WPC Smart Quick View 4.3.4 – for WooCommerce

Look, I’ve built enough WooCommerce stores to know that clients always want the shiny stuff. “Make it pop,” they say. “I want a popup when they click a product.” Enter WPC Smart Quick View – for WooCommerce.

I’ve been testing this plugin on a staging environment for a client who insists on having a quick view modal. Honestly, my default reaction to quick view plugins is pure dread. They usually load a metric ton of DOM nodes and break every caching setup known to man.

But I have to admit, this one isn’t the worst piece of code I’ve encountered.

The Good, The Bad, and The DOM Bloat

Let’s get the basic stuff out of the way. The settings panel is actually logical. You go to WPClever -> Smart Quick View and everything is right there. You can choose whether to load the modal via AJAX or inline.

Pro tip: use AJAX. If you load it inline, I checked the DevTools Elements tab, and the DOM size literally triples because it renders the hidden HTML for every single product on the archive page. Your Lighthouse score will tank.

What I absolutely hate, though, is how they handle their CSS. It’s injected directly into the header instead of enqueuing a clean stylesheet in some edge cases. I had to write a custom function in my child theme’s functions.php to dequeue their inline styles and move them to my compiled SCSS.

Fixing the JS Minification Nightmare

Here is where I lost about two hours of my life. If you are using WP Rocket or Perfmatters, WPC Smart Quick View – for WooCommerce will break your variable products inside the modal.

I opened the Network tab and noticed that the WooCommerce variation scripts weren’t firing inside the AJAX loaded modal. Why? Because the script execution order gets completely mangled when deferred.

To fix this janky behavior, you can’t just rely on the UI. I had to manually exclude woosq.js and wc-add-to-cart-variation.js from JS minification and delay execution. Add those exact handles to your exclusion list, or the “Add to Cart” button for variations will just sit there and mock you.

No License Key BS

One thing I actually appreciate here: I tested the GPL version of this for my local setup. It’s fully working right out of the box. You get unlimited website usage without some annoying admin notice screaming at you to input a license key.

You don’t need to bypass any API calls in class-woosq-update.php or whatever. Just install the zip, and it runs. Obviously, you have to do manual updates via FTP or uploading the new zip, but I prefer that over a plugin phoning home every 5 minutes and slowing down my backend.

WPC Smart Quick View – for WooCommerce: Dev FAQ

Does it conflict with object caching (Redis/Memcached)?

Yes, if you use the AJAX method, sometimes the transients get stuck and show old prices. I had to hook into woosq_ajax_product_data and force a cache bypass for logged-in users.

How do I change the modal structure? Is it hardcoded?

Mostly hardcoded in their core files, which sucks. But you can override the output by hooking into woosq_product_summary. Don’t edit their plugin files directly, or your next manual update will wipe your changes.

The mobile view is a disaster. How do I disable it on phones?

The built-in setting sometimes fails if you have a weird viewport meta tag. I just use wp_is_mobile() in my functions.php to completely wp_dequeue_script('woosq-frontend') on mobile devices. Saves bandwidth anyway.