Quick WooCommerce tutorial: List bestselling or popular products anywhere on your site

I love discovering new ways to use our bestselling WooCommerce Product Table plugin. Today I'm going to share a new method for how to list bestselling or popular products anywhere on your website.

There are lots of reasons why you might want to list bestselling products in order of popularity. Maybe you want to list the most popular products on your website homepage. This is a neat way to draw attention to your main products, and give the most valuable estate to bestselling products making the most sales.

There are many benefits to using this method to list popular products:

1. List bestselling products anywhere on your site. This could be the homepage, sidebar text widget, within a blog post - absolutely anywhere!
2. Choose how many products to include in the list.
3. Add extra columns of data, such as the product image, description, and stock status.
4. Include an add to cart column so that people can buy popular products directly from the list!
5. Choose whether or not to show actual sales figures for each product.
6. The dynamic list of bestselling products automatically updates in real-time based on actual sales figures. No need to manually update it - ever.

Keep reading to learn how to set it up.

How to list bestselling products in a WooCommerce table

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin provides 100's of different ways to list products. This is how to set it up to list bestselling or popular products in a table anywhere on your site.

First, set up the list popular products plugin

1. Get WooCommerce Product Table and install it on your site.
2. The product table builder will open automatically, or you can access it later at Products → Product Tables.
3. Look through the settings and choose how you want your product tables to behave. On the search and sort page, sort by popularity in descending order.
4. Now go to Products → Product Tables and edit the table you just created. The 'Edit' screen contains some more advanced options. Use these to set the product limit to however many popular products you want to list in the table.
5. Next, go to the plugin settings page at Products → Product Tables → Settings. Hide any unnecessary elements such as the search box and total number of products. It's best to keep a list of WooCommerce most popular products clean and simple because you will probably only have a few products in the table.
6. Next, edit the page where you want to list bestselling products. Either insert the shortcode from the final page of the table builder (you can also find this at Products → Product Tables) or add a 'Product Table' Gutenberg block and select the table you just created. This will all your products.

Your popular products WooCommerce list should look something like this:

Can I list the number of sales for each product?

Yes. To display the number of sales of each WooCommerce product:

1. Create a product table as described above.
2. In your list of table columns, add a custom field column called total_sales.

It will look something like this:

List popular products in the sidebar

By now, you know how to list WooCommerce bestsellers on any page, based on the number of sales. You can also add the product table shortcode anywhere else on your site.

For example, there's no WooCommerce popular products widget built into the WooCommerce core. It's easy to create your own bestselling products widget by adding a WooCommerce Product Table shortcode directly to a text widget. This is a nice way to draw attention to popular products by listing them throughout your store.

If you're listing popular products in the sidebar then I recommend keeping table columns to a minimum. For example, you might just include columns for the product image and name. The name column will then link through to the individual product page.

You can find a shortcode for each of your product tables at Products → Product Tables. Copy this and paste it into a text widget.

Where can I get the plugin?

As you can see, WooCommerce Product Table provides lots of fabulous opportunities for listing bestselling products based on popularity. Think about how it can increase sales in your own store.