Product Tabs for WooCommerce

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281 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 163 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ lambertvs

   1.1y ago

   The fact that it overrides the default woocommerce tab order and places is its own order, then prompts you to pay for a feature to restore your default woocommerce product tab order is absolutely insane, and plain daylight robbery. It’s a great plug-in but the fact that this and other features are paid for which should be included by default gets a 1 star from me.

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2. ★★★★★ chocofc1

   1.6y ago

   The rest charge you for the ability to assign tabs to a specific category and here you get it for free. The only thing I would mention is that sometimes setting the order of the Tabs is not as clear as it should. It can happen that the default Woocommerce Tabs like “Description” has a priority different than 0, so you just set the Priority to a very high number like 30 or even higher, until your custom Tabs apear after the default ones.

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3. ★★★★★ elaborate

   1.8y ago

   The first sentence of the plugin description is “WooCommerce Product Tabs lets you add an unlimited number of extra tabs to any or all of your product pages”, but only the premium version actually provides the feature of adding unique tabs to specific product pages. With the free version, you only have the choice between enabling tabs globally or for entire product categories.There is a workaround, however. If you create a global tab without any content, the plugin gracefully hides it on the final product page. The plugin also lets you override global tabs to insert content for each specific product. You can combine these two behaviors to create unique tab content for specific products. This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by elaborate. Reason: Found a workaround

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4. ★★★★★ peterheves

   1.9y ago

   The plugin doesn’t let you to reorder the tabs in free version as a cheap way to make you buy the pro. They will put their new tabs before description and other tabs which is in 99% of cases total nonsense and they know it but still decided to do it in hope of getting your money.

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5. ★★★★★ borja250

   2.5y ago

   Perfect plugin and good support. Thanks.

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6. ★★★★★ pakistanideas

   2.8y ago

   public function product_tabs_filter_content( $content ) { // ..... if ( class_exists( 'WP_Embed' ) ) { $embed = new \WP_Embed; $content = method_exists( $embed, 'autoembed' ) ? $embed->autoembed( $content ) : $content; } plugins\woocommerce-product-tabs\src\Product_Tabs.php:175just chnage new WP_Embed; to new \WP_Embed; This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by pakistanideas.

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7. ★★★★★ Anonymous User

   2.8y ago

   The last update removes all custom tab content after resave a product. We lost hundreds of FAQ datas. The checkbox “Override the default tab content for this product” did not work. After product saving the checkbox was automatically disabled again. No server error.log and no log in debug.log.

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8. ★★★★★ locutus6888

   2.9y ago

   Never had a problem in over 12 mths with it,

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.1.15 Release date 15 July 2026 New: Added the HelpScout beacon in the plugin settings Dev: Updated the internal libraries and tested up to latest WordPress and WooCommerce version Dev: Enhanced security features and added per 2.1.15
2. — Version 2.1.16 Release date 20 October 2026 Dev: Updated the internal libraries and tested up to the latest WooCommerce version Dev: Added the Black Friday sale banner See changelog.txt for more details. 2.1.16

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2023-11-13 9K+ → 10K+ up after 141 days in tier
2. 2023-06-25 8K+ → 9K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2023-06-22 9K+ → 8K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-06-21 8K+ → 9K+ up after 148 days in tier
5. 2023-01-24 7K+ → 8K+ up after 268 days in tier
6. 2022-05-01 6K+ → 7K+ up after 188 days in tier
7. 2021-10-25 5K+ → 6K+ up after 69 days in tier
8. 2021-08-17 4K+ → 5K+ up after 577 days in tier

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Product Tabs for WooCommerce: 10K+ active installs, 4.7★ (69 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/woocommerce-product-tabs