Display WooCommerce Product Variations Dropdown on the Shop Page

Riaan, my fellow colleague at Automattic asked me if I had a snippet to display the variations dropdown select on the shop page for variable products so that customers can shop variable product directly from an archive page without having to visit the product page… and I didn’t have such a snippet. So I built it! (that was a long sentence right?)

<?php
// Display variations dropdowns on shop page for variable products
 add_filter( 'woocommerce_loop_add_to_cart_link', 'woo_display_variation_dropdown_on_shop_page' );

 function woo_display_variation_dropdown_on_shop_page() {

 	global $product;

	if( $product->is_type( 'variable' )) {

	$attribute_keys = array_keys( $product->get_attributes() );
	?>

	<form class="variations_form cart" method="post" enctype='multipart/form-data' data-product_id="<?php echo absint( $product->id ); ?>" data-product_variations="<?php echo htmlspecialchars( json_encode( $product->get_available_variations() ) ) ?>">
		<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_before_variations_form' ); ?>

		<?php if ( empty( $product->get_available_variations() ) && false !== $product->get_available_variations() ) : ?>
			<p class="stock out-of-stock"><?php _e( 'This product is currently out of stock and unavailable.', 'woocommerce' ); ?></p>
		<?php else : ?>
			<table class="variations" cellspacing="0">
				<tbody>
					<?php foreach ( $product->get_attributes() as $attribute_name => $options ) : ?>
						<tr>
							<td class="label"><label for="<?php echo sanitize_title( $attribute_name ); ?>"><?php echo wc_attribute_label( $attribute_name ); ?></label></td>
							<td class="value">
								<?php
									$selected = isset( $_REQUEST[ 'attribute_' . sanitize_title( $attribute_name ) ] ) ? wc_clean( urldecode( $_REQUEST[ 'attribute_' . sanitize_title( $attribute_name ) ] ) ) : $product->get_variation_default_attribute( $attribute_name );
									wc_dropdown_variation_attribute_options( array( 'options' => $options, 'attribute' => $attribute_name, 'product' => $product, 'selected' => $selected ) );
									echo end( $attribute_keys ) === $attribute_name ? apply_filters( 'woocommerce_reset_variations_link', '<a class="reset_variations" href="#">' . __( 'Clear', 'woocommerce' ) . '</a>' ) : '';
								?>
							</td>
						</tr>
					<?php endforeach;?>
				</tbody>
			</table>

			<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button' ); ?>

			<div class="single_variation_wrap">
				<?php
					/**
					 * woocommerce_before_single_variation Hook.
					 */
					do_action( 'woocommerce_before_single_variation' );

					/**
					 * woocommerce_single_variation hook. Used to output the cart button and placeholder for variation data.
					 * @since 2.4.0
					 * @hooked woocommerce_single_variation - 10 Empty div for variation data.
					 * @hooked woocommerce_single_variation_add_to_cart_button - 20 Qty and cart button.
					 */
					do_action( 'woocommerce_single_variation' );

					/**
					 * woocommerce_after_single_variation Hook.
					 */
					do_action( 'woocommerce_after_single_variation' );
				?>
			</div>

			<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_after_add_to_cart_button' ); ?>
		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_after_variations_form' ); ?>
	</form>

	<?php } else {

	echo sprintf( '<a rel="nofollow" href="%s" data-quantity="%s" data-product_id="%s" data-product_sku="%s" class="%s">%s</a>',
			esc_url( $product->add_to_cart_url() ),
			esc_attr( isset( $quantity ) ? $quantity : 1 ),
			esc_attr( $product->id ),
			esc_attr( $product->get_sku() ),
			esc_attr( isset( $class ) ? $class : 'button' ),
			esc_html( $product->add_to_cart_text() )
		);

	}

}

The idea here is pretty simple, when you visit the shop page, or an archive page, the code checks the product type and if it’s equal to variable, the “Select Options” button is replaced by the regular add to cart button for variable products. In other words, it displays the dropdown selects for the product attributes and the add to cart button on the shop page for all variable products.

If you want to use this snippet, simply copy and place it in the functions.php file in your theme folder!