NS Add Product Frontend for WooCommerce

Description

NS Add Product Frontend for WooCommerce is the ideal plugin for anyone who wants to allow registered users to submit products to their WooCommerce store directly from the frontend, without needing access to the WordPress dashboard.

Perfect for marketplaces, multi-vendor sites, seller communities, or any e-commerce where you want to give your users the ability to publish their own products in a simple and secure way.

✅ Free Version Features

  • Frontend product submission – Registered users can add new simple WooCommerce products via a frontend form, without any access to the WordPress backend.
  • Publication status control – As an administrator, choose whether products submitted by users are published immediately as Published or saved as Draft pending your review.
  • Ready-to-use shortcode – Place the product submission form on any page or post using a simple shortcode.
  • Restricted to logged-in users – The form is only visible to authenticated users, giving you full control over who can submit products.
  • No coding skills required – Easy installation and setup, fully manageable from the WordPress admin menu without writing a single line of code.

⭐ Premium Version Features

  • Variable products – Users can create variable products (e.g. sizes, colors) directly from the frontend.
  • External/Affiliate products – Support for WooCommerce External/Affiliate product type.
  • Show/hide form fields – Customize the submission form by choosing which fields to show or hide to your users.
  • View, edit and delete own products – Each user can manage the products they have submitted: list them, edit them, or delete them independently.
  • Frontend product list page per seller – Each product displays the associated seller’s name; clicking on it shows all products published by that user.
  • Great compatibility with all themes – The plugin is tested and optimized to work with most WordPress and WooCommerce themes.

For full details on the Premium version, visit the official page: NsThemes Add Product Frontend.

🔧 Compatibility

  • Requires WooCommerce installed and active.
  • Tested with WordPress 6.1 and WooCommerce 4.5+.
  • Compatible with PHP 8.

If you find incompatibility with any specific plugin, please let us know at report@nsthemes.com and we will be happy to fix it.

Installation

  1. Upload the entire ns-frontend-add-product folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to the admin menu, click on Add Prod and start customizing the settings.
  4. Copy the generated shortcode and paste it into the page where you want to display the product submission form.

FAQ

Is coding knowledge required to use this plugin?

No, no technical skills are required. The plugin is fully configurable from the WordPress dashboard.

Does this plugin require any other plugin?

Yes, the WooCommerce plugin must be installed and active.

Can non-logged-in users see the form?

No. The form is only visible to authenticated (logged-in) users. Non-registered users cannot access the product submission form.

Can I choose whether products are published immediately or saved as drafts?

Yes. From the plugin settings you can decide whether products submitted by users are published directly or saved as drafts for manual review by the administrator.

Can users edit their submitted products?

No, this feature is available in the Premium version of the plugin.

Can users add variable products from the frontend?

No, variable products are an exclusive feature of the Premium version.

Reviews

November 11, 2021
The plugin does its job by helping to load information for a store from the front of the page. Unfortunately, it does not work with the default templates that WordPress themes create, you have to use a blank page that is 100% blank. There is no use of menus, there is no footer, there are no logos, nor is there any way to use it with a shortcut [] In a very basic way, it does the job well, but if the pro version is the same only with extra functions, it ends up not being of much use in its handling and use.
November 27, 2019
It is easy to install, not too pretty though. It should be built with buddypress in mind so that the add product page can be added to the profile tabs. It is much better if you can provide a personalized user experience to this for every user or vendor in BP. We will need to customize this to make it work the way we need it to unless the creators have a work around this, in which case I would like to know.
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Contributors & Developers

“NS Add Product Frontend for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

3.0.0

  • Tested for WordPress 7.0
  • Tested for WooCommerce 10.8
  • PHP 8.5 Compatibility
  • WooCommerce HPOS Compatibility
  • Bug Fix

2.0.5

  • Tested for WordPress 6.1

2.0.4

  • Minor bug fix

2.0.3

  • Tested for WordPress 5.9

2.0.2

  • PHP8 Compatibility

2.0.1

  • Minor bug fix
  • Tested for WordPress 5.8

2.0.0

  • Bug fix
  • Tested for WordPress 5.4

1.5.4

  • Tested for WordPress 5.4

1.5.3

  • Minor bug fix.

1.5.2

  • Tested for WordPress 5.3

1.5.1

  • Translation ready.
  • Add reviews request.
  • Minor bug fix.

1.5.0

  • Add opt-in
  • Minor bug fix.

1.4.0

  • Improve mobile compatibility.

1.3.0

  • Style and Script bug fix.
  • Improve compatibility with WordPress 5.0.2
  • Improve compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.3

1.2.3

  • Minor bug fix.

1.2.2

  • Minor bug fix.

1.2.1

  • Minor bug fix.

1.2.0

  • Bug fix
  • Improve compatibility with WordPress 4.9.4
  • Improve compatibility with WooCommerce 3.3.3

1.1.4

  • Fix for WordPress 4.9.

1.1.3

  • Fix for WooCommerce 3.2.1.

1.1.2

  • Minor bug fix.

1.1.1

  • Improve compatibility with WordPress 4.8
  • Improve compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0.8

1.1.0

  • Fix bug in category
  • Css improvement
  • Input check improvment

1.0.0

  • First release.