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WooCommerce Integration — Plugixa Recipe

When WooCommerce is active, Plugixa Recipe Pro adds a native integration that lets you:

  • Attach a recipe to a WooCommerce product (e.g., a sauce product’s “how to use it” recipe).
  • Show a Recipe tab on the WooCommerce product page.
  • Pull products as a content source in the [plugixarecipe] shortcode (via a filter).

Requirements

  • WooCommerce 7.0+
  • Plugixa Recipe Pro license

Attaching a recipe to a product

Edit a WooCommerce product (Products → Edit product).

A Plugixa Recipe metabox appears in the sidebar. Pick one or more recipes. They’re stored as post meta (_plugixarecipe_recipe_ids) and surfaced on the product page.

The product recipe tab

The integration registers a new Recipe tab in the product page’s accordion (after Description, Additional info, Reviews). Clicking the tab reveals the attached recipe(s) rendered with the default view. If multiple recipes are attached, they’re rendered as a small grid.

Settings

Navigate to Settings → Display → WooCommerce.

  • Enable product recipe tab — on/off toggle.
  • Tab label — customize (“Recipe” / “How to use” / anything).
  • Tab priority — reorder among other product tabs.
  • Default view for the tab — usually a compact layout works best inside the tab.

Filtering products in the shortcode

You can pull WooCommerce products that have an attached recipe by filter:

add_filter('plugixarecipe_query_args', function ($args, $atts) {
    if (!empty($atts['source']) && $atts['source'] === 'woo_products') {
        $args['meta_query'] = [
            [ 'key' => '_plugixarecipe_recipe_ids', 'compare' => 'EXISTS' ],
        ];
    }
    return $args;
}, 10, 2);

Use recipe categories / cuisines to build product cross-sells:

add_filter('woocommerce_product_get_cross_sell_ids', function ($ids, $product) {
    $recipe_ids = get_post_meta($product->get_id(), '_plugixarecipe_recipe_ids', true);
    if (!$recipe_ids) return $ids;
    // Find other products whose recipes share a category with this product's recipes.
    return array_unique(array_merge($ids, your_cross_sell_logic($recipe_ids)));
}, 10, 2);

Schema output

When a recipe is attached to a product, the product’s JSON-LD is unchanged — the Recipe schema still lives on the /recipe/{id}/{slug}/ page, not on the product page. This avoids nested-schema confusion for Google.

Uninstalling

Deactivating the WooCommerce integration:

  1. Removes the product tab.
  2. Removes the metabox.
  3. Leaves _plugixarecipe_recipe_ids post meta in place (non-destructive).

Re-activating later restores the linkage automatically — no data loss.

Troubleshooting

Tab doesn’t appear

  • Ensure the Enable product recipe tab toggle is on.
  • Check the product has at least one recipe attached.
  • If you use a custom product template (theme override), ensure it calls woocommerce_product_tabs.

Metabox isn’t showing

  • Ensure the user has edit_products + plugixa_recipe_edit capabilities.
  • Clear any admin-side cache (e.g., Query Monitor’s transient cache).

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