Woocommerce - "Add to Cart" does not work as expected

Woocommerce - "Add to Cart" does not work as expected

Posted: 9 years ago in  PHP | Wordpress |

There is annoying problem with WooCommerce (version 2.x) that "Add to Cart" stop working for un-authenticated user.

There is annoying problem with WooCommerce (version 2.x) that "Add to Cart" stop working for un-authenticated user.

I experienced this problem and this is scenario:
Un-authenticated user go to Product Detail page, click on add-to-cart button then a message notify that item is in cart, go to cart and nothing there. It is the same result if user click add-to-cart button on Category page.

Relating to this problem, most of reported topics on the Internet discuss about Cache Plugins and configuration. However, I did not use any cache plugin, even server-side caching as Memcache, Varnish.Checking the cookies, I found something that cookies are missing:

wp_woocommerce_session_445cef8456...

woocommerce_items_in_cart

woocommerce_cart_hash

Wow, after few time of pulling-hair, I found a solution of phildom that help me get rid of this bug

You can open the header.php file in activated theme's folder.

Add PHP script at upper most position:

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past

Add meta tag in header:

<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />

This solution disable the PHP cache and Browser Cache. It would not be solution for heavy-traffic website which requires the cache to speed up response time.

If you have any idea about this bug, contact me and discuss about the better solution

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