Recently Viewed Products for WooCommerce

Recently Viewed Products for WooCommerce shows each customer the WooCommerce products they recently viewed — and turns that browsing interest into more sales. Display recently viewed products in a responsive grid, list, or product carousel automatically on single product pages, and anywhere else via the shortcode, sidebar widget, Gutenberg block, or Elementor widget.

If you want a fast, lightweight, cache-friendly recently viewed products plugin for WooCommerce that also surfaces your most viewed products store-wide and sends automated follow-up emails, this is it. It works as a lightweight product recommendations / cross-sell helper that is HPOS-compatible, translation-ready, RTL-friendly, multisite-aware, and passes the WordPress Plugin Check rulesets.

🚀 Why choose this recently viewed products plugin?

• 🖼️ Three layouts — recently viewed products grid, list, or carousel slider.
• ⚡ No jQuery — the carousel is dependency-free, lightweight, and fast.
• 🧭 Five display surfaces — shortcode, automatic single-product placement, sidebar widget, Gutenberg block, and Elementor widget.
• 👥 Guest + logged-in tracking — cookie tracking for guests, optional cross-device database history for signed-in customers.
• 🔥 Most viewed products — surface your store’s most popular products automatically.
• ✉️ Follow-up emails — win back inactive customers with the products they viewed and a single-use coupon.
• 🧩 Cache friendly — works with WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, and CDNs.
• 🛒 HPOS compatible — fully tested with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

📍 Display recently viewed products anywhere

• Single product pages — automatic placement with a position you choose: before the product summary, after the product summary, or after the product tabs.
• Shortcode — drop [rvpw_products] into any page, post, or widget area to show WooCommerce recently viewed products on the shop, cart, checkout, or any other location.
• Sidebar widget — a recently viewed products widget that works in classic and block-based widget areas.
• Gutenberg block — a recently viewed products block with a live, server-side-rendered preview right in the editor.
• Elementor widget — a native Elementor recently viewed products widget that loads only when Elementor is active.

🎠 Carousel, grid & list layouts

• Product carousel — autoplay, configurable autoplay speed, navigation arrows, pagination dots, infinite loop, and responsive items-per-view, with no jQuery.
• Grid layout — clean, responsive recently viewed products grid.
• List layout — compact vertical list.
• Compact variant — add the rvpw-compact CSS class for a tighter style ideal for narrow sidebars.
• Per-device columns — mobile (1–2), tablet (1–4), and desktop (1–6).
• Toggle card elements — show or hide product image, title, price, star rating, and add-to-cart button.
• Equal-height cards — a modern, responsive card design that adapts to any theme or page builder.

🧠 Smart tracking engine

• Cookie tracking for guests — cache-friendly, stores only product IDs in a first-party cookie (rvpw_recently_viewed_{site_id}).
• Cross-device history — optional database history so recently viewed products follow signed-in customers across devices, merged from the guest cookie at login and pruned daily by a configurable retention period.
• History sources — automatic, browser cookie only, saved account history, or most viewed (store-wide popularity, cached top-N query).
• Flexible sorting — recently viewed, most viewed, price low-to-high, price high-to-low, newest products, or random.
• Configurable limits — cookie expiry from 1–365 days (default 30) and 1–100 max stored products.
• Smart filters — show in-stock only, exclude already-purchased products (signed-in customers), hide free products, and exclude specific categories.

📈 Marketing, analytics & follow-up emails

• Analytics screen — see your most viewed products and an orders proxy (from the WooCommerce Analytics order-product lookup table when available) with a 7/30/90-day attribution window.
• Follow-up emails — automatically email signed-in inactive customers the products they viewed, with an optional auto-generated single-use coupon (percentage or fixed cart discount), configurable validity, and a one-click unsubscribe link. Uses Action Scheduler when available, with a WP-Cron fallback, plus a Send-test-email button.
• Dedicated page — a “Recently Viewed” page is created automatically on activation.
• Custom styling — a Custom CSS box and a custom CSS class field to fine-tune styling without editing theme files.

🛠️ Built right

• WooCommerce dependency check and full HPOS compatibility.
• Conditional asset loading — CSS and JS load only on pages where the section renders.
• Cache-friendly and CDN-friendly (WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache).
• Custom tables created via dbDelta with a versioned migration; no order data is touched.
• Translation-ready (text domain recently-viewed-products-for-woocommerce, /languages) and RTL-compatible CSS using logical properties.
• Multisite-aware cookie (scoped by site ID) and an accessible (WCAG), tabbed admin UI.
• Passes the WordPress Plugin Check (PHPCS) rulesets.

🔧 Shortcode

[rvpw_products]

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