user-guide/#sub_category" rel="nofollow ugc">products by subcategory</a> using a filter.</li>
<li>Use WooCommerce <strong>related products shortcode ([wt-related-products product_id=”xx”])</strong> to display related products for any posts/pages on your site</li>
<li><strong>Show the same set of related products for their translated versions</strong> as well when using <strong>WPML</strong> </li>
<li><strong>Remove theme’s default related products in WooCommerce</strong></li>
<li>Woocommerce related products widget is <strong>compatible with Block-based themes</strong></li>
<li>Import related products using the default WooCommerce importer<a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/how-to-import-related-products-using-woocommerce-importer/" rel="nofollow ugc"> Learn more </a></li>
</ul>
<p>✅ Tested OK with WooCommerce 10.7</p>
<h3>Related Products for WooCommerce Product Recommendations- Installation and Setup</h3>
<p>You can learn about the installation and setup of the WooCommerce related products plugin with the help of this <a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/related-products-woocommerce-user-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">setup guide</a>.</p>
<p>You can also check out this video to get a quick understanding of the WooCommerce related products plugin.<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KOMx3g-ZMQs?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>Compatible plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/product/product-import-export-woocommerce/?utm_source=free_plugin_readme&utm_medium=related_products&utm_campaign=Product_import_export" rel="nofollow ugc">Product import export for WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wpallimport.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP all import export for WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Related Products as a Powerful Marketing Tool</h3>
<p>Suggesting related products in a WooCommerce store isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s one of the most effective sales techniques available today. Whether you’re upselling premium items or cross-selling complementary products, displaying related products at key points in the customer journey can significantly increase your average order value and conversion rates.</p>
<p>Just like Amazon’s powerful recommendation engine, WooCommerce product recommendation plugins can act as virtual sales assistants — guiding shoppers by showing them relevant suggestions based on what they’re already interested in. This keeps customers engaged and encourages them to explore more, ultimately leading to higher cart totals.</p>
<p>By showing personalized product recommendations on product pages, cart pages, or even during checkout, you can help reduce decision fatigue and build buyer confidence. Customers are more likely to trust your store when they see thoughtful, relevant suggestions, making online shopping faster, easier, and more enjoyable — especially for those who dislike browsing or are short on time.</p>
<h3>Different Ways to Show Related Product Recommendations on your WooCommerce store</h3>
<p>WooCommerce Related Products feature is one of the important sales tools available for store owners. “Related products” can be employed on your website in different forms. When built-in features in WooCommerce enable you to showcase related products like upsells and cross-sells, third-party plugins enhance this capability. They can automatically recommend related products and create custom related product suggestions based on the activities of customers on your WooCommerce store. The three main methods to easily display similar product suggestions are:</p>
<h3>Upsells</h3>
<p>These products are shown on the product page as an alternative to the product customers have chosen to purchase. There will be an upgrade of the chosen product either in quality or price thereby persuading the customer to choose the better one. It comes under the default text “you may also like”.</p>
<h3>Cross-sells</h3>
<p>On contrary to up-sells, cross-sells are displayed on the cart page under the title “you may be interested in”.  These products would complement the products currently in the cart. On seeing this customers would feel an urge to buy the complementary products along with the products in their cart thereby selling more products for the store. Notifying customers about phone cases while purchasing a phone would be a perfect example of cross-selling.</p>
<h3>Custom Related Products</h3>
<p>Set up and manage custom related products to display on your product pages. Use flexible options like categories, tags, attributes, or specific products to fine-tune the WooCommerce related products shown to your shoppers.</p>
<h3>Advanced WooCommerce Product Recommendations – Premium Version</h3>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_-5SESD3Ez0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p><a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/product/woocommerce-product-recommendations/?utm_source=free_plugin_readme&utm_medium=related_products&utm_campaign=Product_Recommendations" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Product Recommendations</a> is an advanced recommendation tool for WooCommerce stores. The plugin offers multiple product recommendation templates such as Related Products, Bestsellers, Top-rated Products, Frequently Bought Together, New Arrivals, Recently Viewed, and more. Apart from these recommendations, you can create custom recommendations, with advanced recommendation rules and conditions.</p>
<h4>Major features of WooCommerce Product Recommendations (Premium)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multiple pre-built recommendation templates:</strong> Related products, recently viewed, bestsellers, top-rated, frequently bought together, new arrivals, and more. </li>
<li><strong>Advanced filters for recommendations:</strong> Choose various filters and conditions to show recommendations. </li>
<li><strong>Display product recommendations on multiple store pages:</strong> Recommend products on multiple store pages, such as product page, category page, shop page, cart page, checkout page, and order received page to increase sales with product recommendations in WooCommerce.</li>
<li><strong>Create custom recommendations with custom rules:</strong> Create your own recommendation campaigns with custom rules and conditions.</li>
<li><strong>Customize the recommendation widgets:</strong> Customize the appearance of the recommendation widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Hide out-of-stock products:</strong> Choose to exclude out-of-stock products from the recommendation.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced sorting options:</strong> Sort the products in the recommendation widgets based on rating, price, popularity, and more.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Built-in Recommendation Widgets Available on Advanced WooCommerce Product Recommendations</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Related Products:</strong> Improve sales with relevant WooCommerce related product recommendations.</li>
<li><strong>Bestsellers:</strong> Showcase your popular products to earn more sales.</li>
<li><strong>Top rated:</strong> Easily display the highest rated products of your store.</li>
<li><strong>Frequently Bought Together:</strong> Upsell and cross sell with relevant product bundles.</li>
<li><strong>New Arrivals:</strong> Show-off and grab customers attention to your store’s latest arrivals. </li>
<li><strong>Recently Viewed:</strong> Remind customers about the products they have previously viewed.</li>
<li><strong>Trending Now:</strong> Recommend items trending in the past 30 days.</li>
</ul>
<h3>You May Also Need</h3>
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<p>Key features include an advanced cookie scanner, automatic script blocking, and detailed consent log reporting. It also lets you deploy an IAB-compliant cookie banner and supports Google Consent Mode v2.</p>
<p>Get <a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/product/gdpr-cookie-consent/?utm_source=free_plugin_readme&utm_medium=related_products&utm_campaign=GDPR" rel="nofollow ugc">GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin</a> Now.</p>
<h3>About WebToffee</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.webtoffee.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebToffee</a> creates quality WordPress/WooCommerce plugins that are easy to use and customise. We are proud to have thousands of customers actively using our plugins across the globe.</p>


Related Products – Create Upsells, Cross-sells, and Product Recommendations for WooCommerce


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This WooCommerce related products plugin, lets you create upsells, and cross-sells with smart WooCommerce product recommendations widget.

Decision Widget — Product Quiz Recommendations vs Related Products – Create Upsells, Cross-sells, and Product Recommendations for WooCommerce