Hot Products
Hot Products" is a lightweight WooCommerce plugin that displays a real-time view count on your product pages.
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Possibly abandoned • Last updated 546 days ago • 1 reviews
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Description
The Hot Products Plugin in WooCommerce is a valuable tool that tracks the number of times a product page has been viewed on your website. This feature provides insights into product popularity, which can guide marketing and sales strategies. By displaying the view count on product pages, in product listings, and within the admin area, store owners can quickly identify which products are attracting the most attention.
This data can be particularly useful for recognising which products might need more visibility or additional marketing efforts. It can also help determine which items may need to be restocked or are overstocked. Additionally, store owners can leverage this information to enhance cross-selling and upselling opportunities.
Moreover, the Hot Products Plugin allows store owners to evaluate the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. If a product’s view count increases following a specific campaign, it indicates the campaign successfully drove traffic to that product.
In summary, the Hot Products Plugin is a practical tool that offers valuable data to help store owners make informed decisions about product management and marketing strategies.
Please Note: This plugin requires WooCommerce Plugin to work.
** Support **
If you encounter any issues or have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected].
Installation
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 5.7 or greater
- WooCommerce 5.8 or greater
- PHP version 7.3 or greater (PHP 7.4 or greater is recommended)
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater
Visit the WooCommerce server requirements documentation for a detailed list of server requirements.
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of this plugin, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type “Hot Products” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found this plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading the plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.
Where can I report bugs or contribute to the project?
Bugs should be reported in the Hot Products GitHub repository.
This is awesome! Can I contribute?
Yes you can! Join in on our GitHub repository 🙂
Release and roadmap notes available on the WooCommerce Developers Blog
1.0.8 – 2024-08-22
- More options
- NEW You can now change the text on the product / archive pages
- NEW Now has an option to show on the product archive page
1.0.7 – 2024-08-22
- Compatibility updates
1.0.3 – 2022-04-27
- Screenshots and readme updates.
1.0.2 – 2022-04-26
- NEW – Added Settings page
- NEW – Added column to products admin page
1.0.1 – 2022-04-26
- Readme.txt – Correcting to spelling and links.
1.0.0 – 2022-04-22
- Inital – Initial files added.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kindly view the installation tab for the installation process.
You can contact us at [email protected]


