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WPPoland Documentation

Using registries

This page walks through the full gift-registry flow, from the customer creating one to guests buying gifts, and shows how to embed a registry on any page.

Create a registry (customer)

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  1. Log in and open My Account → Gift Registries.
  2. Create a registry and give it a name.
  3. Choose the event type (wedding, baby shower, birthday, housewarming) and the event date.

Add products

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  1. Browse to any product page.
  2. Add the product to the registry, setting the desired quantity — how many of that item the customer hopes to receive.
  3. Repeat for everything on the wish list.

Items appear on the registry with their desired quantity and a running “remaining” count.

Share the public page

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Open the registry’s public page and copy the share link. The page is read-only and clean — safe to send to friends and family or post on an event website. Guests need no account to view it or buy from it.

How guests buy a gift

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  • With direct purchase on, a guest clicks buy on the public page and the item goes straight to the cart.
  • With direct purchase off, the buy button takes the guest to the product page to purchase normally (useful when a product needs options chosen first).

Either way, the order records which registry the gift belongs to.

How purchase tracking keeps counts right

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Once a gift order is paid, Registry adds the purchased quantity to the registry. The public page then:

  • marks items that are fully covered as fulfilled, and
  • lowers the remaining count on partially covered items.

Because counts come from real, paid orders, the page always reflects what is genuinely still needed — so two guests will not accidentally buy the same gift.

Embed a registry with the shortcode

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To feature a registry on any page — for example a dedicated event landing page:

[gift_registry id="123"]

Replace 123 with the registry’s ID. The embedded view shows the same items, progress and remaining counts as the public page.

Verify tracking on a test store

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  1. Open a shared registry and buy a gift (or place a test order with a registry item).
  2. Mark the order paid in wp-admin.
  3. Reload the public page — the purchased quantity should rise and the remaining count should drop.
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