When building an online store with WordPress, it’s hard to imagine doing so without the help of two of its most popular plugins: Elementor and WooCommerce.
WooCommerce makes it possible for anyone to start selling online. Elementor, on the other hand, not only makes web design easy for even the most novice of users, but it also gives WordPress users more control over how their stores look and work.
In this post, we’re going to take a look at 7 of the best WooCommerce Elementor addons. Even if you don’t feel like you need to add more features right now, the day may come when you wonder why your shop page doesn’t have intuitive product filters or why your search bar takes so long to load results. If you’re thinking that, your shoppers probably are, too.
So, let’s take a look at the free and premium addons that will help you do more with your store.
Aren’t Elementor and WooCommerce Enough?
There are millions of WordPress websites that have been built with the Elementor page builder plugin and the WooCommerce ecommerce plugin. But are the two popular powerhouse plugins enough to build a high-converting online store?
Truthfully, it’s possible to build an attractive store that does well enough in sales with Elementor Pro (which comes with tons of useful ecommerce customization tools) and WooCommerce. You’ll get a nice end result, but it will likely fall short of the kinds of ecommerce experiences you see on major retailer sites these days.
While WooCommerce offers a robust collection of addons, this is an expensive way to go about adding advanced features and functionality to your store.
The good news is that WordPress developers are building tons of Elementor-compatible addons for WooCommerce. So you won’t have to limit yourself to what Elementor Pro and WooCommerce alone can do nor will you have to spend over $500 to optimize your shopping experience.
7 Best WooCommerce Elementor Addons
There are a lot of plugins out there that claim to be the best Elementor addons bundle. Many times, though, you won’t end up using a lot of the widgets or templates included in them—especially if all you’re looking for is WooCommerce optimization.
In this roundup, I’ve included free and premium plugins that will bolster Elementor’s already powerful page builder while also helping to improve parts of the WooCommerce experience that Elementor can’t touch.
1. ShopEngine
With Elementor Pro, you get access to the Theme Builder tool, which enables you to customize the Single Product, Products Archive, and Search Results pages. You’ll also be able to leverage WooCommerce-specific widgets and templates when customizing the look and feel of your ecommerce pages.
The ShopEngine addon offers even greater WooCommerce customization, enabling you to create custom templates for the following pages:
- Cart
- Checkout
- Order Confirmation
- My Account
- Thank You
In addition, you’ll be able to add conversion-boosting features to your ecommerce designs. For example:
- Product quick-views
- Product comparison tables
- Wishlists
- Variation swatches
- Recently viewed product lists
- Related products
These are some of the free ShopEngine features. Upgrading will give you even more widgets and modules with which you can add greater detail to your ecommerce pages.
2. WooCommerce Advanced Bulk Edit
Every new product added to your store means another page you’ll need to keep updated. However, neither WooCommerce nor Elementor have a bulk editing tool—something that’s an absolute must when you have more than a couple dozen products in your store.
The good news is that there’s a tool that makes it possible to bulk edit WooCommerce products. So when you have a change that needs to be applied to numerous products at once, use this plugin to save time implementing it.
The tool allows you to narrow down your product list using parameters like:
- Color
- Size
- Price
- Brand
- Stock quantity
- Category
You also have the option of manually selecting which product pages to apply bulk updates to. Whichever method you use, this tool simplifies the whole process. This will make it much easier to launch category-specific sales, discount products with excessive inventory, update brand names, and much more.
In addition, this tool adds a Duplicate feature to the products area of WordPress, so you don’t have to build every new product page from-scratch going forward.
3. WooCommerce Checkout & Funnel Builder by CartFlows
It’s all too easy to lose shoppers at the checkout stage. It could be because you forced them to create an account, asked them to provide too many details, or made the checkout process feel less than secure, etc.
There are lots of WooCommerce addons that will help you create a user-friendly checkout page — some of which are on this list. However, CartFlows is a different type of WooCommerce Elementor addon altogether.
This plugin does a number of things.
For starters, it comes with pre-made user flows that start at checkout and end at the thank you page. These pages are fully editable inside of Elementor, so you can customize the layout, branding, and details. This goes for the checkout form as well as the surrounding details — like the progress bar, security notices, and more.
What’s more, you can enable features like real-time email validation, Google address autocomplete, and in-line error messages. So in addition to using a conversion-optimized layout, these features will also make the process faster and easier for users.
Another important feature in CartFlows is tracking. The plugin integrates with Google Analytics, so you can monitor your shoppers’ behavior as they interact with your checkout flow. Plus, CartFlows comes with an abandoned cart recovery tool that automatically helps you recover lost sales.
4. WooCommerce Product Imagery Addons
This one is different from the rest as it’s a collection of addons designed for WooCommerce and Elementor by ad-theme. Since they’re available in Envato Elements and you don’t have to pay separate fees to access them, I figured I’d bundle them into one.
There are four ad-theme addons, in particular, that will help you level up the way your WooCommerce product images appear on the frontend of your store:
- WooCommerce Products Gallery for Elementor
- WooCommerce Products Showcase for Elementor
- WooCommerce Products Tab for Elementor
- WooCommerce Products Layout for Elementor
There are many components that can be customized within each. For instance, with the product gallery, you can customize the:
- Grid style
- Layout
- Number of columns
- Hover effects
- Lightbox
- Pagination
The Showcase and Layout addons give you the ability to create product image sliders and carousels. The Tab addon, on the other hand, helps you create an easy-to-follow product list. So these addons allow for a lot of variety in terms of what you do with your product imagery.
5. WooCommerce Search Engine
The default WordPress search bar isn’t the ideal solution for ecommerce search. For starters, it can be a bit slow to load results. It’s also not smart (like in the AI way). The WooCommerce Search Engine plugin fixes that issue.
When you add this search bar to your store, it will be able to:
- Fix typos.
- Show recently visited pages when shoppers engage with the search bar.
- Display product results that match queried attributes.
- Show matching categories as well as individual products.
- Provide alternative matches when a no-match occurs.
- Offer up products that are synonyms of the original query (e.g. “bike” and “bicycle”).
Shoppers won’t have to wait for matching results to load as they’re near instantaneous. What’s more, the results appear as a drop-down from the search bar, so shoppers won’t have to bounce between a search bar and search results page in order to consider all the options.
It can be time-consuming to peruse larger stores. While product filtering and sorting can help, sometimes the search bar provides the fastest shortcut to what the customer is looking for. By swapping out the default WordPress search bar with one that’s both fast and smart, you’ll significantly improve and speed up the shopping experience for many users.
6. WOOF - WooCommerce Products Filter
Out of the box, WooCommerce doesn’t include a filtering tool for the shop or archives pages. Elementor doesn’t have a filters widget, so that’s not an option either.
This isn’t a big deal when a store only has a small handful of products in it. It is a big deal, on the other hand, when a store has enough inventory to fill at least a few pages on the website.
This is where the WOOF Products Filter addon comes into play.
With this tool, you can add an intuitive filters sidebar to your store. What’s more, you control which filters to put in it. For instance, your shoppers can filter by:
- Price
- Category
- Brand
- Size
- Color
- Rating
- In stock
- On sale
In addition, you get to determine how the filters display — as checkboxes, radio buttons, sliders, drop-downs, and more.
Something else that’s great about this plugin is that it enhances product search. For starters, when filters are applied to a search results page, the page won’t need to reload in order to display the relevant product matches thanks to AJAX. Plus, the number of matching products will appear in the search bar as shoppers enter their queries.
7. WooLentor
WooLentor is similar to ShopEngine in terms of what it does. It comes with a template builder of its own, so you can customize more than just the core product pages. It also comes with dozens of ecommerce-specific widgets to build your pages with.
While these two plugins are similar in terms of what they do, there are two key differences:
First, WooLentor comes with a template library. So while you can create custom ecommerce pages, you don’t have to build anything from-scratch if you don’t want to. You can leverage one of WooLentor’s templates for:
- Home
- Shop
- Product Details
- Sales Notification
- Cart
- Checkout
- My Account
- Brand Grids
- Category Lists
The other key differentiator with this plugin is its widgets, which include:
- Product SKU
- Stock Availability
- FAQs
- Product Filters
- Breadcrumbs
- Product Data Tabs
- Video Gallery
Every WooCommerce Elementor addon seems to differ somewhat in terms of which widgets are included. Between ShopEngine and WooLentor, most of your bases will be covered. All you’ll need to do is compare both plugins to see which one has all the functionality you need.
Turn Your Online Store into a Money-making Machine with Powerful Addons
On their own, WooCommerce and Elementor are two of the most powerful and useful WordPress plugins. While you can build an attractive little shop with just the two of them, there are going to be limitations on how much you can sell.
WordPress developers have recognized a huge need here and have answered the call with some amazing WooCommerce Elementor addons. From adding more details to the product page to creating a smarter shop search engine, addons enable WordPress users to build stores that rival the likes of Amazon, Walmart, and Etsy.
