How to Show Download Count on WooCommerce Product Page?

Show download count on WooCommerce Product Page of your store. It will contribute to your sales pitch. And as the download count will grow, your visitor will get confidence on your product. They will know that other peoples are using your product as well.

If you’re in business of selling digital / downloadable products, you’ll need good number of downloads to increase your sale. Download counts certainly affects purchase behaviour of your visitor. When they see a positive download count, they may consider purchasing your product. These numbers will always keep growing. And it’ll add a great point in pitching your product.

How the download count will look

How to enable download count on WooCommerce product page

1. Choose a file which will never be updated during any kind of update, whether it’s WordPress upgrade, plugin updates or theme update. Most commonly it can either be functions.php file of your custom theme or any other file of your custom plugin.
2. Add following code in that file

function show_number_of_downloads() {
    global $wpdb, $product;

    $product_id = ( is_object( $product ) && is_callable( array( $product, 'get_id' ) ) ) ? $product->get_id() : 0;

    if ( empty( $product_id ) ) return;

    $product_type = ( is_object( $product ) && is_callable( array( $product, 'get_type' ) ) ) ? $product->get_type() : 'simple';

    if ( 'variable' === $product_type ) {
        $product_ids = $product->get_children();
    } else {
        $product_ids = array( $product_id );
    }

    $how_many_product_ids = count( $product_ids );
    $id_placeholder       = array_fill( 0, $how_many_product_ids, '%d' );

    $count = $wpdb->get_var(
        $wpdb->prepare(
            "SELECT SUM( download_count ) AS count
                FROM {$wpdb->prefix}woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions
                WHERE product_id IN (".implode( ',', $id_placeholder ).")",
            $product_ids
        )
    );
    if ( ! empty( $count ) ) {
        echo '<strong>' . esc_html__( 'Total downloads' ) . '</strong>: ' . $count;
    }
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'show_number_of_downloads' );

Note: This code will work with WooCommerce 2.5.0+ 3. Save the file. You’re done!

The above code will work for both simple & variable products. For simple products, it’ll simply show total download counts. But a variable product can have more than a variations & each variations can provide either separate or same downloadable file.

Therefore download count of each variations are recorded separately. The above code automatically combines download count of each variations & display on product page.

Learn how to setup digital / downloadable product in WooCommerce.