Coming Soon Badges for WooCommerce

FAQ

Where I design the badges?

On the admin side, go to WooCommerce > Coming Soon Badges

How to disable adding to cart when the product is set to coming soon?

The plugin doesn’t do this yet. There are two ways in WooCommerce to prevent a product from being purchased:

1. You can remove the regular and sale price for a product, or

2. You can set the product stock to 0, or the stock status to out of stock (if you haven’t set the WooCommerce product setting “Hide out of stock items from catalog”, otherwise product will be hidden)

Where do I set the Coming Soon badge for my products?

Open a product for editing and activate the checkbox labeled “Show Coming Soon badge”, located just below the publication date. Then save the product.

Will it work with my theme?

We can’t be 100% sure, but the plugin was coded following the standard WooCommerce template system and should work well with any theme.
In any case, it was designed carefully to ensure it doesn’t break the layout if it isn’t fully compatible.

Please write to us on the support forum to let us know whether the plugin works well with your theme or not. Your feedback will help us and other users, and we will try to make it work for you if it doesn’t.

I’m a theme developer. How can I make my theme compatible?

Coming Soon for WooCommerce works with the actions found in the standard product loop and single product templates.

The used actions to print the badge code are:

For single product: do_action( ‘woocommerce_before_template_part’ );
For product loop: do_action( ‘woocommerce_shop_loop_item_title’ );

You can find this actions in the templates:

wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/single-product.php (single product template)
wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/content-product.php (print each product on loop)

…if you want to override these files in your WooCommerce child theme, or if you’re coding a theme from scratch, you may have the same file names in your theme folder:

wp-content/themes/your-theme/woocommerce/content-product.php
wp-content/themes/your-theme/woocommerce/single-product.php

in this case, simply check you’ve this actions on your code:

For single product: do_action( ‘woocommerce_after_main_content’ );
For product loop: do_action( ‘woocommerce_shop_loop_item_title’ );

…and Coming Soon for WooCommerce will do the rest 🙂

How can I debug my theme template system for compatibility with Coming Soon Badges?

First, ensure you’re logged as admin, otherwise the plugin will not show any information.

Then add this parameter to the end of any page URL: ?coming-soon-wc=1

In this way: www.mywebsite.com/?coming-soon-wc=1

Look into the code for: log info

The badge preview is not exactly the same as the badge on the front end

The plugin can’t guess your theme font-family or product thumbnail size, so maybe you should adjust a bit the text and badge size.