Pair – Product Recommendations for WooCommerce

Plogins Pair adds automatic product recommendations to your WooCommerce store, with no manual setup. It helps shoppers discover more of your catalog while they browse and check out, which lifts average order value and keeps people moving toward the cart.

Out of the box you get three blocks:

• “You may also like” after the product summary, so a shopper always has a next step.
• Cross-sell suggestions on the cart, based on what is already in it, to grow the order before checkout.
• Recently viewed products, so returning shoppers pick up where they left off.

Unlike WooCommerce’s built-in upsells and cross-sells, which you have to pick by hand for every product, Pair generates recommendations for you and keeps them relevant as your catalog and sales change. You choose how products are picked with a simple strategy setting, and the grid is rendered with your theme’s own product-card markup, so it matches the rest of your shop with no extra front-end JavaScript and no layout shift.

Recommendation strategies

For each block you pick how products are chosen:

• Same category (by popularity) – the default; other products from the same categories, ordered by total sales.
• Shared tags – products that share the item’s tags.
• Best sellers – your top sellers, optionally within the same categories.
• Newest products – your most recent additions.
• Recently viewed by the shopper – the products this visitor looked at.

Every strategy falls back to recent products, so a block is never awkwardly empty.

Built to be fast and friendly

• Rendered with the active theme’s product cards, so it looks native.
• No front-end JavaScript; recently viewed is stored in a first-party cookie (product IDs only, nothing sent anywhere).
• Queries are bounded by the number of products you choose.
• A clean, sectioned settings screen with inline help.
• Fully translatable, accessible headings and labels.

Documentation and links

• Documentation: plogins.com/plogins-pair/docs/
• Plugin page: plogins.com/plogins-pair/
• Source code: github.com/wppoland/plogins-pair
• Bug reports and feature requests: github.com/wppoland/plogins-pair/issues

Features

• Automatic “You may also like” block after the single product summary.
• Automatic cross-sell suggestions under the cart, based on its contents.
• Recently viewed products block, on product pages and/or the cart.
• Five selectable strategies per block (category, tags, best sellers, newest, recently viewed) with a recent-products fallback.
• Configurable number of products (1 to 12) and columns (1 to 6).
• Optional “in stock only” filter.
• Editable headings for every block.
• [pair_recommendations] and [pair_recently_viewed] shortcodes to place blocks anywhere, plus matching Elementor widgets when Elementor is active.
• Theme-styled product cards, no custom front-end JavaScript, no layout shift.

Shortcodes

• [pair_recommendations strategy="related" count="4" columns="4"] – a recommendation block. On a product page it uses that product; elsewhere it uses the cart. strategy is optional (related, tags, bestsellers, newest, recently).
• [pair_recently_viewed count="4" columns="4"] – the shopper’s recently viewed products.

External Services

This plugin does not connect to any external services. Recommendations are computed on your own site from your WooCommerce catalog, and recently viewed products are stored only in a first-party cookie on the visitor’s device.

Translations

Plogins Pair is fully translatable and ships the plogins-pair.pot template. Translations are delivered by WordPress.org language packs from translate.wordpress.org, which is where Polish, German and Spanish are being contributed; the package itself carries no compiled translation files.