Categories and tags decide which products appear as a group. Sometimes you want exactly these three products, in this order, on this landing page.
Listing product IDs pins the selection so nothing new drifts into it.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Product Listing block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Product Listing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- WooCommerce active, with published products. The block reads your real catalogue, so an empty store renders an empty listing.
- The product IDs you want. The ID is in the URL when you edit a product, as
post=123.
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Steps
- Find the ID of each product you want to show.
- Select your Product Listing block.
- Enter the IDs in the include field, separated by commas.
- Publish and confirm exactly those products appear.
How It Behaves
The included IDs restrict the query to those products and nothing else.
- Measured on a published page: a listing given two product IDs rendered exactly two products, and no others.
- It is a comma separated list, so several products can be pinned at once.
- The selection is fixed. New products never drift in, which is the point on a landing page or a campaign.
- There is a matching exclude field for the opposite case, where you want everything except a few.
- Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: the block renders nothing at all — no wrapper, no products, no prices. This is a Pro-only block.
Limitations
- Pro only — measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated, nothing renders.
- It is a manual list that nothing maintains. A campaign set up months ago quietly keeps showing the same products.
- IDs are not human readable. Six months later the field says 412, 908 and nobody remembers why.
- A deleted or unpublished product simply disappears from the listing with no warning, so a page can quietly end up showing two products instead of three.
- For a selection that maintains itself, use a category or the featured flag — see display featured products.
Troubleshooting
A product is missing from my list
Check it is still published and in stock if your listing hides out-of-stock items. An unpublished product drops out silently.
Where do I find the product ID?
Open the product for editing and read it from the address bar, as post=123.
The order is not what I entered
The listing still applies its own ordering. Set the ordering to suit, or accept the default.
I want everything except a few products
Use the exclude field instead of the include field.
