Continue Shopping for WooCommerce

When a customer is redirected to the Cart page after the addition of a product, there is a ‘Continue Shopping’ button. As default, this button takes the customer back to your website Home Page.

This can be very annoying for customers who want a smooth flowing shopping process.

This can now be solved with the click of a button. This plugin adds a list of options into the WooCommerce Settings page that allows you to easily alter where this button will take your customers.

You can choose between the preset locations below:

– Homepage
– Shop
– Most recently visited Product
– Most recently visited Category

Finally there is a fifth option of your own custom link. This can be used to allow you to push customers back to a custom Landing page, or your best selling product.

1. Upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Products -> Continue Shopping to change where the button will take you.

1.6.2 – 5th September 2025

• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 10.2+
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 6.8.2+
• UPDATE – Branding Changes – Comply with WC Trademark.

1.6.1 – 27th September 2024

• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 9.3+
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 6.6+

1.6 – 27th October 2023

• NEW – Tested and declared compatibility with WC HPOS
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 8.2.1
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 6.3.2

1.5 – 24th March 2023

• FIX – Fixed issue with settings page not linking back to the add to cart redirect setting
• NEW – Added an option to remove the WooCommerce Empty Cart notice on cart
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 7.5.1
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 6.1.1
• UPDATE – Works with PHP8+

1.4.4 – 1st July 2022

• FIX – Increase Internationalisation to include previously missed fields.
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 6.6.1
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 6.0

1.4.3

• NEW – Added the ability to change the Continue Shopping Text site wide
• FIX – Update Cart no longer breaks continue link for ‘Most Recent Product’ or ‘Most Recent Category’
• FIX – Fixed incorrect Text Domain
• IMPROVEMENT – Added in more filters for customisation
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 4.1.1
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 5.4.1

1.4.2

• FIX – Text Domain fix for external translations

1.4.1

• FIX – Category redirect now works with translated Cart permalinks
• FIX – Added Text Domain to allow for external translations.
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 4.0+

1.4

• NEW – Added an optional Continue Shopping button next to the Update Cart button
• NEW – Added an optional modification to the Cart Updated notice.
• NEW – Added in Filters to allow for external modifications
• FIX – Corrected an issue where Cart could refer back to itself on Update
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 5.3+
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 3.8+

1.3.1

• FIX – Fixed bug with ‘Add to Cart’ buttons on the category pages redirecting back to the wrong category.

1.3

• NEW – Added an option to always show the Continue Shopping button on an Empty Cart – With customisable text.
• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 4.9.4+
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 3.3.3+
• FIX – Can no longer redirect back to the cart on Ajax refresh when ‘Recent Product’ is selected.

1.2

• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 4.7.5+
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 3.0.7+

1.1

• UPDATE – Works with WordPress 4.6+
• UPDATE – Works with WooCommerce 2.6+

1.0

• Initial Release.