A premium, floating product panel for your WooCommerce store. A trigger button fixed to the edge of the screen opens a sliding drawer of popular, sale, featured, new, category, or hand-picked products — without visitors ever leaving the page they're on. This page explains what every setting in the admin panel does and which part of the display it controls.
This plugin requires WooCommerce. After installing and activating both plugins, the settings screen can be found here:
A quick overview of the panel's current status, shown when the settings page first loads.
| Card | What It Shows |
| Panel status | Whether the panel is currently enabled and visible on the storefront |
| WooCommerce | Whether WooCommerce is detected as active, and its installed version |
| Plugin version | The currently installed version of the Product Side Panel plugin |
A summary list showing the active Position, Product source, Product count, Theme mode, and whether AJAX loading is on — a fast way to confirm your setup at a glance.
Panel visibility, where it displays, its screen position, and the trigger button's look.
Choose which products appear inside the panel, and which fields are shown on each product card.
| Source | What It Shows |
| Popular products | Best-sellers, ranked by WooCommerce's total sales count |
| Sale products | Products currently on sale |
| Category | A fixed number of products from one chosen category |
| Featured products | Products marked "Featured" in WooCommerce |
| New products | The most recently published products |
| Specific products | An exact, hand-picked list you choose yourself via search |
A dropdown of every WooCommerce product category. The "Number of products" field below controls how many items from it are shown.
Search products by name (optionally narrowed to a category), each result showing its photo, name and price. Click a result to add it as a chip — up to 20 products — and click the × on a chip to remove it.
Independent checkboxes for each element of a product card: Image, Title, Price, Rating, Sale badge, Short description, Add to cart button, View product button.
Colors, typography and theme mode — every change previews live in the sidebar.
Choose Light, Dark, or Follow system (matches each visitor's own OS/browser preference automatically, driven entirely by CSS custom properties).
Two complete, independent color palettes — one for Light theme, one for Dark theme — each with its own color pickers, grouped as:
| Group | Fields |
| Panel | Background, Text, Heading, Border, Shadow |
| Trigger | Background, Text, Icon, Hover background, Hover text |
| Card | Background, Title, Price, Sale price, Badge, Border |
| Button | Background, Text, Hover background, Hover text |
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Performance, debugging, custom CSS, confetti effects, and the settings reset action.
A free-text CSS field for advanced users. Target the ideap_-prefixed classes and CSS custom properties to fine-tune the panel's appearance.
@import, expression() and url(javascript:...) are automatically stripped for safety, but invalid CSS can still break the panel's appearance — back up your existing code before making changes.Restores every setting on this page to plugin defaults, after a confirmation prompt. Your WooCommerce products and orders are never affected.
On the right side of the settings page, a preview card shows the panel exactly as it will appear on your storefront — visible while editing the General, Products, Appearance, and Content tabs.
All six tabs live inside a single form and are saved together with one "Save changes" button at the bottom — switching tabs never discards unsaved changes on another tab, and saving from any tab always saves every tab's current values at once.
Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active. The plugin displays an admin notice if it's missing and does not load its settings until WooCommerce is active.
No. All settings, product configuration, and theme customization are preserved through updates via a versioned migration system that only ever adds or repairs data — it never wipes existing configuration.
No. Deactivation never touches your data. Uninstalling (deleting) the plugin also preserves your settings by default; destructive deletion only happens if a developer explicitly opts in via a code-level filter — never through an in-app toggle a store owner could hit by accident.
No. There are no license servers, telemetry, tracking, or required external/CDN dependencies. It runs fully self-contained on your own WordPress/WooCommerce installation.
Yes. The panel supports keyboard navigation, focus trapping while open, ARIA attributes, closing via the Escape key, and respects each visitor's operating-system "reduce motion" preference.